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Limited By Guarantee (LBG) Company Formation
Charge for services 25
Service items discount £ 0
Net cost of services 25
Warning
This service includes
- Ready to Trade Company limited by guarantee
- Companies House filing fee paid by us
- Emailed PDF of Certificate of Incorporation
- Emailed PDF of Memorandum & Articles of Association
- Emailed PDF of Share Certificate(s)
- Emailed PDF of Minutes of the first meeting of Directors
- Emailed PDF of Statutory Books
- Free Online Company Manager to Maintain your Companies
- Free Online & Telephone Support for the Life of your Company
- Web authentication code to update Companies House records
- Printed certificates of incorporation /guarantor certificates/memorandum and articles of association
Optional Free Services
- 1 hour consultation with Accountants. Either face-to-face or by skype.
- Optional referral to a payroll bureau
- Optional referral to bookkeeping and accounting bureau
- Introduction to online accounting software with introductory benefits.
Optional extra
- Printed certificates
- Vat Registration
- Registered Office
- Business Telephone
Additional items available at checkout
You can add these items during the order process
Corporate Hijack Protection
Receive an email alert whenever a change is made to your company's details at Companies House.
Certificate of Good Standing with FREE Delivery to UK Address
Certificates of Good Standing are issued by Companies House and take approximately 5 days. Postage to an address in the UK is Free. You will be charged EXTRA for Delivery outside the UK
Confirmation Statement With Formation
You must file a confirmation statement at least once every 12 months. The due date is called the ‘confirmation date’, which falls on the anniversary of company formation or the ‘made up’ date of your last annual return.We will do that for you on time.
Pre-submission Review
Use this service to check your application. We will ensure that you don’t make any costly mistakes that will need to be rectified after your company has been created.
Official Post Forwarding Option
“Opt for our confidential service and have your official post forwarded to you free of any additional charges, instead of having it scanned. This service is only available for delivery to UK destinations. Fixed annual renewal fee of £9+vat per year”
Guaranteed Same Day Service
This service guarantees that your company will be formed on the day you place the order; providing the order is placed on a normal working day before 2.15 pm.
Commercial Mail Forwarded by Post
This service gives you the use of our Central London office as your main address for business correspondence. All the mail we receive will be sent to you using Royal Mail’s 1st Class service. In addition to the annual subscription, we will also charge you a handling fee of 17p per item of post and Royal Mail’s charges.
This service does not include the Registered Office Service, which you should buy separately.
The Annual Renewal fee for this service is £84+vat.
Commercial Mail Scanning Service
This service gives you the use of our Central London office as your main address for business correspondence. We will scan your mail and upload it to ShareFile (a file depository hosted by Citrix) so that you can access it wherever you are. After 1 month, your post will be securely destroyed unless you require a hard copy .Our scanning service is FREE but limited to 100 items per week. Hard copies of your mail can be forwarded to you for a charge of £3.50+vat+cost of the “signed for” post service.
This service does not include the Registered Office Service, which you should buy separately.
The Annual Renewal fee for this service is £54 +vat.
Company seal
A seal is a device for placing a raised image (embossing) on paper. It will show the company name and incorporation number. This is for UK customers only. Overseas customers will be charged postage or courier fees.
Apostille Service
This service generally takes 10 working days to come back from the FCO. Faster options are available please ask for details. The price is for a single document. Postage to an address in the UK is Free. You will be charged EXTRA for Delivery outside the UK
UK Post Box Service
Add our post box service to your order and we will accept all your post and hold it for you to collect. That includes letters, parcels and signed for items such as registered or recorded mail. Unlike the Royal Mail we are able to accept signed for items from ANY courier source. You may collect or have your mail collected on your behalf. A handling fee of 17p per item of post will also be charged.
Limited By Guarantee (LBG) Company Formation
Companies Limited by Guarantee (LBG) are the favoured legal structure of most social enterprises. LBGs are used by charities, clubs, sports clubs, associations, community interest companies (CICs), schools, universities and voluntary organisations. Our service provides you with a limited by guarantee company registered at Companies House.
