---
title: "LINCOLN BOOK FESTIVAL — Ownership Dossier"
canonical: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6f455db2-8aef-5871-8786-e8f051784491
json: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/6f455db2-8aef-5871-8786-e8f051784491
identifier: oo:GB-COH-07876164
jurisdiction: GB
risk: Low
source: WhiteIntel corporate-ownership graph
---

# LINCOLN BOOK FESTIVAL

**Type:** Company  
**Jurisdiction:** GB  
**Identifier:** `oo:GB-COH-07876164`  
**Risk level:** Low  
**Canonical dossier:** https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6f455db2-8aef-5871-8786-e8f051784491  
**Structured JSON / MCP:** https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/6f455db2-8aef-5871-8786-e8f051784491  

## Ownership & control

### Owners / controllers

- **Mrs Vanessa Sanders** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/93d8935a-ed45-5ec5-b6e5-e3d5f27eb062
- **Mr Ian Mathew Richards** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/46e5ebb0-224b-4543-9603-dd76ccbd35a3
- **Mrs Vanessa Sanders** (beneficial owner) — https://whiteintel.dev/entity/85509109-2d2b-44a1-9151-3733b00b80fc

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

1. **Mrs Vanessa Sanders** — beneficial owner → *LINCOLN BOOK FESTIVAL*
1. **Mr Ian Mathew Richards** — beneficial owner → *LINCOLN BOOK FESTIVAL*
1. **Mrs Vanessa Sanders** — beneficial owner → *LINCOLN BOOK FESTIVAL*

## Company profile (live · UK Companies House)

- **Company number:** `07876164`
- **Status:** active
- **Type:** private limited guarant nsc limited exemption
- **Incorporated:** 2011-12-08
- **Registered office:** University Of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, LN6 7TS, England
- **SIC:** 90020

### Officers

- CAPANCIONI, Claudia, Prof. — director · British · appointed 2023-08-04
- CHERRELL, Kate Elizabeth — director · British · appointed 2023-08-01
- RICHARDS, Ian Mathew — director · British · appointed 2023-08-01
- RIDEOUT, Timothy Stephen James, Dr — director · British · appointed 2026-03-03
- STONE, Sharon Jane — director · British · appointed 2026-01-18
- PHILLIPS, Gary Ian — secretary · British · appointed 2013-08-29 · resigned 2019-04-12
- SANDERS, Vanessa — secretary · appointed 2019-04-12 · resigned 2025-01-23
- STONE, Sharon Jane — secretary · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2013-08-29
- BENNETT, Carol Ann — director · American · appointed 2015-01-15 · resigned 2019-04-12
- CHAMBERS, Susan Mary Elizabeth — director · British · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2013-08-29
- CORRIGAN, Matthew Robert — director · British · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2019-04-12
- DUNCAN, Angela Jane — director · British · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2019-04-12
- GRUBB, Michael Jonathan — director · British · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2017-12-07
- HAMLYN WILLIAMS, Philip Leslie — director · British · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2023-06-30
- HUGHES, Jill Gabriel Anne — director · British · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2023-11-14
- NEVILE, Christopher — director · British · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2019-04-12
- PHILLIPS, Gary Ian — director · British · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2019-04-12
- SANDERS, Vanessa — director · British · appointed 2019-04-12 · resigned 2025-01-23
- SLEIGHT, David, Professor — director · British · appointed 2011-12-08 · resigned 2015-01-14
- SNOWLEY, Ian Robert — director · British · appointed 2015-01-14 · resigned 2017-12-07

### Beneficial owners (Persons with Significant Control)

- Mr Ian Mathew Richards — right to appoint and remove directors · individual PSC · England — since 2025-01-23
- Mrs Vanessa Sanders — right to appoint and remove directors · individual PSC · England — ceased 2025-01-23

## Provenance

- OpenOwnership — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07876164
- companies_house_bulk — https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07876164

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_This is the markdown-for-agents view of the WhiteIntel dossier for **LINCOLN BOOK FESTIVAL**. Human view: https://whiteintel.dev/entity/6f455db2-8aef-5871-8786-e8f051784491 · Structured JSON: https://whiteintel.dev/api/public/dossier/6f455db2-8aef-5871-8786-e8f051784491._

_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"._