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Company description
THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM TRADING COMPANY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 16 March 1994; registered for 32 years. Its primary declared activity is 47190 · Other retail sale in non-specialised stores, with 3 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 4 PSC records, 5 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM TRADING COMPANY LIMITED
- Company number
- 02909192
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
15 May 2025Next statement due
29 May 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM TRADING COMPANY LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- Natural History Museum
- Statement period
- 1 April 2022 – 31 March 2023
- Approved
- 16 May 2023
- Sectors
- Public sector
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 22 May 2023
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
The Natural History Museum Trading Company Limited
Registration ZA168881
- Registered from
- 23 February 2016
- Current end date
- 22 February 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
05 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
GSS23795 AI Fellows Workshop
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-7af2899b-efa4-4135-a0a4-f2b54dd466b4
- Supplier named in award
- THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM TRADING COMPANY LIMITED
- Award value
- £11,659.68
- Contract period
- 3 October 2023 – 3 October 2023
- Published
- 16 November 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80500000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7af2899b-efa4-4135-a0a4-f2b54dd466b4-2023-11-16T20:18:46Z
con_16545-SCCU National Education Nature Park and Climate Leaders Award (Park and Award Scheme)
Department for Education · ocds-b5fd17-58a8cb06-faaa-47eb-8518-bd21f562f0b9
- Supplier named in award
- The Natural History Museum Trading Company Limited
- Award value
- £2,998,080
- Contract period
- 4 October 2022 – 31 August 2024
- Published
- 21 December 2023
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-58a8cb06-faaa-47eb-8518-bd21f562f0b9-2023-12-21T09:15:16Z
Sustainability Seed Funding Project con_11701
Department for Education · ocds-b5fd17-b8c924cd-6084-4ca4-bb54-4bd44df485af
- Supplier named in award
- The Natural History Museum
- Award value
- £99,000
- Contract period
- 20 September 2021 – 31 December 2021
- Published
- 4 March 2022
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
- Main CPV
- 73100000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-b8c924cd-6084-4ca4-bb54-4bd44df485af-2022-03-04T10:40:43Z
National Microbiology Framework - Lot 2: Research and Development Goods and Services
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78
- Supplier named in award
- Natural History Museum Trading Company Ltd
- Award value
- £1,500,000,000
- Contract period
- 23 April 2021 – 22 April 2023
- Published
- 10 May 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78-2021-05-10T17:53:56+01:00
National Microbiology Framework - Lot 2: Research and Development Goods and Services
Public Health England · ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78
- Supplier named in award
- Natural History Museum Trading Company Ltd
- Award value
- £1,500,000,000
- Contract period
- 23 April 2021 – 22 April 2023
- Published
- 10 May 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 33000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-14133027-6a6f-4a1f-8518-268021f54a78-2021-05-10T17:53:56+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
The Board Of Trustees Of The Natural History Museum
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Legal authority
- British Museum Act 1963
- Legal form
- Non-Departmental Public Body
- Notified
- 3 August 2020
Lord Stephen Keith Green
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 3 August 2020
Mr Neil Jonathan Greenwood
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 3 August 2020
Sir Michael Dixon
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 3 August 2020
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
specialised design activities
Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
Activities of exhibition and fair organisers
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.