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Company description
METHODIST INDEPENDENT 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 26 May 2011; registered for 15 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 85100 · Pre-primary education, with 3 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 4 PSC records, 1 trade mark, 1 charity 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
- METHODIST INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS TRUST
- Company number
- 07649422
- 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 · 1 outstanding · 2 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
5 May 2026Next statement due
19 May 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- -175.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- -200.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 1.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 1.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 73.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 62.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 70.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 62.0%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 1000 to 499910.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49998.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49997.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499911.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499911.4% 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
- 30 March 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 1 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No retention clauses reported
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
- £27,063,159
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £3,376,355
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £792,729
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £5,629,095
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 11.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with client
- Not supplied
- Retention compared with payments
- Not supplied
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
We do not have standard payment terms. Terms are discussed and agreed with each supplier on an ad hoc basis.
- Dispute resolution process
Any complaint or query is dealt with on a case by case basis by the Bursary/Finance Office staff at the specific school that the invoice relates to. Any matters which cannot be resolved at this level are escalated to the school governors.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 22.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 29.0 average days to pay40.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay29.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay46.0% 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
- METHODIST INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS TRUST
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 September 2023 – 31 August 2024
- Approved
- 22 January 2025
- Sectors
- Charitable / not-for-profit activities 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
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 13 February 2025
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 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Methodist Independent Schools Trust
Registration ZA355738
- Registered from
- 5 September 2019
- Current end date
- 4 September 2026
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
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07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 16 April 2026
The President Of The Methodist Conference
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Legal authority
- United Kingdom
- Legal form
- Church Office
- Notified
- 30 November 2019
- Ceased
- 16 April 2026
Reverend Lorraine Mellor
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 24 June 2017
- Ceased
- 30 November 2019
A registrable PSC exists but has not yet been identified
- Notified
- 26 May 2017
- Ceased
- 24 June 2017
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
METHODIST INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS TRUST
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 8 July 2011
- Latest income
- £118,194,000
- Latest expenditure
- £116,741,000
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Education/training
- Religious Activities
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Other Finance
- General Charitable Purposes
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Makes Grants To Individuals
The Methodist Church is engaged in education as part of its Christian mission in the world. Its schools will seek to extend the Methodist ethos and character and contribute to diversity in education.
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Primary education
General secondary education
Sports and recreation education
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
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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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
- 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.
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.
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