--- title: "Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/brighter-hope-fishing-shetland-ltd-lerwick-800827 register_status: active register_as_of: 2026-10-30 publisher: Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk) source: UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Open Government Licence v3); Companies House --- # Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd (Companies House SC721092, Lerwick) holds an A-rated Worker sponsor licence covering the Skilled Worker route and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since 26 September 2023 (source: Borderless, from the GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors and Companies House). ## Key facts - Register status: Active: on the current register and licensed to sponsor workers - Licence type and rating: Worker (A rating) - Visa routes: Skilled Worker - First seen on the register: 26 September 2023 - Industry: Other - Town: Lerwick - Registered address: Mair's Quay, Holmsgarth, Lerwick, Shetland, United Kingdom, ZE1 0PW - Companies House number: SC721092 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC721092) - Register data as of: 30 October 2026 (GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors, re-read daily) - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/brighter-hope-fishing-shetland-ltd-lerwick-800827 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 30 licensed sponsors in Lerwick: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/lerwick - One of 3,279 in Other: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/other-industries - Among 122,278 Skilled Worker sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/skilled-worker ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 2 changes worth checking, checked 26 October 2026, newest first: - 1 Jun 2025: New secretary appointed: SCOLLAY, John Magnus. Company secretary change recorded on 1 Jun 2025. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 30 May 2025: Secretary resigned: HENDERSON, Hazel Jane. Company secretary change recorded on 30 May 2025. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. Companies House cannot show who holds the licence roles or whether a change was reported to the Home Office, so these are prompts to check against your own records, not findings. ## Sponsored jobs No listings matched yet. Job listings are harvested daily from Reed, Adzuna, Jooble and Careerjet and matched back to the register by employer name. ## Common questions about Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd ### Is Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd in Lerwick is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2023. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd sponsor? Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd is licensed for Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd based? The register lists Brighter Hope Fishing (Shetland) Ltd at Mair's Quay, Holmsgarth, Lerwick, Shetland, United Kingdom, ZE1 0PW. This is usually the head office; the job itself may be somewhere else. ### How current is this information? This page uses the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors, as published on 30 October 2026, and Companies House records for company number SC721092. We update it daily. Always confirm a licence status on GOV.UK. ## About this data - Source register: UK Home Office, Register of Licensed Sponsors (Workers), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers (Open Government Licence v3). GOV.UK is authoritative; confirm there before relying on a licence status. - Company records: Companies House, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/ - Published by Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk), an OISC-regulated UK immigration provider. This is public register data, not legal advice. - "First seen on the register" is when this organisation first appeared in our data, not the official licence grant date. - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/brighter-hope-fishing-shetland-ltd-lerwick-800827 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/brighter-hope-fishing-shetland-ltd-lerwick-800827.md - Site overview for AI agents: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/llms.txt - Something wrong? Request a correction from the web page and the Borderless team will check it.