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Company description
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT 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 23 December 2015; registered for 10 years; registered office reported in MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 72110 · Research and experimental development on biotechnology.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 5 PSC records, 34 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
- MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED
- Company number
- 09928547
- 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
- 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 2026Next accounts due
31 December 2027Last statement made up to
22 December 2025Next statement due
5 January 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 14.6%
- Mean bonus gap
- 36.2%
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.8%
- Men receiving bonus
- 2.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 51.4%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 50.8%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 48.6%
- Women in lower quartile
- 55.6%
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
- 1 April 2023 – 30 September 2023
- Filed
- 23 October 2023
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 30 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 1.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
N/A
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
30 days from invoice date
- Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
All disputes should be sent to accountspayable@md.catapult.org.uk and will be responded to within 24 hours
Earlier payment reports (4 shown)
- 18.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay1.0% 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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Medicines Discovery Catapult Limited
Registration ZA347202
- Registered from
- 23 April 2018
- Current end date
- 22 April 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.
06 Environmental regulation
Environment Agency records
Medicines Discovery Catapult Limited
LB3191DM · SK10 4ZF
- Permit or record holder
- Medicines Discovery Catapult Limited
- Record date
- 15 April 2026
- Local authority
- Not supplied
- Regulated site or public record address
- Mereside, Alderley Park, Alderley Edge, SK10 4ZF
- Activity
- Keeping & Use of Radioactive Materials and Disposal of Radioactive Waste
- Grid reference
- Site W728.
- Easting
- 346745.000
- Northing
- 375965.000
- All populated source fields
- Permit Number: LB3191DM; Permit Holder Name: Medicines Discovery Catapult Limited; Approved Date: 2026-04-15; Permit Type: Keeping & Use of Radioactive Materials and Disposal of Radioactive Waste; Site Address: Mereside, Alderley Park, Alderley Edge, SK10 4ZF; Site Postcode: SK10 4ZF; Site Reference: Site W728.; Easting: 346745; Northing: 375965
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 13 April 2021
Professor Christopher Richard MolloySee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 17 September 2020
- Ceased
- 13 April 2021
Dr Robin John BrownSee 4 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 27 July 2018
- Ceased
- 13 April 2021
Professor Graham John Boulnois
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 12 February 2018
- Ceased
- 24 May 2018
Mr Robert Kenneth BryanSee 6 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 31 December 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
ITT for Hot Cell
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 5 August 2026
- Tender value
- £300,000
- Awards
- 0
Senior Recruitment Services for Medicines Discovery Catapult
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 24 April 2026
- Tender value
- £1,800,000
- Awards
- 1
Consultant Recruitment
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 13 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 2 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Financial Management System and Project management and Resourcing System
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 27 February 2026
- Tender value
- £300,000
- Awards
- 0
The Supply of a Health Economic Evaluation Framework And Bespoke Analysis For AMR Diagnostic Technologies
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 26 February 2026
- Tender value
- £300,000
- Awards
- 1
Lean SIx SIgma Consultancy for Medicines Discovery Catapult
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 5 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Multiplex Biomarker Discover Equipment
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 14 January 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Lab Consumables
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 5 January 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Xenium Single-cell Spatial Transcriptomics/Proteomics Instrument for Medicines Discovery Catapult
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 5 January 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Recruitment of Transition Lead Role for Medicines Discovery Catapult
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 19 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Planned Preventative Maintenance Contract
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 19 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Online Webinar and Web Meeting Delivery Services for Medicines Discovery Catapult
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 18 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Gamma Counter for Medicines Discovery Catapult
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 18 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
PACE Interim Impact Report
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 9 December 2025
- Tender value
- £50,000
- Awards
- 0
Scientific Consultant for Medicines Discovery Catapult
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 28 November 2025
- Tender value
- £75,000
- Awards
- 0
Animal Study Workflow Software
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 26 November 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Network Switches for Medicines Discovery Catapult
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 24 November 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Rastrum Allegro Instrument
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 23 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
GALLI AD RD GENERATOR 20MCI
MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT LIMITED · updated 8 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Showing the first 20 of 34 linked procurement processes.
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
34 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
- Detected change
Accounts due date: 2026-12-31 → 2027-12-31
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: MEDICINES TECHNOLOGIES CATAPULT 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.
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.
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.