# DerbyWheel’s UK business changes its official address

*By Simon | August 20, 2025*

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## 󠀁[DerbyWheel’s UK business changes its official address](https://globalkeirin.com/2025/08/derbywheels-uk-business-changes-its-official-address/)󠁿

20 August 2025

DerbyWheel has cut a further connection to former CEO James Pope, in the latest
update to the corporate registration of its UK operating company.

_Global Keirin_
[reported](https://globalkeirin.com/2025/07/corporate-filing-confirms-popes-exit-as-director/)
last month that Pope had been removed from the company’s list of directors; but
its registered office was still listed as an address with personal connection to
Pope.

The registered office has now been changed to 5 Fleet Place in the City Of
London, around the corner from City Thameslink train station.

The building houses a number of notable financial and legal businesses – and
acts as the registered office for almost 700 active companies, most small or
very small, but including a few standout names like PayPal UK.

There’s nothing unusual in the choice of an anonymous location like this: UK
companies are required to designate a registered office for official
communication purposes, and many people choose a third party such as an
accountant in order to maintain a degree of privacy.

And it would be wrong to read anything, either positive or negative, into the
move. In fact, we’re only surprised that it took them almost a month to make the
change.

DerbyWheel’s website, however, remains stubbornly unchanged. It _still_ lists
Pope as the company CEO, and continues to quote the old company address.

**The last news story on the website was very nearly 500 days ago.** Its
timeline,
[last updated on 20 June](https://globalkeirin.com/2025/06/derbywheel-pushes-launch-timeline-back-a-further-6-months/)
, still promises an exhibition race in the ‘2nd half of 2025 (TBC)’, with
regular racing ‘Every 2 weeks from Jan.2026’.

**Minor update**: the company records were changed again on 22 August,
registering the ‘cessation of Koru Sports Group Limited _(Pope’s company)_ as a
person with significant control’. But that doesn’t really tell us anything we
didn’t already know.

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