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THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD: council payments

4 published councils paid THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD £287,246 across 31 payments dated 6 October 2025 to 9 September 2026, as the councils publish them in their spending files.

The largest payer was Sheffield City Council (£279,373).

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
Sheffield City Council28£279,373.146 October 20259 September 2026Data Mill North catalogue
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council1£5,560.0014 October 202514 October 2025Data Mill North catalogue
Leeds City Council1£2,000.0013 February 202613 February 2026Data Mill North catalogue
Rochdale Borough Council1£313.0917 April 202617 April 2026data.gov.uk catalogue, 23 September 2026

Totals by month

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

MonthPaymentsTotal
October 20258£58,978.50
November 20252£10,600.00
December 20253£70,510.50
January 20261£10,000.00
February 20262£22,000.00
March 20263£32,464.84
April 20263£6,560.59
May 20261£2,252.50
June 20262£2,328.30
July 20263£42,541.50
August 20262£4,017.50
September 20261£24,992.00
  • 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)
9 September 2026Sheffield City Council£24,992.00UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - September 2026.xlsx
12 August 2026Sheffield City Council£1,870.00UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - August 2026.xlsx
5 August 2026Sheffield City Council£2,147.50UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - August 2026.xlsx
22 July 2026Sheffield City Council£1,750.00UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - July 2026.xlsx
13 July 2026Sheffield City Council£350.00UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - July 2026.xlsx
8 July 2026Sheffield City Council£40,441.50UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - July 2026.xlsx
5 June 2026Sheffield City Council£2,000.00UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - JUNE 2026.xlsx
1 June 2026Sheffield City Council£328.30UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - JUNE 2026.xlsx
12 May 2026Sheffield City Council£2,252.50UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - May 2026.xlsx
30 April 2026Sheffield City Council£2,247.50UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLSPUBLISHED REPORT - April 2026.xlsx

Top expense types

How the councils label these payments, largest first.

Expense typePaymentsTotal
UNIVERSITIES & MEDICAL SCHOOLS28£279,373.14
Universities & Medical Schools1£5,560.00
Third Party Payments?1£2,000.00
not published1£313.09

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 publishedTHE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD28 payments
Name as publishedUNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD3 payments
Companies House numberRC000667published in the council files
  • 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

  • Sheffield City Council spending files (Data Mill North catalogue) — Sheffield City Council. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/api/action/package_show?id=emd0m
  • Wakefield Metropolitan District Council spending files (Data Mill North catalogue) — Wakefield Metropolitan District Council. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/api/action/package_show?id=e61m0
  • Leeds City Council spending files (Data Mill North catalogue) — Leeds City Council. Payments dated 4 June 2025 to 30 June 2026. https://datamillnorth.org/api/action/package_show?id=2gpp0
  • Rochdale Borough Council spending files (data.gov.uk catalogue) — Rochdale Borough Council. Payments dated 1 October 2025 to 28 August 2026, source date 2026-09-23. https://ckan.publishing.service.gov.uk/api/action/package_show?id=council-spending-over-500
  • Published by Olympus on Oct 21, 2026.
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Sheffield City Council).
  • Sheffield City Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3 (Data Mill North record license_title).
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Wakefield Council).
  • Wakefield Metropolitan District Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3 (Data Mill North record license_title).
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Leeds City Council).
  • Leeds City Council: licence as the catalogue states it: Open Government Licence v3 (Data Mill North record license_title).
  • Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence (Rochdale Borough Council).
  • Rochdale Borough Council: licence as the catalogue states it: UK Open Government Licence (OGL) (data.gov.uk record, license_id uk-ogl; version not stated).

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