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Registered office address

The company’s own official address. Every company must have one, and it must sit in the jurisdiction it was registered in.

A registered office is where Companies House and HMRC write to the company. It appears on the public register, on the company’s website and on its letterhead, and it cannot be a PO box on its own. Using ours keeps a home address off the record while giving the company a real address that is attended and that we can prove post was received at.

What this address is, precisely

  • Belongs to the company, not to a person
  • Published on the public register
  • Receives Companies House and HMRC statutory post
  • Must be in the jurisdiction of registration
  • Must be an appropriate address where post is acknowledged

What you get from us

  • Use of our address as the company’s registered office
  • Statutory mail from Companies House and HMRC scanned the day it is logged
  • Same-day notification when statutory post arrives
  • A delivery record you can export
  • The change of address filed for you when you join or leave

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

Can I use my home address instead?
Yes, and it costs nothing. The trade-off is that it goes on the public register and stays in the historic record even after you change it.
Can the registered office be in a different country to where I work?
It must be in the jurisdiction of registration — an England & Wales company needs an England & Wales address. Where you actually work is irrelevant to that.
What happens to post that is not statutory?
A registered office is for statutory post. General business post needs a business trading address; we will tell you if what arrives suggests you need one.

At a glance

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

Enquire

Ask about the registered office 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.

Registered office 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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