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Company description
QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 22 November 1909; registered for 116 years; registered office reported in EAST LOTHIAN. Its primary declared activity is 85421 · First-degree level higher education, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC 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
- QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH
- Company number
- SC007335
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 6 total · 5 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 July 2025Next accounts due
30 April 2027Last statement made up to
3 December 2025Next statement due
17 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 February 2026 – 31 July 2026
- Filed
- 4 August 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 August 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £7,115,849
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £964,766
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £495,173
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £1,459,939
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 20.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Unless special terms are agreed, it is the University’s policy to pay invoices 30 days from the date of the invoice (in accordance with the CBI prompt payment code). In agreements negotiated with suppliers, the University endeavours to include and abide by specific payment terms.
- Dispute resolution process
We advise the supplier that the invoice is in dispute with the budget holder and the budget holder liaises direct with the supplier to get matters resolved.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 30.0 average days to pay84.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
- 12.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 13.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay5.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay7.0% outside terms
- 16.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 15.0 average days to pay6.0% outside terms
- 14.0 average days to pay4.0% outside terms
- 17.0 average days to pay10.0% 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.
04 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 August 2019 – 31 July 2020
- Approved
- 31 July 2020
- Sectors
- Education and research
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Not reported as covered
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £36 million to £60 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 24 March 2021
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents
Training described
Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Civil society organisations Businesses in your industry or sector
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
We are a member of Electronics Watch who carry out social audits of our suppliers in electronics manufacturing regions.
Demonstrated progress
Our statement refers to our collaborations with and membership of sector organisations and civil society. We aim to work with these organisations to set KPIs for our next statement.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Preventing modern slavery on our own premises.
- Area: Within your own operations
- Group: Migrants
- Location: United Kingdom
- Mitigation: We are rigorous in checking that our staff have the right to work in the UK. Where it is necessary to hire agency workers or contractors, we utilise specified, reliable agencies who have met the University's rigorous procurement procedures regarding their business and employment policies and practices.
- Risk: Preventing modern slavery in our partner institutions.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers
- Group: Other vulnerable groups
- Location: Egypt Greece India Nepal Singapore
- Mitigation: The University is actively engaged with partner institutions overseas and undertakes rigorous and comprehensive due diligence, such as for potential partner institutions to be assessed using a financial risk matrix and a reputational due diligence report.
- Risk: Preventing donations coming from unethical sources
- Mitigation: All proposed donations are considered in accordance with the University’s Gift Acceptance Policy. All proposed gifts of £5,000 or more are subject to due diligence by the Development Office, including searching for any connection to modern slavery. The extent of due diligence and of oversight applied will increase in line with an assessment of the risk associated with the potential donor and potential size of the donation.
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05 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 15 November 2016
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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
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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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
Post-graduate level higher 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
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Company name
Previous name: QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, EDINBURGH
- 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.
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.
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