Registered office service in Cambridge
Tony Robinson
serice in Cambridge? This generally costs about £50/year and forwards
mail from Companies House and HMRC only. Just like
http://www.companiesmadesimple.com/registered-office-more-info.html but
with a Cambridge address.
I'm aware of the virtual office services that Regus, SJIC, Palladia, MWB
provide, these are all an order of magnitude more expensive (£50/month).
Oh, and if anyone has a spare desk in exchange for Linux/pattern
recognition/signal processing/speech recogniton consultancy then let me
know!
Tony
Tim Ward
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> I'm starting another company. Does anyone know of a Registered Office
> serice in Cambridge?
Who are you hiding from that you don't want to use your real address?
The Natural Philosopher
> "Tony Robinson" <to...@delThisBit.speechmatics.com> wrote in message
> news:874o6ak...@code0.speechmatics.com...
>> I'm starting another company. Does anyone know of a Registered Office
>> serice in Cambridge?
>
>
>
Prentis &c o 115c Milton Road
01223 352024
Tony Robinson
One of my companies is a one-man-band and is registered from home, but
this one is not and it's planned to run out of IdeaSpace/Hauser forum.
This is a qgreat location to meet people (clients and others working
there) but they don't allow use of address as the Registered Office.
Tony
Tony Robinson
Thanks, I've just rung Prentis & co and, quite reasonably, they only
offer this service if they also do your accounts. In year one I plan
zero turnover, so can do the accounts myself. They did offer very
reasonable rates, so I may well end up with them.
I've also just found WKH Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors who
offer this service from Letchworth Garden City and I hope their offices
in Vision Park, Histon.
If I find any more I'll post here.
Tony
Chris Jones
It needn't be hiding, just a simple matter of practicality. Some contacts
will read the registered address on your business stationery and assume
it's OK to use that on things like important invoices. That means that
while you may only be legally required to check mail at a registered
address for a couple of weeks after you change it (IIRC), in practice
people might send things you want to that address for significantly longer
afterwards. However, if you move house, Royal Mail will (again IIRC) only
redirect personally addressed mail, not business correspondence.
Cheers,
Chris
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Mark Goodge
typed:
Also, if you're a tenant, then there is very likely to be a clause in the
tenancy agreement which prohibits you from using the address as a
registered office. And that's partly for the reason you suggest, which is
that the landlords don't want people turning up at the property looking for
XYZ Ltd after you've moved out and other people have moved in.
Another good reason for not using a residential address is that post sent
to a registered address has to be accepted (since that's pretty much the
definition of what a registered address is for - it's the address at which
you can be certain of contacting the company). But if you go on holiday
and, while you're away, someone sends you something which needs to be
signed for, you can't accept it. Using a Registered Office service avoids
that particular catch 22.
In any case, using a Registered Office service is entirely normal, even for
quite large organisations with fully-staffed premises of their own. The
registered office of my employer, for example, is the head office of the
company's accountants rather than our own trading address.
Mark
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Roland Perry
Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Chris Jones <n...@this.address> remarked:
>However, if you move house, Royal Mail will (again IIRC) only redirect
>personally addressed mail, not business correspondence.
RM have a redirect service for businesses too. But it's more expensive
(I expect they are predicting large amounts of mail).
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Jon Green
service address for £40+VAT p.a.
http://www.companiesmadesimple.com/company-services-registered-office.html
-or-
http://bit.ly/aEiqqn if that link breaks over a line.
They also offer a nominee Company Secretary service for £75+VAT p.a. -
handy if you're incorporating a one-man-band.
In fact, I use CMS whenever I'm registering a new company these days;
their service is trouble-free, and usually the least expensive (of the
decent registrars) too. They've a tendency to offer newly-registered
companies stuff like free £75 AdWords vouchers too, which can be handy.
Jon
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Jon Green
I assume you're trolling, but for anyone who genuinely wants to know the
answers:
Disgruntled nutcases. Debt collectors. Ex-spouses. Junk mailers.
Landlords objecting to breach of no-commercial-use clauses in tenancy
contracts. People who think that "Flat 3b" is a strange or
unprofessional thing to have in a Registered Office address.
Jon
Paul Rudin
> The entity calling itself Jon Green wrote:
>>
>> They also offer a nominee Company Secretary service for £75+VAT p.a. -
>> handy if you're incorporating a one-man-band.
>
> That's no longer required since 2009 (under the Companies Act 2006): a
> sole director can now also be the company secretary (and shareholder).
Yeah... you can now be a one man band with just one man :)
Jon Green
>
> The entity calling itself Jon Green wrote:
>>
>> handy if you're incorporating a one-man-band.
>
> sole director can now also be the company secretary (and shareholder).
*grin* Yes, I was going to mention that, but got distracted. However,
it's fair to say that a one-director company will be taken a lot more
seriously by bigger players if it does have a separate CS.
It really depends what you're planning to do with it. If it's an
umbrella company for a single-person consultancy, it probably doesn't
matter that much, but if it's a product-based company that's expected to
grow and play in a bigger sandpit, or seek seed funding, having a London
service address and an accountancy as a nominee CS will play well when
the other parties start doing Due Diligence.
Jon
Tim Ward
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>
> However, it's fair to say that a one-director company will be taken a lot
> more seriously by bigger players if it does have a separate CS.
As the CS is the person most likely to end up in prison for an innocent
mistake in the paperwork I decided that I couldn't impose this burden on
anyone else. I am therefore the CS of my company, with my wife being the
chairman.
Jon Green
> As the CS is the person most likely to end up in prison for an innocent
> mistake in the paperwork I decided that I couldn't impose this burden on
> anyone else.
That's what you pay people for, and why they carry legal liability
insurance to cover them if they're not covered under the company's own.
Roland Perry
2011, Tim Ward <t...@brettward.co.uk> remarked:
>my wife being the chairman.
I'm glad to see you don't have any Chairperson nonsense in your
household :)
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Roland Perry
Tony Robinson
Thanks, but that's where I started from.
I used Simple Formations last time, they were cheap and easy as well.
I guess there's not much in it.
My Adwords vouchers always go unused.
Tony
Chris Jones
> As the CS is the person most likely to end up in prison for an innocent
> mistake in the paperwork I decided that I couldn't impose this burden on
> anyone else.
Really? Our advice from the professionals was that you would have to try
quite hard to get in trouble as a Company Secretary, and that if you did
make an honest mistake, the authorities would usually far rather just get
it sorted out quickly and properly rather than start throwing around the
legal muscle.
This is something of a contrast to directors, where on top of the statutory
obligations to run things properly, a significant number of organisations
dealing with a limited company now seem to want personal guarantees from
directors as well (which defeats the point of being a limited company to
some extent and is why we don't tend to deal with such organisations, but
YMMV).