--- title: "Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/shop-direct-home-shopping-limited-liverpool-735379 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 --- # Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited (Companies House 04663281, Liverpool) 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 13 November 2014 (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: 13 November 2014 - Also known as: Isme; K & Co; Littlewoods; Very; Very Exclusive; Woolworths - Industry: Retail & E-commerce - Town: Liverpool - Registered address: First Floor, Skyways House, Speke Road, Speke, Liverpool, L70 1AB - Companies House number: 04663281 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04663281) - 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/shop-direct-home-shopping-limited-liverpool-735379 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 741 licensed sponsors in Liverpool: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/liverpool - One of 17,329 in Retail & E-commerce: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/retail-ecommerce - Among 122,278 Skilled Worker sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/skilled-worker ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 21 changes worth checking, checked 26 October 2026, newest first: - 9 Nov 2025: Director resigned: PETERS, Philip Leslie. Director change recorded on 9 Nov 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. - 9 Nov 2025: Director resigned: KERSHAW, David Wallace. Director change recorded on 9 Nov 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. - 9 Nov 2025: Director resigned: BARCLAY, Howard Myles. Director change recorded on 9 Nov 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. - 9 Nov 2025: Director resigned: WINTON, Stuart Andrew. Director change recorded on 9 Nov 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. - 9 Nov 2025: Director resigned: BARCLAY, Aidan Stuart. Director change recorded on 9 Nov 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. - 1 Oct 2025: New director appointed: FRY, Edward Sebastian Thomas. Director change recorded on 1 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. - 30 Sep 2025: Director resigned: FLETCHER, Benjamin Phillip. Director change recorded on 30 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. - 11 Sep 2024: New director appointed: HALLOWS, Sean Michael. Director change recorded on 11 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 Apr 2024: Director resigned: DESCLEE DE MAREDSOUS, Lionel Albert. Director change recorded on 26 Apr 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 Apr 2024: New director appointed: FEATHER, Robert. Director change recorded on 26 Apr 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. - 23 Sep 2022: Director resigned: BIRCH, Henry Benedict. Director change recorded on 23 Sep 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. - 19 Sep 2022: New director appointed: DESCLEE DE MAREDSOUS, Lionel Albert. Director change recorded on 19 Sep 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. - 1 Sep 2020: New director appointed: FLETCHER, Benjamin Phillip. Director change recorded on 1 Sep 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. - 7 Jun 2019: Director resigned: SEAL, Michael. Director change recorded on 7 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. - 8 Apr 2019: New director appointed: BIRCH, Henry Benedict. Director change recorded on 8 Apr 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. - 31 Jan 2018: Director resigned: BALDOCK, Alexander David. Director change recorded on 31 Jan 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. - 23 Mar 2017: Director resigned: PATERAS, Gregory Vincent. Director change recorded on 23 Mar 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. - 13 May 2016: New director appointed: PATERAS, Gregory Vincent. Director change recorded on 13 May 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. - 6 Apr 2016: Notification of Littlewoods 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. - 29 Feb 2016: Corporate-secretary resigned: SHOP DIRECT SECRETARIAL SERVICES LTD. Company secretary change recorded on 29 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. - 18 Mar 2015: Director resigned: MCMENEMY, Mark. Director change recorded on 18 Mar 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. 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 Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited ### Is Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited in Liverpool is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2014. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited sponsor? Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited is licensed for Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited based? The register lists Shop Direct Home Shopping Limited at First Floor, Skyways House, Speke Road, Speke, Liverpool, L70 1AB. 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 04663281. 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/shop-direct-home-shopping-limited-liverpool-735379 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/shop-direct-home-shopping-limited-liverpool-735379.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.