TXT In plain English
Company description
THE WORKS STORES LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 7 April 2008; registered for 18 years; registered office reported in BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 47190 · Other retail sale in non-specialised stores.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 4 PSC records, 12 trade marks. 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 WORKS STORES LIMITED
- Company number
- 06557400
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 8 total · 3 outstanding · 5 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
4 May 2025Next accounts due
31 January 2027Last statement made up to
23 April 2026Next statement due
7 May 2027BritDB 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
- -20.4%
- Women receiving bonus
- 6.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 16.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 62.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 77.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 77.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 78.0%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 1000 to 49992.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49992.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49995.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49995.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49995.2% 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 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 3 November 2025 – 3 May 2026
- Filed
- 26 May 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 5 May 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £30,977,472
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £33,729,304
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £18,816,190
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £16,175,528
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 35.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
We don't have standard payment terms for our suppliers.
31% of our stock suppliers are on 30 days from invoice or less, 16% 30 days end of month (""EOM""), 22% 60 days & 27% 60 days EOM. 4% are on 90 days.
Largest stock suppliers are on 90 EOM.
25% of expense suppliers are on 14 days or less from invoice, 55% 14 - 30 days from invoice and 13% 30 days EOM. 1% 60 days & 1% 60 days EOM. 6% are DD (so within 30 days) Largest expense suppliers are on 90EOM - Dispute resolution process
In reference to the question regarding disputes, we do not have the function to track invoices being disputed. Where a query arises with the supplier this would be queried through email and the invoice paid once settled.
In terms of our reporting, this would show as a late payment should this length of time take us beyond the agreed terms.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 39.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay56.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 55.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 61.0 average days to pay67.0% outside terms
- 59.0 average days to pay68.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay76.0% outside terms
- 50.0 average days to pay73.0% outside terms
- 60.0 average days to pay85.0% outside terms
- 60.0 average days to pay93.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
THE WORKS STORES LIMITED
LEI 89450057846CEG62KV68 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 7 April 2008
- Initial LEI registration
- 1 October 2018
- LEI last updated
- 20 February 2026
- Next renewal
- 19 February 2027
- Managing LOU
- 485100001PLJJ09NZT59
- Legal address
- Boldmere House Faraday Avenue, Birmingham, B46 1AL, GB
- Headquarters address
- Boldmere House Faraday Avenue, Birmingham, B46 1AL, 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.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
The Works Stores Limited
Registration ZA026942
- Registered from
- 1 November 2013
- Current end date
- 31 October 2026
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
THE CRAFTWORKS
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 16,26,28,35,41
- Filed / designated
- 16 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 June 2027
CUBED PUZZLES
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 28
- Filed / designated
- 16 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 June 2027
BRAIN MAZE
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 28
- Filed / designated
- 16 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 June 2027
TheWorks.co.uk
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 16,25,26,28,35,41
- Filed / designated
- 6 March 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 6 March 2027
EasterWishes
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 16,25,26,28
- Filed / designated
- 19 April 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
TRICK OR TREAT
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 3,11,21,25,28
- Filed / designated
- 17 April 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
WorksEssentials STATIONERY
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 17 April 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
Craft ESSENTIALS
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 17 April 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
What will you discover?
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 9,16,35
- Filed / designated
- 17 March 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
ART OF SOUND
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 15
- Filed / designated
- 16 August 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 August 2013
THE WORKS
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 9,15,16,35
- Filed / designated
- 1 August 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 August 2013
MIDPOINT PRESS
Owner The Works Stores Limited · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 22 April 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 April 2013
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
The Works Investments Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act
- Legal form
- Corporate Entity
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 09073458
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
Endless (Gp) Lp
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Scottish
- Legal form
- Limited Partnership
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- Sl006387
- Notified
- 24 July 2017
- Ceased
- 19 July 2018
Endless Ii Gp Llp
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Limited Liability Partnerships Act
- Legal form
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- Sc335665
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 24 July 2017
Endless Llp
- Has significant influence or control
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Limited Liability Partnerships Act
- Legal form
- Limited Liability Partnership
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- Oc316569
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 19 July 2018
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
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.
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
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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.
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.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 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.
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
- Company name
Previous name: CAPITOL THOUGHT LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 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.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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.