--- title: "Robert Bird & Partners: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/robert-bird-and-partners-london-761887 register_status: active register_as_of: 2026-11-02 publisher: Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk) source: UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Open Government Licence v3); Companies House --- # Robert Bird & Partners: UK sponsor licence status > As of 2 November 2026, Robert Bird & Partners (trading as ROBERT BIRD GROUP; Companies House 04472743; London) holds an A-rated Worker sponsor licence covering the Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker and Skilled Worker routes, 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: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker - First seen on the register: 4 August 2013 or earlier - Trading as: ROBERT BIRD GROUP - Legal name: ROBERT BIRD & PARTNERS LIMITED - Industry: Professional Services - Town: London - Registered address: First Floor, Harling House, Great Suffolk Street, London, England, SE1 0BS - Companies House number: 04472743 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04472743) - Website: https://www.robertbird.com - Register data as of: 2 November 2026 (GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors, re-read daily) - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/robert-bird-and-partners-london-761887 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 36,683 licensed sponsors in London: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/london - One of 10,299 in Professional Services: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/professional-services - Among 10,782 Global Business Mobility sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/global-business-mobility ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 35 changes worth checking, checked 2 November 2026, newest first: - 6 Jun 2025: Director resigned: DOBBINS, Terry. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 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. - 6 Jun 2025: Director resigned: POOLOGASUNDRAM, Hari. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 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. - 6 Jun 2025: Director resigned: GRANT, Geoffrey Andrew. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 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. - 6 Jun 2025: Director resigned: BEUTEL, Jason Glen. Director change recorded on 6 Jun 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. - 6 Jun 2025: New director appointed: MCCUMISKEY, Warren. Director change recorded on 6 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. - 6 Jun 2025: New director appointed: WARHURST, Jarrad. Director change recorded on 6 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. - 6 Jun 2025: New director appointed: KIENZL, Nico Hubert. Director change recorded on 6 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. - 3 Mar 2022: Secretary resigned: MARTIN, Peter William. Company secretary change recorded on 3 Mar 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. - 3 Mar 2022: New secretary appointed: MCCOLL, Andrew. Company secretary change recorded on 3 Mar 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. - 18 Nov 2020: New director appointed: DOBBINS, Terry. Director change recorded on 18 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. - 18 Nov 2020: New director appointed: GRANT, Geoffrey Andrew. Director change recorded on 18 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. - 29 Jul 2020: Director resigned: ATKIN, Andrew. Director change recorded on 29 Jul 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 Sep 2018: New secretary appointed: MARTIN, Peter William. Company secretary change recorded on 20 Sep 2018. 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 Sep 2018: Secretary resigned: FOXCROFT, Drew. Company secretary change recorded on 20 Sep 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. - 5 Sep 2018: Notification of Robert Bird Group Pty Ltd as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 5 Sep 2018. 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. - 26 Apr 2018: Registered office address changed. Registered office change recorded on 26 Apr 2018. 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. - 1 Dec 2017: New person with significant control: Surbana Jurong Holdings (Australia) Pty Ltd. Change to people with significant control recorded on 1 Dec 2017. 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. - 1 Dec 2017: Cessation of Surbana Jurong Holdings (Australia) Pty Ltd as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 1 Dec 2017. 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. - 30 Nov 2017: Cessation of Mr Robert Owen Bird as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 30 Nov 2017. 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. - 30 Nov 2017: New director appointed: POOLOGASUNDRAM, Hari. Director change recorded on 30 Nov 2017. 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 2017: New director appointed: ATKIN, Andrew. Director change recorded on 30 Nov 2017. 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. - 29 Nov 2017: Director resigned: WARD, John William. Director change recorded on 29 Nov 2017. 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. - 29 Nov 2017: Director resigned: BIRD, Robert Owen. Director change recorded on 29 Nov 2017. 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. - 29 Nov 2017: Director resigned: NICHOLAS, Simon Hugh. Director change recorded on 29 Nov 2017. 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. - 29 Nov 2017: Director resigned: DOBBINS, Terence John. Director change recorded on 29 Nov 2017. 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. - + 10 earlier changes on the web page 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 Robert Bird & Partners ### Is Robert Bird & Partners a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Robert Bird & Partners in London 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 Robert Bird & Partners sponsor? Robert Bird & Partners is licensed for Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker and Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Robert Bird & Partners based? The register lists Robert Bird & Partners at First Floor, Harling House, Great Suffolk Street, London, England, SE1 0BS. 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 2 November 2026, and Companies House records for company number 04472743. 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/robert-bird-and-partners-london-761887 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/robert-bird-and-partners-london-761887.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.