GLASS FUTURES LTD
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Shareholders' funds
£2,780,752
Balance sheet as at 2025-02-28
What it does
Glass Futures is a not-for-profit membership-based research and development organisation, established in collaboration with several of the world’s leading glass producers, their supply chains, and major UK universities. Based in St Helens, Merseyside, Glass Futures serves as a Global Centre of Excellence for R&D, Innovation, and Training principally in the Glass Industry and increasingly also for other foundational industries such as Ceramics and Metals
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Incorporated
- 2016-02-12
- Employees
- 54 (2025 accounts · was 49 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Glass Futures Ltd, James Roby Way, St. Helens, Merseyside, England, WA9 5DT
- Postcode
- WA9 5DT
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-02-28
- Next due by
- 2026-11-30
- Financial year end
- 29 February
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-02-11
- Next due by
- 2027-02-25
Nature of business (SIC)
- 23130 Manufacture of hollow glass
- 72190 Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
- 94990 Activities of other membership organizations not elsewhere classified
Officers 7 current · 9 resigned
Public contracts won 3
£59,912,648 total awarded value where published.
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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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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA769147 (Tier 1), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- glass-futures.com
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 37 similar companies in WA — measured against the wider sector
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (54 staff).
Trading since 2016.
The class of 2016
25%
of the 666,573 companies incorporated in 2016 are still active today; 71% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.