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Homebase POLITICAL

POLITICAL AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
Political Score 1.46 /10 E Homebase - Complicity Index 139
Political 1.46

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Corporate Communications & Public Stance

Homebase’s current public help page describes Homebase as a trading style owned by CDS (Superstores International) Limited and distinguishes customer orders made before 21 January 2025 from later CDS operations.1

CDS stated in 2024 that it acquired the Homebase brand name, intellectual property, and up to 70 UK stores, while its current group page identifies Homebase as part of the “CDS family.”2, 3

No Israel/Palestine-related corporate statement, public advocacy position, military-welfare donation, settlement-organisation donation, or conflict-specific crisis communication was verified in the primary records collected for this bounded audit.4, 5, 6

No public evidence identified of a current Israel-facing market communication, conflict statement, relief act, advocacy statement, response to scrutiny, or other discrete qualifying political act by Homebase, CDS, Christopher Dawson, Sarah Dawson, or Norton Group Holdings Limited, apart from ordinary Keter retail listings.1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2, 3

The reviewed 2024–2026 CDS acquisition and CDS-family communications concern UK retail integration and brand positioning, rather than Israel-Palestine, relief, advocacy, or conflict-related scrutiny.2, 3

No public evidence identified in the targeted review of official Homebase or The Range materials of statements on Ukraine, Black Lives Matter, or COVID that would support a comparative selective-engagement finding.1, 3

Operations in Occupied or Contested Territories

Homebase’s stated online delivery offer is limited to specified locations in Great Britain, the Isle of Wight, and the Isle of Man, and its help page states that it does not ship outside the United Kingdom.1

No public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of a Homebase or CDS branch, subsidiary, franchise, warehouse, dealership, authorised reseller, service contract, or government contract in Israel, the occupied Palestinian territory, settlements, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.1, 9, 10, 11

The supplied document-scoped scan found no reference to Homebase in the 2023 OHCHR settlement-business database, the 2025 Human Rights Council report A/HRC/59/23, or the OHCHR’s 2025 settlement-business update; this is a document-scoped result and does not establish database-wide absence.9, 10, 11

No public evidence identified of a Homebase-specific UN database listing, regulatory proceeding, court claim, OECD National Contact Point complaint, or named boycott, divestment, or sanctions campaign concerning Israel-Palestine.9, 10, 12, 13, 11

Homebase’s dedicated Keter catalogue retrieved in 2026 displayed 103 Keter products, including sheds, storage boxes, garden furniture, planters, and gazebos, with multiple items represented as available for delivery.14

Homebase’s 2022 Outdoor Living Brochure marketed Keter Darwin products and Keter’s Evotech composite technology, supporting a publicly visible Keter retail relationship from at least 2022 through the 2026 catalogue retrieval.14, 15

A Keter product document hosted in Homebase’s product-document directory states “Made in Israel by”; the available document does not establish that all current Homebase Keter goods are Israeli-made, identify a factory, or connect the item to a settlement.16

Historical records concerning Keter’s reported activity at the Barkan industrial zone state that a November 2016 field visit found no commercial movement, signs, or trucks and strongly suggested that Keter no longer operated there; the report does not identify Homebase as a purchaser, importer, distributor, or seller.12

SodaStream’s 2011 SEC filing documented historical manufacturing at Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, but it does not establish that Homebase stocked, imported, or distributed SodaStream products.13

No public evidence identified tying a specific Homebase SKU, purchase order, importer-of-record entry, supplier agreement, or product-origin label to a settlement manufacturer.12, 13, 14, 16

The Keter evidence establishes an ordinary, visible downstream retail listing and does not disclose sales volume, procurement value, direct-supplier identity, importer-of-record status, manufacturing origins for the full catalogue, or continuity of historical Keter activity at Barkan.12, 14, 16

Internal Governance, Content & Retail Policies

Homebase’s privacy policy identifies CDS (Superstores International) Limited as both the owner of homebase.co.uk and the data controller for the site.5

