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Company description
CATER LINK LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 12 March 1999; registered for 27 years; registered office reported in READING, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 56290 · Other food services.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 36 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
- CATER LINK LIMITED
- Company number
- 03732298
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 9 total · 3 outstanding · 6 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
12 March 2026Next statement due
26 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 88.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- 61.9%
- Women receiving bonus
- 1.1%
- Men receiving bonus
- 6.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 83.5%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 95.6%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 96.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 95.6%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 5000 to 19,99916.0% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99914.2% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99918.2% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99917.0% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99918.8% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99924.2% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99921.0% 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 January 2026 – 1 July 2026
- Filed
- 24 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 14 days
- Longest standard term
- 42 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- 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 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £2,140,127
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £49,147,921
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £12,484,299
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 80.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 42 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
There are no standard payment terms as we believe rather than using supply chain finance, we agree payment terms with our suppliers that are long-term sustainable for both parties. The most frequently used payment terms are 42 days from the end of the period in which the invoice was processed.
- Dispute resolution process
Our business ethos gives our sites freedom of choice of supplier and ordering. Our e-invoicing system allows suppliers to view invoice status at any point. Our site managers approve all invoices as they have placed the order. Any invoice queries should therefore be raised with the manager at the location supplied. If unresolved, suppliers can contact the Purchase Ledger team at the company's support office.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 52.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 52.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay1.0% outside terms
- 51.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 48.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 44.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 47.0 average days to pay0.0% 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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Cater Link Limited
Registration Z7135811
- Registered from
- 1 August 2002
- Current end date
- 31 July 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.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
ST CHRISTOPHER'S MULTI ACADEMY TRUST & RIVIERA EDUCATION TRUST - PROVISION OF OUTSOURCED CATERING SERVICES
St Christopher's Multi Academy Trust · ocds-b5fd17-75fd1621-facf-4983-afa9-5c9d89e54b2f
- Supplier named in award
- Caterlink
- Award value
- £2,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 August 2025 – 31 July 2028
- Published
- 2 December 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 55520000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-75fd1621-facf-4983-afa9-5c9d89e54b2f-2025-12-02T17:45:07Z
ST CHRISTOPHER'S MULTI ACADEMY TRUST & RIVIERA EDUCATION TRUST - PROVISION OF OUTSOURCED CATERING SERVICES
St Christopher's Multi Academy Trust · ocds-b5fd17-75fd1621-facf-4983-afa9-5c9d89e54b2f
- Supplier named in award
- Caterlink
- Award value
- £4,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 August 2025 – 31 July 2028
- Published
- 2 December 2025
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 55520000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-75fd1621-facf-4983-afa9-5c9d89e54b2f-2025-12-02T17:45:07Z
Catering Services - TWHF
HEART ACADEMIES TRUST · ocds-b5fd17-84c8a570-8a78-4476-9f47-ebc0182c43c7
- Supplier named in award
- CATER LINK LIMITED
- Award value
- £10,774,981
- Contract period
- 30 July 2025 – 30 June 2030
- Published
- 22 August 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 15000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-84c8a570-8a78-4476-9f47-ebc0182c43c7-2025-08-22T12:04:01+01:00
BHCC GB School Meals Service (Primary)
Brighton & Hove City Council · ocds-b5fd17-e62c74d6-c181-4ab3-8302-97ca4b842326
- Supplier named in award
- CATER LINK LIMITED
- Award value
- £28,000,000
- Contract period
- 1 August 2024 – 31 July 2028
- Published
- 10 July 2024
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 15894210
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-e62c74d6-c181-4ab3-8302-97ca4b842326-2024-07-10T09:52:54+01:00
Catering Tender - Allestree Woodlands School, Derby
Allestree Woodlands School · ocds-b5fd17-29c151a3-b0d4-424f-b0ab-3d98ce637fac
- Supplier named in award
- Caterlink Ltd
- Award value
- £72,353
- Contract period
- 25 April 2022 – 24 April 2027
- Published
- 7 April 2022
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 55524000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-29c151a3-b0d4-424f-b0ab-3d98ce637fac-2022-04-07T17:45:08+01:00
Award of Catering Services Contract for Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust
PROACTIS TENDERS LIMITED MYT · ocds-b5fd17-d3f60e23-1e9f-4646-a0f7-7c94ead92a20
- Supplier named in award
- Caterlink Ltd
- Award value
- £2,200,000
- Contract period
- 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2025
- Published
- 27 May 2022
