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How long does Consumers' Association take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 00580128 · Professional & technical services · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

19days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

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On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated
18 Mar 1957
Registered office
2 MARYLEBONE ROAD, NW1 4DF
3 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Mar 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30 days. Reported average: 19.

Stated terms30d
-11 days
Reported avg19d

At a glance

The key figures

30d
their stated terms
14%
invoices paid outside terms
±5d
steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Faster than 82% of the 530 large companies reporting in professional & technical services.

The pattern

Holding steady

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d
18
17
17
14
24
19
H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 95% 31–60 days 5% 61+ days 0%

The read · computed from their figures

Consumers' Association has filed 18 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2017). Their latest report puts the average at 19 days against stated terms of 30 days.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±5 days period to period.

In the latest period 14% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 0% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Where Consumers' Association operates its relationships on its own terms, the standard contractual length of time for payment of invoices is 30 days. Some suppliers have a higher term and some have a lower term. The maximum length of time applied during the reporting period was 30 days. There were no changes to the standard payment terms during the reporting period.

Dispute resolution

Complaints or concerns relating to payment practices will, in the first instance, be considered and/or investigated by the Finance Team following receipt. Disputes are handled on a case by case basis with appropriate input from the relationship manager, Group Risk and Group Legal as considered necessary. Supplier correspondence relating to invoices, changes to details and complaints should be sent directly to the Finance Team via email.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20261914%0%21 Jul 2026
H2 20252414%2%28 Jan 2026
H1 20251431%0%23 Jul 2025
H2 20241718%0%27 Jan 2025
H1 20241719%0%18 Jul 2024
H2 20231813%0%25 Jan 2024
H1 20231719%0%31 Jul 2023
H2 20221625%0%27 Jan 2023
H1 20221425%0%26 Jul 2022
H2 20211712%0%25 Jan 2022
H1 20211917%0%27 Jul 2021
H2 20202314%0%26 Jan 2021
H1 20201726%0%24 Jul 2020
H2 20191818%0%27 Jan 2020
H1 20191622%0%29 Jul 2019
H2 20181720%0%28 Jan 2019
H1 20181428%1%26 Jul 2018
H2 20171232%0%25 Jan 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average is steady — within about ±5 days period to period, around 19 days.
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 19, moving within about ±5 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?
UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.
What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?
The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.
How often is this data updated?
Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.
Is this official government data?
The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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