OPTION A LTD

Company number SC398095 ·

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Shareholders' funds

-£15,366

Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31

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Overview

Company type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
2011-04-20
Employees
288 (2025 accounts · was 249 in 2024)
Registered office
Mill Dene Beanburn, Ayton, Eyemouth, Scotland, TD14 5QY
Postcode
TD14 5QY
Capital
1,000 GBP
Accounts category
Total Exemption Full
Charges
0 outstanding

Accounts

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

Confirmation statement

Last statement dated
2026-09-27
Next due by
2027-10-11
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 78200 Temporary employment agency activities

Officers 3 current · 6 resigned

Subscribers only Director
Subscribers only Appointed 2024-10-04
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 2024-02-12
Subscribers only Director
Appointed 2023-05-31

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Group structure 2 subsidiaries

Controlled by AGRICULTURAL CONSULTANTS LIMITED — since 2018-07-25

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

Data protection registration

Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA229098 (Tier 2), registered since 2017.

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

Gender pay gap

18.8%

Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity

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Contact details

Website
optiona.co.uk

European Temporary and Permanent Recruitment

Previous registered addresses 1

AddressChanged on
3FR 34 HOWE STREET, EDINBURGH, EH3 6TH, SCOTLAND2013-01-28

At this address

The largest employer

of 9 similar companies in TD — measured against the wider sector, with 288 staff.

The class of 2011

20%

of the 854 companies in this sector incorporated in 2011 are still active today; 76% have since been dissolved.

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

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