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LGC Limited
Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Previous officers 26
- Vivid Sehgal 2022-2024 View profile
- Euan Ralph Herbert O'Sullivan 2021-2025 View profile
- Timothy Michael Robinson 2013-2021 View profile
- Dr Derek Harry Craston 2008-2018 View profile
- David Gordon Richardson 2007-2013 View profile
- Dr Nigel Carey Law 2005-2007 View profile
- Geoffrey Brian Battersby 2004-2010 View profile
- Dr John Christopher Marriott 2002-2008 View profile
- Dr John Philip Mason 2002-2006 View profile
- Dr Richard David Worswick 1996-2007 View profile
- John Hobday 1996-1996 View profile
- Martin Charles Mendelssohn 1995-1996 View profile
- Richard John Johnson Taylor 1995-1996 View profile
- Mr Robert John Windmill 1994-1995 View profile
- Barbara Reeves 1994-1995 View profile
- Lucy Richards 2022-2024 View profile
- Teri-Anne Cavanagh 2020-2022 View profile
- Navneet Kaur Ogle 2016-2020 View profile
- Keith Donald 2015-2016 View profile
- John Edward Ilett 2011-2015 View profile
- Simon Lawrence Parsons 2010-2022 View profile
- Maxine Chow 2004-2010 View profile
- Suzanne Elaine Smith 2003-2003 View profile
- Clive Jonathan Hall 1999-2004 View profile
- Adrian Kevah Wilson 1996-1999 View profile
- Robert Charles Collier 1996-1996 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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Public contracts won
11 contracts · £266,168,223 totalFrom 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.
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DHSC: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR): Research Commissioning and Management Services Lot 5
Lot 5, Research Commissioning for Applied, Public Health and Social Care Infrastructure, is responsible for commissioning, managing and overseeing NIHR's infrastructure investments that support population health, public health, social care …
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DHSC: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR): Research Commissioning and Management Services Lot 4
Lot 4, Research Commissioning for Translational and Delivery Infrastructure, is responsible for commissioning, managing and overseeing NIHR's translational and research delivery infrastructure. It supports the development, testing and deliv…
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DHSC: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR): Research Commissioning and Management Services Lot 1
Lot 1, Strategic Business Services and the One NIHR Hub, provides the central coordination, leadership and assurance functions that enable NIHR to operate as a single, coherent system. It delivers shared strategic business services across t…
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SBRI Healthcare contract 2026/27
For FY26/27 NHS E intend to procure a Fund Management Service to include delivery of: - current SBRI Healthcare (Phases1-3) - new Evidence for Impact fund (Phase 4) - new Systems Implementation Fund (Phase 5).
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RDE796 - Food Authenticity Standardisation & Harmonisation - CEN TC460 WG8 and
The aim of the project is to ensure UK interests are represented at the CEN TC 460 Food Authenticity, that knowledge sharing occurs and the maintenance of expert links with the CEN community. Contract awarded by Defra.
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Coordinator role for Virtual Food Authenticity Network
The requirement seeks to appoint a Coordinator responsible for the newly established virtual food authenticity network which aims to bring together those laboratories involved in food authenticity testing. Recommendation four (4) of the Ell…
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Provision of Knowledge Transfer event on the real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for food authenticity testing inclusive of quantitation of horse DNA
Provision of Knowledge Transfer event on the real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) for food authenticity testing inclusive of quantitation of horse DNA.
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DSIT NMS Phase 2– LGC GC + CBM
DSIT conducted National Measurement System (NMS) Programme market engagement activities from 20th August 2025 to 3rd September 2025 during which no alternative suppliers expressed an interest in delivering one of the proposed 9 separate NMS…
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Production and supply of DNA synthetic SARS-COV-2 control and BA.3.2 sublinages
Provide the services for production and supply of DNA synthetic SARS-COV-2 control and BA.3.2 sublinages
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Public Analyst Training
The Food Safety Act 1990 requires LAs to appoint PAs for chemical and compositional food sampling in a legal context and provide a CoA which is admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings. The MChemA qualification needed to become a PA i…
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DHSC: CSA: NIHR Research Commissioning and Management Services Lot 6
Lot 6, Research Commissioning for Career Development and Capacity Building
About
- What it does
- Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
- Incorporated
- 18/11/1994
- Registered office
- Guildford
Ownership
Owned by (1) 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.
- LGC (Holdings) Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30
Group
- LGC Limited
is controlled by LGC (Holdings) Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register - LGC (Holdings) Limited
is controlled by LGC Investments Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register - LGC Investments Limited
is controlled by LGC Group Holdings Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register - LGC Group Holdings Limited
is controlled by LGC Science Investments Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register - LGC Science Investments Limited
is controlled by LGC Science Holdings Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register - LGC Science Holdings Limited
is controlled by Teddington 2 Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register - Teddington 2 Limited
is controlled by LGC Science Group Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register - LGC Science Group Limited
is controlled by Teddington 3 Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register - Teddington 3 Limited
is controlled by Elwy 3 Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register - Elwy 3 Limited
is controlled by Elwy 2 Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-06-30 · source: Companies House PSC register
The ownership chain above LGC Limited is unusually long; showing the first 10 steps.
8 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
29 grants · £939,214 total360Giving 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 Science, Innovation and Technology · £900,894 (24 grants)
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £38,321 (5 grants)
Most recent
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
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.
4 directors on the board
- Marcus Rudolf Kaeller Director · appointed 2024
- Dr Julian Hugh Braybrook Director · appointed 2018
- Joydeep Goswami Director · appointed 2025
- Helen Ruth Watson Director · appointed 2025
Directors past 6 years
- Dr Julian Hugh Braybrook Director · appointed 2018
First-time vs portfolio directors
Portfolio (4)
- Marcus Rudolf Kaeller Director · appointed 2024
- Dr Julian Hugh Braybrook Director · appointed 2018
- Joydeep Goswami Director · appointed 2025
- Helen Ruth Watson Director · appointed 2025
Also govern a charity
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.
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
- 02991879
- 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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