--- title: "Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/fothergill-engineered-fabrics-ltd-littleborough-766808 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 --- # Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd (Companies House 02986454, Littleborough) 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 at least 4 August 2013 (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: 4 August 2013 or earlier - Legal name: FOTHERGILL ENGINEERED FABRICS LIMITED - Industry: Manufacturing & Industrial - Town: Littleborough - Registered address: Summit, Littleborough, Lancashire, OL15 0LR - Companies House number: 02986454 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02986454) - Website: https://www.fothergill.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/fothergill-engineered-fabrics-ltd-littleborough-766808 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 18 licensed sponsors in Littleborough: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/littleborough - One of 8,077 in Manufacturing & Industrial: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/manufacturing-industrial - Among 122,278 Skilled Worker sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/skilled-worker ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 11 changes worth checking, checked 25 October 2026, newest first: - 30 Nov 2024: New director appointed: BRENNAN, Alison. Director change recorded on 30 Nov 2024. 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 Nov 2024: New director appointed: BRENNAN, Mary. Director change recorded on 30 Nov 2024. 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. - 26 Sep 2024: Director resigned: BRENNAN, Patrick Gerard. Director change recorded on 26 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. - 26 Sep 2024: Director resigned: BRENNAN, Veronica. Director change recorded on 26 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. - 26 Sep 2024: New director appointed: HOLLAND, Yvonne. Director change recorded on 26 Sep 2024. 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. - 26 Sep 2024: New director appointed: HOLLAND, James. Director change recorded on 26 Sep 2024. 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. - 3 Aug 2018: Director resigned: BOAM, Jacqueline. Director change recorded on 3 Aug 2018. 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. - 6 Apr 2016: Notification of Mr Patrick Gerard Brennan as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 6 Apr 2016. 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. - 6 Apr 2016: Cessation of Mr Patrick Gerard Brennan as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 6 Apr 2016. If this changes who owns or controls your organisation, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 6 Apr 2016: Notification of Brennan Enterprise Limited as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 6 Apr 2016. 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. - 12 Feb 2016: Director resigned: MORAN, John Vincent. Director change recorded on 12 Feb 2016. 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 Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd ### Is Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd in Littleborough is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and has been since at least 2013. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd sponsor? Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd is licensed for Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd based? The register lists Fothergill Engineered Fabrics Ltd at Summit, Littleborough, Lancashire, OL15 0LR. 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 02986454. 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/fothergill-engineered-fabrics-ltd-littleborough-766808 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/fothergill-engineered-fabrics-ltd-littleborough-766808.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.