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The Welding Institute

Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering

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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Previous officers 142

  1. Dr Ali Alshawaf 2022-2025 Director View profile
  2. Eva Marie Karlsson Carruthers 2022-2023 Director View profile
  3. Abdullah Alshahrani 2022-2023 Director View profile
  4. Dr Ammer Jadoon 2021-2023 Director View profile
  5. Dr Amy Rebecca Kinbrum 2021-2023 Director View profile
  6. Kamran Mahmood 2021-2024 Director View profile
  7. Dr Gary Jones 2021-2021 Director View profile
  8. Skyrme, Michael Francis, Eur Ing 2020-2025 Director View profile
  9. Dr Qing Liu 2020-2023 Director View profile
  10. Rafferty, John Gerard, Doctor 2020-2022 Director View profile
  11. Dr Steven Alan Jones 2020-2021 Director View profile
  12. Peter Stirling 2020-2023 Director View profile
  13. Andrew Schofield 2020-2022 Director View profile
  14. John O'Brien 2020-2022 Director View profile
  15. Dr Ruth Boumphrey 2020-2021 Director View profile
  16. Ian Perryman 2020-2024 Director View profile
  17. Andrew Macdonald 2020-2021 Director View profile
  18. Ihsan Al-Taie 2020-2021 Director View profile
  19. Georgia Gascoyne 2020-2021 Director View profile
  20. Francis Laud 2020-2022 Director View profile
  21. Dr Simon Webster 2020-2025 Director View profile
  22. Laura Elizabeth Alice Hughes 2020-2023 Director View profile
  23. Darren Hagan Wood 2020-2022 Director View profile
  24. Humbert Mozzi 2020-2025 Director View profile
  25. Andrew Ross Low 2020-2023 Director View profile
  26. Salim Taoutaou 2020-2020 Director View profile
  27. David Dowell Wrathmall 2020-2023 Director View profile
  28. Gary Karl Haddon 2020-2020 Director View profile
  29. Dr David John Mallaburn 2015-2021 Director View profile
  30. Iain Leyland Boyd 2015-2021 Director View profile
  31. Dr Stephen Martin Beech 2015-2021 Director View profile
  32. Professor Scott Andrew Lockyer 2014-2019 Director View profile
  33. Jeffrey David Garner 2014-2020 Director View profile
  34. David William Millar 2014-2020 Director View profile
  35. Stephen Edward Webster 2014-2020 Director View profile
  36. Alan Keith Denney 2013-2019 Director View profile
  37. Robert William Sawdon 2012-2019 Director View profile
  38. Johann Joseph Krancioch 2012-2019 Director View profile
  39. Dr Jerzy Andrzej Nowicki 2012-2019 Director View profile
  40. Jonathan Gordon Beasley 2011-2015 Director View profile
  41. Maxwell Clifford George 2011-2017 Director View profile
  42. Paul Jordinson 2011-2017 Director View profile
  43. Dr Nigel Knee 2011-2019 Director View profile
  44. Dr David Edwin Clarke 2011-2014 Director View profile
  45. James Crawford Lochhead 2011-2017 Director View profile
  46. Paul Jonathan Tooms 2011-2019 Director View profile
  47. Dr Stephen Jeremy Paterson 2009-2017 Director View profile
  48. John Richard Waud 2009-2014 Director View profile
  49. Michael Henry Lawrence 2007-2013 Director View profile
  50. Grahame Richard Nix 2007-2019 Director View profile
  51. David Swinnerton Smith 2006-2012 Director View profile
  52. John Alfred Marlow 2006-2012 Director View profile
  53. Dynes Michael Woodrow 2006-2011 Director View profile
  54. John David Beadsmoore 2005-2007 Director View profile
  55. John Baxter 2005-2011 Director View profile
  56. Dr Roger Paul Digby 2005-2011 Director View profile
  57. Steven John Yianni 2005-2013 Director View profile
  58. Norman Ian Cooper 2004-2021 Director View profile
  59. Scott Black 2004-2011 Director View profile
  60. Stephen John Garwood 2004-2009 Director View profile
  61. Dr Robert Michael Rivett 2004-2017 Director View profile
  62. Willem Van Gestel 2004-2007 Director View profile
  63. Peter Anthony Bleasdale 2003-2011 Director View profile
  64. Prof Dr Duncan Yates 2003-2009 Director View profile
  65. Professor Richard Leonard Jones 2003-2017 Director View profile
  66. Dr Hamid Ghafoor Mughal 2003-2005 Director View profile
  67. Victor Sidney Wright 2003-2009 Director View profile
  68. Julio Tolaini 2002-2017 Director View profile
  69. Flake Carlton Campbell Jr 2002-2007 Director View profile
  70. Kevin Prosser 2002-2009 Director View profile
  71. Keith Nelson Melton 2001-2005 Director View profile
  72. Neumann, Peter, Doctor 2001-2009 Director View profile
  73. Ricky Arthur Ricks 2000-2003 Director View profile
  74. David John Howarth 2000-2017 Director View profile
  75. Pekkari, Bertil Ingemar, Group Vice President 2000-2004 Director View profile
  76. Paul Adrian Chivers 2000-2005 Director View profile
  77. Dr Derek Cheetham 1999-2003 Director View profile
  78. Garwood, Stephen John, Doctor 1999-2003 Director View profile
  79. Dr Edmund James Morgan Warren 1999-2005 Director View profile
  80. Douglas Roderick Pattison 1999-2002 Director View profile
  81. Dr Michael A Rogalski 1998-2000 Director View profile
  82. Dennis Blunier 1998-2004 Director View profile
  83. Dr Robert Alderdice 1998-1999 Director View profile
  84. John Hammond 1998-2005 Director View profile
  85. Philip Astbury 1997-2007 Director View profile
  86. Dr Peter John Alberry 1997-2002 Director View profile
  87. Ian Bradley 1996-2002 Director View profile
  88. Arnoldus Wilhelmus Maria Bosman 1996-2001 Director View profile
  89. Peter Gerald Dodd 1996-2002 Director View profile
  90. Dr Alan Robert Begg 1995-1998 Director View profile
  91. Brian Leslie King 1995-2011 Director View profile
  92. Paul Anthony Craddock 1995-2010 Director View profile
  93. Norman Arthur Barrington 1994-2000 Director View profile
  94. Dr David Mckeown 1994-1995 Director View profile
  95. John Norrish 1994-1996 Director View profile
  96. Paul A Kammer 1994-1996 Director View profile
  97. John William Fred Harrison 1994-2000 Director View profile
  98. Dr Bruce Cochran Lane 1994-1999 Director View profile
  99. David Michael Attwell 1993-1994 Director View profile
  100. Dr John Edward Wheatley 1992-1993 Director View profile
  101. Robert J Borel 1992-1998 Director View profile
  102. Professor Anthony Clementson 1992-1993 Director View profile
  103. Bonnet, Christian, Monsieur Doctor 1992-1993 Director View profile
  104. Brian Arthur Glossop 1992-1993 Director View profile
  105. Monsieyr Christian 1992-1993 Director View profile
  106. Alan Frederick Gifford 1991-1999 Director View profile
  107. Leslie John Huart 1998 Director View profile
  108. Dr Philip Robert Kirkwood 1996 Director View profile
  109. Rodney Charles Jones 1992 Director View profile
  110. Jean Quere 1997 Director View profile
  111. Dr John Christopher Marland Farrar 2007 Director View profile
  112. Dr Franco Bonono 1994 Director View profile
  113. Dr James Raphael Smith 1993 Director View profile
  114. Alfred James Perrin 1996 Director View profile
  115. Michael John Littler 1997 Director View profile
  116. Roland Nicholas Younger 1996 Director View profile
  117. Dr Brian Tomkins 1996 Director View profile
  118. Dr Geoffrey George Pope 1993 Director View profile
  119. Allan Hadden 1993 Director View profile
  120. Derek Slater 1996 Director View profile
  121. Victor Gregory Marshall 1997 Director View profile
  122. Thomas Edward Malcolm Jones 2003 Director View profile
  123. James Crawford Lochead 1996 Director View profile
  124. Dr Gareth William Hughes 1991 Director View profile
  125. Peter Joseph Hobbs 2000 Director View profile
  126. Robin Holmes Bond 1993 Director View profile
  127. Dr Michael John May 2011 Director View profile
  128. Dr Neville Thomas Williams 1992 Director View profile
  129. Dr Ralph Bertram Grenville Yeo 1993 Director View profile
  130. Professor Frederick Michael Burdekin 2004 Director View profile
  131. Dr Terence Michael Sporton 1996 Director View profile
  132. Dr Leslie Arthur Mitchell 2000 Director View profile
  133. Dr David Taylor 2007 Director View profile
  134. Peter Henry Rubie Lane 1994 Director View profile
  135. Professor David Thomas Clark 1993 Director View profile
  136. Professor Bernard George Neal 1998 Director View profile
  137. Guy Missiaen 1992 Director View profile
  138. David Hewitt 1997 Director View profile
  139. Gillian Astrid Leech 2010-2020 Secretary View profile
  140. Robert Victor Michael Dawkins 1992-2010 Secretary View profile
  141. Rosemary Elizabeth Setterfield 1992-1992 Secretary View profile
  142. John Alexander Kirk Wilson 1992 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering; Other business support service activities n.e.c.; General secondary education; Activities of professional membership organizations
Incorporated
06/03/1946
Registered office
Cambridge

