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Company description
AQA EDUCATION 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 30 September 1998; registered for 28 years. Its primary declared activity is 85310 · General secondary education, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 17 trade marks, 1 charity record, 1 procurement 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
- AQA EDUCATION
- Company number
- 03644723
- 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
- 1 total · 1 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 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
27 September 2025Next statement due
11 October 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 21 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 1 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 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 April 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £30,205,051
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £5,915,565
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £1,340,890
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £10,180,923
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 9.0%
- 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
standard terms are 30 days and this is what the vast majority of our contracts fall under
- Dispute resolution process
Process for dispute resolution for overdue invoices:
Suppliers are requested to log any queries with AQA via a designated email address, this email address is monitored on a daily basis and any queries relating to overdue invoices are dealt with accordingly and resolved in a timely manner
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 25.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay33.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay39.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay37.0% outside terms
- 53.0 average days to pay61.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay57.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay11.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay11.0% 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
AQA EDUCATION
LEI 2138007MEYZF69RLCD51 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- 4GJI
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 26 April 2017
- LEI last updated
- 12 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 26 April 2018
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- DEVAS STREET, MANCHESTER, GB-MAN, M15 6EX, GB
- Headquarters address
- DEVAS STREET, MANCHESTER, GB-MAN, M15 6EX, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
AQA Education
Registration Z6944888
- Registered from
- 7 August 2002
- Current end date
- 6 August 2027
- Trading names
- TEACHIT, NORTHERN EXAMINATIONS BOARD (NEAB), AQA, SOUTHERN EXAMINING (SEG), ASSOCIATED EXAMINATIONS BOARD (AEB), ASSESSMENT AND QUALIFICATIONS ALLIANCE
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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
PreBacc Certificate
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 5 November 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 November 2022
PreBac Certificate
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 5 November 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 5 November 2022
AQA
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 15 May 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 May 2022
Figurative mark
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 15 May 2012
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 May 2022
WHIZZY THINGS
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 29 July 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 July 2021
TEACHIT
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,38,41
- Filed / designated
- 29 July 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 29 July 2021
teachit
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 15 July 2004
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 July 2024
AEB
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 27 July 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 July 2020
NEAB
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 27 July 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 July 2020
NEAB
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 27 July 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 July 2020
SEG
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 27 July 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 July 2020
SEG
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 27 July 2000
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 July 2020
AQA ASSESSMENT and QUALIFICATIONS ALLIANCE
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 7 November 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 7 November 2027
AQA
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 27 October 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 October 2027
T LEVEL
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 23 December 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
NEAB
Owner AQA Education · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 27 August 1997
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 August 2017
NEAB
Owner AQA Education · classes 16,41
- Filed / designated
- 19 June 1992
- Valid until / renewal due
- 19 June 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.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 27 September 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.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
AQA EDUCATION
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 15 January 1999
- Latest income
- £280,125,196
- Latest expenditure
- £266,419,011
- Education/training
- Other Defined Groups
- Provides Services
- Children/young People
The purpose of AQA is to advance education for the benefit of the public. It does this by setting, marking and awarding public examinations such as GCSEs and A levels; providing vocational and technical qualifications, apprenticeship courses and training needed for certain jobs; and delivering assessment services and technology to help others improve teaching, learning and assessment more widely.
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.
08 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.
09 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.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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.
11 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.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Technical and vocational secondary education
Other education n.e.c.
13 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.
14 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
- Company name
Previous name: ASSESSMENT AND QUALIFICATIONS ALLIANCE
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 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.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
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.