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 55524000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d3f60e23-1e9f-4646-a0f7-7c94ead92a20-2022-05-27T16:47:23+01:00
Meadowgate Academy catering contract
The Sustainable Catering Consultancy · ocds-b5fd17-f0adf087-1551-444d-9ee0-9c04f9eaeeed
- Supplier named in award
- Caterlink Limited
- Award value
- £165,000
- Contract period
- 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2024
- Published
- 24 June 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 15894210
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-f0adf087-1551-444d-9ee0-9c04f9eaeeed-2021-06-24T15:49:01+01:00
Catering Tender - 8 Schools - Education For The 21st Century
Education For The 21st Century · ocds-b5fd17-79918f0b-30fb-4bd5-bb2e-4c31fdf6a2f1
- Supplier named in award
- Caterlink Ltd
- Award value
- £99,479
- Contract period
- 7 June 2021 – 6 June 2024
- Published
- 28 June 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 55524000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-79918f0b-30fb-4bd5-bb2e-4c31fdf6a2f1-2021-06-28T16:38:22+01:00
Catering Services Framework
Ormiston Academies Trust · ocds-b5fd17-d1ceb74f-6728-40bb-a9c7-705d6760eea7
- Supplier named in award
- Caterlink
- Award value
- −£76,475,000
- Contract period
- 29 March 2021 – 28 March 2024
- Published
- 31 March 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Main CPV
- 55500000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-d1ceb74f-6728-40bb-a9c7-705d6760eea7-2021-03-31T17:45:12+01:00
Tudor Grange Academies Trust
Tudor Grange Academies Trust · ocds-b5fd17-0c1ca653-c185-4759-a38f-b1a29ec71eb2
- Supplier named in award
- Cater Link Ltd
- Award value
- £10,500,000
- Contract period
- 1 August 2020 – 31 July 2025
- Published
- 24 July 2020
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure
- Main CPV
- 55524000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-0c1ca653-c185-4759-a38f-b1a29ec71eb2-2020-07-24T17:45:04+01:00
Framework for the Provision of School Catering Services
MEDWAY COMMERCIAL GROUP LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-48ab2797-3aab-4e83-b90d-499745e47dd8
- Supplier named in award
- CATER LINK LIMITED
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 1 August 2019 – 31 July 2023
- Published
- 25 June 2019
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 55524000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-48ab2797-3aab-4e83-b90d-499745e47dd8-2019-06-25T13:38:29+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.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Wsh Uk & Ireland Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 08747469
- Notified
- 29 April 2026
Westbury Street Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- United Kingdom
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited By Shares
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 06423564
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 29 April 2026
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08 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Catering Tender St Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School
St Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School · updated 7 September 2026
- Tender value
- £1,500,000
- Awards
- 1
Sullivan Upper School
Sullivan Upper School · updated 27 August 2026
- Tender value
- £1,755,000
- Awards
- 1
PP-10176 Prince Regent Street Trust Catering
PRINCE REGENT STREET TRUST · updated 4 August 2026
- Tender value
- £4,800,000
- Awards
- 1
PP-10183a Hornchurch Academy Trust Facilities Management Open Framework
HORNCHURCH ACADEMY TRUST · updated 6 July 2026
- Tender value
- £830,000,000
- Awards
- 10
Weobley High School - Catering Contract
Weobley High School · updated 8 June 2026
- Tender value
- £900,000
- Awards
- 1
Greensand Multi Academy Trust ~ Catering Tender
Greensand Multi Academy Trust · updated 29 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Charford First School & Finstall First School ~ Catering Tender
Charford First School · updated 28 May 2026
- Tender value
- £1,130,000
- Awards
- 1
PP-10173 Co-op Academies Trust Catering
THE CO-OPERATIVE ACADEMIES TRUST · updated 18 May 2026
- Tender value
- £31,930,000
- Awards
- 5
South Cumbria Multi Academy Trust~ Catering Tender
South Cumbria Multi Academy Trust~ Catering Tender · updated 16 April 2026
- Tender value
- £2,286,000
- Awards
- 1
Woking College ~ Catering Tender
Woking College · updated 30 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Contract Award - Framework Agreement for the Management of the Catering Services at Mosaic Partnership Trust
MOSAIC PARTNERSHIP TRUST · updated 6 January 2026
- Tender value
- £2,400,000
- Awards
- 1
Catering Services Framework - Light Touch
ORMISTON ACADEMIES TRUST · updated 19 December 2025
- Tender value
- £48,300,000
- Awards
- 14
Catering Services
Telford College · updated 12 December 2025
- Tender value
- £1,250,000
- Awards
- 1
ID 5831917 - DfE - The Provision of Catering and Vending Services To Belfast Metropolitan College
Belfast Metropolitan College · updated 5 August 2025
- Tender value
- £1,650,000
- Awards
- 1
Woodhouse College ~ Catering Tender
Woodhouse College · updated 30 June 2025
- Tender value
- £115,000
- Awards
- 1
Hertford Regional College
Hertford Regional College · updated 9 September 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
The Boleyn Trust - School Catering
The Boleyn Trust · updated 15 July 2024
- Tender value
- £5,700,000
- Awards
- 1
Hales Valley Trust - Catering Tender
Hales Valley Trust · updated 7 March 2024
- Tender value
- £2,400,000
- Awards
- 1
Catering Services at Portchester Community School
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL · updated 21 February 2024
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 11
Provision of Outsourced Catering
BISHOP BEWICK CATHOLIC EDUCATION TRUST · updated 1 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Showing the first 20 of 25 linked procurement processes.
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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
14 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
25 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.
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.
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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