--- title: "Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/spencer-gardner-dickins-limited-coventry-786390 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 --- # Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited (trading as SGD; Companies House 04980192; Coventry) 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 28 March 2022 (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: 28 March 2022 - Trading as: SGD - Industry: Professional Services - Town: Coventry - Registered address: 3 Coventry Innovation Village, Cheetah Road, Coventry, CV1 2TL - Companies House number: 04980192 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/04980192) - Website: https://www.sgduk.com - 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/spencer-gardner-dickins-limited-coventry-786390 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 912 licensed sponsors in Coventry: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/coventry - 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 8 changes worth checking, checked 26 October 2026, newest first: - 4 Apr 2025: Notification of Sgd Group Holdings Limited as a person with significant control. New majority owner or controller recorded on 4 Apr 2025. 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. - 4 Apr 2025: Cessation of Mr Paul Brian Spencer as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 4 Apr 2025. 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. - 12 Dec 2024: Shares cancelled (capital reduction). Share capital filing recorded on 12 Dec 2024. No new majority owner was notified, so this is usually routine. If it did pass a controlling interest to someone new, the licence does not transfer automatically, and a new licence application may be needed within 20 working days. - 4 Dec 2024: Cessation of Mr David Stephen Thomas-Walls as a person with significant control. Change to people with significant control recorded on 4 Dec 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. - 25 May 2024: New director appointed: DICKINS, Paul Victor Robert. Director change recorded on 25 May 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. - 12 Apr 2024: Director resigned: THOMAS-WALLS, David Stephen. Director change recorded on 12 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. - 22 Mar 2024: Director resigned: THOMAS-WALLS, Susan Jane. Director change recorded on 22 Mar 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. - 4 Dec 2023: New director appointed: CHAPMAN, Martin Joseph. Director change recorded on 4 Dec 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. 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 Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited ### Is Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited in Coventry is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors under this name since 2022. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited sponsor? Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited is licensed for Skilled Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited based? The register lists Spencer Gardner Dickins Limited at 3 Coventry Innovation Village, Cheetah Road, Coventry, CV1 2TL. 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 04980192. 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/spencer-gardner-dickins-limited-coventry-786390 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/spencer-gardner-dickins-limited-coventry-786390.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.