Difference Between Registered & Service Office Address

What is a Registered Office (RO) Address?

All companies must have a registered office, which must be situated at a physical location in their country of registration. It can be your business address, the address of your accountant, or any other address you choose. However, it must be an address at which you will be able to deal with all official letters and notices that you receive.

What is the Service Address?

When a company is incorporated, a director must include their residential address and a service address. The service address will be on the public record at Companies House; the residential address will be protected information and is not available to the public (although it is available to some public authorities). Shareholders and secretaries only need to supply one address – a service address.

Other FAQ’s

Here are the FAQ’s

Q. Can a P.O. Box be used for the registered office address?

A. Yes, provided the full physical address including the postcode.

Q. What addresses can be used as a Registered or Serviced Office address?

A. We provide two London-based registered office addresses for limited companies:

• Mitcham Registered Office Address – Access House, office 9103, 141 Morden Road, Mitcham, CR4 4DG
• Chelsea Registered Office Address – Fairbanks Studio (Unit 112) 65-69 Lots Road, Chelsea, London, SW10 0RN

Using this service your company will register at our address and we will forward all your company’s statutory mail. The service is renewable and a reminder will be sent to you via email.

Q. What is statutory mail?

A. Statutory mail includes all government mail: Companies House, HMRC, Government Gateway, etc. If you are interested in a full mail forwarding service where all your items of post get forwarded to you, please contact us on 0800 644 1258 so that we can provide an exact quotation.

A. Many directors, company secretaries, and shareholders only have one address – their residential address – so this is the address they use as their service address at Companies House. This means that their residential address is Visible on the public record at Companies House. By using our Service Address service, directors, company secretaries, and shareholders can keep their residential addresses confidential as our UK addresses will be shown instead of their residential addresses.