---
title: "AARDMAN SHAUN THE SHEEP LIMITED — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/16c44483-ecc4-557e-9f33-e04f70ffb6f0
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/16c44483-ecc4-557e-9f33-e04f70ffb6f0
identifier: oo:GB-COH-08279713
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# AARDMAN SHAUN THE SHEEP LIMITED

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** GB  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-08279713`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/16c44483-ecc4-557e-9f33-e04f70ffb6f0  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/16c44483-ecc4-557e-9f33-e04f70ffb6f0  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **Mr David Alan Sproxton** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/767f0702-de99-58af-84c9-ebe2e0827637
- **Mr Peter Duncan Fraser Lord** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f8c83065-daf1-559c-8213-38f202cee1a6
- **AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 100% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/05e37aa9-21ae-5af9-84d8-d3ef7fa889b0
- **Mr David Alan Sproxton** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/eb4484eb-9765-4766-8553-42a2ac9070ea
- **Mr Peter Duncan Fraser Lord** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/f9522666-7ad8-4cd2-9a59-0d7d68021d98
- **AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED** (beneficial owner) — 87.5% — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/05e37aa9-21ae-5af9-84d8-d3ef7fa889b0

### UBO chain (walk to the ultimate owner)

1. **Mr David Alan Sproxton** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN SHAUN THE SHEEP LIMITED*
1. **Mr Peter Duncan Fraser Lord** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN SHAUN THE SHEEP LIMITED*
1. **AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *AARDMAN SHAUN THE SHEEP LIMITED*
1. **Mr David Alan Sproxton** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN SHAUN THE SHEEP LIMITED*
1. **Mr Peter Duncan Fraser Lord** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN SHAUN THE SHEEP LIMITED*
1. **AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *AARDMAN SHAUN THE SHEEP LIMITED*
2. **AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED** — beneficial owner 100% → *AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED*
2. **Mr David Alan Sproxton** — beneficial owner 50% → *AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED*
2. **Mr Peter Duncan Fraser Lord** — beneficial owner 50% → *AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED*
2. **Mr Peter Duncan Fraser Lord** — beneficial owner 37.5% → *AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED*
2. **Mr David Alan Sproxton** — beneficial owner 37.5% → *AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED*
2. **AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED** — beneficial owner 87.5% → *AARDMAN HOLDINGS LIMITED*
3. **Mrs Caroline Anne Rose Norbury** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr Deepak Sehgal** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr Laurence Ivor Philip Green** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr David Peter Pester** — beneficial owner 50% → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr David Alan Sproxton** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr David Mark Roberts** — beneficial owner 50% → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Miss Stephanie Claire Louise Owen** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Miss Mary Lowance** — beneficial owner 50% → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr Kerry Anthony Lock** — beneficial owner 50% → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr David Mark Roberts** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Ms Carla Denise Shelley** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr Kerry Anthony Lock** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr Jeremy James Howard Gadd** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr David Peter Pester** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Miss Mary Lowance** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr Deepak Sehgal** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr Laurence Ivor Philip Green** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mrs Caroline Anne Rose Norbury** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Miss Stephanie Claire Louise Owen** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*
3. **Mr David Alan Sproxton** — beneficial owner → *AARDMAN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP TRUSTEE LIMITED*

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `08279713`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** ltd
- **Incorporated:** 2012-11-02
- **Registered office:** C/O Aardman Animations Ltd, Gas Ferry Road, Bristol, BS1 6UN
- **SIC:** 59111, 90030

### Officers

- CAVE, Joanna Louise — director · British · appointed 2024-02-15
- CLARKE, Sean Michael — director · British · appointed 2019-12-17
- LOCK, Kerry Anthony — director · British · appointed 2019-12-17 · resigned 2024-02-15
- LORD, Peter Duncan Fraser — director · British · appointed 2012-11-02 · resigned 2024-01-01
- SPROXTON, David Alan — director · British · appointed 2012-11-02 · resigned 2019-12-17

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- [Aardman Holdings Limited](https://whiteintel.dev/entity/05e37aa9-21ae-5af9-84d8-d3ef7fa889b0) — 75–100% shares · corporate PSC · England — since 2016-04-06
- Mr David Alan Sproxton — significant influence or control · individual PSC · England — ceased 2018-11-05
- Mr Peter Duncan Fraser Lord — significant influence or control · individual PSC · England — ceased 2018-11-05

## Provenance

- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08279713
- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08279713

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **AARDMAN SHAUN THE SHEEP LIMITED**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/16c44483-ecc4-557e-9f33-e04f70ffb6f0 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/16c44483-ecc4-557e-9f33-e04f70ffb6f0._

_Risk levels are heuristic investigative leads, not legal determinations of beneficial ownership. Every claim carries a source; an absent edge means "not yet observed in current sources", not "does not exist"._