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Establishing a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) is not simply a matter of entering information into an incorporation form. The appropriate formation route depends upon the organisation you are actually establishing, the people involved, its intended activities, its proposed name, its constitutional requirements and the practical arrangements surrounding the formation.
£119.99+VAT“CLGEssential™” Recommended for 1
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CLG Formation — £119.99 + VAT. Including the £100 Companies House fee · A straightforward professional starting point Flexible CLG Formation Without Artificial Structural Charges |
£159.99+VAT“CLG AddressPro™” Recommended for 2
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CLG AddressPro™ CLG Formation + Registered Office — £159.99 + VAT. Including the £100 Companies House fee · Establish your CLG with its registered office from the outset. Professional Address Infrastructure With Digital Mail Access |
£199.99+VAT“CLG ProtectPro™” Recommended for 3
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CLG ProtectPro™ CLG Formation + Registered Office + Director Service Address — £199.99 + VAT. Including the £100 Companies House fee · Establish your CLG with professional company and director addresses. A Practical Address Solution for Your Organisation and Its Directors |
£299.99+VAT“CLG ContinuityPro™” Recommended for 4
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CLG ContinuityPro™ Formation + Named Company Secretarial Service — £299.99 + VAT. Including the £100 Companies House fee · Continue with a named professional point of contact. Continuing Support Without Automatic Filing Charges |
If you have already decided to establish a Company Limited by Guarantee, you do not need to begin with a broad comparison of every possible company or organisational structure.
Start with the organisation, the people involved and any characteristics that may affect the formation. Coddan can then determine how the requested CLG route should be implemented.
Go to why the CLG route is being used →Explain the organisation in ordinary terms: what it will do, who will be involved, who will become directors or members, how participation is expected to work and what practical outcome you want from the company.
You do not need to design the guarantee, articles, membership machinery or formation process yourself. The organisation provides the facts; Coddan performs the professional translation.
Start with the organisation →The issue may concern the proposed company name, use of the word "Limited", particular objects or articles, unusual participants, membership or governance arrangements, addresses, privacy or another material feature of the proposed organisation.
A particular circumstance does not mean the entire company needs to become complicated. Coddan can identify what the issue actually changes and concentrate the additional professional treatment there.
Go to particular circumstances →You do not need to read every technical section before understanding how the formation journey works. The essential route is to understand the organisation, identify the people and activities, recognise any formation characteristics that matter, bring the position together professionally and then implement the incorporation.
These four packages are not four grades of the same Company Limited by Guarantee formation service. Each starts with professional CLG formation, but the surrounding support changes according to the organisation's practical circumstances.
If you already have an appropriate UK address and can manage the company's administration yourself, additional infrastructure may not be necessary. If the company needs a registered office, director address protection or continuing company-secretarial support, those are different professional jobs and can be selected because the organisation actually needs them.
For an organisation that already knows it wants a CLG, has an appropriate address arrangement available and primarily needs the incorporation professionally prepared, reviewed and submitted.
For a CLG that needs the formation work together with a professional registered office and the practical correspondence infrastructure associated with that address.
For an organisation that needs both a professional registered office for the company and an appropriate public service-address arrangement for its directors.
For an organisation that wants Coddan to remain involved after incorporation as a named professional point of contact for practical company administration and relevant Companies House matters.
Every package starts with CLG incorporation. The difference is the practical infrastructure or continuing professional role that surrounds the formation. The comparison is therefore based on what the organisation needs, not on which package contains the most features.
| Compare by circumstance |
Essential £119.99 + VAT |
Registered Office £159.99 + VAT |
Address Protection £199.99 + VAT |
Secretarial Support £299.99 + VAT |
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| Designed for | A CLG that already has an appropriate address and primarily needs professional incorporation. | A CLG that needs a professional registered office as part of its company infrastructure. | A CLG that needs both company registered-office infrastructure and director public service-address support. | A CLG whose directors want continuing professional company-secretarial support after incorporation. |
| Core professional job | Review, prepare and submit the CLG incorporation within the defined formation scope. | Combine the formation with an appropriate registered-office arrangement. | Combine formation with both company and director address infrastructure. | Establish the CLG and continue as a named professional support point for company administration within scope. |
| Registered office | Use your own appropriate address or add a separate service if required. | Included. | Included. | Included. |
| Director service address | Optional where required. | Optional where required. | Included. | Included. |
| Continuing company-secretarial support | Optional. | Optional. | Optional. | Included within the defined named-service scope. |
| How to recognise the fit | "We already have an appropriate address and just want the CLG formation professionally handled." | "We need the CLG formed and also need a professional registered office from the outset." | "We need both company and director public-address arrangements as part of the setup." | "We want Coddan to remain involved after incorporation as a professional company-secretarial contact." |
| Companies House incorporation fee | £100 included | £100 included | £100 included | £100 included |
Incorporation establishes the Company Limited by Guarantee, but it does not mean that every surrounding corporate, governance, address or compliance service is automatically required.
