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Company description
BEYOND SCHOOLS 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 8 October 2010; registered for 15 years; registered office reported in CHATHAM, KENT. 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 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
- BEYOND SCHOOLS TRUST
- Company number
- 07401701
- 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
8 October 2025Next statement due
22 October 2026BritDB 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
- 13.6%
- Women receiving bonus
- 1.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 3.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 65.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 75.2%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 81.7%
- Women in lower quartile
- 87.4%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 500 to 99949.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99948.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99951.6% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99948.9% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49927.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99949.4% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49926.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49920.0% 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 September 2025 – 28 February 2026
- Filed
- 27 March 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 14 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
- £7,913,000
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £1,579,460
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £613,504
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £517,463
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 23.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention circumstances
More complex construction contracts where the risk of latent defects is higher than in a standard contract for buildings refurbishment.
Retention parity policy
As a state funded Multi‑Academy Trust, our organisation does not have “clients” in the commercial sense and does not receive retention deductions from those we serve. Our pupils receive free education and therefore no retention mechanisms are applied to us upstream.
However, when we undertake capital, refurbishment, or construction works, we may apply retention clauses to suppliers and contractors as part of standard risk‑management practice. In these cases, the retention terms we apply are not directly comparable to any terms applied to us, because no such upstream retention exists.
Therefore, our retention clauses may appear more onerous than those applied to us on the same project. Retention may be applied on projects of higher value, longer duration, or increased complexity, where staged retention release aligns with construction risk levels.
Retention release
Depending on the nature and scale of the construction project, two standard approaches for releasing retention are used. Both methods ensure retained funds are released fairly, transparently, and in line with industry practice. Retention release is strictly linked to obligations under the contract for which it is used and not conditional on performing obligations under another contract.
For smaller scale contracts the full retention amount (usually 3%–5%) is held fora period of usually 12 months from the date of practical completion.
During this 12‑month period, we monitor any defects or remedial works required.
At the end of the period, a final inspection is conducted. If all works are satisfactory and any defects have been addressed, 100% of the retention is released in one payment.
Contractors submit a retention release invoice at the one‑year point, which is then processed in accordance with our finance system authorisation protocols.
Retention release stages
For larger scale building contracts retention is usually released in two stages.
- 50% at practical completion once works are inspected and certified, and all required handover documents are provided.
- remaining 50% is released at the end of the defect period once final completion is certified.
Contractors must submit an application or invoice at each stage, and these are then processed through our standard approval protocols.
All retention payments are processed in line with our standard payment procedures and agreed contractual timelines.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- 0.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 1.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
All invoices should be paid within 30 days of receipt.
- Dispute resolution process
Payment disputes are investigated and resolved through the Central Finance Office following negotiation with the supplier and the relevant department.
Physical queries will include receipt of goods, condition of the goods and inspection for potential damages.
Invoice queries will include price differences and other arithmetical discrepancies. Queries will be raised via phone and by e-mail correspondence
pending agreement and resolution of the query and subsequent settlement or receipt of credit note.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 30.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay18.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay34.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 8.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 26.0 average days to pay25.0% 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
BEYOND SCHOOLS TRUST
Multi-academy trust · Open · ME4 6TJ
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05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Beyond Schools Trust
Registration Z2475073
- Registered from
- 20 January 2011
- Current end date
- 19 January 2027
- Trading names
- Hilltop Primary School, Greenacre School, The Robert Napier School, Beyond Schools Trust, Balfour Junior School, Chantry Primary School, Phoenix Primary School, Warren Wood Primary School, Fort Pitt Grammar School, The Thomas Aveling School, Walderslade School
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06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 8 October 2016
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07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
General secondary 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
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.
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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: FORT PITT THOMAS AVELING ACADEMIES
- Company name
Previous name: FORT PITT GRAMMAR SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST
- 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.
Exact source-supplied company-number links.
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.
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