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Company description
CANFORD SCHOOL,LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 27 June 1923; registered for 103 years; registered office reported in WIMBORNE, DORSET. Its primary declared activity is 85310 · General secondary education.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 8 trade marks, 1 charity record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- CANFORD SCHOOL,LIMITED
- Company number
- 00190956
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 14 total · 0 outstanding · 14 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 July 2025Next accounts due
30 April 2027Last statement made up to
1 December 2025Next statement due
15 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Mean bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 45.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 58.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 55.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 68.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 49910.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49917.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49915.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49918.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49917.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49917.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4993.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49914.6% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 August 2025 – 31 January 2026
- Filed
- 19 February 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 45 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 August 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £6,492,344
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £995,267
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £23,419
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £957,763
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 14.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention circumstances
Retentions are only used where the specific form of contract requires it to be so, where it is standard industry practice.
Retention release
Retentions are released upon certification by the contract administrator, in line with standard industry practice.
Retention release stages
Retentions are released upon certification by the contract administrator, in line with standard industry practice.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- 3.0%
- Retention compared with client
- 3.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 3.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms for new suppliers are 45 days.
- Dispute resolution process
Disputes are resolved by negotiation involving the relevant parties.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 28.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay28.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
CANFORD CROCODILES
Owner Canford School, Limited · classes 16,18,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 11 February 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 February 2025
THE CANFORDIAN
Owner Canford School, Limited · classes 16,41
- Filed / designated
- 11 February 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 February 2025
NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA
Owner Canford School, Limited · classes 16,18,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 11 February 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 February 2025
CANFORD
Owner Canford School, Limited · classes 16,18,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 11 February 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 February 2025
CANFORD SCHOOL
Owner Canford School, Limited · classes 16,18,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 11 February 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 11 February 2025
CANFORD SCHOOL
Owner Canford School Limited · classes 16,18,21,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 9 April 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 April 2019
NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA
Owner Canford School Limited · classes 16,18,21,25,41,43
- Filed / designated
- 9 April 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 9 April 2019
Figurative mark
Owner Canford School, Limited · classes 16,18,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 11 February 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 23 December 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
CANFORD SCHOOL LIMITED
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 27 July 1964
- Latest income
- £27,323,290
- Latest expenditure
- £25,471,573
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Human Resources
- Children/young People
- Education/training
- Provides Services
To advance the education of boys and girls including but not limited to the provision of a senior school in or near Canford, Dorset and/or if thought desirable, in other parts of England or Wales, in accordance with the principles of the Church of England.
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07 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.