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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Step Academy Trust pays suppliers in 25 days on average — inside its 30-day stated terms

CRN 07612865 · Education · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Aug 2026

25daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 5 days inside their stated 30-day term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
14% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
2%
Reporting period
1 Mar 2026 – 31 Aug 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 30 Sept 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 5 days inside the 30-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 18 reports

31 → 25 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

Step Academy Trust's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 25 days against stated terms of 30 days; 14% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 2% took 61 days or longer. Filed 30 Sept 2026.

The direction is faster: from 31 days in H1 2024 to 25 now — 6 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 50% of the 309 large companies reporting in education.

That is 18 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

10% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

30 days, unless otherwise agreed

Dispute resolution

Suppliers contact our accounts payable department (contact details included on our purchase orders). The accounts department investigate the dispute and issue a response to the supplier.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20262514%2%30 Sept 2026
H1 20263440%9%13 Apr 2026
H1 20254969%24%28 Sept 2025
H1 20253745%8%17 Apr 2025
H1 20243451%6%27 Nov 2024
H1 20243133%13%14 Mar 2024
H1 20233537%12%28 Sept 2023
H1 20234567%19%27 Mar 2023
H1 20223848%12%26 Sept 2022
H1 20224751%16%17 Mar 2022
H1 20214047%11%23 Sept 2021
H1 20214552%15%5 Mar 2021
H1 20204856%22%30 Sept 2020
H1 20205470%26%4 Mar 2020
H1 20195872%33%30 Sept 2019
H1 20193957%21%25 Jul 2019
H1 20183956%34%25 Jul 2019
H1 2018102%0%31 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
21 Apr 2011
Registered office
GONVILLE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6DL
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 May 2027

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Quick answers · Step Academy Trust

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 6 days faster over the window (31 → 25 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 25; across their last 6 reports it ranged 25–49 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?
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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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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