Guidance

Life of a company: event driven filings

Information about changes that UK companies need to file with Companies House and the rules and requirements on how to submit them.

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This guidance is for directors, secretaries and persons acting as advisers to UK registered companies.

It covers what you need to file when particular changes occur within your company so that Companies House can update the public record and ensure searchers have access to an up-to-date picture of your company.

Published 1 February 2014
Last updated 11 May 2023 + show all updates
  1. Additional information on how members of a company can object to a company being re-registered from public to private has been added.

  2. Updated guidance in accordance with the end of Brexit transition.

  3. Link added to video guidance - how to register a mortgage charge online.

  4. Some guidance removed as duplicated elsewhere on GOV.UK

  5. PROOF content removed as it's duplicated elsewhere on GOV.UK

  6. Update to Welsh guidance

  7. PSC guidance updated.

  8. PSC information updated in the guidance English and Welsh

  9. Welsh guidance added

  10. Update to guidance

  11. Guidance updated and converted to HTML. Welsh guidance removed for updating.

  12. Version 4.1 replaced by version 4.2. Inserted link at the end of chapter 3 part 2 to the registers guidance

  13. New version relating to changes brought in by the The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act.

  14. Guidance updated to version 3.4

  15. Welsh translation added

  16. First published.