--- title: "Dartington Service Design Lab: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/dartington-service-design-lab-devon-784499 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 --- # Dartington Service Design Lab: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Dartington Service Design Lab (Companies House 12613600, Devon) 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 25 September 2018 (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: 25 September 2018 - Legal name: DARTINGTON SERVICE DESIGN LAB LIMITED - Industry: Professional Services - Town: DEVON - Registered address: Lower Ground Floor Higher Mills, Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon, United Kingdom, TQ11 0EE - Companies House number: 12613600 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12613600) - Website: https://www.dartington.org.uk - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dartington-service-design-lab/ - 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/dartington-service-design-lab-devon-784499 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 40 licensed sponsors in Devon: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/devon - One of 10,299 in Professional Services: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/professional-services - Among 122,278 Skilled Worker sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/skilled-worker ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 18 changes worth checking, checked 26 October 2026, newest first: - 1 Feb 2026: Secretary resigned: EVANS, Laurence. Company secretary change recorded on 1 Feb 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. - 3 Dec 2025: Director resigned: DOBSON, Ruth Margaret. Director change recorded on 3 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. - 3 Dec 2025: New director appointed: STODDART, Hannah Catherine. Director change recorded on 3 Dec 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. - 1 Dec 2025: New secretary appointed: JAY, Laurence. Company secretary change recorded on 1 Dec 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. - 17 Sep 2025: New director appointed: VERNON, Belinda. Director change recorded on 17 Sep 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. - 12 May 2025: Registered office address changed. Registered office change recorded on 12 May 2025. If the address on your sponsor licence has changed, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 19 Sep 2024: Director resigned: HANSEN, Vagn Nedergaard. Director change recorded on 19 Sep 2024. 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. - 3 Jan 2023: New secretary appointed: EVANS, Laurence. Company secretary change recorded on 3 Jan 2023. 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. - 12 May 2022: Director resigned: BURKE, Daniel. Director change recorded on 12 May 2022. 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. - 12 May 2022: New director appointed: GLOVER, Joel Ralph. Director change recorded on 12 May 2022. 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. - 20 Jan 2021: Director resigned: WARREN, Brian Howard. Director change recorded on 20 Jan 2021. 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. - 11 Nov 2020: New director appointed: HANSEN, Vagn Nedergaard. Director change recorded on 11 Nov 2020. 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. - 11 Nov 2020: New director appointed: BURKE, Daniel. Director change recorded on 11 Nov 2020. 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. - 11 Nov 2020: Director resigned: HOBBS, Tim Michael, Professor. Director change recorded on 11 Nov 2020. 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. - 20 May 2020: Notification of Warren House Group At Dartington as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 20 May 2020. If control of your organisation has passed to a new owner, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 20 May 2020: New director appointed: DOBSON, Ruth Margaret. Director change recorded on 20 May 2020. 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. - 20 May 2020: New director appointed: WARREN, Brian Howard. Director change recorded on 20 May 2020. 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. - 20 May 2020: New director appointed: HOBBS, Tim Michael, Professor. Director change recorded on 20 May 2020. 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. 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 Dartington Service Design Lab ### Is Dartington Service Design Lab a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Dartington Service Design Lab in DEVON is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2018. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Dartington Service Design Lab sponsor? Dartington Service Design Lab is licensed for Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Dartington Service Design Lab based? The register lists Dartington Service Design Lab at Lower Ground Floor Higher Mills, Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon, United Kingdom, TQ11 0EE. 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 12613600. 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/dartington-service-design-lab-devon-784499 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/dartington-service-design-lab-devon-784499.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.