UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS TRUST
ActiveNo accounts in digital format (iXBRL) since 2019. Paper or PDF accounts are available at Companies House.
Sector comparison
SIC 85200Where the company stands among the 5,057 active companies whose first SIC code is 85200 (Primary education).
- WEST HEATH 2000£9.8bn
- ORMISTON ACADEMIES TRUST£578.5m
- STAR ACADEMIES£536.1m
- LIFT SCHOOLS£437.6m
- THE CO-OPERATIVE ACADEMIES TRUST£354.6m
- GREENSHAW LEARNING TRUST£328.7m
- OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST£322.2m
- UNITY SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP£289.1m
- REACH2 ACADEMY TRUST£262m
- WITHERSLACK GROUP LIMITED£244.7m
Positions are approximate. Figures come from each company's latest accounts; money and employee figures are compared only with companies that filed accounts in pounds for a period ending in the last two and a half years and are not dormant. The line on each bar marks the median.
Summary: UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS TRUST
What kind of company is it?
UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS TRUST is a private company limited by guarantee registered with Companies House under company number 02780748. It was incorporated on 18 Jan 1993. Its status is active. The registered office is in Peterborough (PE3). Its nature of business (SIC 2007) is primary education (85200), general secondary education (85310).
How does it compare with similar companies?
Compared with 5,057 active companies whose first SIC code is 85200: It is older than 92% of them (median age 10.6 years).
Does it supply the public sector?
The company is named as the supplier in one public contract award notice, from Department for Education. Contracts awarded to it alone have a combined published value of £503.7k.
What do public registers and reports show?
It is a registered charity (number 1016538) with a latest reported income of £185.2m. It appears on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Skilled Worker). HMRC lists it as an importer of goods, mainly musical instruments. In its latest payment practices report it took an average of 25 days to pay suppliers, and 9% of invoices were not paid within agreed terms. Its gender pay gap report for 2025/26 shows median hourly pay for women 9.3% lower than for men. It has modern slavery statements on the government registry for 4 years.
Who runs and controls the company?
One person with significant control is registered. 1 of 4 registered charges are outstanding.
When are its next filings due?
The next accounts are due by 31 May 2027. The next confirmation statement is due by 1 Feb 2027.
Public contracts
1 contractUNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS TRUST is named as a supplier in 1 public contract award notice from Department for Education. Its published value is £503.7k.
- EdTech Demonstrator Schools and Colleges Programme - Phase 2: Delivery PartnerDepartment for Education · £503,666
From contract award notices on Contracts Finder (since 2016) and Find a Tender (since 2021), published by the Cabinet Office under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Values are as published by the buyer and usually cover the whole contract term; the total leaves out awards shared between several suppliers, where the published figure is a ceiling for all of them, placeholder values and single figures of £1 billion or more. Contracts below the publication thresholds and those of devolved buyers that publish elsewhere are not included.
Statutory reporting
- Average time taken to pay invoices
- 25 days
- Invoices not paid within agreed terms
- 9%
- Standard payment terms
- 30 days
- Member of a payment code
- No
- Within 30 days 81%
- 31 to 60 days 14%
- After 60 days 5%
Earlier periods (7)
- Period ending
- Days to pay
- Within 30 days
- Late
- 28 Feb 2025
- 28
- 76%
- 12%
- 31 Aug 2024
- 27
- 77%
- 14%
- 29 Feb 2024
- 27
- 77%
- 14%
- 31 Aug 2023
- 30
- 77%
- 14%
- 28 Feb 2023
- 30
- 73%
- 18%
- 31 Aug 2022
- 31
- 68%
- 22%
- 28 Feb 2022
- 29
- 74%
- 17%
- Median hourly pay
- women 9.3% lower
- Mean hourly pay
- women 11.8% lower
- Employer size
- 1000 to 4999 employees
Earlier years (8)
- Year
- Median hourly pay
- Mean hourly pay
- 2024/25
- women 10.4% lower
- women 11.5% lower
- 2023/24
- women 10.1% lower
- women 13.5% lower
- 2022/23
- women 11.2% lower
- women 13.5% lower
- 2021/22
- women 13.4% lower
- women 14% lower
- 2020/21
- women 13.4% lower
- women 12.6% lower
- 2019/20
- women 12.3% lower
- women 11.2% lower
- 2018/19
- women 10.3% lower
- women 10.1% lower
- 2017/18
- women 13.2% lower
- women 14.2% lower
A positive gap means women's average hourly pay is lower than men's across the whole employer; it is not a comparison of pay for the same work. View on the Gender pay gap service
- 2024
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (UNITED LEARNING LTD)
- 2022
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (UNITED LEARNING LTD)
- 2021
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (UNITED LEARNING LTD)
Earlier years (1)
- 2020
- Statement · summary on GOV.UK · group statement (UNITED LEARNING LTD)
Figures the company reported itself to the government's Check payment practices service, Gender pay gap service and Modern slavery statement registry (Open Government Licence v3.0). Only large companies and employers with 250 or more staff have to report, so most companies have nothing here.
Registers and licences
- Registered with the Charity Commission
- 21 Jan 1993
- Income, year to 31 Aug 2025
- £185.2m
- Spending
- £174.4m
The provision of a liberal, practical and general education, which includes religious instruction in the doctrine and duties of Christianity, through the operation of independent schools.
- Licence type and rating
- Worker (A rating)
- Route
- Skilled Worker
On the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, which lists organisations licensed to sponsor workers from overseas.
Listed by HMRC as an importer of goods in 1 of the last 12 months on record, most recently April 2026. Main goods: musical instruments.
From HMRC's monthly lists of importers and exporters. Traders can ask to be left off the lists, so absence does not mean a company does not trade.
Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Care Quality Commission, Home Office and HM Revenue & Customs, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Entries marked ‡ come from lists that do not state a company number and were linked by an exact match on the registered name.
History
3 events- Financial year endedAccounts filed at Companies House
- United Learning Limited registered as a person with significant control
- Company incorporatedPrivate company limited by guarantee
Dates as recorded at Companies House: incorporation, name changes, officer appointments and resignations, current persons with significant control, and the end of each financial year with figures in the database. Former persons with significant control are not listed.