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Company description
AURORA ACADEMIES 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 15 June 2012; registered for 14 years; registered office reported in BEXHILL ON SEA, EAST SUSSEX. Its primary declared activity is 85590 · Other education n.e.c..
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 6 PSC records, 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
- AURORA ACADEMIES TRUST
- Company number
- 08107711
- 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
- 1 total · 1 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
15 June 2026Next statement due
29 June 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
- 65.6%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 76.3%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 88.2%
- Women in lower quartile
- 95.7%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 49943.8% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49951.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49932.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49941.2% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49936.6% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49935.1% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49946.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49942.3% 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
- 31 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
- £2,889,713
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £290,566
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £122,207
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £162,922
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 9.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 1.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Retention circumstances
Retention (typically 5%) governed by the T&C's in JCT contracts used for construction projects, managed by a contract administrator
Retention release
Retention released at the end of the retention period following confirmation from our professional advisers that the work is of satisfactory standard.
Retention release stages
Contract depedent but typically retention of 5% during construction and a final retention of 2.5% payable after 1 year.
This only applies to major construction projects
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- 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
Default 30 days paymemt terms unless specifically agreed with supplier
- Other payment-term information
All invoices should be sent to invoices@auroraacademies.org including the relevant purchase order reference to support prompt payment
- Dispute resolution process
Suppliers will contact the finance department in the first instance to discuss the issue.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 26.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay13.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay22.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay16.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay12.0% outside terms
- 28.0 average days to pay15.0% outside terms
- 28.0 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
AURORA ACADEMIES TRUST
Multi-academy trust · Open · TN39 4ED
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
Aurora Academies Trust
Registration Z3349370
- Registered from
- 13 September 2012
- Current end date
- 12 September 2026
- Trading names
- The Gatwick School, City Academy Whitehawk, Glenleigh Park Primary Academy, King Offa Primary Academy, Oakwood Primary Academy, Heron Park Primary 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 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 6 September 2023
Ms Julie Jean Kapsalis
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 11 December 2019
- Ceased
- 1 September 2023
Aurora Education Trust
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Country registered
- England And Wales
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Company Limited By Guarantee
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 08022387
- Notified
- 13 December 2018
- Ceased
- 1 September 2023
Mr Geoffrey Paul Palmer
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 13 December 2018
- Ceased
- 1 September 2023
Mr Ronald Jay Packard
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- American
- Country of residence
- United States
- Notified
- 13 December 2018
- Ceased
- 11 December 2019
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 15 June 2017
- Ceased
- 13 December 2018
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.
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.
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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.
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10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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.
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
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.
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
- 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.
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.