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David Ogden CEO The Key Safe Company

Leading the way in access management solutions

Trading as ‘The Key Safe Company’ and ‘ark Life’, Supra (UK) Ltd are the UK’s leading access management experts, positively breaking boundaries and setting new standards of innovation, product quality and customer service.

The Key Safe Company, our distribution arm, has been offering access management solutions and expertise since 1996, bringing industry-leading brands like Supra™ and KeySafe™ to market.

In 2022, we launched ark Life – our design and manufacturing brand – to develop our own industry-leading access and security products. Born from close consultation with our customers, ark products are a hallmark of British design, bringing innovative features and high levels of security that users have come to expect from Supra UK products.

Two Supra C500 Pros key safes side by side with one open showing keys inside

The King's Award for Innovation

In 2026, The Key Safe Company was honoured with The King's Award for Enterprise in Innovation - the UK's highest official recognition for business innovation.

The award recognised our patented multi-push technology, developed to transform the security of mechanical key safes. By allowing numbers to be repeated within an access code, the multi-push key pad creates over 9.7 million possible code combinations, significantly increasing security while remaining simple and intuitive to use.

For us, this award represents far more than a single innovation. It recognises nearly three decades of British design, engineering and continuous improvement, all driven by one goal: creating the most secure and reliable key sharing solutions possible.

Whether you're a homeowner, care provider, business or public sector organisation, you can be confident that you're choosing products developed by an award-winning company committed to setting new standards in security, quality and innovation.

Kings Award for Innovation 2026 winners

Trusted Since 1996

Since our inception in 1996, more than 2 million people have opted for one of our key safes. Our cutting-edge solutions have become a core component of service delivery and access management. Vulnerable people now receive care in the comfort of their homes, safe in the knowledge that their carers can gain entry safely and securely. Thousands of finance and utility businesses rely on our proven solutions to protect their assets. Property owners and guests can access their accommodation with ease without the need for unnecessary travel. Keyholding service providers save many hours of running for keys so that businesses can focus on delivering their brilliant services.

1996

Created Supra UK t/a The Key Safe Company

2010

Launched the first ‘Police Preferred’ key safe

Achieved ISO 9001 status

2022

Launched ark Life

Launched new ark Tamo™ key safe certified

to LPS 1175 Issue 8 A10 attack standard

2026

Awarded The King's Award for Enterprise in Innovation for our patented multi-push technology, recognising nearly 30 years of British innovation in secure access solutions

2004

Launched Classic range of key safes

2021

Certified Carbon Neutral

Accredited Living Wage Employer

Won Breathe Culture Leader Award

2025

Global expansion, introducing sister brand Wolflok to the US, AUS & CAN

We are humbled to have marked an impressive number of industry firsts along the way. We introduced the concept of property access via a key holding device into Europe, which was adopted as the industry standard for delivering service excellence and business efficiencies. No required door modifications mean owners can maintain full control of their property while allowing third-party service providers entry on demand.

Setting The Bar For Quality And Security

As Europe's first ISO-approved key safe company, we've played a leading role in shaping the security standards that protect homes, businesses and communities today. We worked with some of the world's leading building science experts to help develop the Police Preferred standard, giving customers confidence that genuinely secure key safes are independently tested and trusted.

We designed the Supra C500 Pro Keysafe™ and Supra P500 Pro Keysafe™ - the first key safes to achieve both LPCB LPS 1175 Issue 8 certification and Police Preferred status. Today, they're relied upon by local authorities, emergency services, care providers and thousands of homeowners who need secure, dependable access to their properties.

Our close partnership with the telecare industry has also helped improve independent living, making it easier for carers and emergency responders to gain fast, secure access when every minute matters.

Innovation has always been at the heart of what we do. In 2022, we launched the ark Tamo™ range, introducing the world's most secure mechanical key safes. Designed to resist the most rigorous attacks, Tamo set a new benchmark for mechanical security.

Its patented multi-push technology, developed by our in-house team, offers more than 9.7 million code combinations while making code guessing far more difficult than traditional push-button key safes. This breakthrough innovation was recognised with the King's Award for Enterprise in Innovation 2026 - one of the UK's highest honours for innovation.

Today, more than three million of our products have been sold worldwide. We continue to listen to our customers, invest in British innovation and develop products that deliver the highest levels of security, quality and peace of mind.

Because protecting what matters most has always been our priority.