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Company description
UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLK LTD is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 19 March 2004; registered for 22 years; registered office reported in IPSWICH, SUFFOLK. Its primary declared activity is 85421 · First-degree level higher education, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 11 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
- UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLK LTD
- Company number
- 05078498
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 3 total · 2 outstanding · 1 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 July 2025Next accounts due
30 April 2027Last statement made up to
7 April 2026Next statement due
21 April 2027BritDB 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
- 54.7%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 65.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 74.2%
- Women in lower quartile
- 74.4%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99913.7% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99915.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99916.2% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99917.7% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99915.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99918.7% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49918.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49914.1% 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 February 2025 – 31 July 2025
- Filed
- 4 November 2025
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 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-1
- Financial period started
- 1 August 2024
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 10.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The University operates a standard payment term of 30 days from the date of invoice. Payments are made to suppliers fortnightly.
- Dispute resolution process
Payment disputes are first dealt with the University’s accounts payable team who attempt to deal with the dispute informally. If the issue is not resolved, the dispute is escalated to the Associate Director of Financial Operations or the Director of Finance and Planning who deal with disputes on a case by case basis.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 24.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay15.0% 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 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLK LTD
LEI 89450053ZIBO2DASTV37 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 19 March 2004
- Initial LEI registration
- 23 July 2021
- LEI last updated
- 17 April 2026
- Next renewal
- 23 July 2024
- Managing LOU
- 529900F6BNUR3RJ2WH29
- Legal address
- WATERFRONT BUILDING, IPSWICH, IP4 1QJ, GB
- Headquarters address
- WATERFRONT BUILDING, IPSWICH, IP4 1QJ, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
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.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLK LTD
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 August 2024 – 31 July 2025
- Approved
- 27 November 2025
- Sectors
- Education and research
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Not reported as covered
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 4 February 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.
07 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
University of Suffolk Ltd
Registration Z9376827
- Registered from
- 20 February 2006
- Current end date
- 19 February 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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
Figurative mark
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 15 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 June 2027
Figurative mark
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 15 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 June 2027
Figurative mark
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 15 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 June 2027
Figurative mark
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 16 May 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 16 May 2027
University of Suffolk
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 27 May 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 27 May 2026
UCS University Campus Suffolk
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 9,16,25,26,28,35,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 8 April 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 April 2021
UCS University Campus Suffolk
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 9,16,25,26,28,35,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 8 April 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 April 2021
UCS
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 9,16,25,26,28,35,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 8 April 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 April 2021
leap
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 35,41
- Filed / designated
- 1 October 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 October 2019
Figurative mark
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 9,16,25,28,35,41,42,43,44,45
- Filed / designated
- 1 October 2009
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 October 2019
PlacementPAL
Owner University of Suffolk Ltd · classes 41,42
- Filed / designated
- 21 November 2017
- 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.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 19 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Framework Contract Lot 3
COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED · updated 10 September 2026
- Tender value
- £10,000,000
- Awards
- 12
CPD Courses 26/27 University of Suffolk
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · updated 20 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
UoS Youth Social Action Programme- Independent Evaluation
Suffolk County Council · updated 29 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Waste Management
UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLK LTD · updated 14 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
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
Post-graduate level higher education
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
4 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
- Company name
Previous name: UNIVERSITY CAMPUS SUFFOLK LTD
- 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.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
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.