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Company description
PATHWAY FIRST LIMITED 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 19 September 2003; registered for 23 years; registered office reported in BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS. Its primary declared activity is 78300 · Human resources provision and management of human resources functions, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
In its latest electronically filed accounts for the period ended 30 September 2025, it reported net assets £2,960,241, average employees 102. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 11 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
- PATHWAY FIRST LIMITED
- Company number
- 04905838
- 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
- TOTAL EXEMPTION FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 1 total · 1 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
30 September 2025Next accounts due
30 June 2027Last statement made up to
19 September 2026Next statement due
3 October 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Filed financials
Latest electronic accounts
- Fixed assets
- £34,629
- Net assets
- £2,960,241
- Current assets
- £3,354,359
- Current liabilities
- £420,262
- Total assets less current liabilities
- £2,968,726
- Cash at bank
- £2,935,462
- Equity
- £2,960,241
Figures are taken from company-filed iXBRL/XBRL. Coverage is limited to electronic filings in the imported Companies House batch. Missing figures do not mean zero, and values have not been audited by BritDB.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Pathway First Limited
Registration Z8597622
- Registered from
- 11 May 2004
- Current end date
- 10 May 2027
- Trading names
- Lavish Nails and Beauty Training, Guild of Nail Technicians, Guild of Make-up Artists, The Alliance of High-Speed Rail Engineering, Pathway Skills Zone, Pathway 2 Work, Pathway Progression Plus, Pathway Group, Pathway College
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
DN758798-Adult Skills Training-EMCCA
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL · ocds-b5fd17-ddd25189-c51d-4cc7-8237-a7ae74186177
- Supplier named in award
- Pathway First Limited
- Award value
- £1,945,956
- Contract period
- 1 August 2025 – 31 July 2028
- Published
- 2 September 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ddd25189-c51d-4cc7-8237-a7ae74186177-2025-09-02T15:48:45+01:00
Adult Education Budget
Nottingham College · ocds-b5fd17-a8684f03-fab5-41cc-934a-a15fdf57e6bc
- Supplier named in award
- Pathway First Ltd
- Award value
- £2,000,000
- Contract period
- 10 September 2024 – 31 July 2025
- Published
- 19 December 2024
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 80400000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a8684f03-fab5-41cc-934a-a15fdf57e6bc-2024-12-19T11:09:12Z
DPS16 - Bootcamps 2024 - Contract Award Notice
West Midlands Combined Authority · ocds-b5fd17-ccb466b9-4b88-421b-87c1-1c71be556403
- Supplier named in award
- PATHWAY FIRST LIMITED
- Award value
- £10,655,000
- Contract period
- 1 July 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 12 July 2024
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 80400000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ccb466b9-4b88-421b-87c1-1c71be556403-2024-07-12T16:52:56+01:00
DPS10 - Path 2 Apprenticeships - CAN
West Midlands Combined Authority · ocds-b5fd17-9bc753fe-2cbb-410b-99a2-21556932a830
- Supplier named in award
- Pathway First Limited
- Award value
- £2,523,100
- Contract period
- 1 January 2024 – 31 January 2025
- Published
- 28 March 2024
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 80400000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-9bc753fe-2cbb-410b-99a2-21556932a830-2024-03-28T15:07:09Z
DPS7 - Employment Programmes: Service Industries - Contract Award Notice
West Midlands Combined Authority · ocds-b5fd17-cce9d46f-69b6-4d4a-8c88-a8408335cb25
- Supplier named in award
- Pathway First Limited
- Award value
- £8,575,908
- Contract period
- 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2028
- Published
- 15 September 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 80400000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-cce9d46f-69b6-4d4a-8c88-a8408335cb25-2023-09-15T15:12:50+01:00
Adult Education Budget 2023 Procurement - ITT_2002 (Contracts for Services)
Department for Education · ocds-b5fd17-ac4c5cac-a120-4f80-8fdc-0f6eddd758d1
- Supplier named in award
- Pathway First Limited
- Award value
- £74,702,770
- Contract period
- 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2027
- Published
- 30 August 2023
- Procedure
- Other - Light Touch Regime
- Main CPV
- 80400000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ac4c5cac-a120-4f80-8fdc-0f6eddd758d1-2023-08-30T12:08:26+01:00
AEB 2021
Nottingham College · ocds-b5fd17-32af3b64-fc69-401c-918c-c2fd80c98781
- Supplier named in award
- PATHWAY FIRST LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,000,000
- Contract period
- 18 January 2022 – 31 July 2022
- Published
- 25 February 2022
- Procedure
- Other - Light touch regime
- Main CPV
- 80400000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-32af3b64-fc69-401c-918c-c2fd80c98781-2022-02-25T16:01:22Z
Delivery of Traineeships Reforms and Expansion Programme
Department For Education · ocds-b5fd17-de4ebe58-9fef-4f73-b41a-a5788fc817c6
- Supplier named in award
- PATHWAY FIRST LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,324,415
- Contract period
- 1 February 2021 – 31 July 2023
- Published
- 11 January 2024
- Procedure
- Accelerated Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-de4ebe58-9fef-4f73-b41a-a5788fc817c6-2024-01-11T11:00:40Z
Delivery of Traineeships Reforms and Expansion Programme
Department For Education · ocds-b5fd17-de4ebe58-9fef-4f73-b41a-a5788fc817c6
- Supplier named in award
- PATHWAY FIRST LIMITED
- Award value
- £1,324,415
- Contract period
- 1 February 2021 – 31 July 2023
- Published
- 11 January 2024
- Procedure
- Accelerated Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-de4ebe58-9fef-4f73-b41a-a5788fc817c6-2024-01-11T11:00:40Z
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 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.
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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Adult Skills and Employment Programmes
Lincolnshire County Council · updated 14 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 3
Training Services for Adults
Lancashire Combined County Authority · updated 2 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 12
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.
10 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.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Other education n.e.c.
Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
12 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
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.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Confirmation statement due date: 2026-10-03 → 2027-10-03
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Company-filed electronic accounts and extracted headline financial facts.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.