JOHN SMITH & SON GROUP LIMITED, EH3 8RY : Companies House Number SC006905

Executive summary

John Smith & Son Group Limited leverages over a century of heritage and a dual-focus on software development and education to command a unique position in the UK EdTech market. Backed by the substantial corporate structures of JS Aspire Group Holdings and Cubit Group, the firm has the governance and financial runway to scale its integrated offerings. To secure long-term growth, leadership must navigate complex ownership dynamics and aggressively modernize its legacy brand to win in an increasingly digitized and competitive educational technology landscape.

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Overview

Company type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1908-09-24
Registered office: Building 1 9 Haymarket Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH3 8RY
Postcode: EH3 8RY
Capital: 405,657 GBP
Accounts category: Full
Charges: 1 outstanding

Accounts

Last made up to: 2025-06-01
Next due by: 2026-09-30
Financial year end: 31 December

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated: 2025-10-01
Next due by: 2026-10-15

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Nature of business (SIC)

62012 Business and domestic software development
85590 Other education not elsewhere classified

Officers 7 current · 26 resigned

Richard Hugo Wyndham MAHONEY Director

Appointed 2025-07-01

Nicholas Siegfried DALE Director

Appointed 2023-03-23

MR David Craig MARSHALL Director

Appointed 2016-06-24

MR MATTHEW GUY FOOKS Secretary

Appointed 2015-07-29

MR Peter William LAKE Director

Appointed 2011-12-01

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Group structure

Controlled by JS ASPIRE GROUP HOLDINGS LTD — since 2025-10-06

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

Public contracts won 2

£326,000 total awarded value where published.

Cashless financial support for students and provision of online student marketplace

UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE) 2023-02-20 £150,000
Cash & Credit Bursaries System

University of Central Lancashire 2022-07-18 £176,000

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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 — Z8273688 (Tier 2), registered since 2003.

Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Contact details

Website: johnsmith.co.uk

Previous company names

Name	Date changed
JOHN SMITH & SON (GLASGOW) LIMITED	2005-07-26

Previous registered addresses 5

Address	Changed on
CAPELLA BUILDING (TENTH FLOOR) 60 YORK STREET, GLASGOW, G2 8JX	2020-05-28
152 BATH STREET, GLASGOW, G2 4TB	2010-06-17
1 WELLINGTON ROAD, BISHOPBRIGGS, DUNBARTONSHIRE, G64 2SE	2003-12-15
26 COLQUHOUN AVENUE, HILLINGTON INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE G52 4PY	2002-05-08
57-61 ST VINCENT STREET, GLASGOW, G2 5TB	2000-06-08

Among its peers

The oldest

of 1,230 similar companies in EH, trading since 1908

632 companies are registered at this postcode →

Property in England & Wales 1 title

Leasehold: 1
Most recent registration: 2019-03-27
Where: Southampton

Title number	County	Tenure	Registered	Price paid
HP831000	Southampton	Leasehold	2019-03-27	—

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