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Thistle Foundation

Thistle Foundation, Edinburgh, holds a Home Office sponsor licence for Skilled Worker. It is on the current register and has been since at least 4 September 2026. Companies House lists it as Thistle Foundation (SC024409), active, incorporated in 1946 (80 years ago), registered for social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled.

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Companies House

Who Thistle Foundation actually is

Company number: SC024409
Status: Active
Type: Company limited by guarantee
Incorporated: 1 August 1946 · 80 years old
What they do: 88100 Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled
88990 Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
96040 Physical well-being activities
Sector: Social care and care homes
Previously: Thistle Foundation (the) (until 2010)
Registered office: Thistle Centre Of Wellbeing, 13 Queen's Walk, Edinburgh, EH16 4EA

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The registered office is where the company files its paperwork, not necessarily where it trades. Matched 13 September 2026.

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Thistle Foundation, Edinburgh, holds a Home Office sponsor licence on the Skilled Worker route, and has been on the register since at least 2026. Its rating on the register is Worker (A rating).

Thistle Foundation is the registered name (Companies House number SC024409), a company limited by guarantee on the register since 1946. Registered office: Thistle Centre Of Wellbeing, 13 Queen's Walk, Edinburgh, EH16 4EA, EH16 4EA. Its filed activity puts it in social care and care homes. It has traded under other names before, including Thistle Foundation (the).

For a candidate this means one less obstacle: Thistle Foundation already has the licence most employers would have to apply for. The rest is the ordinary job of getting the interview.

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Getting a licence takes an application, checks and a fee, and most employers never bother. Thistle Foundation has, which means when a role qualifies the certificate can be assigned without months of preparation.

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What you need to work here

A confirmed job offer from a UK employer that holds a Home Office sponsor licence. The employers in this directory all hold one.
A Certificate of Sponsorship from that employer describing the role.
A job on the Home Office list of eligible occupations, paid at least the minimum salary for that role and route.

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Source: UK Visas and Immigration, Register of licensed sponsors: workers. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Being on the register means an organisation holds a sponsor licence. It does not mean it has a vacancy or that it will sponsor you.

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