Please note: We are not able to provide you with a registered charity or Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
Information for Limited By Guarantee (LBG) Company Formation
Limited by Guarantee Companies (LBGs) offer their members several benefits:
- In the event that an organisation gets into financial difficulties, the liability of its members is limited. The limit is the amount members agree to pay when the company is set up, normally £1.The alternative structures of trusts and unincorporated Associations do not offer any protection
- Each member has an equal vote.
- The LBG structure does not allow for the distribution of profits by a dividend. The inability to issue a dividend makes this structure the preferred choice of grant providers.
The name of the company must end with the suffix "Limited" or "Ltd" unless you are upgrading your application to take advantage of The “LTD exemption” provisions
Section 60 of the Companies Acts 2006, states that the name of a company limited by guarantee must end with the words “Limited” or “ Ltd”. However, if the company’s objects (aims) are the promotion or regulation of commerce, art, science, education, religion, charity or any profession and anything incidental or conducive to those objects and any profits or funds will be used for the sole purpose of achieving those aims, the company can be exempted from having the LTD suffix in its name. To take advantage of the LTD exemption, you will need to use the service provided on the “LTD exemption” tab above. As you provide details of the company you will be invited to download the Articles of Association and insert the objects at clause 4.1 and manually enter the subscribers on the memorandum and upload the edited version. The edited Articles of Association will be submitted to Companies House and the exemption granted.
Do not include the word “charity” in your company name.
Charity is a sensitive word and cannot be included in the name of a company. To be able to call yourself a charity you need to be registered with the Charity Commission. To be registered with the Charities Commission, your turnover must be £5000 per year or more. The Charity Commission may accept a start-up that has pledges of £5000 or more.
Corporate Hijack Protection
Receive an email alert whenever a change is made to your company's details at Companies House.
Certificate of Good Standing with FREE delivery to UK Address
Certificates of Good Standing are issued by Companies House and take approximately 5 days. Postage to an address in the UK is Free. You will be charged EXTRA for Delivery outside the UK
PAYE Registration
If you intend to remunerate your employees and directors, you will need to operate a PAYE scheme. Save time by using our PAYE registration service. We are HMRC authorised.
Pre-submission Review
Use this service to check your application. We will ensure that you don’t make any costly mistakes that will need to be rectified after your company has been created.
Official Post Forwarding Option
“Opt for our confidential service and have your official post forwarded to you free of any additional charges, instead of having it scanned. This service is only available for delivery to UK destinations.”
Guaranteed Same Day Service
This service guarantees that your company will be formed on the day you place the order; providing the order is placed on a normal working day before 2.15 pm.
Commercial Mail Forwarded by Post
This service gives you the use of our Central London office as your main address for business correspondence. All the mail we receive will be sent to you using Royal Mail’s 1st Class service. In addition to the annual subscription, we will also charge you a handling fee of 17p per item of post and Royal Mail’s charges. The subscription includes £20 deposit to cover postage and our handling fees. When your deposit reduces to £5, you will be asked to top it up again.
This service does not include the Registered Office Service, which you should buy separately.
The Annual Renewal fee for this service is £72+vat.+deposit
Commercial Mail Scanning Service
This service gives you the use of our Central London office as your main address for business correspondence. We will scan your mail and upload it to ShareFile (a file depository hosted by Citrix) so that you can access it wherever you are. After 1 month, your post will be securely destroyed unless you require a hard copy .Our scanning service is FREE but limited to 100 items per week. Hard copies of your mail can be forwarded to you for a charge of £2.50+vat+cost of the “signed for” post service.
This service does not include the Registered Office Service, which you should buy separately.
The Annual Renewal fee for this service is £48 +vat.
Telephone Answering Services
Option 1 - Receive calls and take messages with Free 0207 number.The charge for each message will be £1.25+vat. A non-refundable deposit of £25+vat is required for this service. The annual fee is £145+vat.
Option 2 – Free 0207 number with call divert to UK telephone number and message taking. The annual fee is £145+vat. The charge for each message will be £1.25+vat and diverted calls will be charged at cost+15%. Requires a further deposit of £100 of which £25+vat is not refundable.
