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This guide covers the process to restore a company name to the Register of Companies.

• Updated: 14 May 2025

How to apply for the ECF, a grant available to companies working in the leather, textile, garment, and agro-processing industries.

• Updated: 25 July 2013

How to close down your limited company by getting it struck off the Companies Register

• Overview

  You can close down your limited company by getting it ‘struck off’ the…

• Close down your company

  Before applying to strike off your limited company, you must close it down…

• Apply to strike off

  To apply to strike off your limited company, you must send Companies House…

• Withdraw your application

  You must withdraw your application if your company is no longer eligible…

How to remove your home address, signature, day of your date of birth, or occupation from the public register.

• Updated: 1 February 2026

Find out what you can do with your goods when they are being processed or repaired using outward processing.

• Updated: 18 April 2024

For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.

• Updated: 16 February 2026

How to reclaim bona vacantia after a dissolved company is restored to the register.

• Updated: 28 July 2025

• Updated: 1 January 2012

What you have to do under the Construction Industry Scheme if you're a contractor - registering, filing returns, paying subcontractors and keeping records.

Compulsory and voluntary liquidation, the liquidation process, how liquidation affects company directors and the role of a liquidator