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Company description
DRAGON SCHOOL TRUST 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 6 October 1953; registered for 72 years. Its primary declared activity is 85100 · Pre-primary education, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 3 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
- DRAGON SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED
- Company number
- 00524331
- 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
- 18 total · 9 outstanding · 9 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
24 April 2026Next statement due
8 May 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
- 62.5%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 67.7%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 70.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 69.5%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 4996.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49910.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49922.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49922.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49920.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49914.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4990.2% 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
- 1 September 2023 – 29 February 2024
- Filed
- 19 March 2024
- Shortest standard term
- 14 days
- Longest standard term
- 30 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
- 4.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
Standard contractual period is set at 30 days.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard contractual length for payment of invoices is 30 days. Any requests by suppliers to reduce this period are considered and usually complied with where possible.
- Other payment-term information
Authorisation from the budget holder must be received before any payment can be made. Invoices can either be received by the finance office or the budget holder and if invoice is received soon after invoice date there is usually sufficient time to obtain authorisation and make the payment. If the invoice is delayed in getting to us, the time available to make payment within 30 days of the invoice date is reduced, but we use our best endeavours to make payment by that date.
- Dispute resolution process
o The purchase ledger clerk will confirm with the supplier which invoices they believe are overdue.
o The purchase ledger clerk will check the system to see if the invoices have been registered and will then check with the budget holder to ensure that the invoice is genuine and the goods or services had been ordered and received. If the invoices are agreed to be due, copy invoices are requested if they aren’t already on the system. Authorisation is then obtained from the budget holder and payment made, usually on the next weekly payment run. It is also recommended to the supplier that they email future invoices to the purchase ledger clerk so we can track them in future.
o If invoices are on our system and authorised, purchase ledger clerk will see when they are due for payment. BACS runs operate each week (or fortnightly during some holidays) and if supplier is happy to wait for next BACS run, this is what will happen. If quicker payment is required, the supplier will be paid within three working days by cheque or bank transfer.
o If invoices are on our system and not yet authorised, purchase ledger clerk will chase authorisation from the budget holder so they can be paid on the next BACS run.
o If credit notes are being sought against goods or services received, the purchase ledger clerk will speak with the supplier on behalf of the budget holder, or the budget holder will speak with the supplier directly.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 20.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay20.0% 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
DRAGON SCHOOL OXFORD ARDUUS AD SOLEM
Owner Dragon School Trust Limited · classes 9,16,25,36,41
- Filed / designated
- 13 March 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 March 2027
DRAGON SCHOOL, OXFORD
Owner Dragon School Trust Limited · classes 9,16,25,36,41
- Filed / designated
- 13 March 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 13 March 2027
ARDUUS AD SOLEM
Owner Dragon School Trust Limited · classes 9,16
- Filed / designated
- 16 May 1992
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 May 2009
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
- 6 May 2017
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
DRAGON SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 2 January 1964
- Latest income
- £25,471,000
- Latest expenditure
- £23,101,000
- The General Public/mankind
- Children/young People
- Provides Services
- Education/training
The primary object is to advance the education of the public by running schools, in particular the Dragon preparatory school and its pre-prep department Lynams.
Source details and official record →This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
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.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
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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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.