What moved on your lending patch last week.
Every Monday: the charges registered, the charges satisfied and the changes of control at UK manufacturing and engineering companies. The director named on every row, and the filing behind it, so any line can be checked in two clicks. From £1,500 a month, no demo.
The problem
A satisfied charge means the refinance already happened.
When a borrower refinances, the outgoing lender’s charge is satisfied and a new charge is registered to somebody else. Both are filed at Companies House. Both are public within weeks.
If the first you hear of it is the renewal conversation, the decision was made months ago. Twelve charges were satisfied in this sector between March and September. Each one was a deal that went somewhere else.
The other half
The same record names who is lending into your sector.
A charge says who granted it and who holds it. Read a year of them and you have the list of lenders actually writing business in your market, from the filings rather than from a rumour.
How it works
Four steps, none of them clever.
A company grants a charge, or control changes.
A charge must be registered at Companies House within 21 days of creation. A change of controlling person must reach the register within 28 days. Neither is optional.
Priorfile reads the filing.
Every one, for the companies on your list. Charges registered, charges satisfied, controllers arriving and leaving. Filings stream continuously, so nothing waits for a batch.
Each row is checked and named.
The director comes from the officers register, the holder from the charge, the controlling person from the PSC register. Shells, dormant companies and holding vehicles come out by hand before anything is sent.
Your register arrives Monday.
One email. Company, event, date, what changed, the director, and a link so any line can be verified against the source in two clicks.
The sample register
Six of fifty-five events.
Every row links back to the filing it came from. Fourteen rows were checked against the source by hand and fourteen passed. Check any of them before you pay a penny.
| Company & director | Event | Filed | What changed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HECKLER & KOCH (UK) LIMITED M. Geissinger | Control change | 12 Nov 2025 | Control passed to Mr Nicolas Walewski | View filing |
| CRANFIELD AEROSPACE SOLUTIONS LIMITED S. Zawaideh | New charge | 21 Oct 2025 | Charge registered to Strategic Development Fund Llc | View filing |
| EUROFINS ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC UK LIMITED D. Bozec | Control change | 14 Oct 2025 | Control passed to Eurofins Scientific S.E. (overseas entity) | View filing |
| DENIS FERRANTI METERS LIMITED K. Chandler | Control change | 28 Oct 2025 | Control passed to Mr James Mark Ziani De Ferranti | View filing |
| SPINDRAC LIMITED C. Cochrane | Control change | 16 Oct 2025 | Control passed to Mrs Celine Teresa Cochrane | View filing |
| RADASENSE LTD H. Wahab | Control change | 16 Oct 2025 | Control passed to Mr Mohamed Wahab | View filing |
Why it cannot go stale
A charge filed last Tuesday is still a charge filed last Tuesday in a year.
B2B contact data decays at roughly 22.5% a year, and the commonest complaint about every provider is the same: bounced email, wrong numbers, the job title from two roles ago.
Priorfile does not sell email addresses. It gives you the director’s name from the public register, which is current by law, and the dated filing that says what happened.
Where this sits
Same filings. Three very different products.
Nobody owns this data. It is a public record and anyone may read it, Beauhurst included. What differs is who the reading is done for. Funding Spotter is a database for people watching the market. Beauhurst is a research platform for institutions. Priorfile tells one desk what moved on its own list.
| Funding Spotter | Priorfile | Beauhurst | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A database of detected UK rounds | A weekly register for one lending desk | A verified research platform |
| Source | Companies House filings | Companies House filings | Companies House filings, 60 analysts |
| Events covered | Equity rounds | Charges, satisfied charges, control changes | Equity rounds, accounts, grants |
| Built for | Founders, investors, market-watchers | Lending and advisory desks | Institutions |
| Delivered as | A login, a map, charts | One email, your watchlist, Monday | A platform, with training |
| Names to call | Officer network in the app | Director on every row | Contacts, emails |
| Every row linked to its filing | Not that we can see | Yes | Yes |
| Published error rate | No | 14 of 14 hand-checked | No |
| Price | £100 / month | £1,500 / month | £24,500 / year |
Funding Spotter and Beauhurst figures from their published pricing, read 1 September 2026. Beauhurst is a far larger product and reads the same public source. If you want to research the whole market, buy Beauhurst. This is built to tell one desk what moved on its own list last week.
Pricing
By the desk and the sector. No demo, no minimum.
Watchlist
✓Every charge, satisfied charge and change of control✓On the companies you name, not a sector guess✓Director named on every row✓Every line linked to the filing it came from✓Shells and holding vehicles removed by hand
Sector register
✓Everything in Watchlist, across the sector✓105,036 active UK manufacturing and engineering companies✓New companies enter the register as they appear✓The week as a CSV for your CRM✓VAT invoice and BACS available
Register and signals
✓Everything in Sector register✓Control changes read against the PSC thresholds✓Charge holders ranked by who is lending into the sector✓The archive, every week since it started✓Priced by conversation, not by demo
Or start with a £1,500 pilot. Sixty days on your own watchlist, with a written success measure agreed before it starts, so there is something to judge it against at the end. Whatever price you join at is the price you keep.
Start smaller
Sixty days, £1,500, on your own watchlist.
Name the companies you lend into and the pilot runs on those. A written success measure is agreed before it starts, so there is something to judge it against at the end rather than a feeling. If it does not earn its place, it stops.
105,036 active UK manufacturers. One register, every Monday.
Charges registered, charges satisfied and changes of control, in defence and advanced manufacturing. Read the last one before you decide anything. There is nothing to enter and nothing to book.
