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Company description
BRIGHTON & HOVE BUS AND COACH COMPANY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 26 November 1935; registered for 90 years; registered office reported in NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 49390 · Other passenger land transport.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 7 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
- BRIGHTON & HOVE BUS AND COACH COMPANY LIMITED
- Company number
- 00307468
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- AUDIT EXEMPTION SUBSIDIARY
- Mortgage charges
- 15 total · 1 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 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
1 February 2026Next statement due
15 February 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 39.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 28.2%
- Men receiving bonus
- 44.2%
- Women in top quartile
- 14.5%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 11.6%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 12.1%
- Women in lower quartile
- 17.5%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 4999-0.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49993.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49991.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49993.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49992.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49994.2% 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
- 2 July 2023 – 31 December 2023
- Filed
- 23 January 2024
- Shortest standard term
- 14 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-1
- Financial period started
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 13.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Brighton & Hove Bus & Coach Company Limited, subsidiary company of The Go-Ahead Group, follow group policy and agree appropriate terms of payment with suppliers for each transaction or series of transactions, and abide by those terms once suppliers present a valid invoice. The company normally settles trade payables on 30 day terms and these invoices are paid in the week following their due date, however variations to these terms do exist based on agreements with certain suppliers. There have been no changes to the standard payment terms in the reporting period.
- Dispute resolution process
Brighton & Hove Bus & Coach Company Limited is committed to paying our suppliers in an honest, prompt and professional manner while seeking best value for the business. We endeavour to resolve any invoice queries as quickly as possible, communication between the Accounts Payable team and the relevant supplier is instigated to resolve the matter. In the event that a dispute cannot be resolved by our accounts team, it would be escalated to the Shared Service Manager who will investigate and mitigate the issue.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 31.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 56.0 average days to pay62.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay12.0% 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
- BRIGHTON & HOVE BUS AND COACH COMPANY LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- THE GO-AHEAD GROUP LIMITED
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 31 March 2026
- Sectors
- Transportation, logistics, and storage
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 22 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
B26029A - Bus Service 29A: Heathfield - Blackboys - Uckfield - Isfield - Lewes
East Sussex County Council · ocds-b5fd17-8a26f80d-34fc-4780-ae39-482f4f2aa1e2
- Supplier named in award
- Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company
- Award value
- £1,542,537
- Contract period
- 12 April 2026 – 7 April 2029
- Published
- 27 April 2026
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 34121100
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-8a26f80d-34fc-4780-ae39-482f4f2aa1e2-2026-04-27T13:38:10+01:00
B26291 - Bus Service 291: Forest Row - Hartfield - Tunbridge Wells
East Sussex County Council · ocds-b5fd17-c43f60be-7ce6-4ef8-92d1-0ae2af3d2652
- Supplier named in award
- BRIGHTON & HOVE BUS AND COACH COMPANY LIMITED
- Award value
- £114,836
- Contract period
- 12 April 2026 – 7 April 2029
- Published
- 27 April 2026
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 34121100
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-c43f60be-7ce6-4ef8-92d1-0ae2af3d2652-2026-04-27T13:53:06+01:00
B26270 - Bus Service 270: East Grinstead - Forest Row - Danehill - Haywards Heath - Brighton
East Sussex County Council · ocds-b5fd17-94317f62-a80a-496a-b17b-995cc39a9c45
- Supplier named in award
- BRIGHTON & HOVE BUS AND COACH COMPANY LIMITED
- Award value
- £217,124
- Contract period
- 12 April 2026 – 7 April 2029
- Published
- 27 April 2026
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 34121100
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-94317f62-a80a-496a-b17b-995cc39a9c45-2026-04-27T13:45:20+01:00
B26029 - Bus Service 29: Uckfield - Crowborough - Tunbridge Wells
East Sussex County Council · ocds-b5fd17-c0f4c366-7584-4d46-947c-bd8fa4280abf
- Supplier named in award
- BRIGHTON & HOVE BUS AND COACH COMPANY LIMITED
- Award value
- £390,322
- Contract period
- 12 April 2026 – 7 April 2029
- Published
- 27 April 2026
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 34121100
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-c0f4c366-7584-4d46-947c-bd8fa4280abf-2026-04-27T13:29:41+01:00
Public Bus Route B24428
East Sussex County Council · ocds-b5fd17-515e4b78-a4c0-4905-83b7-782e08f71eab
- Supplier named in award
- Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Limited
- Award value
- £88,464
- Contract period
- 6 January 2025 – 28 March 2026
- Published
- 13 January 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 34120000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-515e4b78-a4c0-4905-83b7-782e08f71eab-2025-01-13T14:49:13Z
Lot Two: to provide coach and mini-bus services for University activities, including teaching and research trips and social activities.
University Of Brighton · ocds-b5fd17-2eb7cf88-5d78-4d6e-b96d-1db3128ddcb8
- Supplier named in award
- Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company Limited
- Award value
- £934,400
- Contract period
- 3 January 2023 – 2 January 2025
- Published
- 8 December 2022
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 60172000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-2eb7cf88-5d78-4d6e-b96d-1db3128ddcb8-2022-12-08T13:39:36Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Go-Ahead Holding Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 6352308
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
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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
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.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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.
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.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
1 procurement process 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.
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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