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Company description
UK BIOBANK 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 28 November 2003; registered for 22 years; registered office reported in CHESHIRE. Its primary declared activity is 72190 · Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 2 trade marks, 1 charity record, 17 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
- UK BIOBANK LIMITED
- Company number
- 04978912
- 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
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 0 outstanding · 3 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
13 November 2025Next statement due
27 November 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- -0.2%
- Women receiving bonus
- 21.3%
- Men receiving bonus
- 12.4%
- Women in top quartile
- 41.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 63.3%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 66.3%
- Women in lower quartile
- 76.2%
Earlier reporting years (1)
- 250 to 49919.8% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
UK BIOBANK LIMITED
Registration Z8640130
- Registered from
- 14 June 2004
- Current end date
- 13 June 2027
- Trading names
- UK BIOBANK
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
DDaT23263- UK Biobank
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-4fc9aef3-8460-4361-b093-9ff8261c53c3
- Supplier named in award
- UK BIOBANK LIMITED
- Award value
- £10,500
- Contract period
- 19 May 2023 – 18 May 2026
- Published
- 3 June 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 48218000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-4fc9aef3-8460-4361-b093-9ff8261c53c3-2023-06-03T20:50:43+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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
UK BIOBANK
Owner UK Biobank Limited · classes 42,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 31 May 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 May 2018
biobank uk
Owner UK Biobank Limited · classes 42,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 31 May 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 May 2018
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
The Wellcome Trust Limited
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Company, Limited By Guarantee,No Share Capital
- Place registered
- England And Wales
- Registration number
- 02711000
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
United Kingdom Research And Innovation
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Legal authority
- English Law
- Legal form
- Non-Departmental Public Body
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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
UK BIOBANK LIMITED
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 30 December 2003
- Latest income
- £68,919,118
- Latest expenditure
- £47,285,014
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The General Public/mankind
To provide a major genetic resource to assist scientists with research into a variety of diseases and illnesses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Threat Intelligence Services
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 1 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Data deletion Inspections
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 1 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 2
"Airlock" Output Checking System OCS Decision Engine Development Partner
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 28 August 2026
- Tender value
- £2,000,000
- Awards
- 1
Supply, delivery, installation, and commissioning of automated liquid handlers Tender
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 9 July 2026
- Tender value
- £3,200,000
- Awards
- 1
Urgent bulk printing and mailing
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 9 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Security Review following a data incident
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 9 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
"Airlock" Output Checking System UI and Workflow Development Partner
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 6 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Sample Transport
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 28 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Supply of CISCO networking equipment, servers & core components, peripherals, and support
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 16 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Supply of Dell servers and storage devices
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 16 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
AWS Cloud Reseller Services
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 15 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Extension of agreement for the management of an informatics platform which allows access to UK Biobank data
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 26 January 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 2
Cloud Infrastructure
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 10 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Research Analysis Platform 2.0
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 10 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Output Checking System (formerly badged Airlock Software) for Research Analysis Platform
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 10 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Managed Security Operations Centre
UK BIOBANK LIMITED · updated 24 November 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.
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.
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.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 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
16 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 employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House 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.