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Company description
INSPIRE LEARNING 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 10 March 2015; registered for 11 years; registered office reported in ROTHERHAM, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 85200 · Primary education, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 5 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.
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01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- INSPIRE LEARNING TRUST
- Company number
- 09482529
- 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
31 January 2026Next statement due
14 February 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 September 2025 – 28 February 2026
- Filed
- 11 March 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 5 days
- Longest standard term
- 31 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
- £3,434,024
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £338,778
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £49,980
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £761,065
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 10.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 19.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
Within this reporting period the suppliers that we paid and settled had terms up to 31 days, our longest agreed terms with suppliers on our supplier list is up to 60 days. This is noted on the new supplier set up form each supplier completes with Inspire Learning Trust when we start to use them. This is generated from a staff member wishing to purchase goods or services from them which they raise on a Purchase Order and Finance contact them to set them up on our system for all staff to use.
Retention circumstances
These are only included in large Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) projects to ensure any snagging is completed once the project is concluded due to size and cost of each project.
Retention parity policy
This is set by the contract that the contracted advisers support us with based on their technical advice given when procuring the contract.
Retention release
It is released a year after the completion date once all snagging and feedback has been concluded in the follow up meeting with the contractor.
- Retention in all contracts
- No
- Retention in standard terms
- No
- Retention threshold
- Not supplied
- Standard retention rate
- 3.0%
- Retention compared with client
- 100.0%
- Retention compared with payments
- 18.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Most contracts have standard payment terms of 30 days, however some small businesses have an agreement to receive payment in shorter periods. We also have suppliers with 14 days payment terms these include the LEA and supply agencies (for education supply staff). We have also some smaller businesses that require payment in a shorter period of time which is short as 5 days which we try and accommodate on our weekly payment cycles that we complete each Wednesday for payment every Friday.
- Other payment-term information
We continue to make every effort to chase suppliers for invoices and ensure payments are made as soon as reasonably possible. In July 2024, we implemented a new invoice automation system to streamline invoice matching and statement processing. This system also enabled us to proactively follow up with suppliers regarding missing invoices. As mentioned in our previous 3 reports, we have now been using this system for eighteen months, and it has significantly improved our payment processing times. We will continue to refine and enhance the system to ensure suppliers receive payments on time. This relies on the supplier following the purchase order instructions and terms when goods or services are requested to ensure timely payment.
- Dispute resolution process
The Finance Department handles all supplier disputes and maintains communication to ensure a resolution is reached as soon as practically possible. Suppliers raising a dispute should provide relevant supporting documents, such as invoices, credit notes, and statements, to facilitate a prompt review. If a dispute cannot be resolved at the Finance Department level within 5 working days, it will be escalated to the Finance Lead or CFO for further review. If no resolution is reached within 10 working days, the matter will be referred to the CEO of Inspire Learning Trust for a final decision. To ensure the smooth processing of invoices and payments, suppliers must send invoices, credit notes, and statements to ilt@lightyear.cloud. For general finance enquiries or to follow up on an outstanding invoice or dispute, suppliers should contact accounts@inspiretrust.uk. We strive to minimise disputes by ensuring clear processes and procedures are in place for our suppliers and this is detailed in our terms and conditions on each purchase order which we email to our suppliers when requesting goods or services.
Earlier payment reports (4 shown)
- 20.0 average days to pay19.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay17.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay26.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay24.0% 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
INSPIRE LEARNING TRUST
Multi-academy trust · Open · S61 2BD
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04 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Inspire Learning Trust
Registration ZA174607
- Registered from
- 22 March 2016
- Current end date
- 21 March 2027
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.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mr David Michael NaisbittSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Has significant influence or control (as a trust)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 16 December 2025
- Appointment Verification End On: 9999-12-31T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Start On: 2026-01-13T00:00:00Z
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 18 October 2018
- Ceased
- 17 December 2025
Miss Anne Elizabeth Hinds
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 15 October 2018
Mr Martin PoveySee 8 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 15 October 2018
Mr Robert Cater-Whitham
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Ceased
- 13 March 2018
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06 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
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07 Northern Ireland charity register
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08 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
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10 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
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11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
12 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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13 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: LEADERS IN LEARNING MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
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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