TXT In plain English
Company description
THE CARBON 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 29 March 2001; registered for 25 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 74901 · Environmental consulting activities, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 4 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
- THE CARBON TRUST
- Company number
- 04190230
- 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
- 0 total · 0 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
26 March 2026Next statement due
9 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 16.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- 26.1%
- Women receiving bonus
- 78.5%
- Men receiving bonus
- 71.7%
- Women in top quartile
- 42.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 49.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 60.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 55.0%
Earlier reporting years (3)
- 250 to 49914.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49915.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49916.3% 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 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 7 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- PPC for our government contracts
- 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
- £15,972,803
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £577,169
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £2,032,570
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £2,609,739
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 5.0%
- 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 30 days
- Dispute resolution process
The accounts payable team will receive an email with a complaint or concern from the supplier. The details will be fact checked and the information reviewed to see why the supplier has not been paid. This is often due to suppliers not having a valid invoice due to lack of PO etc. The accounts payable team will work to rectify the issue as quickly as possible and pay the supplier as soon as possible.
Earlier payment reports (5 shown)
- 16.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 18.0 average days to pay10.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay8.0% 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
The Carbon Trust
Registration Z6627785
- Registered from
- 10 April 2003
- Current end date
- 9 April 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
The provision of a Road Map for achieving a Net Zero Carbon Borough in Basingstoke and Deane
Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council · ocds-b5fd17-31199c17-2c3c-4785-8f11-49aa832beadb
- Supplier named in award
- THE CARBON TRUST
- Award value
- £57,350
- Contract period
- 19 September 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 14 May 2025
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79400000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-31199c17-2c3c-4785-8f11-49aa832beadb-2025-05-14T15:13:30+01:00
THE OWA TALL FLOATING LIDAR SYSTEM TRIAL FOR OFFSHORE WIND DISCRETIONARY PROJECT CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT
The Crown Estate · ocds-b5fd17-a58e81f9-ab68-437f-a6d6-913cc3d5e2df
- Supplier named in award
- THE CARBON TRUST
- Award value
- £105,000
- Contract period
- 31 May 2024 – 29 April 2025
- Published
- 11 February 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 76520000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a58e81f9-ab68-437f-a6d6-913cc3d5e2df-2025-02-11T10:51:57Z
Energy Catalyst Round 9 Evaluation Work
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-1137c058-5425-4a60-87b8-9fb5ce28edf9
- Supplier named in award
- THE CARBON TRUST
- Award value
- £25,000
- Contract period
- 28 November 2023 – 28 December 2023
- Published
- 4 December 2023
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79419000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-1137c058-5425-4a60-87b8-9fb5ce28edf9-2023-12-04T17:10:59Z
Green Finance Scoping Study
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE · ocds-b5fd17-6fbbcffd-1e75-481f-ad0a-78663fa18e90
- Supplier named in award
- THE CARBON TRUST
- Award value
- £37,300
- Contract period
- 3 February 2020 – 1 July 2020
- Published
- 4 February 2020
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 66171000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-6fbbcffd-1e75-481f-ad0a-78663fa18e90-2020-02-04T15:31:40Z
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
CARBON TRUST
Owner The Carbon Trust · classes 45
- Filed / designated
- 22 July 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 July 2020
CARBON TRUST
Owner The Carbon Trust · classes 35,36,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 17 April 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 April 2019
CARBON TRUST STANDARD REDUCING CO2 YEAR ON YEAR
Owner The Carbon Trust · classes 35,42,45
- Filed / designated
- 10 June 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 June 2028
ENTREPRENEURS FAST TRACK
Owner The Carbon Trust · classes 35,36,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 20 July 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
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
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 29 March 2017
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
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
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.
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
Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
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
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.
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.
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.