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Company description
REACH SOUTH 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 April 2016; registered for 10 years; registered office reported in CALNE, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 85200 · Primary education, with 2 additional SIC activities reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 9 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
- REACH SOUTH ACADEMY TRUST
- Company number
- 10151730
- 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
- 3 total · 2 outstanding · 1 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
25 April 2026Next statement due
9 May 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
- 73.1%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 71.7%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 83.4%
- Women in lower quartile
- 93.3%
Earlier reporting years (6)
- 500 to 99926.9% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99920.3% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99924.8% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99931.4% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99937.1% median hourly gap
- 500 to 99918.4% 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 March 2026 – 31 August 2026
- Filed
- 30 September 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 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
- £10,555,457
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £305,510
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £255,423
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £750,488
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 2.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 8.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
N/A
Retention circumstances
We use retention clauses on some construction projects. There are no set criteria for applying retention clauses but each project is assessed based on a combination of factors including project value, complexity and risk. We do not have a minimum contract value for imposing a retention clause.
The retention value depends on the form of contract being used. Eg JCT Minor Works, JCT Intermediate Form, JCT Design and Build etc. The value is either 5% or 3% which reduces by 50% at Practical Completion. The remainder is paid at the end of the rectification period, subject to satisfactory making good of defects.
We do not have any retention clauses imposed on us as we do not provide any services that would need to be subjected to a retention clause. It is therefore not applicable to calculate retention ratios of retentions withheld from us vs. what we withhold.
The current total value of retentions withheld in this period is £60,406.11. This is from 3 projects. 1 project is set at 5% and 2 are set at 2.5%
Retention release
The remainder is paid at the end of the rectification period, subject to satisfactory making good of defects. This is usually invoiced by the Supplier and paid via normal payment processes.
- 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
- 4.0%
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Standard terms of 30 days from the latter of; date of invoice or receipt of invoice, for all qualifying contracts.
- Other payment-term information
N/A
- Dispute resolution process
Suppliers wishing to query a payment should either send an email to invoices@reachsouth.org or phone 01752 544984. The Trust operates a Shared Service Centre (SSC) that processes invoices and payments on behalf of all schools in the Trust. The SSC team will address supplier queries within 48 hours. If the supplier is unsatisfied with the response, the supplier should communicate this back and the SSC team will escalate the dispute to the Trust’s Head of Finance, who in turn can escalate it to the Finance Director if required.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 15.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay9.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay3.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay2.0% 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
REACH SOUTH ACADEMY TRUST
Multi-academy trust · Open · PL1 4RL
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 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 28 April 2024
Mr John David Keith EllisonSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- English
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 July 2022
- Ceased
- 28 April 2024
Ms Anne Marie Stevens
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- English
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 July 2022
- Ceased
- 28 April 2024
Sir Steve Lyndon Lancashire
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- English
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 1 July 2022
- Ceased
- 28 April 2024
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 20 January 2022
- Ceased
- 1 July 2022
Sir Steve Lyndon Lancashire
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 8 April 2019
- Ceased
- 13 January 2022
Mr John David Keith EllisonSee 2 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- English
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 27 March 2017
- Ceased
- 13 January 2022
Mr Peter Christopher LittleSee 21 companies with this PSC name →
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 27 March 2017
- Ceased
- 8 April 2019
Professor Shirley Simon
- Controls 25% to 50% of voting rights
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 27 March 2017
- Ceased
- 13 January 2022
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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
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
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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
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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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
General secondary education
Technical and vocational secondary education
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.
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.
13 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Detected change
Registered-office postcode: PL1 4RL → SN11 0DS
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
14 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.
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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