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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Prior Park Educational Trust paid suppliers in 24 days on average — inside its 30-day stated terms

CRN 01521832 · Education · 4 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Aug 2019

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 31 Aug 2019 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.
24daysavg time to pay · H1 2019

Their H1 2019 filing put the average 6 days inside their stated 30-day term.

Their stated terms
30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
23% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
3%
Reporting period
1 Mar 2019 – 31 Aug 2019
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 4 Dec 2019

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2019 filing

Paid 6 days inside the 30-day term they state

The pattern · last 4 of 4 reports

32 → 24 days — faster across the window

The read · computed from their figures

Prior Park Educational Trust's H1 2019 filing put their average at 24 days against stated terms of 30 days; 23% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 3% took 61 days or longer. Filed 4 Dec 2019.

The direction is faster: from 32 days in H1 2018 to 24 now — 8 days faster across their last 4 reports.

That is 4 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

We aim to pay invoices within 30 days unless they are under query / dispute

Dispute resolution

We have not had any disputed invoices for the past 4 years, since the current financial controller has been in post. If there were any disputes they would be resolved under the contractual terms with the supplier, if established.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20192423%3%4 Dec 2019
H1 20193860%6%3 Jul 2019
H1 20183650%5%3 Jul 2019
H1 20183242%6%22 Mar 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
13 Oct 1980
Registered office
PRIOR PARK COLLEGE, BATH, BA2 5AH
8 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 May 2027

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Quick answers · Prior Park Educational Trust

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 8 days faster over the window (32 → 24 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report put the average at day 24; across their last 4 reports it ranged 24–38 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.
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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 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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