Please note Companies House guidance can be found on the GOV.UK website. We provide links to the key information below.
Filing for your company or partnership
File your confirmation statement (annual return) or accounts with Companies House
How to file company information – including directors, registered office and shareholders in your AR01 annual return – or file your annual accounts.
Filing limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts at Companies House
How to file annual accounts at Companies House for UK limited liability partnerships (LLPs).
Changes to your company or partnership
Tell Companies House about changes to your limited company
File changes to your company information including directors, shareholders and registered office address, and where your company records are kept.
Make changes to your private limited company
Making changes to your company – passing resolutions, changing addresses and where your records are kept, your company name and type, directors’ and secretaries’ details, share structure, constitution.
Limited liability partnership strike off, dissolution and restoration
How a limited liability partnership (LLP) can be removed from and restored to the Companies House register.
Contact Companies House
Contact Companies House to register your limited company, file returns and accounts.
Company director disqualification
When you can be disqualified from being a director of a company – how the process works, investigations, what happens if you’re banned
Removing your home address from the Companies House register
How to remove your home address from the public register if you’ve used it as a service address, a former registered office address or a shareholder’s address.
Companies House forms
Companies House forms for limited companies
The paper forms that a limited company can file with Companies House.
Companies House forms for limited liability partnerships
Paper forms that a limited liability partnership (LLP) can file with Companies House.
Guidance for running a limited company
Running a limited company
Running a limited company – including directors’ responsibilities, company annual returns, reporting company changes and how to take money out of a limited company.
Life of a company annual requirements
Rules and requirements on filing annual accounts at Companies House for companies registered in the UK.
Life of a company event driven filings
Information about changes that UK companies need to file with Companies House and the rules and requirements on submitting them.
Standard industrial classification of economic activities (SIC)
A condensed list of SIC codes for providing Companies House with a description of your company’s nature of business.
Restoring a company to the Companies House register
How a dissolved company can be restored to the register of companies.
Late filing penalties
Late filing penalties
How a late filing penalty will be imposed if your company or LLP’s accounts are not filed on time, and how to appeal against a penalty.
Partnerships
Set up and run a limited partnership
Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing partners and registering with Companies House.
Set up and run a limited liability partnership (LLP)
Explains your responsibilities, including choosing a name, having a registered address, appointing designated members and registering with Companies House.
Life of a limited liability partnership
Rules and requirements for limited liability partnerships registered in the UK.
Register a limited partnership
What you need to do to register a limited partnership.
Restoring a limited liability partnership to the Companies House register
How a dissolved limited liability partnership (LLP) can be restored to the register of companies.
Striking off or dissolving a limited liability partnership
How a limited liability partnership (LLP) can be removed from the Companies House register.
Verification
When you need to verify your identity for Companies House
When you need to verify depends on your role, and when you started that role.
Verifying your identity for Companies House
You need to prove who you are to set up, run, own or control a company in the UK.
How to meet Companies House identity verification standard
How to meet our identity verification standard when verifying someone’s identity for Companies House.
Being an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP)
Understanding your role as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP), also known as a Companies House authorised agent.
Applying to register as a Companies House authorised agent
How to use our service to register as as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP), also known as a Companies House authorised agent.
