Registered Office Facility

Registered Office Facility!

If you do not have a suitable address, or if you would prefer not to use your own address, we can provide you with a registered office. We can offer you a choice of locations, including prestigious registered offices within West London, Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Belfast.

It should be noted that any alteration in location of the registered office must be filed with the Registrar of Companies. A 15-day period during which both old and new offices are valid for the service of notices is allowed. Coddan will be pleased to assist you with the filing of Form 278 to notify Companies House about the changes.

	Private Company Limited by Shares
	Company Limited by Guarantee
	Public Limited Company
	Holding Companies Formation
	Property Management Company
	Bearer Shares Companies
	Scottish Companies Formation
	Establish Branch Office
	LLP Limited Liability Partnership
	Republic of Ireland Companies
	Northern Irish Companies
	E-Commerce Business

Important Note:

A UK registered office address provided by Coddan must under no circumstances be used as, or be advertised as, a trading or general correspondence address.

Our registered office facility provides a basic mail-forwarding service that is intended to deal with routine Companies House and Inland Revenue letters.

For more information about the registered office service available from Coddan, please visit the registered office section of our main website.

The registered office address is the statutory address of a company. Each company registered in UK England and Wales (or Scotland if your company is registered there). The registered office address must always be an effective address for delivering of official documents to the company from Companies House, the Inland Revenue, and other legal authorities.

All post which will arrive from these bodies is very important for the company and all correspondence should be dealt with promptly without any delays.

The address must be registered with Companies House under the Companies Acts 1985 and 1989, and it is a requirement of every limited company. If a company changes its registered office address after incorporation, the new address must be notified to Companies House on Form 287.

If you need more information, please check our frequently asked questions.

There are various registers and documents which will normally be kept at the registered office. These have to be available for inspection by Members, creditors, or the general public as appropriate. Refusal of anyone entitled to inspect these documents is an offence.

Register of Directors and Secretaries: Section 288 states that a Register of the Company's Directors and Secretaries must be kept at the company's registered office. This Register cannot be moved unless the registered office is moved.

Location of accounting records: Section 222 allows for accounting records of a company to be kept outside the UK with the provision that a copy of those records must be kept in the UK either at the company's registered office or at some other place which the Directors of the company consider suitable.

If you need more details about the documents that should be kept at the registered office, please visit the registered office section for more details.

Registered Office Address from Coddan:

As we mentioned above, there is a legal requirement that applies to UK companies – from the incorporation and for all the period of existence. Every company incorporated in the UK must have a registered office within England and Wales, or Scotland to which all communications and notices may be addressed. If you do not have your own address in the UK which can be used as a registered address for your company, or you do not want to use your private address for the company’s correspondence, please ask Coddan for its registered office address service. We are offering different locations within England and Wales, and also within Scotland.

If required, Coddan can provide a registered office address for your limited company. We provide a registered office address facility from £75. Our fee includes dealing with the incoming post, sorting it, and forwarding it to you for further handling. If you are located outside the UK, an additional charge of 30£ will be applied to cover our postage expenses for the forwarding of incoming correspondence.

If you would like to order this service from Coddan, please use this link registered office address service.