CAIRN RESEARCH LIMITED
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Shareholders' funds
£2,998,537
Balance sheet as at 2021-04-30
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
Nature of business (SIC)
- 26701 Manufacture of optical precision instruments
- 74100 specialised design activities
Officers 4 current · 7 resigned
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.
Showing the 5 most recent of 8.
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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
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| DELANDALE HOUSE, 37 OLD DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY, KENT, CT1 3JF | 2020-02-09 |
| 17 HART STREET, MAIDSTONE, KENT ME16 8RA | 2008-01-02 |
| C/O MCCABE FORD WILLIAMS, CHARLTON HOUSE DOUR STREET, DOVER, KENT CT16 1BL | 2000-04-17 |
| 4 THE STREET, NEWNHAM, SITTINGBOURNE, KENT ME9 0LQ | 1999-02-01 |
| 4 THE STREET, NEWNHAM, SITTINGBOURNE, KENT ME9 0LQ | 1999-02-01 |
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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