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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Dauntsey'S School pays suppliers in 20 days on average — within its stated 2–30 day terms

CRN 05872694 · Education · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Aug 2025

20daysavg time to pay · H1 2025

Their H1 2025 filing puts the average 18 days past the shortest term they state (2 days), still within their 30-day upper term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
2–30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
10% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
2%
Reporting period
1 Mar 2025 – 31 Aug 2025
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 11 Sept 2025

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2025 filing

Paid within their stated range — 20 against 2–30 days

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

Holding steady around 20 days

The read · computed from their figures

Dauntsey'S School's H1 2025 filing puts their average at 20 days against stated terms of 2–30 days; 10% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 2% took 61 days or longer. Filed 11 Sept 2025.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±2 days period to period.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 74% of the 309 large companies reporting in education.

That is 16 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

The most frequently used payment terms for qualifying contracts is 30 days. Some of our smaller suppliers however are paid as soon as work has been completed.

Dispute resolution

Monthly statement checks keep issues to a minimum. Allocation of payments to invoices are compared, reconciled and resolved as soon as possible.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20252010%2%11 Sept 2025
H1 20252210%1%20 Mar 2025
H1 2024239%2%24 Sept 2024
H1 2024239%3%3 Apr 2024
H1 2023228%3%28 Sept 2023
H1 2023207%3%21 Mar 2023
H1 20222521%3%30 Sept 2022
H1 20223144%3%10 Mar 2022
H1 20212131%1%23 Sept 2021
H1 20212019%0%12 Mar 2021
H1 2020159%0%16 Oct 2020
H1 20202126%1%12 Mar 2020
H1 20192125%1%21 Oct 2019
H1 20191412%3%14 Mar 2019
H1 2018228%3%11 Dec 2018
H1 2018228%3%29 Mar 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Incorporated
11 Jul 2006
Registered office
DAUNTSEY'S SCHOOL, DEVIZES, SN10 4HE
10 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 May 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 20-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 20-day vs a 2-day payment cycle.

≈ £8,000
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 20-day cycle — about £7,100 more than the same account would carry at 2-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 · Dauntsey'S School

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average is steady — within about ±2 days period to period, around 20 days.
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 20, moving within about ±2 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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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?
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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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