CAIRN RESEARCH LIMITED

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Shareholders' funds

£2,998,537

Balance sheet as at 2021-04-30

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What it does

The principal activity of the company is design and manufacture of equipment for optical and electrophysiological measurements.

The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.

Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
1985-01-29
Employees
23 (2025 accounts · was 26 in 2024)
Registered office
Cairn Research, Graveney Road, Faversham, Kent, England, ME13 8UP
Postcode
ME13 8UP
Capital
10 GBP
Accounts category
Total Exemption Full

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-04-30
Next due by
2027-01-31
Financial year end
30 April

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-05-18
Next due by
2027-06-01
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 26701 Manufacture of optical precision instruments
  • 74100 specialised design activities

Officers 4 current · 7 resigned

Neil Ashley SIMS Director
Appointed 2022-05-23
Andrew HILL Director
Appointed 2012-05-01
RESEARCH SCIENTIST Appointed 1991-12-31

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Group structure

Controlled by CAIRN RESEARCH TRUSTEES LIMITED — since 2021-10-26

From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.

Public contracts won 8

£1,298,063 total awarded value where published.

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Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA435647 (Tier 2), registered since 2018.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Contact details

Website
cairn-research.com

Cairn Research Ltd is an independent scientific instruments manufacturer. We design and build equipment for optical and electrophysiological measurements.

Previous registered addresses 5

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DELANDALE HOUSE, 37 OLD DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, KENT, CT1 3JF2020-02-09
17 HART STREET, MAIDSTONE, KENT ME16 8RA2008-01-02
C/O MCCABE FORD WILLIAMS, CHARLTON HOUSE DOUR STREET, DOVER, KENT CT16 1BL2000-04-17
4 THE STREET, NEWNHAM, SITTINGBOURNE, KENT ME9 0LQ1999-02-01
4 THE STREET, NEWNHAM, SITTINGBOURNE, KENT ME9 0LQ1999-02-01

Among its peers

Top 25%

by shareholders' funds, of 42 similar companies in ME — measured against the wider sector

Among the biggest employers among its local peers (23 staff).

Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1985.

The class of 1985

49%

of the 15,386 companies incorporated in 1985 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.

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