--- title: "Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/canterbury-theatre-and-festival-trust-canterbury-802777 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 --- # Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust (trading as Canterbury Festival; Canterbury) holds an A-rated Temporary Worker sponsor licence covering the Creative Worker route and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since 13 September 2024 (source: Borderless, from the GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors). ## Key facts - Register status: Active: on the current register and licensed to sponsor workers - Licence type and rating: Temporary Worker (A rating) - Visa routes: Creative Worker - First seen on the register: 13 September 2024 - Trading as: Canterbury Festival - Legal name: CANTERBURY THEATRE AND FESTIVAL TRUST - Industry: Media, Marketing & Creative - Town: Canterbury - Companies House number: 01480595 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01480595) - Website: https://www.canterburyfestival.co.uk - 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/canterbury-theatre-and-festival-trust-canterbury-802777 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 138 licensed sponsors in Canterbury: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/canterbury - One of 5,872 in Media, Marketing & Creative: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/media-marketing-creative - Among 1,572 Creative Worker sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/temporary-worker-creative ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 13 changes worth checking, checked 27 October 2026, newest first: - 22 Apr 2026: Director resigned: RIVA, Hilary. Director change recorded on 22 Apr 2026. 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. - 21 Jan 2026: New director appointed: PROVAN, Louise Helen. Director change recorded on 21 Jan 2026. 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. - 21 Jan 2026: New director appointed: HUXLEY-BINNS, Rebecca Claire. Director change recorded on 21 Jan 2026. 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. - 1 Jan 2026: New director appointed: BARRY, Jessica. Director change recorded on 1 Jan 2026. 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. - 1 Jan 2026: New director appointed: SHAW, Deborah Cathrine. Director change recorded on 1 Jan 2026. 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. - 31 Dec 2025: Director resigned: CARMICHAEL, Colin. Director change recorded on 31 Dec 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. - 31 Dec 2025: Director resigned: WALDER, Tony. Director change recorded on 31 Dec 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. - 31 Dec 2025: Director resigned: BORTHWICK, Alastair, Professor. Director change recorded on 31 Dec 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. - 15 Oct 2025: Director resigned: HERMITAGE, Peter Andrew. Director change recorded on 15 Oct 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. - 15 Oct 2025: Director resigned: NEALES, Kate Elisabeth, Dr. Director change recorded on 15 Oct 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. - 15 Oct 2025: Director resigned: SUMMERFIELD, Hugh John Edward. Director change recorded on 15 Oct 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. - 15 Oct 2025: New director appointed: LUDDEN, Simon Thomas. Director change recorded on 15 Oct 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. - 10 Sep 2025: Secretary resigned: NEALES, Kate Elisabeth, Dr. Company secretary change recorded on 10 Sep 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 Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust ### Is Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust in Canterbury is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2024. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust sponsor? Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust is licensed for Creative Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Temporary Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust based? The register lists Canterbury Theatre & Festival Trust at Canterbury. 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. 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/canterbury-theatre-and-festival-trust-canterbury-802777 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/canterbury-theatre-and-festival-trust-canterbury-802777.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.