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Our new powers in action: tackling company cloning

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Our new powers in action: tackling company cloning

Read how we used our new powers to remove nearly 1,000 fraudulent restaurant company 'clones' from the register.

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Running a family business

Posted by: Rebecca Pozzi Taubert, Posted on: 16 November 2018 - Categories: Running a company, Starting a company
Family owners of a deli business.

Two thirds of all UK businesses are family owned. Read our guest blog post from The Institute for Family Business (IFB).

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World Diabetes Day

Posted by: Gary Townley - Senior communications manager, Posted on: 14 November 2018 - Categories: Business stories
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14 November 2018 was World Diabetes Day. Find out more about leading charity Diabetes UK and companies limited by guarantee.

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Remembering the fallen

Posted by: Jason Pawlin, Posted on: 9 November 2018 - Categories: Working at Companies House
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We mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.

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Personas: why and how we use them (part 2)

Posted by: Jo Carter, Posted on: 7 November 2018 - Categories: User research
Busy Lizzy user persona design.

Part 2 of Jo Carter's blog, explaining how we've created our user personas.

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Personas: why and how we use them (part 1)

Posted by: Jo Carter, Posted on: 5 November 2018 - Categories: User research
Corporate personas by Rose Innes Designs.

Part 1 from this week's guest blogger, Jo Carter of The Satori Lab. She looks at how our User Research team is using personas to develop new services.

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Why we need diversity and inclusion

Posted by: Jennisa Del Mundo, Posted on: 31 October 2018 - Categories: Working at Companies House
Closing the Gender Data Gap panel.

Communications intern, Jennisa, finds out how the Civil Service is aiming to be the most inclusive employer by 2020.

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Bake your own company success

Posted by: Esme Turner, Posted on: 30 October 2018 - Categories: Starting a company
Company start-up cake ingredients.

It's the final of the Great British Bake Off 2018. Find out what the 4 main ingredients are to start a company.

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Computers… they’re not that scary

Posted by: Gary Townley - Senior communications manager, Posted on: 29 October 2018 - Categories: Digital transformation, Running a company
Pumpkin carved with the Companies House crest, on a leaf floor.

Do you know what cyberphobia or coulrophobia are? We take a look at different types of phobias for the annual festivity of fright.

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Companies House Coaching Network

Posted by: Sarah Wilson, Posted on: 26 October 2018 - Categories: Companies House transformation, Working at Companies House
Collage of our Coaching Network members.

For National Mentoring Day, customer care manager, Sarah, blogs about the celebrated coaching culture within Companies House.

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The power of poetry for diversity and inclusion

Posted by: Kavita Hansla, Posted on: 24 October 2018 - Categories: Working at Companies House

Guest blogger and fast streamer Kavita Hansla, talks about leading the UK government's first independent poetry project and her work at the National Literacy Trust.

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We use our blog to talk about the work we’re doing, offering tips and advice on starting, running and closing a company. We also share the latest developments on the changes to UK company law.

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