The reviewed materials do not establish a current Homebase or CDS employee-speech policy, conflict-content moderation policy, product-origin labelling policy, supply-chain policy, or boycott-response policy.4, 5

No public evidence identified of conflict-related employee discipline, employee-speech restrictions, content moderation, product-origin-labelling disputes, or settlement-product categorisation by Homebase or CDS.1, 5, 14, 16

The available delivery statement establishes the geographic scope of the website’s delivery offer but does not establish supplier locations, manufacturing locations, or corporate registrations.1

Brand Heritage & State Partnerships

HHGL Limited and Hampden Group Limited, trading as Homebase, entered administration on 13 November 2024.17

The administrators subsequently completed a sale of up to 70 UK stores, the Homebase brand, and associated intellectual property to CDS (Superstores International), which trades as The Range and wilko.17

CDS’s contemporaneous announcement states that the Homebase brand would continue online while acquired stores transferred and reopened as The Range stores.2

HHGL Limited, formerly known as Homebase Limited between 1996 and 2016, remains recorded as in administration.18, 19

Homebase’s 2019 governance statement described a historical group including Homebase (UK & I) Group Limited, HHGL Limited, Homebase Rooms Limited, Hampden Group Limited, and HHGL (ROI) Limited, but this document does not establish the current CDS-operated group structure.20

No reliable primary source was obtained identifying Homebase’s original founder or establishing a continuing governance role for a historical founder following the 2024 administration and sale.17, 20

No public evidence identified of a Homebase or CDS state partnership, Israeli-government procurement relationship, settlement-municipality contract, defence arrangement, or conflict-related logistics mobilisation in the reviewed evidence.1, 17, 21

Lobbying, Advocacy, Financing & Logistics

The Companies House ownership and officer records reviewed establish corporate control and officeholding but do not report Israel/Palestine-related lobbying, political contributions, charitable grants, or advocacy activity.4, 6, 21, 22

No primary UK Electoral Commission, UK lobbying-register, FEC, US LDA, PAC, company political-spending, parliamentary, defence-investment, CFI, AIPAC, FIDF, JNF, or KKL record was obtained that links Homebase, CDS, Christopher Dawson, Sarah Dawson, or Norton Group Holdings Limited to Israel/Palestine-related activity.4, 6, 21, 22, 7, 8

No principal-linked charitable foundation was identified with sufficient certainty in the bounded Dawson and Sarah Dawson review, so no associated charity grant schedule was assessed.4, 6, 21, 22

No public evidence identified of donations to FIDF, IDF or military-welfare bodies, JNF/KKL, settlement organisations, Israeli reservist funds, Regavim, Im Tirtzu, CFI, AIPAC, or similar bodies; anti-BDS lobbying; Israeli defence or cyber investment; or attendance at IDF or settlement events by the reviewed entities or principals.4, 6, 21, 22, 7, 8

No public evidence identified of Homebase-specific crisis asset mobilisation, military logistics, aid delivery, or conflict-related transport support.1, 17

Corporate Structure & Primary Mission

CDS (Superstores International) Limited is an active UK private limited company incorporated on 20 March 1992, with registered-office address 15 William Prance Road, Plymouth, PL6 5ZD, and registered SIC activity of other retail sale in non-specialised stores.23

The present legal entity HOMEBASE LIMITED, company number 16777483, is an active UK private limited company incorporated on 10 October 2025, registered at 15 William Prance Road, Plymouth, and classified in its Companies House record as dormant.24, 25

CDS (Superstores International) Limited is HOMEBASE LIMITED’s sole active person with significant control, holding more than 75% of shares and voting rights and the right to appoint or remove directors.26

CDS’s PSC register identifies Norton Group Holdings Limited as holding more than 75% of CDS shares and voting rights, notified on 29 April 2026; The Range Home & Gardens Plc ceased as CDS’s corporate PSC on that date.22

