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Company description
THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)”. Incorporated on 26 June 1985; registered for 41 years; registered office reported in LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 85590 · Other education n.e.c..
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
- THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC
- Company number
- 01926395
- Company type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 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 January 2025Next accounts due
31 October 2026Last statement made up to
6 July 2026Next statement due
20 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 February 2026 – 31 July 2026
- Filed
- 10 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 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-3
- Financial period started
- 1 February 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £18,220,323
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £2,810,379
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £512,569
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £3,322,948
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 2.0%
- 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
N/A
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Supplier invoices:
ABRSM’s policy for the payment of supplier invoices is to pay all invoices promptly in accordance with the government guidelines. Where there is no contractual provision,
ABRSM will make the payment within 30 days of the invoice date, following receipt of the invoice and after authorisation.
Examiner fees:
There is no contractual provision regarding payment of examiner fees. ABRSM aims to pay examiners one week after an examiner fee submitted. - Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
Escalation to senior Finance staff: Head of Transactional Finance and Chief Financial Officer.
Earlier payment reports (6 shown)
- 5.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 5.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 6.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 7.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 5.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 5.0 average days to pay2.0% 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.
04 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 6 July 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.
05 Charity register
Charity Commission links
THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 23 July 1985
- Latest income
- £50,899,000
- Latest expenditure
- £46,184,000
- Children/young People
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Education/training
- People With Disabilities
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Makes Grants To Individuals
ABRSM motivates musical achievement through internationally recognised examination and assessment of students, professional development of teachers and provision of published resources and online learning via its websites, apps and audio and video resources. ABRSM makes significant donations towards music education each year including scholarships to the four Royal Schools of Music.
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.
06 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.
07 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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08 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.
09 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.
10 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
11 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.
12 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
13 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
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.