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Company description
UNIVERSITY OF READING is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Royal Charter Company”. Incorporated on 1 January 1981; registered for 45 years. This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 14 procurement records.
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
- UNIVERSITY OF READING
- Company number
- RC000665
- Company type
- Royal Charter Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- NO ACCOUNTS FILED
- 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
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
- 0.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 9.2%
- Women receiving bonus
- 18.7%
- Men receiving bonus
- 17.3%
- Women in top quartile
- 52.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 61.4%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 65.6%
- Women in lower quartile
- 66.5%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 5000 to 19,99916.1% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99915.7% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99918.7% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,99925.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499923.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499918.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499918.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499920.9% 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 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Senior Leader Level 7 ST0480 X 5- Future Leaders
DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD & RURAL AFFAIRS · ocds-b5fd17-80c8eea9-288b-4704-8290-5817c6f7df91
- Supplier named in award
- University of Reading
- Award value
- £70,000
- Contract period
- 22 December 2025 – 15 October 2027
- Published
- 12 November 2025
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-80c8eea9-288b-4704-8290-5817c6f7df91-2025-11-12T14:53:15Z
Contract for the provision of Senior Leader Level 7 (STO480) Apprenticeship call off contract, to South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT · ocds-b5fd17-8ac82fd3-1239-44d2-ad66-2f0b160c4930
- Supplier named in award
- University of Reading
- Award value
- £14,000
- Contract period
- 31 May 2024 – 31 May 2027
- Published
- 31 October 2024
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-8ac82fd3-1239-44d2-ad66-2f0b160c4930-2024-10-31T13:59:37Z
704409450 - Provision of the Army Higher Education Pathway 2
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE · ocds-b5fd17-6a5c5c41-7ab4-4ccf-9c7b-e3b03df5ffb1
- Supplier named in award
- University of Reading and Business School of Henley
- Award value
- £12,512,677
- Contract period
- 1 January 2023 – 5 September 2032
- Published
- 3 January 2023
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-6a5c5c41-7ab4-4ccf-9c7b-e3b03df5ffb1-2023-01-03T11:00:37Z
Provision of Apprenticeship for Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship Programme v
Cabinet Office : Cabinet Office · ocds-b5fd17-80b4ec74-1339-4bb7-951e-7e487bede28c
- Supplier named in award
- UNIVERSITY OF READING
- Award value
- £900,000
- Contract period
- 7 September 2020 – 4 March 2022
- Published
- 6 November 2020
- Procedure
- Other - Dynamic Purchasing System
- Main CPV
- 80521000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-80b4ec74-1339-4bb7-951e-7e487bede28c-2020-11-06T13:55:19Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
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. 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.
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
MOAP Joint Chair Service Call Off Contract FY2627 University of Reading
Met Office · updated 16 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
AmazonFACE SIF data set processing and report
Met Office · updated 9 September 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
UoR Security Services
BERKSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · updated 4 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
DN773311 Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) Science Delivery Framework 2
Met Office · updated 21 July 2026
- Tender value
- £24,000,000
- Awards
- 8
Southern Universities Management Services (SUMS Consulting)-Membership Fees
University of Bedfordshire · updated 16 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Space Weather R2O2R - University of Reading
Met Office · updated 2 April 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Innovation Qualified Utilities Dynamic Market
NATIONAL GRID ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION PLC · updated 15 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Provision of Level 6 Chartered Management Degree Apprenticeship
Ministry of Defence · updated 17 June 2026
- Tender value
- £19,440,000
- Awards
- 2
Framework for Foundational learning and development programme in Operational Meteorology for the Met Office (FOMP)
Met Office · updated 1 May 2026
- Tender value
- £5,000,000
- Awards
- 1
Legal Service Framework - 3 lots
UNIVERSITY OF READING · updated 29 January 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
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
10 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.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
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.