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Company description
UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS TRUST 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 18 January 1993; registered for 33 years; registered office reported in PETERBOROUGH, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 85200 · Primary education, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 11 trade marks, 1 charity record, 2 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
- UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS TRUST
- Company number
- 02780748
- 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
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 4 total · 1 outstanding · 3 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
18 January 2026Next statement due
1 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
- 13.1%
- Women receiving bonus
- 5.1%
- Men receiving bonus
- 4.8%
- Women in top quartile
- 68.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 72.6%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 74.2%
- Women in lower quartile
- 80.1%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499910.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499910.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499911.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499912.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499910.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.2% 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 March 2025 – 31 August 2025
- Filed
- 24 July 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-1
- Financial period started
- 1 September 2024
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 14.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
30 days form date of invoice
- Dispute resolution process
Disputes to be riased with the contracting manager. Escalation can be made to the Group Financial Controller
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 28.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay14.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay33.0% 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
- UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS TRUST
- Group submission
- Yes
- Parent organisation
- UNITED LEARNING LTD
- Statement period
- 1 September 2022 – 31 August 2023
- Approved
- 29 February 2024
- Sectors
- Education and research
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
Covered in the statement
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
- 3 September 2024
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
EdTech Demonstrator Schools and Colleges Programme - Phase 2: Delivery Partner
Department for Education · ocds-b5fd17-1ddacd11-7f0c-44fd-b1f8-6c6a55c18724
- Supplier named in award
- United Church Schools Trust
- Award value
- £503,666.24
- Contract period
- 19 April 2021 – 31 March 2022
- Published
- 26 April 2021
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1ddacd11-7f0c-44fd-b1f8-6c6a55c18724-2021-04-26T16:24:07+01:00
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
The best in everyone
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 25 July 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 July 2022
Figurative mark
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 25 July 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 July 2022
UNITED LEARNING
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 15 June 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 June 2022
BiECloud
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 30 August 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 August 2021
BiE
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 30 August 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 August 2021
BIE RIGHT ONLINE
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 30 August 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 August 2021
ARNOLD SCHOOL HONOR VIRTUTIS PRAEMIUM
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,25,41
- Filed / designated
- 29 October 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 October 2027
The best in everyone
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 4 August 2005
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 August 2025
UNITED LEARNING TRUST
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 19 July 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 July 2022
Figurative mark
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 16,35,36,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 18 July 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 18 July 2022
Arnold School
Owner United Church Schools Trust · classes 36
- Filed / designated
- 10 September 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 September 2027
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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
United Learning Limited
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- English Law
- Legal form
- Registered Company Limited By Guarantee And Registered Charity
- Place registered
- Register Of Companies For England And Wales
- Registration number
- 018582
- Notified
- 6 April 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.
08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
United Church Schools Trust
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 21 January 1993
- Latest income
- £185,221,000
- Latest expenditure
- £174,415,000
- Provides Services
- Education/training
- Children/young People
The provision of a liberal, practical and general education, which includes religious instruction in the doctrine and duties of Christianity, through the operation of independent schools.
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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.
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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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
General secondary education
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
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.
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.