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Company · Chelmsford

First Essex Buses Limited

Other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar)

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Who leads it

Previous officers 64

  1. Andrew Simon Jarvis 2022-2025 Director View profile
  2. Joseph Andrew Thompson 2021-2022 Director View profile
  3. Trevor Backman 2021-2022 Director View profile
  4. Garry James Nicholass 2021-2022 Director View profile
  5. Sean Timothy Greenwood 2021-2023 Director View profile
  6. Piers Darryl St John Marlow 2020-2025 Director View profile
  7. Stephen Anthony Wickers 2017-2020 Director View profile
  8. David Brian Alexander 2016-2021 Director View profile
  9. Alexander Jones 2015-2017 Director View profile
  10. Anthony Charles Green 2014-2020 Director View profile
  11. Kevin John Belfield 2014-2015 Director View profile
  12. James Thomas Bowen 2014-2016 Director View profile
  13. Neil James Barker 2014-2016 Director View profile
  14. Stuart Ian Munro 2014-2014 Director View profile
  15. David Julian Squire 2014-2015 Director View profile
  16. Michael Branigan 2014-2015 Director View profile
  17. Adrian Mark Jones 2013-2015 Director View profile
  18. Jeroen Marcel Weimar 2013-2014 Director View profile
  19. Karen Doores 2012-2013 Director View profile
  20. Peter Anthony Joseph Mhagrh 2011-2013 Director View profile
  21. David Leslie Marshall 2010-2014 Director View profile
  22. Nigel Barrett 2010-2013 Director View profile
  23. Philip Pannell 2010-2011 Director View profile
  24. James Victor Groombridge 2010-2014 Director View profile
  25. Jacqueline Sarah Cato 2010-2010 Director View profile
  26. Alan Thomas Pilbeam 2009-2011 Director View profile
  27. Duncan Young Cameron 2007-2009 Director View profile
  28. Raymond William Tuttlebee 2007-2010 Director View profile
  29. Robert Stanley Dorr 2006-2009 Director View profile
  30. David Alexander Liston 2005-2008 Director View profile
  31. Stephen John Little 2005-2010 Director View profile
  32. David Andrew Kaye 2004-2005 Director View profile
  33. Malcolm John Veale 2004-2007 Director View profile
  34. Nicholas Sean Robert Tempest Vane 2003-2004 Director View profile
  35. Martin Richard Dean 2002-2003 Director View profile
  36. David John Leeder 2001-2004 Director View profile
  37. David Laurence Quinn 2001-2002 Director View profile
  38. Andrew Nigel Smith 2001-2004 Director View profile
  39. Anthony Geoffrey Cox 2000-2004 Director View profile
  40. Michael Edmund Payne 1999-2001 Director View profile
  41. Ian Humphreys 1997-2004 Director View profile
  42. William Hiron 1997-2000 Director View profile
  43. Robert Alexander Duncan 1997-2001 Director View profile
  44. Sir Hendy, CBE, Peter Gerard 1997-1999 Director View profile
  45. Alan Neville Barrett 1995-2002 Director View profile
  46. Derek Robert Trotman 1995-2000 Director View profile
  47. Stephen William Smith 1995-2007 Director View profile
  48. Gordon David Patrick Cheek 1995-2005 Director View profile
  49. Geoffrey Wilcox 1995-2000 Director View profile
  50. John Anthony Osbaldiston 1995-1996 Director View profile
  51. Christopher Philip Snowden 1995-1995 Director View profile
  52. Philip Michael White 1994-1994 Director View profile
  53. Victor John Woolley 1996 Director View profile
  54. James Mclaughlin 1995 Director View profile
  55. Graeme George Turnbull Varley 1997 Director View profile
  56. Robin William John Orbell 1997 Director View profile
  57. Geoffrey Joseph Clarkson 1998 Director View profile
  58. Jarlath Delphene Wade 2021-2022 Secretary View profile
  59. Silvana Nerina Glibota Vigo 2019-2020 Secretary View profile
  60. Michael Hampson 2016-2019 Secretary View profile
  61. Robert John Welch 2014-2016 Secretary View profile
  62. Paul Michael Lewis 2011-2014 Secretary View profile
  63. Sidney Barrie 2006-2011 Secretary View profile
  64. Matthew Stjohn Dolphin 1999-2006 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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Public contracts won

1 contract · £257,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • PL0093 - Project THRIVE Buyer: Essex County Council £257,000 2025-06-20 CPV 60112000 Source: Contracts Finder

    Project THRIVE - A research project that will investigate and evaluate a range of initiatives which aim to grow patronage on bus services.\r \r Essex County Council (ECC) has been allocated £4.9m in 2023/24 and £4.9m in 2024/25 from Depar…

About

What it does
Other urban, suburban or metropolitan passenger land transport (not underground, metro or similar)
Incorporated
19/11/1985
Registered office
Chelmsford

Group

No further corporate or individual controller is recorded above First Essex Buses Limited on the PSC register - it appears to be the top of its group.

4 other companies in this group

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.

Grants received

1 grant · £0 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Transport · £0

Most recent

  • Department for Transport £02020-04-01
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.

3 directors on the board

2.5y median 1.3y
average tenure
5.4y
longest tenure
0
directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

Portfolio (3)

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.

Transport 61Professional services 9Business services 5Finance 5Arts and leisure 1Property 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Company number
01961457
Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
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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