Ownership

Owned by (15) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.

  • Maxwell Clifford George ceased 2017-06-20
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • David John Howarth ceased 2017-06-20
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15 - confirmed: also a director of this company
  • Gillian Astrid Leech ceased 2019-11-19
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Paul Jordinson ceased 2017-06-20
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Jeffrey David Garner ceased 2019-11-19
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Alan Keith Denney ceased 2019-11-13
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Iain Leyland Boyd ceased 2019-11-19
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Johann Joseph Krancioch ceased 2019-02-01
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • James Crawford Lochhead ceased 2017-06-20
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Norman Ian Cooper ceased 2019-11-19
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Grahame Richard Nix ceased 2019-04-17
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Robert William Sawdon ceased 2019-02-01
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Julio Tolaini ceased 2017-06-20
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Paul Jonathan Tooms ceased 2019-11-13
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Stephen Edward Webster ceased 2019-11-19
    significant influence · notified 2016-07-15
  • Possible match - 5 people share this nameiPossible matchThis PSC filing could not be confirmed to one individual - 5 people share this name on the public record. Not shown as confirmed ownership.

Group

  1. The Welding Institute is controlled by Maxwell Clifford George
    Evidence
    ceased significant influence · notified 2016-07-15, ceased 2017-06-20 · source: Companies House PSC register

Ultimately controlled by Maxwell Clifford George.

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Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

18 directors on the board

3y median 2.9y
average tenure
5.8y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (14)

Portfolio (4)

0
also govern a charity

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Business services 1Manufacturing 1Other services 1Professional services 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of sectors across the board

Where to look Suggested search: directors from a wider range of sectors.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00405555
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Accounts next due
31/12/2026
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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