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Company description
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION(THE) 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 30 August 1934; registered for 92 years; registered office reported in READING. Its primary declared activity is 96090 · Other service activities n.e.c..
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 1 charity record, 4 procurement records. 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
- GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION(THE)
- Company number
- 00291646
- 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
- 1 total · 0 outstanding · 1 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 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
3 July 2026Next statement due
17 July 2027BritDB 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
- 70.7%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 82.5%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 85.7%
- Women in lower quartile
- 84.4%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499910.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499911.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499911.3% median hourly gap
- Not Provided8.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499910.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.7% 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 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 30 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £2,492,978
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £8,399,226
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £5,740,558
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £8,271,026
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 27.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 2.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The majority of payment terms are a standard 30 days from receipt of invoice. The maximum
contractual period is 60 days. Terms and conditions are agreed during the tendering process. Any
disputed invoices are investigated and resolved based on the facts presented, however if dispute
resolution is required this is managed by the Head of Procurement. - Dispute resolution process
Any disputed invoices are investigated and resolved based on the facts presented, however if dispute resolution is required this is managed by the Head of Procurement.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 51.0 average days to pay71.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay9.0% 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.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION(THE)
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 5 January 2026
- Sectors
- Charitable / not-for-profit activities
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Not reported as covered
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Under £36 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 5 May 2026
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
ENQ773 - Provision of Habilitation Services
Derby City Council · ocds-b5fd17-4b1fa8aa-6c65-4b2b-aa0a-e9157ea89d66
- Supplier named in award
- The Guide Dogs For The Blind Association
- Award value
- £72,000
- Contract period
- 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2025
- Published
- 4 July 2022
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 85000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-4b1fa8aa-6c65-4b2b-aa0a-e9157ea89d66-2022-07-04T10:04:56+01:00
Habilitation of Visually Impaired Children
TORBAY COUNCIL · ocds-b5fd17-ac3748a4-7414-4389-b302-5547aa5f4297
- Supplier named in award
- The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
- Award value
- £229,500
- Contract period
- 1 October 2021 – 30 September 2026
- Published
- 10 December 2024
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80510000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ac3748a4-7414-4389-b302-5547aa5f4297-2024-12-10T16:13:10Z
Habilitation support service for visually impaired Children, Young People, their Parents and Carers
capitalEsourcing · ocds-b5fd17-153c53a7-e116-4c66-8b65-cb3b37c12486
- Supplier named in award
- Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
- Award value
- £72,040
- Contract period
- 1 September 2020 – 31 August 2022
- Published
- 21 September 2020
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award
- Main CPV
- 85312000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-153c53a7-e116-4c66-8b65-cb3b37c12486-2020-09-21T16:47:06+01:00
Habilitation Service for Visually Impaired Children and Young People
Torbay Council - Childrens Services · ocds-b5fd17-184b922d-6b4f-431c-b4fd-fd40745032f1
- Supplier named in award
- GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION(THE)
- Award value
- £45,908
- Contract period
- 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021
- Published
- 7 April 2020
- Procedure
- Other - Direct award through Council waiver process
- Main CPV
- 85312000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-184b922d-6b4f-431c-b4fd-fd40745032f1-2020-04-07T15:27:54+01:00
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07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 3 July 2016
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
THE GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 8 November 1962
- Latest income
- £156,400,000
- Latest expenditure
- £158,900,000
- People With Disabilities
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Disability
- Provides Services
The Association provides guide dogs, mobility and other rehabilitation services to people who are blind and partially sighted. In accordance with its constitution, it provides "additional services and facilities for the relief of blind persons as the Association shall from time to time deem fit".
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09 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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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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12 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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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 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.
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15 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
16 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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.
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