Coddan can provide additional support where a particular job genuinely arises from the company's circumstances. The services below are not a checklist to purchase. They show the professional capability available around the CLG during different stages of its corporate life.
A CLG may need professional address arrangements or identity-verification support alongside formation. These services can be added where the company's actual circumstances require them.
The company may also need the initial records and governance materials through which its directors and members can administer the CLG after incorporation.
After incorporation, continuing responsibilities arise from the company's actual activities and circumstances. Coddan can support those jobs separately where they become relevant.
A CLG may later need to prove its corporate status, use documents internationally, make material company changes, close voluntarily or recover a company that has been removed from the register.
The first stage is to understand the organisation itself. You describe what you are trying to establish and Coddan uses that information to identify the appropriate formation considerations.
Before considering incorporation details, it is useful to establish what you are actually trying to create. You may be establishing a charity or an organisation with charitable purposes, a club, an association, a membership organisation, a community organisation or another organisation that requires a particular corporate structure.
Simply describe the organisation in ordinary language and explain what you are trying to establish. You do not need to decide the legal structure from technical terminology alone.
There is usually a practical reason why a Company Limited by Guarantee is being considered for an organisation. The reason may relate to the way the organisation is intended to operate, its membership, governance, purpose or the way responsibility is intended to be structured.
Explain what you expect the CLG structure to achieve for the organisation. You do not need to translate that objective into technical company-law terminology.
The organisation may involve several people or organisations, and the way they are expected to participate can differ. Some may be involved in managing the company, some may participate as members, and an organisation may itself be involved in the formation.
Simply tell us who will be involved and what each person or organisation is expected to do. Coddan can then translate those circumstances into the appropriate company roles and formation information.
Describe the activities the organisation is intended to undertake and what it is intended to achieve. You do not need to convert those activities into constitutional wording yourself.
The relationship between the organisation's intended activities and its constitutional framework can matter when determining the appropriate formation route.
From what you tell us, Coddan can consider whether the organisation can proceed through a straightforward CLG formation or whether its purpose means that particular objects, constitutional wording, permissions or a specialist formation route need to be considered.
Once the organisation, its purpose and the people involved are understood, the proposed name and constitutional requirements can be considered without requiring you to diagnose the technical route yourself.
Simply tell Coddan the company name you want to use. You do not need to determine whether the name is legally acceptable or identify every consequence that may arise from it. Coddan can consider whether the proposed name appears capable of proceeding normally or whether something about it requires further consideration.
A proposed company name is not automatically entitled to registration simply because it is the name you want to use. Certain wording can require additional consideration, approval, evidence or a different formation treatment.
This can include sensitive or restricted wording, charitable terminology such as "charity" or "charitable", or circumstances in which an exemption from using "Limited" is being sought.
The organisation's purpose, activities, people and intended governance help determine whether a straightforward constitutional route is appropriate or whether particular constitutional treatment needs to be considered.
You do not need to decide which articles or clauses are legally required. Describe how you expect the organisation to operate and be governed; Coddan determines the appropriate constitutional treatment.
If you say that the organisation needs "bespoke articles", the important question is what needs to be different and why.
"Bespoke" can describe different underlying requirements. You may mean particular objects, different governance arrangements, membership provisions, restrictions, permissions or another departure from a straightforward constitutional arrangement.
The next stage is to understand the practical information and circumstances surrounding the people, formation, address arrangement and privacy outcome.
Once the organisation, its proposed name and constitutional requirements are understood, Coddan needs accurate information about the people and organisations involved in the formation.
You may already have the relevant details for the proposed directors, members, company secretary where applicable, and any other organisation involved in the formation. Simply provide the information requested about those individuals or organisations as accurately as you can.
