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Company · Sandwich

Growup Farms Limited

Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers

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

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Who leads it

Previous officers 15

  1. Michael Lee Hedges 2024-2025 Director View profile
  2. James Nicholas Marshall Cox 2021-2021 Director View profile
  3. Martyn Paul Fletcher 2021-2021 Director View profile
  4. Brett Geoffrey Sumner 2020-2021 Director View profile
  5. Frederick Charles Grant Laing 2020-2025 Director View profile
  6. Benjamin David Heathcoat Amory 2020-2025 Director View profile
  7. Henry James Hamilton Stubber 2020-2025 Director View profile
  8. Katherine Beresford Ringrose 2017-2017 Director View profile
  9. Geoffrey David Sinclair 2017-2017 Director View profile
  10. Michael Gibilaro 2016-2017 Director View profile
  11. Vernon Mascarenhas 2016-2020 Director View profile
  12. Martin Arnold Hofman 2016-2020 Director View profile
  13. Andrew Charles Hodson 2015-2017 Director View profile
  14. Emily Kate Brass Hofman 2013-2024 Director View profile
  15. Thomas Charles Webster 2013-2025 Director View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers; Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating; Research and experimental development on biotechnology; Other research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
Incorporated
24/05/2013
Registered office
Sandwich
Previous names
Growup Urban Farms LTD. (until 13/06/2020)

Ownership

Owned by (4) 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.

Group

  1. Growup Farms Limited is controlled by Thomas Charles Webster
    Evidence
    ceased 25-50% shares, 25-50% voting · notified 2016-04-06, ceased 2020-05-14 · source: Companies House PSC register

Ultimately controlled by Thomas Charles Webster.

1 other company 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.

Financials

Net assets
-£28,158,331
Total assets
£53,123,051
Cash
£636,819
Employees
0.73
Turnover
£2,912,233
Profit/loss
-£17,490,017

Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2024-12-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.

Grants received

1 grant · £33,821 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 Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £33,821

Most recent

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £33,8212022-04-01
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

0.6y median 0.6y
average tenure
0.6y
longest tenure
0
directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

Portfolio (3)

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.

Finance 6Property 4Agriculture 3

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
08544592
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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