--- title: "Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/rock-uk-adventure-centres-ltd-wellingborough-693461 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 --- # Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd (trading as BARNABAS ADVENTURE CENTRES; Companies House 04718891; Wellingborough) holds an A-rated Temporary Worker sponsor licence covering the Charity Worker and Religious 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: Temporary Worker (A rating) - Visa routes: Charity Worker; Religious Worker - First seen on the register: 4 August 2013 or earlier - Trading as: BARNABAS ADVENTURE CENTRES - Legal name: ROCK UK ADVENTURE CENTRES LIMITED - Industry: Hospitality & Food Service - Town: Wellingborough - Registered address: Frontier Centre Addington Road, Irthlingborough, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 5UH - Companies House number: 04718891 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04718891) - Website: https://www.rockuk.org - 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/rock-uk-adventure-centres-ltd-wellingborough-693461 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 103 licensed sponsors in Wellingborough: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/wellingborough - One of 15,171 in Hospitality & Food Service: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/hospitality-food-service - Among 1,531 Charity Worker sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/temporary-worker-charity ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 27 changes worth checking, checked 31 October 2026, newest first: - 13 Oct 2025: New director appointed: WATTS, Brian David. Director change recorded on 13 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 Feb 2025: New director appointed: HAGON, Keith Martin. Director change recorded on 10 Feb 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. - 18 Jun 2024: Director resigned: SYKES, Darrell Anthony. Director change recorded on 18 Jun 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. - 5 Feb 2024: Cessation of Mrs Margaret Wooding Jones as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 5 Feb 2024. 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. - 17 Jul 2023: New director appointed: HODGE, Simon Jonathan. Director change recorded on 17 Jul 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. - 6 Feb 2023: New director appointed: SYKES, Darrell Anthony. Director change recorded on 6 Feb 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. - 14 Jan 2022: Director resigned: STARLING, Graham Derek. Director change recorded on 14 Jan 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 Feb 2021: New director appointed: STARLING, Graham Derek. Director change recorded on 3 Feb 2021. 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 Feb 2021: New director appointed: CHARLESWORTH, Rachel Paula. Director change recorded on 3 Feb 2021. 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 Apr 2020: Director resigned: ADAMS, Derek William. Director change recorded on 30 Apr 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. - 31 Mar 2020: Secretary resigned: LOCKE, David James. Company secretary change recorded on 31 Mar 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. - 31 Mar 2020: New secretary appointed: MACLEAN, Malcolm. Company secretary change recorded on 31 Mar 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. - 28 Nov 2019: Notification of Mrs Margaret Wooding Jones as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 28 Nov 2019. 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. - 27 Nov 2019: Cessation of Mr Alistair John Fraser as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 27 Nov 2019. 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. - 26 Nov 2019: Director resigned: FRASER, Alistair John. Director change recorded on 26 Nov 2019. 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. - 2 Oct 2019: New secretary appointed: LOCKE, David James. Company secretary change recorded on 2 Oct 2019. 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. - 2 Oct 2019: Secretary resigned: MALLON, Gordon Keith. Company secretary change recorded on 2 Oct 2019. 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 2019: New secretary appointed: MALLON, Gordon Keith. Company secretary change recorded on 6 Jun 2019. 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 2019: Secretary resigned: HEASMAN, John Philip Derek. Company secretary change recorded on 6 Jun 2019. 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 Oct 2016: Director resigned: FLANAGAN, Declan William, Reverend. Director change recorded on 20 Oct 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. - 12 Jul 2016: New director appointed: FOOT, Nicola Dawn. Director change recorded on 12 Jul 2016. 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 Jun 2016: New person with significant control: Mr Alistair John Fraser. Change to people with significant control recorded on 30 Jun 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. - 26 Apr 2016: New director appointed: ELLIS, Huw Alwyn. Director change recorded on 26 Apr 2016. 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 2015: Director resigned: ARNOLD, Andrew Martyn Giles. Director change recorded on 18 Nov 2015. 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. - 2 Jul 2015: New director appointed: BELCHER, Alan David. Director change recorded on 2 Jul 2015. 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. - + 2 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 Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd ### Is Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd in Wellingborough 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 Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd sponsor? Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd is licensed for Charity Worker and Religious Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Temporary Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd based? The register lists Rock UK Adventure Centres Ltd at Frontier Centre Addington Road, Irthlingborough, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN9 5UH. 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 04718891. 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/rock-uk-adventure-centres-ltd-wellingborough-693461 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/rock-uk-adventure-centres-ltd-wellingborough-693461.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.