The safest and most secure way to send statutory information to Companies House is to use their online filing services. For more information and registration details please visit www.companieshouse.gov.uk. You may deliver documents to the Registrar by hand (personally or by courier), including outside office hours, bank holidays and weekends to Cardiff, London and Edinburgh.
You may also send documents by post or by the Document Exchange Service (DX). If you send documents, please address them to:
For companies incorporated in England & Wales
Registrar of Companies for England and Wales;
Registration Customer Support
Companies House
Crown Way
Cardiff CF14 3UZ
For companies incorporated in Scotland:
Registrar of Companies for Scotland;
Companies House
4th Floor
Edinburgh Quay 2
139 Fountainbridge
Edinburgh
EH3 9FF
DX: ED235 Edinburgh 1 or
LP – 4 Edinburgh 2
If you are sending documents by post, courier or Document Exchange Service (DX) and would like a receipt, Companies House will provide an acknowledgement if you enclose a copy of your covering letter with a pre-paid addressed return envelope. Companies House will barcode your copy letter with the date of receipt and returns it to you in the envelope provided.
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