JISC SERVICES LIMITED, BS1 6NB : Companies House Number 02881024

Executive summary

JISC SERVICES LIMITED occupies an exceptionally defensible position within UK education infrastructure, leveraging three decades of institutional trust, network effects, and mission-aligned governance to maintain near-irreplaceable status in its sector. The strategic imperative is accelerating from "connectivity provider" to "digital ecosystem orchestrator"—capturing cybersecurity, cloud intermediation, and AI infrastructure opportunities before commercial competitors erode the trust-based moat. Success requires balancing parent-entity alignment with the operational agility necessary to outpace well-funded disrupters targeting the same institutional customers.

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Overview

Company type: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated: 1993-12-10
Registered office: 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, England, BS1 6NB
Postcode: BS1 6NB
Accounts category: Full

Accounts

Last made up to: 2025-07-31
Next due by: 2027-04-30
Financial year end: 31 July

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated: 2025-12-10
Next due by: 2026-12-24

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Nature of business (SIC)

61900 Other telecommunications activities

Officers 6 current · 70 resigned

Heidi Michele FRASER-KRAUSS Director

Appointed 2021-09-16

MS Nicola Jane ARNOLD Director

Appointed 2020-01-29

DR PAUL BARRIE FELDMAN Director

CHIEF EXECUTIVE Appointed 2015-10-19

MS Alice Jane COLBAN Director

Appointed 2015-03-19

MR ROBERT ROY HAYMON-COLLINS Director

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE Appointed 2015-03-19

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Group structure

Controlled by JISC — since 2016-04-06

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

Public contracts won 106

£16,150,359 total awarded value where published.

Adobe Creative Cloud Pro Institutional and Student Licenses - A purchase under the Jisc CHEST agreement, being a call-off contract via the SUPC awarded SLRA framework agreement

LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY 2026-07-09 £69,064
Oracle Java Software

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED 2026-05-19 £473,488
Access to Elsevier Knovel 2025-2030

University of Bristol 2025-08-01 £176,653
Adobe licenses - Year 3 of CHEST agreement call off contract from SUPC awarded framework agreement Software Licence Resellers agreement (SLRA) ref: ITS4042SU (Lot 2)

LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY 2025-06-23 £74,437
Subscription renewal of Sage Journals Read and Publish

Coventry University 2024-12-19 £76,573

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Contact details

Website: jisc.org.uk
Phone: 03003002212, 07443983571, 01235822151

Previous company names

Name	Date changed
JISC COLLECTIONS AND JANET LIMITED	2015-03-24
THE JNT ASSOCIATION	2012-12-05

Previous registered addresses 5

Address	Changed on
ONE CASTLEPARK TOWER HILL, BRISTOL, BS2 0JA	2019-12-02
LUMEN HOUSE LIBRARY AVENUE,, HARWELL OXFORD, DIDCOT, OXON, OX11 0SG	2015-03-20
LUMEN HOUSE, LIBRARY AVENUE HARWELL SCIENCE, AND INNOVATION CAMPUS, DIDCOT, OXON, OX11 0SG	2011-01-04
ATLAS CENTRE, CHILTON, DIDCOT, OXFORDSHIRE OX11 0QS	2007-03-21
1 ST GILES', OXFORD, OXFORDSHIRE, OX1 3JR	1994-03-17

Among its peers

Among the oldest 25%

of 107 similar companies in BS, trading since 1993

The class of 1993

49%

of the 25,070 companies incorporated in 1993 are still active today; 48% have since been dissolved.

A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.