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Thebigword Group Limited: council payments

One published council paid Thebigword Group Limited £205,575 across 55 payments dated 27 October 2025 to 18 August 2026, as the councils publish them in their spending files.

Data as of Oct 21, 2026 (Olympus publication) · Markdown version

  • Payments as each council publishes them under the Local Government Transparency Code 2015, mapped onto one schema. Amounts, dates and names are not adjusted: councils differ in threshold (over £500, over £250 or all spend), in whether amounts include VAT, and in which date they publish (payment, posting or certification). Redacted payees, usually individuals, are returned as redacted and never named. See GET /v1/uk-council-spending/coverage for the councils, files and months loaded.
  • Suppliers are grouped by a normalised form of the published name (upper case, punctuation removed, LIMITED as LTD, ...). Grouping is not identity: different organisations can share a name, and one organisation can appear under several. A supplier is linked to a company only through a Companies House number a council file publishes.

Totals by council

Each council's payments to this supplier name, from the spending files in that council's catalogue.

CouncilPaymentsTotalFirst paymentLast paymentSource
London Borough of Barnet55£205,574.7427 October 202518 August 2026Barnet open data catalogue

Totals by month

Payments from every council above, by the month of the date each council publishes.

MonthPaymentsTotal
October 20255£65,284.90
November 20251£9,398.49
December 20255£3,892.11
January 20266£55,693.47
February 20263£79.11
March 20266£2,425.02
April 202611£3,005.29
June 20265£52,224.38
July 20265£11,346.40
August 20268£2,225.57
  • Amounts as published: no VAT adjustment and no reconciliation to accounts. Negative amounts are credits.

Recent payments

The 10 latest payments, each with the council file it is read from.

Payment dateCouncilAmountExpense typeSource file (file date)
18 August 2026London Borough of Barnet£115.37Health CareExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
13 August 2026London Borough of Barnet£133.16Health CareExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
13 August 2026London Borough of Barnet-£1.00Health CareExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
13 August 2026London Borough of Barnet£81.49Health CareExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
13 August 2026London Borough of Barnet£54.08Translators and InterpretersExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
13 August 2026London Borough of Barnet£104.70Translators and InterpretersExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
12 August 2026London Borough of Barnet£880.05Social Community Care Supplies & ServicesExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
11 August 2026London Borough of Barnet£857.72Translators and InterpretersExpenditure Report August 2026.csv
29 July 2026London Borough of Barnet£585.27Social Community Care Supplies & ServicesExpenditure Report July 2026.csv
28 July 2026London Borough of Barnet£492.41Social Community Care Supplies & ServicesExpenditure Report July 2026.csv

Top expense types

How the councils label these payments, largest first.

Expense typePaymentsTotal
Social Community Care Supplies & Services29£198,444.69
Health Care12£5,279.76
Translators and Interpreters8£1,469.32
ICT Maintenance and Support3£301.86
Other Services3£79.11

Names and identifiers

The spellings councils publish, and the numbers their files carry or the shared identifier registry links. Payments are grouped by a normalised name, which is not identity.

Name or identifierValueWhere from
Name as publishedThebigword Group Limited55 payments
  • Supplier pages exist only for suppliers paid at least £100,000 in total or by at least 3 councils, and only when the published lines show an organisation (a Companies House or charity number, a legal form such as LTD or PLC, or a public body's name) and the name has no personal title. Sole traders, individuals and payees councils redact get no page.

Sources

  • London Borough of Barnet spending files (Barnet open data catalogue) — London Borough of Barnet. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 28 August 2026. https://open.barnet.gov.uk/api/action/package_show?id=2ywz8
  • Published by Olympus on Oct 21, 2026.
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (London Borough of Barnet).
  • London Borough of Barnet: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3 (Barnet open data record license_title).

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The same figures, with provenance on every value, from the API (free API key, reference).

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Councils that paid this supplier

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