Establish and organise your CLG's corporate governance and Companies House framework. Package price: £349 + VAT., £349.00

Your company name must end with the word 'Limited', or its abbreviation 'Ltd', or the Welsh language equivalents: 'Cyfyngedig', or 'Cyf'.

For example: ABC Limited, ABC Ltd, ABC Cyfyngedig, ABC Cyf.

These words (Limited, Ltd, Cyfyngedig, Cyf) must not occur in any other place within the name of your company.

Exemption from use of 'Limited' or 'LTD' in a company name
If certain requirements are met however, a company limited by guarantee may apply for and be granted an exemption from using 'limited' (or its Welsh equivalent) in its name. The requirements are as follows: -

(a) the objects of the company are to be the promotion of commerce, art, science, education, religion, charity or any profession, and anything incidental or conducive to any of those objects; and

(b) the company's memorandum or articles of association: -

(i) require its profits (if any) or other income to be applied in promoting its objects'

(ii) prohibit the payment of dividends to its members, and

(iii) require all the assets which would otherwise be available to its members generally to be transferred on its winding up either to another body with objects similar to its own or to another body the objects of which are the promotion of charity and anything incidental or conducive thereto (whether or not the body is a member of the company).

If you want to register a company to be exempt from use of 'limited' in your company' name, we will produce a memorandum and articles of association for you which complies with the above requirements, for an additional fee of £50.00.

You can use most symbols present on a standard English keyboard in your company name. The following are all acceptable: -

@ at
# number
£ pound
$ dollar
% percent
* asterisk
+ plus
= equals
< less than
> greater than

Companies House will also consider less common symbols so long as they can be readily produced on the Certificate of Incorporation, and entered in their database.

With electronic (online) companies filing service, we can not register a limited company and use specific accents, signs or punctuations (such as: À, Á, Ä, È, É, Ë, Ï, Ñ, Ó, Ö, Ú, Ü, etc.).

If you need to register a company with specific accents, signs or punctuations you need to apply for paper forms filing service, so we still do that manually. After we receive your payment, we will send you an e-mail containing special forms which you need to print, sign, and return to us.

Once we are in possession of your signed forms, we will initiate the formation process of your private limited company with Companies House (this applies for only paper forms filing service).

Please enter your details in the fields below. All fields are required.

Please provide us with a physical street address: not a post office (PO) box address. If you plan to pay online by credit card, the address that you enter here must match the address associated with your credit card.

As the person making this application, we will contact you should we need to discuss your application or company. We will not communicate with the company officers, or any other parties, unless you specifically request us to do so.

E-mail is the primary means of communication between us, so be sure to enter your e-mail address correctly.

If you do not receive an e-mail from us shortly after you submit your order, please check that your e-mail account is appropriately configured to enable you to receive e-mails from us.

In particular, ensure that your spam filter is not mistakenly filtering our e-mails.

This information is required by virtue of section 2(4) of the Companies Act which provides as follows: -

The memorandum of a company limited by guarantee must also state that each member undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company if it should be wound up while he is a member, or within one year after he ceases to be a member, for payment of the debts and liabilities of the company contracted before he ceases to be a member, and of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up, and for adjustment of the rights of the contributories among themselves, such amount as may be required, not exceeding a specified amount.

The total commitment of the members, taken together, is known as the "guarantee fund"; this fund only comes into existence on a winding up. In practice, this form of vehicle is usually unsuitable for most businesses but is often used, for example, by charities.

There is no limit as to the amount which must be stipulated as the member's maximum contribution. It may, for example, be as little as £10.00 or as much as £1,000,000.

However given the nature of the activities of most companies limited by guarantee (e.g. not for profit concerns such as clubs, management companies for flats and associations of traders for trade protection or information exchange) it is likely to be a relatively small amount such as, say £10.00.

The standard membership contribution on formation is £10.00.

It cannot distribute its profits to its members, and is therefore eligible to apply for charitable status if necessary.

You should bear in mind that the amount which you stipulate as the maximum contribution by members in the event of a winding up cannot be increased after the company is incorporated.

The company may be registered with membership contribution that is greater than the amount it needs as initial contribution.

When applying for the alternative membership contribution for your company, please make sure that the value per membership contribution is not less than £1.00.

If you desire to have value per membership contribution less then £1.00 (for example 10p or 1p) you will need to apply for the paper filing for your company at additional charge.

Please contact us for more details: info@coddan.co.uk.

Prestige and privacy for your business, protect your personal details.
No rental contract restrictions.
You will have the permission to list our address for your company or an LLP with Companies House & HMRC, Courts and Intellectual Property Office.
Handling of HMRC, ICO & Companies House incoming post.

This service is particularly useful for small businesses, such as those being run from home or an overseas country, who would like the prestigious registered office address to be displayed on the public record. Our registered office address service charged annually; it does not include the forwarding of general business mail or bank statements.
If you require to use registered office address for receiving and/or sending all other types of mail, or use registered address for your banking needs, please apply for the Premium Virtual Business Plan option at the relevant part of this section.
If your company or an LLP is active, you are also required to display the corporate name outside or inside the registered office address so that it is visible in plain sight for any potential clients, visitors, or governing authorities to see should they need to inspect your records.
However, if your business maintains a dormant status, you do not have to display your corporate name.
In addition, if you are a trading company, it is often common for government authorities such as Companies House or HMRC to do surprise inspections, or to investigate the bookkeeping or the VAT records of your company. This will not apply to dormant companies, as they not have traded.
If you require having your registered office address as the trading address and want to use it for the further inspections by a third party or by government authorities, please apply for this service at Premium Virtual Business Plan.
If someone comes to our office to inspect your company records, we will need to aid this person in their duties, which can take a few hours at a time.

