BIG VAN WORLD LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£6,504,722
Balance sheet as at 2025-03-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of the sale of used cars and light motor vehicles.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2001-10-11
- Employees
- 21 (2025 accounts · was 23 in 2024)
- Registered office
- First Floor, 1 Des Roches Square, Witan Way, Witney, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, OX28 4BE
- Postcode
- OX28 4BE
- Capital
- 1 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-09-26
- Next due by
- 2026-10-10
Nature of business (SIC)
- 45112 Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles
Officers 2 current · 4 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by BIG VAN WORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2023-03-25
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA849911 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| AUSTEN TRADING LIMITED | 2017-05-02 |
| BIG VAN WORLD LIMITED | 2017-03-10 |
| AUSTEN TRADING LIMITED | 2017-03-08 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SWATTON BARN, BADBURY, SWINDON, WILTSHIRE, SN4 0EU | 2019-04-15 |
| 11 SARUM WAY, HUNGERFORD, BERKSHIRE RG17 0LJ | 2007-09-05 |
| PARK FARM, OAKSEY, MALMESBURY, WILTSHIRE SN16 9SD | 2002-05-29 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 141 similar companies in OX
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (21 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2001.
No.2 of the largest sale of used cars and light motor vehicles companies in Oxford →
Competitors Oxford
This company ranks 2 among sale of used cars and light motor vehicles in Oxford.
The class of 2001
40%
of the 80,159 companies incorporated in 2001 are still active today; 57% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 15 titles
- Freehold
- 14
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2022-03-08
- Price paid, where recorded
- £1,810,000
- Where
- Wiltshire (11), Swindon (2), Gloucestershire (1)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR462737 | Gloucestershire | Freehold | 2022-03-08 | — |
| WT244817 | Swindon | Freehold | 2021-10-05 | — |
| WT244950 | Swindon | Leasehold | 2021-10-05 | — |
| BK32490 | West Berkshire | Freehold | 2021-04-21 | £500,000 |
| WT452782 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2020-07-08 | — |
| WT450697 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2020-01-24 | £210,000 |
| WT305796 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2018-01-03 | — |
| WT307630 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2018-01-03 | — |
| WT433401 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2017-11-03 | £1,100,000 |
| WT304794 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2012-08-24 | — |
| WT21491 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2012-02-22 | — |
| WT223519 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2012-02-22 | — |
| WT27139 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2012-02-22 | — |
| WT287864 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2012-02-22 | — |
| WT288416 | Wiltshire | Freehold | 2010-07-21 | — |
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