LIMBS & THINGS LIMITED
Company number 02532281 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Limbs & Things Limited is a well-positioned niche leader in medical simulation training with strong vertical integration, proprietary products, and a healthy balance sheet supporting strategic flexibility. The company faces a critical inflection point: growth is decelerating from pandemic-era highs while competition intensifies in an expanding market. Success will depend on executing the eoSurgical technology integration, scaling production capacity, and maintaining margin discipline while investing in R&D-driven product differentiation.
Shareholders' funds
£32,673,529
Balance sheet as at 2025-12-31
What it does
The Group’s principal activities during the year continued to be the manufacture and distribution of medical training products.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1990-08-17
- Employees
- 219 (2025 accounts · was 223 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Sussex Street, St Philips, Bristol, BS2 0RA
- Postcode
- BS2 0RA
- Capital
- 742 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-01
- Next due by
- 2027-08-15
Nature of business (SIC)
- 32990 Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified
Officers 5 current · 9 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
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EOSURGICAL LTD. Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Public contracts won 7
£459,847 total awarded value where published.
Showing the 5 most recent of 7.
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Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB277832 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SUSSEX STREET, ST PHILLIPS, BRISTOL BS2 0RA | 2002-02-15 |
| RADNOR BUSINESS CENTRE, RADNOR ROAD, HORFIELD, BRISTOL BS7 8QS | 2002-01-10 |
| RADNOR BUSINESS CENTRE, RADNOR ROAD, HORFIELD, BRISTOL BS7 8QS | 2002-01-10 |
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 168 similar companies in BS
The largest employer among its local peers (219 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1990.
No.2 of the largest other manufacturing not elsewhere classified companies in Bristol →
Competitors Bristol
This company ranks 2 among other manufacturing not elsewhere classified in Bristol.
The class of 1990
48%
of the 211 companies in this sector incorporated in 1990 are still active today; 48% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 12 titles
- Leasehold
- 12
- Most recent registration
- 2024-08-02
- Price paid, where recorded
- £700,000
- Where
- City Of Bristol (12)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AV1379 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2024-08-02 | — |
| AV59476 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2024-08-02 | — |
| BL122005 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2024-08-02 | — |
| BL146688 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2024-08-02 | — |
| BL167320 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2024-06-28 | — |
| BL167322 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2024-06-28 | — |
| AV33234 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2024-01-12 | £700,000 |
| BL163196 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2022-11-23 | — |
| BL149204 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2018-06-08 | — |
| BL147324 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2017-12-04 | — |
| AV146634 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2017-09-26 | — |
| BL128521 | City Of Bristol | Leasehold | 2012-04-17 | — |
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