GAMES RATING AUTHORITY

Company number 02402805 ·

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Shareholders' funds

£608,978

Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31

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What it does

The principal activity of the company during the year was the administration of statutory and non statutory rating systems. The company is responsible for administering the statutory rating system for video games within the United Kingdom under the terms of the Video Recordings Act 1984. It is also an administrator of the Pan European Game Information (‘PEGI’) system, which is used in around 40 countries in Europe, both within and outside the EU, and adopted on either a statutory or voluntary basis according to country. The company is also involved in the voluntary rating of online games and apps in its role as a member of the International Age Rating Coalition (‘IARC’), which applies on a voluntary basis in many countries around the world, including in the UK and in those European countries using the PEGI system.

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

Overview

Company type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Incorporated
1989-07-11
Employees
15 (2025 accounts · was 16 in 2024)
Registered office
Unit 1e Meadway Court, Rutherford Close, Stevenage, England, SG1 2EF
Postcode
SG1 2EF
Accounts category
Small

Accounts

Last made up to
2025-12-31
Next due by
2027-09-30
Financial year end
31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2025-09-05
Next due by
2026-09-19
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 82990 Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified

Officers 12 current · 97 resigned

Ian Daniel RICE Director
Appointed 2025-07-15
Appointed 2022-07-01
MS Bethany LOWRIE Secretary
Appointed 2020-07-01
Appointed 2020-01-01
Appointed 2019-05-01

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Contact details

Website
http://www.videostandards.org.uk

Previous company names

NameDate changed
THE VIDEO STANDARDS COUNCIL2024-09-30
THE VIDEO REGISTRATION COUNCIL1989-09-06

Previous registered addresses 6

AddressChanged on
SUITE 4A SALAR HOUSE 61 CAMPFIELD ROAD, ST. ALBANS, HERTFORDSHIRE, AL1 5HT2015-09-04
4 IMPERIAL PLACE, MAXWELL ROAD, BOREHAMWOOD, HERTFORDSHIRE, WD6 1JN2015-06-30
4 IMPERIAL PLACE MAXWELL ROAD, BOREHAMWOOD, HERTFORDSHIRE, WD6 1JN, ENGLAND2014-04-10
KINNETIC HOUSE THEOBALD STREET, BOREHAMWOOD, HERTFORDSHIRE, WD6 4PJ2014-04-07
4 IMPERIAL PLACE, MAXWELL ROAD, BOREHAMWOOD, HERTFORDSHIRE, WD6 1JN, ENGLAND2014-04-07
C/O NEWTON & GARNER, APEX HOUSE, GRAND ARCADE, NORTH FINCHLEY, LONDON, N12 0EJ2010-07-29

Among its peers

Top 10%

by shareholders' funds, of 1,016 similar companies in SG

Among the biggest employers among its local peers (15 staff).

Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1989.

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Competitors Stevenage

This company ranks 96 among other business support service activities not elsewhere classified in Stevenage.

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The class of 1989

38%

of the 683 companies in this sector incorporated in 1989 are still active today; 60% have since been dissolved.

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