CONSORTIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH LIBRARIES

Active
Company number 02942632Private company limited by guaranteeIncorporated 1994

Key figures

£13-99.6%
Net assets 2024/25
-86.7%
Average annual change 2019/20–2024/25
0100 k200 k300 k400 k2019/202020/212021/222022/232023/242024/25

Like most small UK companies, CONSORTIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH LIBRARIES does not publish a profit and loss account in its latest accounts. The figures below come from the balance sheet.

Ratios

2024/25

Sector comparison

SIC 91011

Where the company stands among the 238 active companies whose first SIC code is 91011 (Library activities).

Net assets£13
Lower than 82% · median £25,073
Total assets£613
Lower than 95% · median £54,655
Employees0
Around the median · median 0
Company age32.4 years
Older than 90% · median 14.5 years
Largest in this sector by net assets
  1. THE WORDSWORTH TRUST£21.5m
  2. TYNDALE HOUSE AND INSTITUTE£20.3m
  3. ROYAL PHILATELIC SOCIETY LONDON£16.9m
  4. THE POLISH INSTITUTE AND SIKORSKI MUSEUM£11.2m
  5. TRAMWAY MUSEUM SOCIETY(THE)£5.6m
  6. GREAT WESTERN SOCIETY LIMITED£5.3m
  7. UV&S LTD£5m
  8. LIBRARIES UNLIMITED SOUTH WEST£3.2m
  9. THE GERALD COKE HANDEL FOUNDATION£3m
  10. LISTENING BOOKS£2.4m

Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant, so those groups are smaller than 238. The line on each bar marks the median.

Summary: CONSORTIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH LIBRARIES

What kind of company is it?

CONSORTIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH LIBRARIES is a private company limited by guarantee registered with Companies House under company number 02942632. It was incorporated on 24 Jun 1994. Its status is active. The registered office is in London (EC1R). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is library activities (91011), archives activities (91012).

How is the company doing financially?

The latest accounts in the database are for 2024/25 (period ending 30 Sep 2025); the company files micro-entity accounts. Net assets were £13, down 99.6% on the previous year. Total assets were £613 and total liabilities £0. The company had an average of 0 employees. Figures are available for 6 financial years (2019/20–2024/25).

How does it compare with similar companies?

Compared with 238 active companies whose first SIC code is 91011: By net assets it ranks lower than 82% of them (median £25,073). By total assets it ranks lower than 95% of them (median £54,655). By number of employees it is around the median of them (0). It is older than 90% of them (median age 14.5 years).

Does it supply the public sector?

The company is named as the supplier in one public contract award notice, from British Library.

Who runs and controls the company?

The company has 1 current director. One person with significant control is registered.

When are its next filings due?

The next accounts are due by 30 Jun 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 8 Jul 2027.

Filed accounts2019/20–2024/25
2020/212021/222022/232023/242024/25
Total assets405,261413,5024,6304,106613
Total liabilities3,6536,4331591630
Net assets / total equity357,683380,5431,8493,34313
Average number of employees33000

A dash (—) means no accounts were filed for that year or the item is not in the accounts; 0 is a zero stated in the accounts. Small companies usually file only a balance sheet, so the profit and loss account is often missing.

Public contracts

1 contract

CONSORTIUM OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH LIBRARIES is named as a supplier in 1 public contract award notice from British Library.

Contract
  1. English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)‡British Library · value published in EUR · runs until Apr 2028

From contract award notices on Contracts Finder (since 2016) and Find a Tender (since 2021), published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Values are as published by the buyer and usually cover the whole contract term; the total leaves out awards shared between several suppliers, where the published figure is a ceiling for all of them, placeholder values and single figures of £1 billion or more. Notices marked ‡ do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name. Contracts below the publication thresholds and those of devolved buyers that publish elsewhere are not included.