Important

In the case if you only need to have a registered office address for public records, & you will keep your company' registers, accountancy and VAT records elsewhere within England or Wales, please provide us the details of your own SAIL (single alternative inspection location) address, and we will not charge you an additional fee. The provision of a registered office address is fully in compliance with the Companies Act 2006 and the Companies (Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2008.

Explanation: About maintenance fees for the provision of the registered office address

We are able to offer several locations for the Registered Office address in London for Company Registration within England and Wales. The first year's fee for the provision of the registered office address in London (EC3R) is included in this package. The next year renewal fee will be £45.00 + VAT.  Should you wish to use alternative address, you can upgrade to address in London West End or London Strand at additional fee of £35.00 + VAT, and the renewal fees for these alternative addresses will be £80.00.
Annual fee for the provision of the renewal of registered office address be due by the anniversary date of your company registration. Please keep an eye out for our reminders.

Prestige and privacy for your business, protect your personal details.
No rental contract restrictions.
You will have the permission to list our address for your company or an LLP with Companies House & HMRC, Courts and Intellectual Property Office.
Handling of HMRC & Companies House incoming post.

With this plan you will get virtual business address, registered office address, director/member service address, options to forward, scan or collect your postage, official and businesses mail forwarding to your address, received your parcels or post at our address signed for. Your company name will be displayed at monitor at public space at our office.
To upgrade from the standard plan to virtual business plus option will cost you extra £130.00 for the first year. Second year of using our address for your business costs £199.99p

Prestige and privacy for your business, protect your personal details.
No rental contract restrictions.
You will have the permission to list our address for your company or an LLP with Companies House & HMRC, Courts and Intellectual Property Office.
Handling of HMRC & Companies House incoming post.

With this plan you will get virtual business address, registered office address, director/member service address, options to forward, scan or collect your postage, official and businesses mail forwarding to your address, received your parcels or post at our address signed for. Your company name will be displayed at monitor at public space at our office.
You will also get the access to business lounge, 10 hours of free hot desk, and rolling 4 hours free use of the meeting room.
To upgrade from the standard plan to premium virtual business option will cost you extra £310 for the first year. Second year of using our address for your business costs £379.99p.

To comply with The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations (MLR 2017) and The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (MLRs), The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) (High-Risk Countries) Regulations 2021, The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2022 and Proliferation Financing Risk Assessment and guidance, and London Local Authorities Act 2007 the regulations, we are required to identify the people who we provide service for and, therefore, require to obtain copies of the identification documents for each directors/shareholders and beneficial owners of all companies that we undertake to incorporate or companies that are transferred to our administration.

Coddan is required to collect and keep the following documents for each individual director, shareholder and beneficial owner holding 10% and over for each entity we provide services to or instructed to incorporate:

• • Valid proof of ID - Current valid passport bearing the photograph;
• • Valid proof of current proof of address – a recent utility bill or a bank statement or a Local, government issued, ID card – if bears the address details, Correspondence from an official independent source such as a central or local government department or agency.

All documents will need to be provided as certified copies or presented in original to be photocopied in our office.

Documents which originate in a foreign language, or which have been certified in a language other than English, will need to be accompanied by a certified translation, unless the proof of address is a utility bill or a bank statement issued by the recognisable utility service provider or a bank and contain name and address of the individual written in Latin characters, so it can be easily identified.

With the new evolving technologies, we can also offer electronic verification of ID documents via UK AML Compliance software. ID verification can be done within the same day which will allow your order to be processed quicker.

Electronic ID verification is only available for ID document, proof of address will still need to be provided as separate document.

Depending on your nationality and country of residence, we may also request additional documents, if deemed necessary.

Delay in completion of verification process will result in delay of the services you have requested from Coddan.

A certificate of registered office address is a document used to confirm the details of the registered office address of a company. It also confirms the name of the company, registered number, and the date of incorporation.

A certificate of registered office address is often using to prove that a particular company registered at the specified address in the UK.

Companies' formation agent issues such certificates. The beneficiary owner or a company director can produce the certificate, as the evidence of his /her company is legitimate to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official injury.

Your certificate will be printed in an elegant format, sealed and laminated.

With small and medium business in mind, we have specialised in an affordable telephone answering service, equipped to show a proficient picture to clients and providers. We pride ourselves on the level of professionalism portrayed by our trained staffed when it comes to the answering call services, our staff will see to it that your calls are replied to professionally and promptly.

Our team have been individually chosen and prepared to be able to display themselves as a team member, and not to give the feel or look of a call centre, moreover the staff members providing this service are the same staff who answer our own calls.

Key features:
• London or Edinburgh phone number included;
• Calls replied by an individual using your company name:
• Limitless messages and calls (the feature of call forwarding coming soon);
• Messages uploaded to your account and sent by means of email;
• Messages directed to our iPhone and Android App.

How it works:
• Select our telephone answer service through our webpage and create an account.
• Once the account has been generated, signed up you will be sent a London or Edinburgh number typically within a few working hours.
• You may now begin to share your number or begin to utilise call diversion services.
• You will receive a message once any calls have been answered.
• A call and messaging log will be accessible in your account for any future reference.

This address is not visible from public records and can be used as a confirmation for your bank or suppliers.