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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Acorn Education Trust pays suppliers in 16 days on average — right on its stated terms

CRN 07654902 · Education · 14 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Aug 2026

16daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average right on the 16-day term they state.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
16 days
Paid outside agreed terms
0% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
2%
Reporting period
1 Mar 2026 – 31 Aug 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 14 Sept 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid right on the 16-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 14 reports

20 → 16 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

Acorn Education Trust's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 16 days against stated terms of 16 days; 0% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 2% took 61 days or longer. Filed 14 Sept 2026.

The direction is faster: from 20 days in H1 2024 to 16 now — 4 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 85% of the 309 large companies reporting in education.

That is 14 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2020) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

30 days

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 2026160%2%14 Sept 2026
H1 2026150%2%6 Mar 2026
H1 2025170%3%12 Sept 2025
H1 2025200%4%7 Mar 2025
H1 2024180%4%9 Sept 2024
H1 2024201%6%12 Mar 2024
H1 20232416%6%27 Sept 2023
H1 2023230%8%14 Mar 2023
H1 2022200%4%6 Oct 2022
H1 2022200%5%9 Mar 2022
H1 2021241%0%27 Sept 2021
H1 20212423%9%9 Mar 2021
H1 20203842%18%21 Sept 2020
H1 20201913%4%9 Mar 2020

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
1 Jun 2011
Registered office
KINGDOWN SCHOOL, WARMINSTER, BA12 9DR
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 May 2027

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Quick answers · Acorn Education Trust

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 4 days faster over the window (20 → 16 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 16; across their last 6 reports it ranged 15–20 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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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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