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Licensed to sponsor the Skilled Worker route from Edinburgh, according to the Home Office register.
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Claim this pageThistle Foundation is a private company limited by guarantee (Companies House number SC024409), incorporated in August 1946, with its registered office in Edinburgh. Companies House lists its business as social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled, other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c. and physical well-being activities. It is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors for the Skilled Worker route with an A rating. It has been on the register since March 2023.
From Companies House and the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, checked 16 Oct 2026.
Earlier names from the Companies House record.
On the register since March 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.
Company status and filing deadlines change, so we don’t show an old copy. Check them live with Companies House.
Yes. Thistle Foundation 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 register lists Thistle Foundation for one route: Skilled Worker (A rating).
Thistle Foundation has been on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors since March 2023, the first copy of the register that lists it.
Thistle Foundation is registered with Companies House under company number SC024409, with its registered office in EDINBURGH.
The register lists Thistle Foundation with an A rating on the Skilled Worker route.
Thistle Foundation is classified under Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled, Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c., Physical well-being activities.
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8 other licensed sponsors in Edinburgh have the same industry code: social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled (88100).