01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- BRITISH COUNCIL(THE)
- Company number
- RC000060
- Company type
- Royal Charter Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
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
Not suppliedNext accounts due
Not suppliedLast statement made up to
Not suppliedNext statement due
15 January 2017BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 1.5%
- Mean bonus gap
- 7.7%
- Women receiving bonus
- 89.4%
- Men receiving bonus
- 90.5%
- Women in top quartile
- 53.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 66.4%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499916.8% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499920.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499922.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499921.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499917.7% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499917.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499916.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499910.9% 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 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- BRITISH COUNCIL(THE)
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021
- Approved
- 17 September 2021
- Sectors
- Public sector Charitable / not-for-profit activities Education and research Media, publishing, arts and entertainment
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
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.
05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No PSC entry for this company was present in the imported snapshot.
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. BritDB joins them only by the exact company number and does not create separate pages for individuals. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted from this public view.
06 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.
07 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.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
08 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.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
09 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
UK_1003 Global Evaluation Framework Retender 2026
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 14 August 2026
- Tender value
- £12,000,000
- Awards
- 3
Invitation to Tender (ITT) For: Transport and confidential material movement services for British Council-Bangladesh
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 13 August 2026
- Tender value
- £1,000,000
- Awards
- 0
Establishing a framework for consultancy on Disability Inclusion
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 11 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
ASEAN-UK SAGE
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · updated 11 August 2026
- Tender value
- £9,000,000
- Awards
- 1
UK_1201- Senior Leadership Development Framework
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 7 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Travel Services for Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 6 August 2026
- Tender value
- £1,008,000
- Awards
- 3
EU_960_Temporary employment and recruitment services
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 6 August 2026
- Tender value
- £459,677
- Awards
- 1
UK_1407- Welsh Translation Framework
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 6 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Partial Design, Supply and Install of Specialist Mobile and Static Racking Systems for Art Collection
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 5 August 2026
- Tender value
- £350,000
- Awards
- 1
EU_839 HR Agency services France
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 27 July 2026
- Tender value
- €214,904
- Awards
- 2
UK_811- Venice Biennale PR Consultant
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 24 July 2026
- Tender value
- £20,000
- Awards
- 0
Contracting Lifecycle system
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 23 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Drupal 10 Framework
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 22 July 2026
- Tender value
- £637,500
- Awards
- 5
Design & Delivery of the UK Erasmus Youth Consultation
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 22 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
UK_1392 English Connects Grants Programme Monitoring and Evaluation
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 21 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Furniture provider for Exams department in Uzbekistan
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 20 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Mystery Shopping Services
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 15 July 2026
- Tender value
- £440,000
- Awards
- 2
Erasmus+ External Experts
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 13 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
EU_1430 - Works
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 10 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Recruitment, Verification and Payroll Management of Non-Permanent Workers (NPW) outsourcing services in Bangladesh
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) · updated 8 July 2026
- Tender value
- BDT 503,593,380
- Awards
- 0
Showing the first 20 of 77 linked procurement processes.
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.
10 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.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
11 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
No SIC code was supplied in this bulk record.
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
77 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
- 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.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
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.