This information matters because the formation documents and Companies House information need to reflect the company that is actually being established. Errors, omissions or inconsistencies can lead to the formation requiring correction or further attention.
You do not need to determine which details are legally relevant to each company role. Coddan uses the circumstances you provide to determine the appropriate formation treatment and information required.
The aim is not to make you navigate the technical requirements yourself, but to give Coddan a sufficiently accurate picture of the people and organisations involved so that the formation can be prepared correctly.
Most straightforward CLG formations can follow a straightforward route. Not every organisation, however, fits neatly into the same circumstances.
You may already know that something about your proposed formation is unusual, uncertain or different from a typical CLG. Perhaps there is a particular feature of the organisation, its proposed name, its participants, its purpose or its intended arrangements that you are not sure how to deal with.
You do not need to identify the legal category or determine what special procedure applies. Tell us what is different about your circumstances and why it matters to you.
Coddan can then consider whether the formation can proceed normally or whether that particular circumstance needs additional attention before the company is incorporated.
This provides a professional route for circumstances that do not fit neatly into a standardised formation journey without assuming that every unusual detail requires a complicated solution.
An address is required as part of the company's formation, but the appropriate choice depends on your circumstances.
You may already have premises you intend to use, or you may be considering whether your home or another address is suitable. Simply tell us the address arrangement you are proposing and, where relevant, how you expect to use it.
Coddan can consider the proposed arrangement in the context of the company's formation and identify whether it is suitable for the required company function.
There is no need to assume that choosing a particular address automatically means that you need to purchase an address service. If the arrangement you already have is suitable, it may simply be used.
Equally, if your circumstances mean that a different arrangement would be more appropriate, that can be considered before the formation is completed.
The important point at this stage is to establish what address arrangement you actually intend to use and whether it fits the company's formation requirements.
For some Participants, the proposed address raises a straightforward practical concern: "I do not want my home address to appear publicly."
That is a legitimate consideration, but privacy preference and legal necessity are not the same thing.
If you are considering using your home address, Coddan can explain the relevant consequences so that you understand what information may become publicly available as part of the company's formation and ongoing record.
Where you prefer not to use your home address for a particular company function, a different lawful address arrangement may be available. The appropriate choice depends on what you are trying to achieve and the function the address needs to perform.
You therefore do not need to purchase an address service simply because you prefer greater privacy. Nor should a privacy concern be ignored where it is important to you.
The practical objective is to understand the privacy consequence of the address arrangement you are considering and, where necessary, identify an appropriate alternative before the formation is completed.
By this point, the relevant circumstances have been established: what you are creating, why a CLG is being considered, who is involved, what the organisation intends to do, the proposed name, constitutional requirements, practical information, unusual circumstances and address/privacy arrangements.
You provide the facts and circumstances; Coddan determines the appropriate professional formation treatment.
Once the appropriate formation route has been identified, the next stage is to provide the information and instructions needed for Coddan to proceed with that route.
The online order form is a convenient means of supplying information and instructions. It is not an entrance examination requiring you to determine your own legal or formation treatment.
Incorporation changes the organisation's position because the company now legally exists as the corporate entity that has been established through the formation process.
The organisation can now operate on the basis for which it was established, subject to the responsibilities and arrangements that genuinely apply to that company and the way it intends to operate.
What needs attention immediately after incorporation depends on the organisation you have established and how it intends to operate. Further corporate, governance, compliance, address, records, tax or other matters should be considered only where they genuinely arise from those circumstances.
The purpose of this stage is simply to understand what has changed because the company now exists. Whether anything further is required is the separate readiness question addressed next.
This final stage is not another explanation of incorporation responsibilities. It is a readiness check based on the organisation and circumstances established throughout the formation journey.
The question is whether the newly incorporated CLG is ready to operate and be governed appropriately on the basis established during formation, or whether something genuinely remains unresolved.
If the organisation is ready to operate on the basis established during formation, nothing further is presently required and the formation journey is complete.
If something remains unresolved, you can describe the circumstance or outcome you are concerned about. You do not need to diagnose the legal or professional solution before the appropriate next destination can be identified.
A further Coddan service or professional destination should be considered only where the organisation's circumstances create a genuine requirement. The availability of additional support does not itself create a requirement to purchase it.
If nothing further is presently required, the appropriate destination is simply to proceed with the CLG you have established.
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