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Director service address

The published address for a person — a director, secretary or PSC. Without one, their home address goes on the register.

Every director must give Companies House a service address. If they do not give a separate one, their usual residential address is used and published. A service address is per person and per company, so a director of three companies needs it recording against all three.

What this address is, precisely

  • Belongs to the person, not the company
  • Published on the public register
  • One per officer, per company
  • Also applies to secretaries and people with significant control
  • Does not replace the residential address held privately by Companies House

What you get from us

  • Use of our address as the service address for named officers
  • Personal post scanned and notified
  • Officers added or removed as the board changes
  • The change filed for you

How the mail is handled

Post is logged the day it arrives, against a reference rather than a company name, so the log itself does not leak who is at the address. Envelopes stay sealed unless you have given written authority to open and scan them. You get the record, and you can export it.

If something arrives that suggests you need a different address — general business post to a registered office, for instance — we tell you rather than quietly absorbing it.

Address integrity

The number of companies at each address is capped, and we monitor the public register for companies that have used the address without arranging it. That happens more than people expect, and it is the reason a cheap address can become a liability.

Identity is verified before an address is activated, not after payment has cleared.

Questions

Does this hide my home address completely?
It keeps it off the public register going forward. Companies House still holds it, and it remains visible in filings already published — those cannot be unpublished, though a separate application to remove a residential address from historic documents is possible in defined circumstances.
Do I need one for every company I am a director of?
Yes. It is recorded per appointment.

At a glance

Belongs to
The individual director
Published
Yes — public register
Required
Yes, by law
England & Wales Scotland Northern Ireland
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The other three

Enquire

Ask about the director service address

Tell us which jurisdiction you need and how many companies or officers it is for. If a different address would serve you better, we will say so.

Director service address enquiry

Tell us what you are trying to do and we will reply with what is involved. No obligation, and we will say so plainly if what you need is not something we do.

Permanent once registered — it cannot be moved later.
We use what you send to reply to you, and we keep it for as long as we need to. See the privacy notice.

Start with the name.

Run it through the checker — statutory rules first, then the Companies House register — and we will tell you plainly what stands in the way. Nothing to pay to find out.

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