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Company description
FIRSTGROUP PLC is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 31 March 1995; registered for 31 years. Its primary declared activity is 49100 · Passenger rail transport, interurban, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 30 trade marks, 1 procurement record. 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
- FIRSTGROUP PLC
- Company number
- SC157176
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- 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
28 March 2026Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
3 January 2026Next statement due
17 January 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- FIRSTGROUP PLC
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 30 March 2024 – 29 March 2025
- Approved
- 10 June 2025
- Sectors
- Transportation, logistics, and storage
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 26 June 2025
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
FirstGroup Plc
Registration Z4635247
- Registered from
- 16 March 2000
- Current end date
- 15 March 2027
- Trading names
- FIRSTBUS
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
EASTERN NATIONAL
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 29 October 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 October 2027
ftr
Owner FirstGroup plc · classes 16,39
- Filed / designated
- 21 September 2004
- Valid until / renewal due
- 21 September 2024
FIRST DAY
Owner FirstGroup plc · classes 16,39
- Filed / designated
- 7 June 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 June 2022
FIRST WEEK
Owner FirstGroup plc · classes 16,39
- Filed / designated
- 7 June 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 June 2022
FIRST MONTH
Owner FirstGroup plc · classes 16,39
- Filed / designated
- 7 June 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 June 2022
THE OVERGROUND
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 16,35,36,39,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 12 August 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 August 2019
The overground.
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 16,35,36,39,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 12 August 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 August 2019
F
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 35,36,39,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 4 September 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 September 2018
First F
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 35,36,39,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 4 September 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 September 2018
FirstGroup F
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 35,36,39,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 4 September 1998
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 September 2018
FirstRail
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 14 February 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 February 2027
Figurative mark
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 26 October 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 October 2025
FirstBus
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 26 October 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 October 2025
FIRST GREAT NORTHERN
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 16,39,43
- Filed / designated
- 25 May 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 May 2017
firstminutefares
Owner FirstGroup plc · classes 16,35,36,39,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 13 March 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 March 2017
firstminutefares.co.uk
Owner FirstGroup plc · classes 16,35,36,39,43,45
- Filed / designated
- 13 March 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 March 2017
First transforming travel
Owner FirstGroup plc · classes 35,36,39,43
- Filed / designated
- 31 October 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 31 October 2013
MAP MATE
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 22 January 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 January 2012
Go everywhere together.
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 16
- Filed / designated
- 22 January 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 January 2012
First f designed to move you!
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 16,35,36,39,42
- Filed / designated
- 1 November 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 November 2010
ADELANTE
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 12,39
- Filed / designated
- 26 August 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 August 2010
REFRESCA
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 29,30,42
- Filed / designated
- 26 August 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 26 August 2010
fastcard
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 16,39
- Filed / designated
- 18 March 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 March 2009
CARBUSTER
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 16,39
- Filed / designated
- 18 March 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 March 2009
GasBus
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 5 September 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 September 2006
EASTERN NATIONAL
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 24 January 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 January 2006
CITY LINE
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 24 January 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 January 2006
CALDERLINE
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 24 January 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 January 2006
WESSEX OF BRISTOL
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 24 January 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 January 2006
RIDER YORK
Owner FirstGroup Plc · classes 39
- Filed / designated
- 24 January 1996
- Valid until / renewal due
- 24 January 2006
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.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No PSC entry for this company was present in the imported snapshot.
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.
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
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 urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar)
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
1 procurement process 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
Accounts due date: 2026-09-30 → 2027-09-30
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
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.