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Company description
ACORN RECRUITMENT LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 23 April 1997; registered for 29 years; registered office reported in CLEPPA PARK, NEWPORT GWENT. Its primary declared activity is 78200 · Temporary employment agency activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 3 trade marks, 4 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
- ACORN RECRUITMENT LIMITED
- Company number
- 03358533
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 10 total · 1 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 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
23 April 2026Next statement due
7 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 28.4%
- Mean bonus gap
- 20.7%
- Women receiving bonus
- 51.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 57.1%
- Women in top quartile
- 16.6%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 22.9%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 24.3%
- Women in lower quartile
- 29.2%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 1000 to 49993.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49993.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49996.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49993.3% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,9999.4% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,9994.1% 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 July 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Filed
- 30 January 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- 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-2
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £5,523,285
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £505,328
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £51,281
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £57,114
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 33.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Typically, 30 days end-of-month following date of invoice.
The company enters into a range of agreements for the activities it undertakes, typically relying on the standard terms of Acorn Recruitment Limited.
The company’s billing systems, which record and administer invoices, do not contain information about contract type. As such, while the majority of invoices in the system are expected to relate to qualifying contracts, the system is unable to distinguish qualifying contracts from non-qualifying contracts and some such data may be included in the reported statistics.
The company’s billing system logs payment terms per the terms of the supplier (i.e., 30 days from date of invoice, but we carry out one payment run per month and therefore our general payment terms are 30 days end of month following date of invoice, unless there are exceptional circumstances. - Dispute resolution process
Supplier is notified by email and advised that a payment for the invoice in question will be withheld until resolution is achieved. It is intended to resolve the matter within as short a time as possible.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 24.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay2.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay17.0% 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
- ACORN RECRUITMENT LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 10 March 2026
- Sectors
- Other
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
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 5 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
Acorn Recruitment Limited
Registration Z4996958
- Registered from
- 7 September 2000
- Current end date
- 6 September 2027
- Trading names
- OppO RECRUITMENT, ACORN RECRUITMENT & TRAINING
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
Provision of temporary workers
National Institute For Health And Care Excellence · ocds-b5fd17-d63b0fbe-4f17-42ef-8f18-d1f5c35b77eb
- Supplier named in award
- Acorn Recruitment Ltd
- Award value
- £20,000
- Contract period
- 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023
- Published
- 12 August 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 79612000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d63b0fbe-4f17-42ef-8f18-d1f5c35b77eb-2022-08-12T14:26:57+01:00
EHRC 1920-11 A0247 Senior Associate-Compliance Wales
EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION · ocds-b5fd17-ee9b3f09-9940-434d-b90c-cd3f130ebff4
- Supplier named in award
- Acorn Recruitment Ltd
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 22 January 2020 – 17 July 2020
- Published
- 2 July 2020
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 79600000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-ee9b3f09-9940-434d-b90c-cd3f130ebff4-2020-07-02T11:59:50+01:00
SO14025 Service Deliver Manager
Crown Commercial Service · ocds-b5fd17-2b56f161-f86d-482d-b394-a99ea55ecea1
- Supplier named in award
- ACORN RECRUITMENT LIMITED
- Award value
- £313,156.80
- Contract period
- 8 November 2017 – 7 November 2018
- Published
- 11 February 2019
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 79411000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-2b56f161-f86d-482d-b394-a99ea55ecea1-2019-02-11T15:09:16Z
Project Manager - Transition Oxygenic
Crown Commercial Service · ocds-b5fd17-946f48b0-8c44-4d29-ac90-110c6774b38a
- Supplier named in award
- ACORN RECRUITMENT LIMITED
- Award value
- £254,515.80
- Contract period
- 9 November 2015 – 8 November 2018
- Published
- 8 October 2018
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 72200000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-946f48b0-8c44-4d29-ac90-110c6774b38a-2018-10-08T11:48:22+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
ACORN
Owner Acorn Recruitment Limited · classes 35,41
- Filed / designated
- 22 January 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 January 2027
Acorn
Owner Acorn Recruitment Limited · classes 35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 8 March 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 March 2027
Figurative mark
Owner Acorn Recruitment Limited · classes 35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 8 March 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 March 2007
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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Acorn (Synergie) Uk Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- England And Wales
- Legal form
- Limited Company By Shares
- Place registered
- Register Of Companies In England And Wales
- Registration number
- 03358220
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
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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.
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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.
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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
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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
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
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.
16 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
17 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.
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.
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