Companies House has developed Protected Online Filing (PROOF), a scheme to help companies protect themselves from this type of fraud. Westcotts offers a comprehensive company secretarial package that will also enable our corporate clients to benefit from PROOF, thus reducing their risk of corporate identity fraud.

The Westcotts Secretarial service is based in a fixed annual fee which includes the Companies House annual return filing.

As soon as you register for this service you will start benefiting from increased corporate identity security and a fixed price company secretarial service.

The service includes:

• Setting up of a secure e-filing base with Companies House under the PROtected Online Filing (PROOF) scheme
• Completion and submission of the company’s confirmation statement
• Completion and submission of forms to appoint or remove directors or the company secretary, as required
• Completion and submission of forms to change the accounting date of the company
• Completion and submission of forms to change the registered office of the company
• Optional use of our address as the company’s registered office address, for the serving of documents etc
• Optional use of our email address as a registered email address for the company with Companies House
• The directors’ optional use of our address as a service address to ensure that their private addresses are not on the public Register
• Completion and submission of forms to Companies House in respect of any changes in shares issued by the company
• Maintaining the statutory register of the company for all matters mentioned above
• Completion and submission of the ‘People with Significant Control’ register required at Companies House

If you would like more information, please speak to your usual Westcotts contact.