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Albright Product Design Limited

UK Product Design Agency | Product Design Consultancy | Duku

Duku is a UK product design agency, based in Gloucestershire we specialise in product design & development, prototype design, 3D printing & design for manufacture. We are experts in Industrial Design and Low Volume Manufacturing. We also provide product design advice, patent and IP advice.

CRN
08597948
Founded
2013
Age
13

Overview

Legal name
ALBRIGHT PRODUCT DESIGN LIMITED
Region
South West England
Registered address
WILLIAM BURFORD HOUSE
LANSDOWN PLACE LANE
CHELTENHAM
ENGLAND
GL50 2LB
Insolvency history
No

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
31 Dec
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

18 Dec
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

04 Dec
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Mar
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

17 Oct
2024

Accounts With Accounts Type Total Exemption Full

Accounts Analysed

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Published 17 Oct 2024 10:20

04 Jul
2013

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

13 awards
First funded
2018
Funded years
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
Age at first award
4 years

Projects

2025 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Leading the Charge: Best Practices for Marine EV Infrastructure - LTC

1 Sep 2025 to 31 Mar 2026

Awarded
£81,167
Total cost £115,952

This feasibility study will establish clear, harmonised guidance for marine EV charging infrastructure, while developing early-stage hardware concepts tailored to the unique challenges of coastal and inland waterway environments. While building on existing automotive EV standards, the consortium will go further, developing marine-specific recommendations ...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Unlocking Accessibility - Repairability

1 Jun 2024 to 30 Nov 2024

Awarded
£57,902
Total cost £57,902

There are no EV chargepoints available that enable independent charging for all drivers. Working with the Research Institute for Disabled Consumers (RIDC), we found 'non-tethered cable' chargepoints are a significant barrier to drivers who cannot manage and insert a separate charge cable. The weight/inflexibility of cables on 'tethered' chargepoints also ...

2024 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of the West of England and Albright Product Design Limited KTP 23_24 R2

17 May 2024 to 17 May 2026

Awarded
£0
Total cost £0

To develop and embed a full commercialisation capability within the business to exploit innovative, in-house designed products. This will enable Duku to directly market their own products and to offer a full-service idea-to-market capability for new and existing design consultancy clients.

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Unlocking Accessibility - Deployment

1 Mar 2024 to 31 Aug 2024

Awarded
£46,926
Total cost £46,926

**Unlocking Accessibility -- Deployment** builds on the success of Innovate UK funded Phase 1 feasibility project **(10004949)** which saw the development of an innovative, user-centric public EV chargepoint to TRL3 in March 2022\. Featuring ground-breaking, automated cable-management to significantly reduce the effort to connect a car to a charger. This ...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Accessible Maritime EV Charging

1 Feb 2024 to 31 Oct 2024

Awarded
£58,305
Total cost £83,293

Our project will address accessibility challenges in Maritime EV-charging to improve charging infrastructure for boats & vessels which are currently served by adapted Automotive EV chargers. The team's experience and research shows Auto-chargers come with inherent accessibility limitations which can prevent users, including those with disabilities, from a...

2023 Grant for R&D Lead participant

Unlocking Accessibility - Public Solution

1 Apr 2023 to 31 Mar 2024

Awarded
£50,000
Total cost £50,000

**Unlocking Accessibility - Public Solution** builds on the success of Innovate UK funded Phase 1 feasibility project, which saw the development of an innovative, user-centric, accessible EV chargepoint concept. This ground-breaking design enables motorists with disabilities to charge easily and quickly, ensuring that the 15% of the global population with...

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Cleanstreets Resilience Fund

1 Dec 2021 to 31 Jan 2022

Awarded
£99,726
Total cost £99,726

Our feasibility study showed that a) councils need both information and guidance, and a new type of charging architecture if they are to support electric vehicle (EV) charging in public places at-scale; b) on-street public charging is possible with a flexible and context-specific "toolkit" approach with "pop-up" EV chargers integrated with smart parking; ...

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Unlocking Accessibility

1 Aug 2021 to 31 Mar 2022

Awarded
£289,216
Total cost £413,166

Duku have partnered with Urban Foresight and Dundee City Council to conduct a feasibility study into the development of an accessible EV chargepoint that builds on successful work already undertaken between Duku, UF, Motability and disability sector experts. The project aims to explore the feasibility of a range of innovative functional features, providin...

2020 Collaborative R&D

Expanding Urban E-mobility

1 Oct 2020 to 31 Mar 2021

Awarded
£84,817
Total cost £121,167

This project builds on two previous IUK projects to further develop the unique UEone pop-up charge point, designed to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption in urban areas by solving the problem of charging for the 43% of UK households without off-street parking for charging, vital for The Department for Transport to achieve the objectives set out in t...

2020 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Electric vehicle charging for public spaces: real-world demonstrators - Continuity Grant

1 Jun 2020 to 30 Nov 2020

Awarded
£121,391
Total cost £121,391

no public description

2019 Collaborative R&D

Clean Streets EV Infrastructure Toolkit: Demonstrator

1 Oct 2019 to 31 Mar 2022

Awarded
£1,018,840
Total cost £1,455,488

Our feasibility study showed that a) councils need both information and guidance, and a new type of charging architecture if they are to support electric vehicle (EV) charging in public places at-scale; b) on-street public charging is possible with a flexible and context-specific "toolkit" approach with "pop-up" EV chargers integrated with smart parking; ...

2019 Feasibility Studies

Wireless EV "Charge on the Go"

1 Jan 2019 to 31 Mar 2019

Awarded
£10,459
Total cost £14,941

"**The UK government has banned the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles from 2040, and is targeting up to 40% of new van sales to be zero emission by 2030, yet with 4M vans on UK roads, and total van mileage increasing due to internet shopping, currently only 0.3% of new van sales are electric.** With cities and towns also looking to address...

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies Grant for R&D Knowledge Transfer Partnership