Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Focus Academy Trust (UK) Ltd take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 08071176 · Education · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 28 Feb 2026

27days

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: 16 May 2012
Registered office: RAM MILL BUSINESS CENTRE GORDON STREET, OLDHAM, OL9 9RH

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 May 2027

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30 days. Reported average: 27.

Stated terms30d

-3 days

Reported avg27d

At a glance

The key figures

30d

their stated terms

25%

invoices paid outside terms

-6d

faster over the window

±4d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 59% of the 303 large companies reporting in education.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d

H1 2023H1 2024H1 2024H1 2025H1 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 77% 31–60 days 17% 61+ days 6%

The read · computed from their figures

Focus Academy Trust (UK) Ltd has filed 16 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 27 days against stated terms of 30 days.

The direction is faster: from 33 to 27 days over the window — about 6 days faster.

In the latest period 25% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 6% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

30 days

Dispute resolution

escalate to CFO

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	27	25%	6%	25 Mar 2026
H1 2025	30	43%	8%	29 Sept 2025
H1 2025	35	45%	12%	21 Mar 2025
H1 2024	28	39%	8%	25 Sept 2024
H1 2024	29	29%	11%	23 Apr 2024
H1 2023	33	26%	10%	6 Oct 2023
H1 2023	31	26%	10%	27 Mar 2023
H1 2022	23	19%	5%	3 Oct 2022
H1 2022	26	23%	7%	15 Mar 2022
H1 2021	25	20%	6%	21 Sept 2021
H1 2021	31	23%	10%	28 Apr 2021
H1 2020	34	19%	13%	15 Oct 2020
H1 2019	25	19%	7%	4 Nov 2019
H1 2019	25	22%	9%	28 Mar 2019
H1 2018	25	19%	5%	25 Sept 2018
H1 2018	23	9%	3%	27 Mar 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 6 days faster over the window (33 → 27 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 27, moving within about ±4 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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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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