The same register identifies Christopher Frederick Dawson and Sarah Jane Dawson as active persons with significant influence or control, each notified on 11 May 2016.22

The accessible CDS PSC record does not establish a complete ultimate natural-person beneficial-ownership chain through Norton Group Holdings Limited.21, 22

Norton Group Holdings Limited is active, incorporated on 27 April 2015, and recorded as a holding company; its PSC register identifies Sarah Jane Dawson as holding more than 75% of Norton’s shares, notified on 16 May 2016.7, 8

The disclosed Companies House path is therefore HOMEBASE LIMITED to CDS (Superstores International) Limited to Norton Group Holdings Limited to Sarah Jane Dawson, while the records do not disclose the economic terms of any family, trust, partnership, or other arrangement underlying Christopher Dawson’s recorded significant influence or control.26, 22, 7, 8

No current public group chart, acquisition agreement, or consolidated subsidiary record reviewed identifies every CDS/Norton subsidiary or conclusively maps all sibling entities to current Homebase operations.27, 28, 25

Executive & Leadership Footprint

Christopher Frederick Dawson is the sole active director recorded for HOMEBASE LIMITED, appointed on 10 October 2025.29

Companies House records identify Christopher Frederick Dawson as an active director of CDS (Superstores International) Limited, with an appointment date before 20 March 1993.21

Christopher Dawson is also an active director of Norton Group Holdings Limited, appointed on 27 April 2015, and Companies House lists further active appointments in group-branded entities including The Range Home & Gardens Limited, The Range (Ireland) Limited, Wilko Limited, Wilko.com Limited, and CDS Group Services Limited; these appointments establish officeholding rather than ownership or corporate purpose for each entity.7, 30

Sarah Dawson remains an active PSC of CDS and Norton, while the Norton officers record shows her historic directorship and secretary appointments as resigned on 23 March 2017.22, 8, 30

The reviewed HOMEBASE LIMITED officers record does not identify a separate Homebase chief executive or chair.29

No public evidence identified in the reviewed records of an Israel/Palestine-related board affiliation, executive philanthropy, political-financing activity, or leadership statement attributable to Homebase, CDS, Christopher Dawson, Sarah Dawson, or Norton Group Holdings Limited.4, 6, 21, 22, 7, 8

Footnotes

  1. https://www.homebase.co.uk/en-uk/help ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/corporate/cds-superstores-owners-of-the-range-and-wilko-aquire-homebase ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. https://www.therange.co.uk/cds-family/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777483 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  5. https://www.homebase.co.uk/en-uk/legal/privacy-policy ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777483/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  7. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09562778 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  8. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09562778/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  9. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/53/71 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  11. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/133 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1502916/000114420411038499/v227150_jp-20f.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  14. https://www.homebase.co.uk/en-uk/brands/garden-outdoor-brands/keter/shop-all-keter/c/h3333 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  15. https://s1.thcdn.com/design-assets/documents/homebase/Homebase%20Outdoor%20Living%20Brochure%202022.pdf ↩

  16. https://s1.thcdn.com/design-assets/product-pdf/homebase/en_GB/12840578/1623858781627-22eae038-1536-485a-a768-28ebbe2684d8.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  17. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hhgl-limited-and-hampden-group-limited-trading-as-homebase-in-administration-information-for-employees-and-creditors ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  18. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00533033 ↩

  19. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00533033/insolvency ↩

  20. https://s1.thcdn.com/design-assets/documents/homebase/Homebase%20Corporate%20Governance%20Statement.pdf ↩ ↩2

  21. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02699203/officers ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  22. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02699203/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  23. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02699203 ↩

  24. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777483 ↩

  25. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777483/filing-history ↩ ↩2

  26. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777483/persons-with-significant-control ↩ ↩2

  27. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09562778/filing-history ↩

  28. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02699203/filing-history ↩

  29. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/16777483/officers ↩ ↩2

  30. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09562778/officers ↩ ↩2