TXT In plain English
Company description
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN FOUNDATION 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 1 April 1950; registered for 76 years; registered office reported in LONDON. Its primary declared activity is 90030 · Artistic creation, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 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
- ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN FOUNDATION
- Company number
- 00480523
- 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
- 20 total · 5 outstanding · 15 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 August 2025Next accounts due
31 May 2027Last statement made up to
17 January 2026Next statement due
31 January 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 4.7%
- Mean bonus gap
- -17.5%
- Women receiving bonus
- 13.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 22.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 47.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 50.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 62.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 62.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499913.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49996.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49993.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 9998.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499917.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.4% 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 September 2025 – 28 February 2026
- Filed
- 30 March 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- 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 September 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £27,436,660
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £8,012,526
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £3,757,790
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £11,770,316
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 18.0%
- 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
High Value contracts
Retention release
once the defects period has passed and snagging items are remedied
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- £1,000,000
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 0.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
30 days after receipt of valid written VAT invoice
- Dispute resolution process
Without prejudice to any other legal right or remedy, if any dispute arises in connection with this Purchase Order, the parties shall negotiate in good faith and settle amicably any dispute that may arise out of or related to this Purchase Order. Any dispute shall be referred first by notice in writing to a senior representative of each party who shall meet and endeavour to resolve the dispute between them within one (1) month of such notice. The joint written decision of those senior representatives shall be binding on the parties.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 22.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- Average time not suppliedLate-payment rate not supplied
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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN FOUNDATION
LEI 213800JLRNQBI7UEEY92 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- 4GJI
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 1 April 1950
- Initial LEI registration
- 16 November 2017
- LEI last updated
- 12 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 11 December 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, GB-LND, WC2E 9DD, GB
- Headquarters address
- ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, GB-LND, WC2E 9DD, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
GC Licensed gambling
Gambling Commission candidate account
Candidate association only. The Gambling Commission bulk file has no Companies House number; this link requires one unique exact account-name and postcode match.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation
Registration Z6855177
- Registered from
- 5 July 2002
- Current end date
- 4 July 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 22 July 2016
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN FOUNDATION
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 17 October 1962
- Latest income
- £182,080,000
- Latest expenditure
- £174,656,000
- The General Public/mankind
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- People With Disabilities
- Children/young People
Presentation of opera and ballet performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and tours in the United Kingdom and overseas
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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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
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Operation of arts facilities
Operation of historical sites and buildings and similar visitor attractions
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
- Company name
Previous name: ROYAL OPERA HOUSE,COVENT GARDEN LIMITED
- 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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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.