Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Authentic Education Group Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 07977940 · Education · 2 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Aug 2025

25days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated: 6 Mar 2012
Registered office: MANORSIDE ACADEMY, POOLE, BH12 4JG

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 May 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30 days. Reported average: 25.

Stated terms30d

-5 days

Reported avg25d

At a glance

The key figures

30d

their stated terms

27%

invoices paid outside terms

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Faster than 52% of the 303 large companies reporting in education.

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 73% 31–60 days 23% 61+ days 4%

The read · computed from their figures

Authentic Education Group Limited has filed 2 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2025). Their latest report puts the average at 25 days against stated terms of 30 days.

In the latest period 27% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 4% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Accounts Payable will aim to pay all approved supplier invoices within 30 days of receiving them. Due to the nature of the business, school holidays may interrupt the approval process if received during this period.

Dispute resolution

Invoice queries are managed by the central finance team with support from individual academies. The majority of disputes are resolved quickly with payments released once all issues were settled. The Trust has a dedicated central Procurement Team. All disputes should be raised with the Procurement Team and if unable to be resolved, it would be escalated to the Procurement Manager in the first instance. An escalation process can then be followed within the department using contact details provided with each order.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2025	25	27%	4%	19 Sept 2025
H1 2025	31	32%	9%	19 Sept 2025

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How UK payment reporting works

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?

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 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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