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Company description
CITY OF LONDON ACADEMIES 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 6 August 2002; registered for 24 years; registered office reported in LONDON, 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, 1 procurement record, 1 other public-register 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
- CITY OF LONDON ACADEMIES TRUST
- Company number
- 04504128
- 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 August 2025Next accounts due
31 May 2027Last statement made up to
6 August 2025Next statement due
20 August 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Mean bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 59.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 63.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 66.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 76.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499910.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499917.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499917.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49925.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99921.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99922.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49925.3% 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 September 2025 – 28 February 2026
- Filed
- 3 March 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 30 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- Reported as used
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 September 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £9,374,939
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £3,328,711
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £2,005,365
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £1,950,264
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 16.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention parity policy
Retention clauses are agreed with the supplier, usually applying independent advice from a project management service.
Retention release
The withheld amount is released after the defects liability period has passed.
- Retention in all contracts
- Yes
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- £50,000
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 3.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 3.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 30 days from the date of the invoice. However, in certain circumstances where the supplier may have cashflow challenges, we will reduce payment terms to either 7, 14, 21 or 28 days by agreement.
- Dispute resolution process
The Trust operates a purchase order system so that, as far as is possible, invoices must be matched to an approved purchase order prior to payment. This minimises payment disputes. If the goods or services invoiced have not been received in full, are not of sufficient quality, or the invoice details are incorrect, the invoice will not be paid. Initially, and in most cases, the dispute may be resolved by the academy contacting the supplier. If the issue cannot be resolved at academy level, then the supplier can escalate their dispute to the central Trust finance team for resolution.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 49.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 45.0 average days to pay52.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 38.0 average days to pay50.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay51.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay42.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay43.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay41.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay42.0% 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.
UK Additional public registers
Schools, childcare, care and HSE records
CITY OF LONDON ACADEMIES TRUST
Multi-academy trust · Open · EC2V 7HH
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05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 6 August 2016
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06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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10 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.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
General secondary education
12 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
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.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: CITY OF LONDON ACADEMIES (SOUTHWARK)
- Company name
Previous name: CITY OF LONDON ACADEMY (SOUTHWARK)
- Company name
Previous name: CITY OF LONDON ACADEMY (SOUTHWARK) LIMITED
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 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.
Exact source-supplied company-number links.
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.