TXT In plain English
Company description
THE THINKING SCHOOLS ACADEMY 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 27 August 2010; registered for 16 years; registered office reported in CHATHAM, KENT, 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 trade mark, 4 procurement records, 5 other public-register 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 THINKING SCHOOLS ACADEMY TRUST
- Company number
- 07359755
- 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
- FULL
- 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
21 February 2026Next statement due
7 March 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- -47.8%
- Women receiving bonus
- 2.1%
- Men receiving bonus
- 2.3%
- Women in top quartile
- 69.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 29.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 78.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 88.0%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 1000 to 499927.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499931.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499930.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499933.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499935.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499937.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99933.5% 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 March 2019 – 31 August 2019
- Filed
- 2 October 2019
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- 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
- Not supplied
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £0
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 4.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
n/a
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard payment terms are 30 days. Some suppliers (e.g. supply agencies) may specify 7 or 14 day payment terms.
- Other payment-term information
n/a
- Dispute resolution process
Suppliers are contacted to discuss any discrepancies or reasons why payment cannot be made immediately e.g. goods not received or faulty, awaiting confirmation of service provision. Invoices are held on dispute until resolved and once resolved paid within the next weekly payrun.
Earlier payment reports (3 shown)
- 10.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 11.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay17.0% 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
THE THINKING SCHOOLS ACADEMY TRUST
Multi-academy trust · Open · ME4 6NR
The Thinking Schools Academy Trust
25 November 2025 · Prohibition Notice Immediate
The Thinking Schools Academy Trust
19 July 2024 · Improvement Notice
The Thinking Schools Academy Trust
19 July 2024 · Improvement Notice
The Thinking Schools Academy Trust
30 March 2023 · Improvement Notice
Identity methods differ by source. DfE links use source-supplied company numbers. Ofsted and Scottish care links are unique exact name-and-postcode candidates. HSE links require one unique exact Companies House organisation name. Verify candidate associations independently.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
The Thinking Schools Academy Trust
Registration ZA147649
- Registered from
- 30 November 2015
- Current end date
- 29 November 2026
- Trading names
- Curledge Street Academy, Kings Ash Academy, Lodestar Academy, Bay Education Trust, Maritime Academy, The Rochester Grammar School, Victory Academy, New Horizons Childrens Academy, Gordon Infant School, Gordon Junior School, New Horizons Teaching Alliance, The Portsmouth Academy, The Goodwin Academy, Meon Infant School, Plymouth High School for Girls, New Horizons Primary Portsmouth, All Faiths Children’s Academy, Holcombe Grammar School, Plympton Academy, Cedar Children's Academy, Meon Junior School, Moorings Way Infant School, Brixham College, Furzeham Primary School, Furzeham Primary School and Nursery, Penbridge Junior School, Penbridge Infant School, Colchester Royal Grammar School, Paignton Academy, Paignton Academy, Kings Ash Academy, Curledge Street Academy
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
Bikability Cycle Training
TORBAY COUNCIL · ocds-b5fd17-01d23d7d-3308-4d6a-a6ac-4f906a92d7d4
- Supplier named in award
- Thinking Schools Academy Trust
- Award value
- £28,000
- Contract period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Published
- 17 February 2025
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 92000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-01d23d7d-3308-4d6a-a6ac-4f906a92d7d4-2025-02-17T12:58:32Z
Bikeability Cycling
Torbay Council · ocds-b5fd17-a87eaee9-fb8e-474c-ba0c-8fc55b5c2112
- Supplier named in award
- Thinking Schools Academy Trust (Paignton Academy)
- Award value
- £56,640
- Contract period
- 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025
- Published
- 9 May 2024
- Procedure
- Other - Direct award via waiver 843
- Main CPV
- 92000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-a87eaee9-fb8e-474c-ba0c-8fc55b5c2112-2024-05-09T16:23:02+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.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
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
- 31 August 2016
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
TSAT - Provision of Outsourced Cleaning Service
THE THINKING SCHOOLS ACADEMY TRUST · updated 21 September 2026
- Tender value
- £3,000,000
- Awards
- 1
TSAT - Provision of Grounds Maintenance Services
THE THINKING SCHOOLS ACADEMY TRUST · updated 17 September 2026
- Tender value
- £300,000
- 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.
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
General secondary education
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
2 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
- Company name
Previous name: THE RGS/AFS THINKING SCHOOLS ACADEMY TRUST
- Company name
Previous name: THE ROCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
- 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.
Exact source-supplied company-number links.
Organisation enforcement records linked by one unique exact company name.
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.