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Company description
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA 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 19 December 2006; registered for 19 years; registered office reported in CUMBRIA. 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: 78 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 UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
- Company number
- 06033238
- 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
- 3 total · 0 outstanding · 3 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
14 December 2025Next statement due
28 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 100.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 100.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 55.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 63.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 65.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 75.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 49998.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499911.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499911.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49997.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.0% 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 February 2026 – 31 July 2026
- Filed
- 26 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 7 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 August 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £12,315,684
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £730,886
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £17,060
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £747,946
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 3.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 14.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention release
30 day payment terms for all construction suppliers, upon approval of the invoice.
Retention release stages
All our contracts include retention clauses – 5% for the first 6 months and 2.5% for the remaining 6 months.
- Retention in all contracts
- Yes
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- 5.0%
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 0.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
As per our terms & conditions: In the absence of any express condition in the Contract, UOC terms are that payment shall be due thirty (30) days following receipt of a valid invoice, providing that the date of the invoice is not prior to the date of delivery.
- Dispute resolution process
Each case is considered individually. Our accounts payable team and procurement officer will work with the supplier to resolve any issues as quickly as possible. Suppliers should contact the following if they have any queries:
1) Contact our accounts payable team (accountspayableteam@cumbria.ac.uk)
2) Contact the procurement officer
3) If contact through the above channels has not resolved the issue, then the supplier should contact the Finance Manager-Operations and Controls
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 25.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay8.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay6.0% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 August 2024 – 31 July 2025
- Approved
- 3 December 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
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 19 December 2025
Policies described
Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents
Training described
Procurement staff Other
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Workers within your organisation
Grievance mechanisms
Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
We carried out an audit with our suppliers on their modern slavery statements and conduct. We updated and review our policy We hold a safeguarding task group quarterly which includes modern slavery
Demonstrated progress
We use key performance indicators and goal setting and refer in the statement how we accomplished these from the previous year.
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.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
66523 Chartered Manager Degree
Defra Network eTendering Portal · ocds-b5fd17-260f2f5c-07f0-4798-8b66-3cb62ca96b6c
- Supplier named in award
- University of Cumbria
- Award value
- £176,000
- Contract period
- 1 September 2022 – 31 July 2025
- Published
- 17 March 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-260f2f5c-07f0-4798-8b66-3cb62ca96b6c-2023-03-17T17:42:33Z
63468 Chartered Manager Apprenticeship Level 6
Defra Network eTendering Portal · ocds-b5fd17-a2ff1b72-c40d-4762-83b8-92d8dfe41c56
- Supplier named in award
- University of Cumbria
- Award value
- £418,000
- Contract period
- 31 January 2022 – 31 January 2026
- Published
- 13 April 2022
- Procedure
- Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a2ff1b72-c40d-4762-83b8-92d8dfe41c56-2022-04-13T17:00:36+01:00
Maternity Safety Training Fund Evaluation - Health Education England - NHS/SoEPS/18.439 - Invitation to Quote
NHS SOUTH OF ENGLAND PROCUREMENT SERVICES · ocds-b5fd17-37724c1f-8e23-4754-b346-d1801b6bae10
- Supplier named in award
- The University Of Cumbria
- Award value
- £23,140
- Contract period
- 27 August 2018 – 31 December 2018
- Published
- 3 December 2018
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-37724c1f-8e23-4754-b346-d1801b6bae10-2018-12-03T13:56:06Z
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 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.
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
Forest Works Manager Apprenticeship L4
Forestry Commission · updated 24 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Training and Development Services
East of England NHS collaborative Procurement Hub · updated 20 March 2026
- Tender value
- £8,333,333.33
- Awards
- 9
Provision of a new boiler system in the Skiddaw Building at Fusehill Street Campus,Carlisle
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 8 September 2026
- Tender value
- £250,000
- Awards
- 1
Training Services for Adults
Lancashire Combined County Authority · updated 2 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 12
Apprenticeship Management Software
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 24 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 2
Fire Doors Betterment-Replacement Programme
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 24 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Asbestos Annual Condition Surveys
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 11 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Fire Damper, Inspection, Testing and Maintenance
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 11 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Blencathra Boiler
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 10 August 2026
- Tender value
- £250,000
- Awards
- 1
Timetabling Package & Maintenance Syllabus Plus Software Licence
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 10 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
CISCO Hardware Support
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 10 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Combined Higher Education Policy
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 5 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
27-SSJ-04
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 4 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Network Connectivity and Telecommunications
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 28 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Postage Services
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 28 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
SSJ-Schiller
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 28 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Library Management System
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 27 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Mobile Image Equipment
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 24 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Refurbishment of Campus Gyms
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 24 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Content Creator with the Innovation for Conservation (ICON) Programme
THE UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA · updated 21 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Showing the first 20 of 75 linked procurement processes.
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
Post-graduate level higher education
13 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
75 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.
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: ST MARTIN'S COLLEGE
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.