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Company description
THE GO-AHEAD GROUP LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 17 February 1987; registered for 39 years; registered office reported in NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 49390 · Other passenger land transport, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 12 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
- THE GO-AHEAD GROUP LIMITED
- Company number
- 02100855
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 24 total · 1 outstanding · 23 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 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last 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 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
- The Prompt Payment Code
- 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
- 20.0%
- 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
Go-Ahead Group Limited, 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
Go-Ahead Group 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)
- 32.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay30.0% 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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
THE GO-AHEAD GROUP LIMITED
LEI 2138009TF1SYOMQLBJ60 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 17 February 1987
- Initial LEI registration
- 18 December 2013
- LEI last updated
- 12 December 2025
- Next renewal
- 18 December 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Other legal names
- THE GO-AHEAD GROUP PLC
- Legal address
- SECOND FLOOR 55 DEGREES NORTH, PILGRIM STREET, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, GB-NET, NE1 6BL, GB
- Headquarters address
- 4 MATTHEW PARKER STREET, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, GB-LND, SW1H 9NP, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_LEI
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.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- THE GO-AHEAD GROUP LIMITED
- Group submission
- Yes
- 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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
The Go-Ahead Group Limited
Registration Z8724370
- Registered from
- 23 August 2004
- Current end date
- 22 August 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 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
SMART TICKETING CONSULTANCY
West Midlands Combined Authority · ocds-b5fd17-99b8338b-276c-4dbe-8c8d-4137f78a8968
- Supplier named in award
- THE GO-AHEAD GROUP PLC
- Award value
- £76,500
- Contract period
- 12 December 2017 – 1 March 2018
- Published
- 22 February 2018
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 71311200
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-99b8338b-276c-4dbe-8c8d-4137f78a8968-2018-02-22T13:42:45Z
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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Go-Ahead Investment Bidco Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom (England And Wales)
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 14127923
- Notified
- 10 October 2022
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.
09 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.
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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Bus Franchising Round 1 Tier B
West Yorkshire Combined Authority · updated 24 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 13
Bus Franchising Round 1 Tier C
West Yorkshire Combined Authority · updated 24 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 20
The West Midlands Franchising Scheme for Buses Dynamic Market
West Midlands Combined Authority · updated 25 August 2026
- Tender value
- £1,500,000,000
- Awards
- 1
Retail Incident and Fraud Management Services
SE TRAINS LIMITED · updated 18 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 2
West Yorkshire Bus Franchising Dynamic Market
West Yorkshire Combined Authority · updated 3 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 2
Bus Franchising Round 1 - Tier A
West Yorkshire Combined Authority · updated 19 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 3
Provision of PPE and Safety Footwear
THE GO-AHEAD GROUP LIMITED · updated 18 November 2022
- Tender value
- £4,200,000
- Awards
- 0
Hygiene consumables and Managed washroom services.
THE GO-AHEAD GROUP PLC · updated 5 September 2022
- Tender value
- £3,000,000
- Awards
- 0
For Expression of Interest please click on this link to register company information
THE GO-AHEAD GROUP PLC · updated 1 July 2022
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
For Expression of Interest please click on this link to register company information
THE GO-AHEAD GROUP PLC · updated 1 July 2022
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
For Expression of Interest please click on this link to register company information
THE GO-AHEAD GROUP PLC · updated 1 July 2022
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
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.
13 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.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Activities of head offices
15 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
11 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.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Accounts due date: 2026-09-30 → 2027-09-30
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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.
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.