Option 3 - Free 0207 number with call divert to overseas telephone number and message taking. The annual fee is £145+vat. The charge for each message will be £1.25+vat and diverted calls will be charged at cost+15%. Requires a further deposit of £200 of which £25+vat is not refundable.
UK Post Box Service
Add our post box service to your order and we will accept all your post and hold it for you to collect. That includes letters, parcels and signed for items such as registered or recorded mail. Unlike the Royal Mail we are able to accept signed for items from ANY courier source. You may collect or have your mail collected on your behalf. A handling fee of 17p per item of post will also be charged.
Printed Certificates
Order a printed Certificate of Incorporation, Share Certificates and Memorandum and Articles of Association on formal stationery. The Certificate of Incorporation displays the Name of the Company, the Date it was formed and the Registration number; it also bears the official seal. The share certificates display the name of the shareholder, the number of shares held and the date they were acquired. Our service includes free delivery to any UK address.
VAT Registration
As HMRC agents, we can apply for your VAT registration on your behalf. VAT registration is ideal for Business to Business (B2B) trading models and for contractors wishing to take advantage of the FRS scheme. There is no minimum turnover requirement for voluntary registration
Warning: To be a director of a company or a partner in an LLP, you have to give Companies House your name, date of birth and residential address. Companies House will publish this information on their website, which is available for anyone to access. As a consequence your personal information will be available to complete strangers.
The risks are obvious:
- Identity theft: The amount of information that is available on social media and other websites about individuals makes it increasingly easy to steal their identity. Making a name, address and date of birth available on an open website makes it so much easier for fraudsters.
- Physical Risk: If your company operates a Business to Consumer (B2C) model, you can become the focus of a customer’s attention without being aware of the fact. Making your home address publicly available makes you vulnerable.
Director’s service address: Companies House will allow you to provide a service address, and that will be published instead of your personal address. If you do not have an office address that you can use as both Registered Office and Director’s Service address, you should consider using our Registered Office Service. The Director’s service address is provided free of charge.
Order Processing Time.
We cannot guarantee completion of your order in 3 hrs.
Unless you have asked for a pre-submission review, Your completed order will be submitted to Companies House as soon as you place it and they will take from 3- 24 working hours to process your it. The time taken by Companies House to process an order is completely outside our control.Companies House is open between 8.30am to 6 pm (Monday to Friday).
Same Day Service.
If you need your company formed on the day you place your order, we offer a same day service. We charge £23+vat to cover additional fees charged by Companies House. The guarantee is only effective if you place your order before 2.30 p.m. on a working day.
Business Telephone
Quarterly charge £10.00+call charges +vat
We will provide you with your own unique 020 London or regional telephone number. You can display this number on all your stationery and marketing media (such as websites and advertising) All calls will be diverted to your mobile or landline for you to answer
The business telephone number service costs £10.00plus VAT per quarter. Call forwarding will be charged at our supplier's standard rates with a 20% markup. Typically, we will charge just under 4 pence per minute to divert calls to a UK or European line. Please ask us for details for any particular location
Registered Office Service
The discounted reg office price is £15+vat
- Privacy; your address will not appear on the records at Companies House.
- Registered Office for one year; Your address will be Your Company Name, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX
- Free Directors, shareholders and secretary service address for one year.
- Free upload and secure storage of scanned official post (letters from HMRC, Companies House etc.)
- Free maintenance of Statutory Records.
Best Buy Because:
At £39+vat, our annual renewal fee is the lowest of any Central London address provider. Lowest because unlike our competitors we don't ever (not in the first year and not in subsequent years) charge for the following:
- Directors service addresses for one or more directors.
- Service addresses for one or more shareholders.
- Service address for the company secretary
- Scanning your post.
End with "ltd"/"limited"
Using this option your limited by guarantee company name will end with the suffix "LTD" or "Limited".
"ltd" / "limited" exemption
Using this option, you will be exempted from the requirement to end your company name with the "Ltd"/"Limited." suffix. Our Articles of Association have been adapted to meet the legal requirements for exemption.
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Rated 4.8 out of 5 by our customers