Are you a company director?

There is more to being appointed a company director than accepting the title.

According to Companies House directors formal, statutory duties and responsibilities include:

• filing an annual confirmation statement;
• filing your company annual accounts - even if the company is dormant;
• notifying Companies House of any change in your company’s officers or their personal details;
• notifying any change to your company’s registered office address
• filing details of any allotment of shares;
• dealing with the registration of any charges (mortgage); and
• notifying Companies House of any change in your company’s people with significant control (PSCs) or their personal details.

Additionally, directors need to record minutes of company meetings that impact returns to Companies House and HMRC. For example, when dividends are voted and paid.

Directors should be aware that if you use a sensitive address like your home address as your company’s registered office or single alternative inspection location (SAIL), it will be available to the public. You cannot remove a registered office or SAIL address from the public register, even if it’s your home address.

If you are a director of a registered company, some of your details will be made public. This includes your:

• name
• nationality
• occupation
• month and year of your date of birth

A director must provide two addresses:

• a correspondence address for the public register - known as a ‘service address’; and
• their home address - known as the ‘usual residential address’.

A correspondence address is one you can use to receive communications about the company. This can be the same as the registered office address of the company, or it can be somewhere different.

A residential address is a director’s usual home address. You must tell us your home address, but it will not be available on the public register for everyone to see. It’s kept on a private register.

We will only provide home address information to credit reference agencies and specified public authorities, such as the police. In certain circumstances, you may be able to restrict the disclosure of your home address to credit reference agencies.