Licensed sponsor
Licensed to sponsor the Skilled Worker route from Glasgow, according to the Home Office register.
The Befriending Association CIC is a private limited company (Companies House number SC516418), incorporated in September 2015, with its registered office in Glasgow. Companies House lists its business as residential care activities for the elderly and disabled. It is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker route with a Worker (A rating).
From Companies House and the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, checked 6 Oct 2026.
Company status and filing deadlines change, so we don’t show an old copy. Check them live with Companies House.
Yes. The Befriending Association CIC is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker route.
It holds an active sponsor licence for the Skilled Worker route. Whether a particular role is sponsored is up to the employer; the licence only means it is allowed to.
The Befriending Association CIC is registered with Companies House under company number SC516418, with its registered office in GLASGOW.
The register lists The Befriending Association CIC with a Worker (A rating) rating.
The Befriending Association CIC is classified under Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled.
The register changes daily. Check the official GOV.UK register before relying on a licence. This page is information, not immigration advice.
On the register by January 2023, the earliest copy of the register we have that lists it. No changes to its licence since then.
We have no copy of the register between June 2024 and January 2025, so changes in that time show as a range.
Built by comparing copies of the Home Office register: worksponsors/data-process daily copies (from January 2023); our own daily register sync.
10 other licensed sponsors in Glasgow have the same main industry code: residential care activities for the elderly and disabled (87300). Employers advertising jobs now are listed first.
Answered by members who have been through it: sponsored here, offered a job, or applied.
No questions yet. If you were sponsored here, applied here or are thinking about it, ask the first one.
No one has shared an experience yet. Figures appear once 5 members have shared. Share yours
Members share their own experience. This is not immigration advice.
How long the CoS took, what the interview was like, whether they paid the visa fee.
Members share their own experience. It isn’t immigration advice, and your answers are public.