- SRA number
- 570670
- Authorisation
- Licensed body (ABS)
- Authorised since
- 20 August 2012
- Organisation type
- Licensed body (alternative business structure), authorised
- Constitution
- Incorporated company (limited by shares)
- Practising offices
- 2 (1 branch)
- Head office
- Manchester M2 3AF
- Branch towns
- Manchester
- Areas of law reported to the SRA
- none recorded
- Website (SRA record)
- ascent.co.uk
- Head office phone
- 0345 604 0860
- Companies House status
- Active (06742453, file 1 May 2026)
- Incorporated
- 5 November 2008
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Trading names
- Ascent Contact; Ascent Legal; Ascent; Ascent Collections
- Previous names (SRA)
- Ascent Collections Limited
- SRA firms in Manchester
- 406 (120 residential property)
Ascent Performance Group Limited is a licensed body authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority since August 2012 and recorded under SRA number 570670. The SRA record lists 2 practising offices: the head office at One, St Peters Square, Manchester, M2 3AF, plus 1 further office in Manchester. It also trades as Ascent Contact, Ascent Legal, Ascent and Ascent Collections. The register carries 1 previous name, most recently Ascent Collections Limited. Its constitution is recorded as incorporated company (limited by shares).
The SRA record carries no areas of law for this firm. The SRA collects these from firms' annual returns, so a blank entry usually means the firm was authorised too recently to have filed one (this firm's authorisation date is 20 August 2012), or that it reported none. It cannot be read as a statement that the firm offers no services.
The head office postcode M2 3AF falls within Manchester (North West), where the SRA register lists 406 authorised firms with a practising office, 120 of them reporting residential property work. The nearest other SRA-regulated firms by straight-line distance from the head office are Private Capital Trustees Limited (same postcode, Manchester), Advokatai LTD (100 m, Manchester), NI Auto Assist Legal Ltd (100 m, Manchester), Lockett Loveday McMahon (100 m, Manchester) and Draycott Browne Limited (100 m, Manchester). 0 of those 5 report residential property work.
Companies House records the firm as ASCENT PERFORMANCE GROUP LIMITED (company number 06742453), a private limited company incorporated on 5 November 2008, 17 years before this snapshot. Its status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026 is "Active". Companies House also lists 2 earlier registered names, most recently ASCENT COLLECTIONS LIMITED. The registered office town is SHEFFIELD, which differs from the practising head office town.
Offices on the SRA record
| Office | Address | District | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head office | One, St Peters Square, Manchester, M2 3AF | Manchester | 0345 604 0860 |
| Branch | One St Peter's Square, Manchester, M2 3AF | Manchester | 0845 604 0860 |
| Registered office | One, St Peters Square, Manchester, M2 3AF | not a practising office |
Areas of law reported to the SRA
Self-reported by the firm in its most recent annual return to the SRA ("the areas of law that the law firm has told us they delivered"). A lagging description of past work, not a live service list, a specialism claim or a quality mark; it may be up to a year old and is blank for newly authorised firms.
Companies House record
ASCENT PERFORMANCE GROUP LIMITED, company number 06742453, private limited company, incorporated 5 November 2008. Status on the Companies House bulk file dated 1 May 2026: Active. Last accounts made up to 30 April 2025 (full). Registered office town: SHEFFIELD. Full record on ukcompanyfinder.com.
Nearest SRA-regulated firms
- Private Capital Trustees Limited · Manchestersame postcode
- Advokatai LTD · Manchester100 m
- NI Auto Assist Legal Ltd · Manchester100 m
- Lockett Loveday McMahon · Manchester100 m
- Draycott Browne Limited · Manchester100 m
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Source: SRA Firm data web service (terms 1 July 2020, attribution required); firm status, offices and areas of law as reported by the SRA on 28 August 2026. Areas of law are self-reported by each firm in its annual return and describe work it told the SRA it delivered, not a live service menu or a quality mark. Companies House fields from the Basic Company Data bulk file dated 1 May 2026. Geocoding by postcodes.io: contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026, Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026, National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right 2026. No firm on this site is sponsored, ranked or endorsed, and nothing here implies SRA endorsement of this site.