BASED UPON LTD

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Shareholders' funds

£4,372,876

Balance sheet as at 2025-05-31

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
2005-04-15
Employees
28 (2025 accounts · was 29 in 2024)
Registered office
218b Swan Road Westminster Industrial Estate, London, SE18 5TT
Postcode
SE18 5TT
Capital
100 GBP
Accounts category
Total Exemption Full

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-05-31
Next due by
2027-02-28
Financial year end
31 May

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-04-15
Next due by
2027-04-29
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 31090 Manufacture of other furniture
  • 74100 specialised design activities
  • 90030 Artistic creation

Officers 4 current · 1 resigned

Ian James ABELL Director
Appointed 2009-05-12
Appointed 2005-04-15
Richard ABELL Director
Appointed 2005-04-15
Appointed 2005-04-15

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Licensed visa sponsor

Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).

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Contact details

Website
based-upon.co.uk
Phone
01625545745, 02083202122, 03031231113

Based Upon is an artist, based in London. Every Based Upon work involves a journey: Based Upon travels the world to gather narratives, memories, textures and traces. In the London studio, these grow into works which ponder notions of oneness and separation, the natural and the man made.

Previous registered addresses 1

AddressChanged on
UNIT A003, FAIRCHARM TRADING, ESTATE, 8-12 CREEKSIDE, LONDON, SE8 3DX2014-05-28

Among its peers

Top 5%

by shareholders' funds, of 56 similar companies in SE

The largest employer among its local peers (28 staff).

Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2005.

No.1 of the largest manufacture of other furniture companies in London →

Competitors London

This company ranks 1 among manufacture of other furniture in London.

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The class of 2005

34%

of the 154,486 companies incorporated in 2005 are still active today; 63% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.

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Property in England & Wales 2 titles

Leasehold
2
Most recent registration
2014-03-25
Where
Greater London (2)
Title numberCounty Tenure RegisteredPrice paid
TGL396263 Greater London Leasehold 2014-03-25
TGL396279 Greater London Leasehold 2014-03-25

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