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Company description
PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 13 March 2001; registered for 25 years; registered office reported in PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Its primary declared activity is 72190 · Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 charity record, 4 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
- PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY
- Company number
- 04178503
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 0 outstanding · 1 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
13 March 2026Next statement due
27 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY
LEI 21380093ME1SWB5H2B72 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- 4GJI
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 14 March 2014
- LEI last updated
- 12 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 14 March 2019
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- PROSPECT PLACE, WEST HOE, PLYMOUTH, GB-PLY, PL1 3DH, GB
- Headquarters address
- PROSPECT PLACE, WEST HOE, PLYMOUTH, GB-PLY, PL1 3DH, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Registration Z6668923
- Registered from
- 22 April 2002
- Current end date
- 21 April 2027
- Trading names
- PLYMOUTH MARINE ASSOCIATES
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 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
JB3098DN · PL1 3DH
- Permit or record holder
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory
- Record date
- 4 April 2016
- Local authority
- Not supplied
- Regulated site or public record address
- Prospect Place, Plymouth, PL1 3DH
- Activity
- Keeping & Use of Radioactive Materials and Disposal of Radioactive Waste
- Grid reference
- Site C14.
- Easting
- 247345.000
- Northing
- 54015.000
- All populated source fields
- Permit Number: JB3098DN; Permit Holder Name: Plymouth Marine Laboratory; Approved Date: 2016-04-04; Permit Type: Keeping & Use of Radioactive Materials and Disposal of Radioactive Waste; Site Address: Prospect Place, Plymouth, PL1 3DH; Site Postcode: PL1 3DH; Site Reference: Site C14.; Easting: 247345; Northing: 54015
These are candidate company associations. The public-register downloads do not supply Companies House numbers. BritDB requires one unique exact holder-name and postcode match; the regulated site may differ from the registered office, so verify the record at source.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Ocean Fronts Evidence Project
The Crown Estate · ocds-b5fd17-8bfc5513-423b-4b61-b3d4-9f297709744c
- Supplier named in award
- PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY
- Award value
- £390,761
- Contract period
- 1 May 2024 – 28 February 2025
- Published
- 16 October 2024
- Procedure
- Other - Waver
- Main CPV
- 72224000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-8bfc5513-423b-4b61-b3d4-9f297709744c-2024-10-16T15:07:44+01:00
Supply of UK Strategy for Ocean Acidification Monitoring and the Global Ocean Acidification - Observing Network - North East Atlantic Hub
Defra Network eTendering Portal · ocds-b5fd17-6af129e8-f5cb-410a-ab7c-c51deb4a2792
- Supplier named in award
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory
- Award value
- £89,699
- Contract period
- 1 December 2018 – 31 October 2019
- Published
- 13 May 2019
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 73000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-6af129e8-f5cb-410a-ab7c-c51deb4a2792-2019-05-13T16:21:53+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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 13 March 2017
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.
08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 20 March 2002
- Latest income
- £16,390,000
- Latest expenditure
- £17,165,000
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- The General Public/mankind
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Education/training
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
PML undertakes scientifically excellent research that generates greater understanding of the marine environment, the threats it faces, and its relationship with society. PML uses this greater understanding to effect demonstrable change in the way in which the marine environment is appreciated, managed, protected and valued. PML activities are aimed at supporting a sustainable ocean for society.
Source details and official record →This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 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.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 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.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Advancing Maritime Autonomy through the MRIF - Population of Documentation and Pipe Clearer Exercise
Ministry of Defence · updated 20 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
RoCSI-AutoNaut MARCO - BOLO Project Collaboration
National Oceanography Centre · updated 31 July 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
12 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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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
2 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.
15 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
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Candidate permit and enforcement associations based on a unique exact holder-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.