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Vivacity Labs Limited

Other information technology service activities

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

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Who leads it

Previous officers 8

  1. Jonathan Rose 2022-2023 Director View profile
  2. Henry Hunter 2022-2024 Director View profile
  3. Robert James Stait 2021-2025 Director View profile
  4. Stuart Andrew Berman 2020-2024 Director View profile
  5. Christopher Matthew Barnes 2019-2022 Director View profile
  6. Colin George Eric Corbally 2019-2022 Director View profile
  7. John Cameron Mcarthur 2017-2019 Director View profile
  8. Yang Lu 2016-2025 Director View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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Public contracts won

11 contracts · £540,748 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.

  • Active travel monitoring sites between Waterside Bridge and West Bridgford town centre Buyer: Nottinghamshire County Council £44,674 2026-07-22 CPV 63712000 Source: Contracts Finder

    The aim is to capture as many active travel movements as possible within the area bounded by the 'monitoring extent', through a series of 'count lines' captured by traffic sensors. On road vehicle movements are also captured by the sensors…

  • Place960 Market Towns Monitoring Project Buyer: Derbyshire County Council £221,499 2026-03-30 CPV 32000000 Source: Contracts Finder

    Market Towns Monitoring Project - Cameras + support and maintenance. Call off from G Cloud 14.

  • LCWIP Sensor Subscription Buyer: Leicestershire County Council £70,200 2025-09-17 CPV 48000000 Source: Contracts Finder

    Procurement of LCWIP Sensor Subscription, call off under CCS framework RM6099 - Transport Technology & Associated Services.

  • The Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Multimodal Sensors Buyer: West Midlands Combined Authority £54,310 2025-09-02 CPV 60112000 Source: Contracts Finder

    Notice for the award of contract for the supply, installation and maintenance of multimodal sensors across WMCAs constituent Local Authorities (except Wolverhampton). Deliverables include: Installation -to provide the sensor hardware -…

  • Active Travel Counters - Pilot Buyer: DfTc - Department for Transport £24,000 2025-07-01 CPV 72000000 Source: Contracts Finder

    Provision of active travel counter information relating to Active Travel England funded schemes Outcomes: Agreements from Local Authorities to share VivaCity counter data with Active Travel England.

  • NE MMDR Sensor Subscription Buyer: Leicestershire County Council £61,850 2025-04-01 CPV 48000000 Source: Contracts Finder

    Procurement of NE MMDR Sensor subscription, call off under CCS framework RM6099 - Transport Technology & Associated Services.

  • Provision of traffic monitoring sensors and data collection Buyer: North Northamptonshire Council £64,215 2024-12-12 CPV 34970000 Source: Contracts Finder

    Purchase of 20 sensors and 20 months operation, maintenance and data collection / reporting. Please note - this requirement has been extended with the details published under a UK7 notice Notice identifier: 2026/S 000-020267 rather than …

  • Highways England Stopped Vehicle Detection Framework Lot 2 Buyer: Highways England Value not published Date not published CPV 34920000 Source: Find a Tender

    Highways England is a Government company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England’s motorways and major A roads, including modernising and maintaining the highways in England. Highways England has procured two framework agr…

    Framework
  • Market Towns Monitoring Project - Cameras + support and maintenance. Buyer: Derbyshire County Council Value not published Date not published CPV 48000000 Source: Find a Tender

    Market Towns Monitoring Project Provision of Cameras + support and maintenance.

  • G Cloud 15 Buyer: Government Commercial Agency Value not published Date not published Source: Find a Tender

    G-Cloud 15 (GC15) is the replacement for G-Cloud 14 (GC14), G-Cloud 14 Lot 4 (GC14.4) and Cloud Compute 2 (CC2). It is the largest framework of its kind in the public sector. G-Cloud spend for FY23/24 was £3.1bn and Cloud Compute was £0.5m.…

    Framework
  • IA4031 Sensor Renewals and Purchase Buyer: Staffordshire County Council Value not published Date not published Source: Find a Tender

    Renewal of existing VivaCity traffic sensors, addition of speed recording and purchase of one new sensor

About

What it does
Other information technology service activities
Incorporated
21/12/2015
Registered office
London

Ownership

Owned by (3) 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.

  • Yang Lu ceased 2021-02-18
    25-50% shares · notified 2016-04-06 - confirmed: also a director of this company
  • Mark Daniel Edward Nicholson ceased 2021-02-18
    25-50% shares · notified 2016-04-06
  • Tracsis PLC ceased 2021-02-18
    significant influence · notified 2017-04-03

Group

  1. Vivacity Labs Limited is controlled by Yang Lu
    Evidence
    ceased 25-50% shares · notified 2016-04-06, ceased 2021-02-18 · source: Companies House PSC register

Ultimately controlled by Yang Lu.

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
-£4,806,770
Total assets
£333,653
Cash
£447,878
Employees
1.03
Turnover
Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)
Profit/loss
-£5,926,157

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

8 grants · £3,860,383 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 · £2,194,240 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,481,397 (2 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £159,796
  • Department for Transport · £24,950

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £159,7962022-06-20
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £72,9002022-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £1,319,1322021-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £162,2652020-10-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £49,4812020-06-01
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.

4 directors on the board

6.7y median 7.9y
average tenure
10.6y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (1)

Portfolio (3)

0
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.

Tech and media 4Business services 2Education 1Professional services 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.

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving directors could step down together

Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats.

Sources

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

Record details
Company number
09924516
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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