What is a Service Address?
Apart from a company or partnership’s Registered Office Address, its directors, shareholders, secretaries and PSCs (Persons with Significant Control) and LLP members must provide Companies House also with their correspondence address, which is also known as a Service Address.
It will be used for these company officers and members to receive statutory mail and legal documents from official UK government agencies, including Companies House and HMRC.
Such a Service Address may be the same as the Registered Office Address, or it may be different. If the Service Address is different then it does not need to be located in the United Kingdom.
A Service Address can be a residential or commercial address, but cannot be a PO Box number. Like a Registered Office Address, a Service Address will always appear on the public register at Companies House.
When used specifically by a company director, such a service address is often known also as a director’s service address.
Why do I need to provide a Service Address?
It is a legal requirement for all UK companies to have a Service Address on record for each company officer, member and PSC. The service address must be provided when incorporating a company, and it can be changed afterwards.
Please be aware that those individuals must also provide Companies House with their actual private residential addresses. Unlike the service address, this will remain confidential and will not be available on public record.
Service Addresses must be used for as long as the company officer or member remains in their role. If you move or change your registered office address, you must still have a Service Address.
A service address is an important part of a company or LLP’s public record. This means that the service address must be kept up to date at all times.
If you want to protect the privacy of home addresses of your company officers, members and PSCs, then you can buy a Service Address from us. We will then receive all the governmental paper correspondence addressed to your company managers or owners and forward it to you.
What you get:
Please Note:
- This service is renewable on a 12 monthly basis at the prices quoted on this website.
- This service entitles 1 (one) person who is a company officer or member to use the address. If you require the service for more than one person, simply purchase this service for each person. If you wish to use the service for an appointment in multiple companies, it should be purchased for use in each company.
- The Service Address option covers the use of our address only for official government mail. This service cannot be used for general business correspondence, for which you should purchase also our Business Postal Address Service.
- Our address services must not be used to imply that your company has an actual office, business operations or physical presence upon our premises. For example, listing our address on Google Maps as your company location or using it as your trading address for VAT registration is not permitted. Whenever you mention our address, whether online or in print, please clearly state that it is only your company’s Registered Address (or Business Postal Address, if you have purchased that service).
- The forwarding of official government post by scanning and e-mailing is free. Should you wish such post to be forwarded physically then we charge the Royal Mail postal rates plus a 15% handling fee (£1.49 + VAT minimum charge).