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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

British Heart Foundation pays suppliers in 21 days on average — within its stated 18–30 day terms

CRN 00699547 · Health & social care · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

21daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 3 days past the shortest term they state (18 days), still within their 30-day upper term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
18–30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
11% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
3%
Reporting period
1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 10 May 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid within their stated range — 21 against 18–30 days

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

24 → 21 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

British Heart Foundation's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 21 days against stated terms of 18–30 days; 11% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 3% took 61 days or longer. Filed 10 May 2026.

The direction is faster: from 24 days in H2 2023 to 21 now — 3 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 78% of the 138 large companies reporting in health & social care.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The BHF's standard supplier terms and conditions require the BHF to pay undisputed invoices within 30 days of the invoice date. Suppliers should only invoice the BHF when the goods or services procured have been delivered to the BHF. The BHF offers favourable payment terms for our logistics fleet service providers with invoices paid within 18 days of the invoice date. The BHF’s standard terms and conditions do not permit suppliers to use supply chain financing to factor invoices without the BHF’s written permission. Many of our suppliers do factor their invoices with our express written agreement. Full terms and conditions can be viewed on our website at https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/our-policies/supplier-terms-and-conditions

Dispute resolution

When the BHF receives products or services from a supplier which are not at the required standard the BHFs key contact with the supplier will advise the supplier within 5 working days and will work with the supplier to agree any possible resolution to the dispute. The key contact is normally the BHF employee who delivered the approved purchase order to the supplier. When a supplier invoice is received that does not include a valid purchase order number, or where the BHF has not recorded the receipt of the goods, or where there are issues with the invoice format or VAT charges, our accounts payable team will contact the supplier within 5 working days of the receipt of the invoice to clarify and/or resolve. The BHF’s accounts payable team can be contacted at [email protected]

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20262111%3%10 May 2026
H2 2025240%6%3 Nov 2025
H1 20252217%6%30 Apr 2025
H2 20242316%6%29 Oct 2024
H1 20242216%6%3 May 2024
H2 20232422%8%31 Oct 2023
H1 20232181%7%28 Apr 2023
H2 20221713%5%31 Oct 2022
H1 20221915%5%29 Apr 2022
H2 20211811%4%29 Oct 2021
H1 20212518%8%30 Apr 2021
H2 20203022%12%29 Oct 2020
H1 20202417%8%29 Apr 2020
H2 20192418%9%25 Oct 2019
H1 20192521%9%30 Apr 2019
H2 20182521%9%26 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated
28 Jul 1961
Registered office
GREATER LONDON HOUSE, 4TH FLOOR, LONDON, NW1 7AW
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 21-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 21-day vs a 18-day payment cycle.

≈ £8,500
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 21-day cycle — about £1,200 more than the same account would carry at 18-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers · British Heart Foundation

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 3 days faster over the window (24 → 21 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 21; across their last 6 reports it ranged 21–24 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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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?
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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 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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