A U.K. Registered Office & Director Address

Yes — every U.K. company must have one, and it must be a U.K. address where documents can be delivered. It appears on the public register.

A registered office is for official correspondence. For a trading address you can use on marketing, ask us about a business address add-on.

Yes, and it is free — but Companies House publishes it, permanently and searchably. Once it is on the register it also remains in the filing history. Most founders would rather that were not the case.

Yes. The registered office must be a physical address in the same U.K. jurisdiction the company is registered in, and since recent rule changes it must be an "appropriate address" where post is genuinely received and acknowledged.

The registered office belongs to the company; the director service address belongs to you personally. They are separate entries on the register and most founders need both.

Companies House correspondence, HMRC letters — including your Corporation Tax UTR — and any legal notices. The UTR is the one people most often miss, which is why same-day scanning matters.

You can, but a formation-agent address is recognisable to anyone who searches it. If you publish an address to customers, a trading address reads far better.