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United Learning Trust

Registered as UNITED LEARNING TRUST. Company number 04439859. 16 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 31 August 2025, filed 24 July 2026.

28days on average to pay

  • Within 30 days
  • 31 to 60 days
  • Over 60 days

In the reporting period from 1 March 2025 to 31 August 2025, United Learning Trust reported that it took an average of 28 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 75% of invoices within 30 days, 18% in 31 to 60 days and 7% after more than 60 days. It said 11% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 58% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 31 August 2024, the average was 30 days, so it is 2 days faster now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 37 Feb 2020 35 Aug 2020 33 Feb 2021 30 Aug 2021 33 Feb 2022 34 Aug 2022 36 Feb 2023 33 Aug 2023 32 Feb 2024 30 Aug 2024 31 Feb 2025 28 Aug 2025

Bars are labelled with the month the period ended. The dashed line marks 30 days.

Every report filed

PeriodFiledAverage daysWithin 30 days31 to 60Over 60Not within termsSource
Mar to Aug 2025 24 Jul 2026 28 75%18%7%11% Report
Sep 2024 to Feb 2025 24 Jul 2026 31 69%21%10%14% Report
Mar to Aug 2024 24 Jul 2026 30 71%21%8%13% Report
Sep 2023 to Feb 2024 7 May 2024 32 66%25%9%16% Report
Mar to Aug 2023 11 Dec 2023 33 65%25%10%17% Report
Sep 2022 to Feb 2023 5 May 2023 36 60%27%13%22% Report
Mar to Aug 2022 4 Jan 2023 34 61%29%10%21% Report
Sep 2021 to Feb 2022 4 Jan 2023 33 62%27%11%20% Report
Mar to Aug 2021 4 Jan 2023 30 71%21%8%15% Report
Sep 2020 to Feb 2021 4 Jan 2023 33 65%24%11%21% Report
Mar to Aug 2020 4 Jan 2023 35 63%24%13%20% Report
Sep 2019 to Feb 2020 4 Jan 2023 37 59%29%12%27% Report
Mar to Aug 2019 1 Oct 2019 38 60%30%10%23% Report
Sep 2018 to Feb 2019 23 Jul 2019 41 52%35%13%25% Report
Mar to Aug 2018 23 Jul 2019 37 58%32%10%22% Report
Sep 2017 to Aug 2018 27 Sep 2018 44 33%56%11%28% Report

Source: the company's filings on Check payment practices. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as filed. We do not change them.