Our professional company formation package includes everything necessary for your client to commence trading as a registered company. 

All the documents are presented in a specially designed case so as your client's business progresses, official documents can be kept safely and within easy reach. Tailor made Ltd companies cost only £138 + VAT and ready made companies £135 + VAT. Plc Companies cost £350 + VAT and Scottish Companies cost £200 + VAT

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U.K. Company Formation Services
You can incorporate a company by following our two easy step process below.

 

Step 1 Check for name availability.

To see if your company name is available, just type a company name in the box below and click go 
Search for:

 
(leave out the words limited or PLC) Please note that this search will open a new pop up window with the results

 

Or choose a ready made name from our interactive list

 

Our companies are incorporated in accordance with the 1989 Companies Act and can be readily adapted to suit your individual requirements. Ready made companies can be despatched the same day and single member companies are also available.

The Company package

  • Certificate of Incorporation

  • 7 bound copies of the Memorandum & Articles of Association

  • Combined Company Register (loose leaf or bound)

  • Minutes of the first

  • meeting

  • Minutes of the second meeting

  • Stock transfer forms

  • Renunciation documents

  • Company seal

  • Certificate frame

  • Statutory forms

NOTES FOR GUIDANCE NUMBER 8
EXEMPTION FROM USING THE WORD “LIMITED” IN A COMPANY NAME

USING ‘LIMITED’

Limited companies must normally have the word “limited” (or its Welsh equivalent “cyfyngedig”) as part of their company name. This may be abbreviated to “ltd.” (or “cyf.”). Under Section 30 of the Companies Act 1985 however, some companies, provided that they satisfy certain criteria, do not have to include the word “limited”.

A company which takes advantage of such an exemption will also be exempt from the requirements of the Companies Act 1985 in relation to the publication of its name and it will not have to send lists of members to the Registrar of Companies.

WHAT KIND OF COMPANY CAN BE EXEMPT FROM USING THE WORD “LIMITED” IN ITS NAME?

To be exempt a company must be a private company limited by guarantee; the objects of the company must be the promotion of commerce, art, science, education, religion, charity or any profession;

and

the memorandum or articles of association must say that:

• any profits, or other income, are to be spent in promoting the company’s objects;

• no dividends are to be paid to members;

• if the company is wound up, all the assets are to be transferred to another body which has similar objects, or which promotes a charity.

A company that wishes to be exempt from using the word “limited” in its name must satisfy all of the above conditions. If you are not sure whether your company qualifies you should consult a solicitor.

In addition, a company which was a private company limited by shares on 25 February 1982 may also be exempt, but only if it did not include “limited” in its name because it had a licence under section 19 of the Companies Act 1948 at that date, and it complies with the requirements set out above.

IF MY COMPANY QUALIFIES, HOW DO I CLAIM THE EXEMPTION?

When your company is being formed you must make a statutory declaration on form 30(5)(a) and send it to the Registrar with your incorporation documents. More information about forming companies is available in (CHN1) - “New Companies”.

WHAT IF A COMPANY THAT ALREADY EXISTS WANTS TO CLAIM THE EXEMPTION?

If the company already exists you must pass a special resolution to change the company’s name, so as to omit the word “limited”, and send it to the Registrar of Companies together with a statutory declaration on form 30(5)(c). More information about changing the name of your company is available in (CHN4) “Change of Name”

The forms are available free of charge from Companies House in Cardiff and Edinburgh.

HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?

There is no extra charge for being given exemption to omit the word “limited” from your company name.

If you are claiming the exemption when the company is being formed you only have to pay the standard incorporation fee of £20.

If you are claiming the exemption for a company that already exists you only have to pay the standard change of name fee of £20.

It is important to remember that once you have been granted an exemption you may not alter the memorandum and articles of association in such a way that they no longer satisfy the conditions for exemption.
 
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