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Ascendant Solutions LTD

Ascendant Solutions LTD is an active UK company (number 10038449), incorporated 2016, with 2 current directors, Richard Michael Hanby and Darren Paul Kelk. Source: Companies House, updated 11th October 2026.

Official record Companies House · updated 11th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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Public contracts won

4 contracts · £147,250 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.

  • Provision of a Debt Segmentation Tool Buyer: Leicester City Council £46,800 2026-05-26 CPV 48000000 Source: Contracts Finder

    The provision of a Debt Segmentation tool to assess customer affordability and identify where there are possible vulnerabilities. The contract was awarded following a procurement conducted under the G-Cloud 14 framework.

  • COV - Credit Reference checks 2026-28 (RM1557.14) Buyer: COVENTRY CITY COUNCIL £60,450 2026-04-09 CPV 48441000 Source: Contracts Finder

    Call off from G-Cloud 14 under Lot 2 (Cloud Software) to provide Credit reference checks for Council tax debt recovery .

  • P-0810 Automation of Council tax discounts and exemption reviews Buyer: Manchester City Council £40,000 2025-07-08 CPV 72200000 Source: Contracts Finder

    The provision of robotic process automation (RPA) to automate Council tax discount and exemption reviews, and also bulk tracing exercises for absconded debtors. This is to reduce the manual work required by the back office teams. This cont…

  • 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.…

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About

Incorporated
02/03/2016

Ownership

Owned by (2) 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. Ascendant Solutions LTD is controlled by Darren Paul Kelk
    Evidence
    active 50-75% shares, 50-75% voting, appoints directors · notified 2016-04-06 · source: Companies House PSC register

Ultimately controlled by Darren Paul Kelk.

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
£611,669
Total assets
£617,254
Cash
£956,660
Employees
17
Turnover
Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)

Filed as Full accounts (audit exempt).

Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2026-03-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.

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.

2 directors on the board

5.6y median 5.6y
average tenure
10.6y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

Portfolio (2)

0
also govern a charity
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.

Arts and leisure 2

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
10038449
Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Edition
Register edition compiled 11th October 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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