History

126 events
  1. Pierre-Jean RIAMOND resignedDirector
  2. Stefano CAMPAGNOLO resignedDirector
  3. Dorothea Ingrid SOMMER resignedDirector
  4. Gerrard Jason MCELLIGOTT resignedDirector
  5. Marie DE LAUBIER resignedDirector
  6. Gregory PRICKMAN resignedDirector
  7. Saskia Johanna Sylvia SCHELTJENS resignedDirector
  8. Financial year 2024/25 endedAccounts: net assets £13, 0 employees
Earlier events (118)
  1. Financial year 2023/24 endedAccounts: net assets £3,343, 0 employees
  2. Katarzyna SLASKA resignedDirector
  3. Wolfram HORSTMANN resignedDirector
  4. Kristian JENSEN resignedDirector
  5. Maria GEORGOPOULOU resignedDirector
  6. Financial year 2022/23 endedAccounts: net assets £1,849, 0 employees
  7. Lars Patrik ILSHAMMAR resignedDirector
  8. Lucinda Margaret JONES resignedDirector
  9. Yann SORDET resignedDirector
  10. Hege Strensrud HØSØIEN resignedDirector
  11. Richard OVENDEN resignedDirector
  12. Mark Edward PURCELL appointedDirector
  13. Lars Patrik ILSHAMMAR appointedDirector
  14. Pierre-Jean RIAMOND appointedDirector
  15. Financial year 2021/22 endedAccounts: net assets £380.5k, 3 employees
  16. Stefano CAMPAGNOLO appointedDirector
  17. Andrea DE PASQUALE resignedDirector
  18. Claudia Elisabeth Maria FABIAN resignedDirector
  19. Katarzyna SLASKA appointedDirector
  20. Dorothea Ingrid SOMMER appointedDirector
  21. Financial year 2020/21 endedAccounts: net assets £357.7k, 3 employees
  22. Andreas FINGERNAGEL resignedDirector
  23. Gerrard Jason MCELLIGOTT appointedDirector
  24. Financial year 2019/20 endedAccounts: net assets £311.9k, 3 employees
  25. Pierre Emile Lucie DELSAERDT resignedDirector
  26. Anne Marie PASQUIGNON resignedDirector
  27. Edwin SCHROEDER resignedDirector
  28. Jolanta Malgorzata TALBIERSKA resignedDirector
  29. Marie DE LAUBIER appointedDirector
  30. Lucinda Margaret JONES appointedDirector
  31. Gregory PRICKMAN appointedDirector
  32. Saskia Johanna Sylvia SCHELTJENS appointedDirector
  33. Ulf GÖRANSON resignedDirector
  34. Andreas FINGERNAGEL appointedDirector
  35. Wolfram HORSTMANN appointedDirector
  36. Kristian JENSEN appointedDirector
  37. Yann SORDET appointedDirector
  38. Dr Cristina Dondi registered as a person with significant control
  39. Maria GEORGOPOULOU appointedDirector
  40. Kristian JENSEN resignedDirector
  41. Adalbert ROTH resignedDirector
  42. Hege Strensrud HØSØIEN appointedDirector
  43. Rosa CAFFO resignedDirector
  44. Raymond BERARD resignedDirector
  45. Andrea DE PASQUALE appointedDirector
  46. Claudia Elisabeth Maria FABIAN appointedDirector
  47. Ewa KOBIERSKA-MACIUSZKO resignedDirector
  48. Gerald GRUNBERG resignedDirector
  49. Pierre Emile Lucie DELSAERDT appointedDirector
  50. Anne Marie PASQUIGNON appointedDirector
  51. Edwin SCHROEDER appointedDirector
  52. Jolanta Malgorzata TALBIERSKA appointedDirector
  53. Elmar MITTLER resignedDirector
  54. Ewa KOBIERSKA-MACIUSZKO appointedDirector
  55. Kristian JENSEN appointedDirector
  56. Adalbert ROTH appointedDirector
  57. Milagros DEL CORRAL resignedDirector
  58. Antonia Ida FONTANA resignedDirector
  59. Istvan MONOK resignedDirector
  60. Vladimir ZAITSEV resignedDirector
  61. Rosa CAFFO appointedDirector
  62. David Robert Stanley PEARSON resignedDirector
  63. Johannes Joseph Maria BOS resignedDirector
  64. David James SHAW resignedSecretary
  65. Raymond BERARD appointedDirector
  66. Richard OVENDEN appointedDirector
  67. Cristina DONDI appointedSecretary
  68. Lucien SCOTTI resignedDirector
  69. Gerald GRUNBERG appointedDirector
  70. Milagros DEL CORRAL appointedDirector
  71. Kai Rauno EKHOLM resignedDirector
  72. Osvaldo AVALLONE resignedDirector
  73. Fernanda Maria CAMPOS resignedDirector
  74. Ann MATHESON resignedDirector
  75. Antonia Ida FONTANA appointedDirector
  76. Ulf GÖRANSON appointedDirector
  77. David Robert Stanley PEARSON appointedDirector
  78. Renee HERBOUZE resignedDirector
  79. Dupuigrenet Desroussilles FRANCOIS resignedDirector
  80. Istvan MONOK appointedDirector
  81. Lucien SCOTTI appointedDirector
  82. Graham Philip JEFCOATE resignedDirector
  83. Livia BORGHETTI resignedDirector
  84. Alix CHEVALLIER resignedDirector
  85. Tomas LIDMAN resignedDirector
  86. Osvaldo AVALLONE appointedDirector
  87. Johannes Joseph Maria BOS appointedDirector
  88. Fernanda Maria CAMPOS appointedDirector
  89. Renee HERBOUZE appointedDirector
  90. Kai Rauno EKHOLM appointedDirector
  91. Graham Philip JEFCOATE appointedDirector
  92. Lotte HELLINGA resignedSecretary
  93. David James SHAW appointedSecretary
  94. Hermann Adalbert LESKIEN resignedDirector
  95. John Michael SMETHURST resignedDirector
  96. Dupuigrenet Desroussilles FRANCOIS appointedDirector
  97. Ann MATHESON appointedDirector
  98. Livia BORGHETTI appointedDirector
  99. Marino ZORZI resignedDirector
  100. Philippe BELAVAL resignedDirector
  101. Alix CHEVALLIER appointedDirector
  102. Pierre COCKSHAW resignedDirector
  103. Hermann Adalbert LESKIEN appointedDirector
  104. Xavier AGENJO resignedDirector
  105. Hermann Adalbert LESKIEN resignedDirector
  106. Tomas LIDMAN appointedDirector
  107. Vladimir ZAITSEV appointedDirector
  108. Paolo VENEZIANI resignedDirector
  109. Marino ZORZI appointedDirector
  110. Xavier AGENJO appointedDirector
  111. Philippe BELAVAL appointedDirector
  112. Pierre COCKSHAW appointedDirector
  113. Elmar MITTLER appointedDirector
  114. Paolo VENEZIANI appointedDirector
  115. Lotte HELLINGA appointedSecretary
  116. Hermann Adalbert LESKIEN appointedDirector
  117. John Michael SMETHURST appointedDirector
  118. Company incorporatedPrivate company limited by guarantee

Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.