GLASS FUTURES LTD

Company number 10002698 ·

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Shareholders' funds

£2,780,752

Balance sheet as at 2025-02-28

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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
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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

Appointed 2025-07-10
Appointed 2024-06-25
Appointed 2023-12-31
Appointed 2023-02-15
Appointed 2021-09-01

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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.

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