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Company description
WATER RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 26 January 2018; registered for 8 years; registered office reported in HELSBY, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 71129 · Other engineering activities, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 11 procurement records, 1 waste registration. 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
- WATER RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED
- Company number
- 11172223
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 6 total · 2 outstanding · 4 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
6 April 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
12 February 2026Next statement due
26 February 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
WATER RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED
LEI 984500E037B95869G476 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 26 January 2018
- Initial LEI registration
- 11 November 2024
- LEI last updated
- 3 November 2025
- Next renewal
- 11 November 2026
- Managing LOU
- 529900T8BM49AURSDO55
- Legal address
- Spring Lodge, 172 Chester Road, Helsby, GB-CHW, WA6 0AR, GB
- Headquarters address
- Spring Lodge, 172 Chester Road, Helsby, GB-CHW, WA6 0AR, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NATURAL_PERSONS
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NATURAL_PERSONS
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
Water Research Centre Limited
Registration ZA751674
- Registered from
- 28 April 2020
- Current end date
- 27 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.
05 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
PROC 016-2025 - Corporate Engineering Consultants for CMA PR24 Water Redetermination References
COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY · ocds-b5fd17-7223ed2d-541c-4d4d-933e-c11d318005a3
- Supplier named in award
- Water Research Centre Limited
- Award value
- £139,000
- Contract period
- 31 March 2025 – 30 March 2026
- Published
- 16 April 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 73210000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-7223ed2d-541c-4d4d-933e-c11d318005a3-2025-04-16T17:47:39+01:00
Final effluent continuous monitoring technology
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · ocds-b5fd17-e7f602d4-fffc-489b-8d4e-5d2faa8b0044
- Supplier named in award
- WRc
- Award value
- £31,246
- Contract period
- 23 September 2024 – 23 December 2024
- Published
- 11 October 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 73210000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e7f602d4-fffc-489b-8d4e-5d2faa8b0044-2024-10-11T12:45:34+01:00
Persistent Organic Pollutants in Institutional Mattresses Project
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · ocds-b5fd17-bbe5af2a-767a-437f-aed6-d0dd9d654036
- Supplier named in award
- Water Research Centre Limited
- Award value
- £77,141.05
- Contract period
- 30 October 2023 – 17 February 2024
- Published
- 14 December 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 73110000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-bbe5af2a-767a-437f-aed6-d0dd9d654036-2023-12-14T11:09:54Z
PFAS Emissions - Paper Mills
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · ocds-b5fd17-175d6729-0525-4d0d-927a-e5bab42edbbb
- Supplier named in award
- Water Research Centre Ltd
- Award value
- £92,549
- Contract period
- 3 October 2022 – 24 February 2023
- Published
- 7 October 2022
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 90715000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-175d6729-0525-4d0d-927a-e5bab42edbbb-2022-10-07T09:26:01+01:00
Environment Agency: Water Quality Statistics - development and delivery of training
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · ocds-b5fd17-e232a2ce-287d-4931-b1ae-ff4f2b42e147
- Supplier named in award
- Water Research Centre Limited
- Award value
- £41,084
- Contract period
- 3 December 2020 – 3 December 2025
- Published
- 8 December 2020
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e232a2ce-287d-4931-b1ae-ff4f2b42e147-2020-12-08T12:43:21Z
Persistent Organic Pollutants in Soft Furnishing Waste Streams Study
Defra Network eTendering Portal · ocds-b5fd17-2c10f86c-8976-4b51-8002-2f215eedd576
- Supplier named in award
- Water Research Centre Ltd
- Award value
- £73,000
- Contract period
- 6 October 2020 – 31 March 2021
- Published
- 28 September 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79723000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-2c10f86c-8976-4b51-8002-2f215eedd576-2020-09-28T13:19:38+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.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Rsk Environment Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- Scotland
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- Sc115530
- Notified
- 18 August 2020
Wrc Plc
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- England
- Legal form
- Private Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 02262098
- Notified
- 26 January 2018
- Ceased
- 18 August 2020
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
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.
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
UVDB Powered by Achilles QUDM for Goods, Works and Services
AFFINITY WATER LIMITED · updated 19 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
715904510 - Defence Water Services Programme (DWSP) - Should Cost Model (SCM) Support
Ministry of Defence · updated 30 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Review of Sediment Contamination in the Teesmouth Estuary and Ecological Impacts to SPA Supporting Habitats
Natural England · updated 10 March 2026
- Tender value
- £12,000
- Awards
- 1
OEP021-02 Persistent organic pollutants in waste
Office for Environmental Protection · updated 17 December 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Leakage Reporting Review - WP4 Meter Accuracy
The Water Services Regulation Authority · updated 8 October 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
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
Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
Other business support service activities n.e.c.
13 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
5 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
1 exact company-number registration.
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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
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.