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World First UK Limited

Registered as WORLD FIRST UK LIMITED. Company number 05022388. 16 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 31 December 2025, filed 9 February 2026.

36days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 1 July 2025 to 31 December 2025, World First UK Limited reported that it took an average of 36 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 61% of invoices within 30 days, 25% in 31 to 60 days and 14% after more than 60 days. It said 3% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 37% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 23 Dec 2018 24 Jun 2019 23 Dec 2019 17 Jun 2020 15 Dec 2020 37 Jun 2021 35 Dec 2021 42 Jun 2022 61 Dec 2022 54 Jun 2023 45 Jun 2024 36 Dec 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
Jul to Dec 2025 9 Feb 2026 36 61%25%14%3% Report
Jan to Jun 2025 31 Jul 2025 n/an/an/an/a Report
Jul to Dec 2024 28 Jan 2025 n/an/an/an/a Report
Jan to Jun 2024 30 Jul 2024 45 47%32%21%1% Report
Jul to Dec 2023 29 Jan 2024 n/an/an/an/a Report
Jan to Jun 2023 25 Jul 2023 54 36%36%28%1% Report
Jul to Dec 2022 31 Jan 2023 61 41%30%29%3% Report
Jan to Jun 2022 28 Jul 2022 42 57%24%19%7% Report
Jul to Dec 2021 21 Jan 2022 35 69%16%15%5% Report
Jan to Jun 2021 29 Jul 2021 37 51%31%18%6% Report
Jul to Dec 2020 29 Jan 2021 15 86%12%2%1% Report
Jan to Jun 2020 23 Jul 2020 17 83%16%1%1% Report
Jul to Dec 2019 28 Jan 2020 23 81%17%2%19% Report
Jan to Jun 2019 29 Jul 2019 24 76%21%3%13% Report
Jul to Dec 2018 30 Jan 2019 23 84%16%0%5% Report
Jan to Jun 2018 30 Jul 2018 28 82%10%8%4% 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.