Service addresses
Discussion
StevieBee said:
NDA said:
Do you mean the registered address at Companies House?
Well, that's a good question. I was thinking more the address that goes on the website. But is there any benefit of changing what's registered at Companies House?There are two different things here.
A service address is where you accept legal documentation. Generally your company s registered address. What I ve tended to do in the past is use either my accountants or lawyers.
A serviced office is a different concept. Usually an office you rent on a per desk or per room type basis and they manage the provison of services. I ve used them in the past for start ups to avoid the overheads and hassle associated with renting/setting up our own offices from the outset. Not all serviced office providers allow you to use their address as your company s registered office.
What I ve done in the past to avoid address being visible is:
1) A delivered PO Box - not sure if Royal Mail still offer them, but all mail to my company came in addressed to a PO Box, sorting office then packaged it up and delivered to the underlying address.
2) Used a serviced office, without taking physical space there, as the mailing address. Some providers will let you do that for very little money. They d receive the mail, put it in a pigeon hole, and I d drop by occasionally to collect. Had a fob to get into the building so could do it whenever passing.
Both have the effect of hiding your address from a casual customer, one gives something of an impression that you work from a particular site.
A service address is where you accept legal documentation. Generally your company s registered address. What I ve tended to do in the past is use either my accountants or lawyers.
A serviced office is a different concept. Usually an office you rent on a per desk or per room type basis and they manage the provison of services. I ve used them in the past for start ups to avoid the overheads and hassle associated with renting/setting up our own offices from the outset. Not all serviced office providers allow you to use their address as your company s registered office.
What I ve done in the past to avoid address being visible is:
1) A delivered PO Box - not sure if Royal Mail still offer them, but all mail to my company came in addressed to a PO Box, sorting office then packaged it up and delivered to the underlying address.
2) Used a serviced office, without taking physical space there, as the mailing address. Some providers will let you do that for very little money. They d receive the mail, put it in a pigeon hole, and I d drop by occasionally to collect. Had a fob to get into the building so could do it whenever passing.
Both have the effect of hiding your address from a casual customer, one gives something of an impression that you work from a particular site.
LooneyTunes said:
There are two different things here.
A service address is where you accept legal documentation. Generally your company s registered address. What I ve tended to do in the past is use either my accountants or lawyers.
A serviced office is a different concept. Usually an office you rent on a per desk or per room type basis and they manage the provison of services. I ve used them in the past for start ups to avoid the overheads and hassle associated with renting/setting up our own offices from the outset. Not all serviced office providers allow you to use their address as your company s registered office.
What I ve done in the past to avoid address being visible is:
1) A delivered PO Box - not sure if Royal Mail still offer them, but all mail to my company came in addressed to a PO Box, sorting office then packaged it up and delivered to the underlying address.
2) Used a serviced office, without taking physical space there, as the mailing address. Some providers will let you do that for very little money. They d receive the mail, put it in a pigeon hole, and I d drop by occasionally to collect. Had a fob to get into the building so could do it whenever passing.
Both have the effect of hiding your address from a casual customer, one gives something of an impression that you work from a particular site.
A Royal Mail PO Box (and similar services from other companies) can no longer be used as a registered office address.A service address is where you accept legal documentation. Generally your company s registered address. What I ve tended to do in the past is use either my accountants or lawyers.
A serviced office is a different concept. Usually an office you rent on a per desk or per room type basis and they manage the provison of services. I ve used them in the past for start ups to avoid the overheads and hassle associated with renting/setting up our own offices from the outset. Not all serviced office providers allow you to use their address as your company s registered office.
What I ve done in the past to avoid address being visible is:
1) A delivered PO Box - not sure if Royal Mail still offer them, but all mail to my company came in addressed to a PO Box, sorting office then packaged it up and delivered to the underlying address.
2) Used a serviced office, without taking physical space there, as the mailing address. Some providers will let you do that for very little money. They d receive the mail, put it in a pigeon hole, and I d drop by occasionally to collect. Had a fob to get into the building so could do it whenever passing.
Both have the effect of hiding your address from a casual customer, one gives something of an impression that you work from a particular site.
https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/compa...
Hill92 said:
A Royal Mail PO Box (and similar services from other companies) can no longer be used as a registered office address.
https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/compa...
Not sure they ever could, but nor do I think that s what the OP was after?https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/compa...
StevieBee said:
My business address is my home address which has never been an issue but ramping a few things up in the New Year and thinking that it might be time to use an address more befitting.
You could call your house 'Mobius' or 'Mobius House'... giving my dwelling a name when I was selling to corporates gave me fake respectability for years! I remember the surprise of some marketing chaps from Blue Circle when they arrived to talk about timelapse video and found themselves in a house. I still got the job though 
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