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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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All about accessibility

Posted by: James Francis - Lead Interaction Designer, Posted on: 31 January 2018 - Categories: Digital transformation, User research

Our Senior User Experience (UX) Designer, James, explains the important work we do to make our digital services accessible.

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Plain English... Write less, say more

Posted by: Donna Maksimovic, Posted on: 10 January 2018 - Categories: User research, Working at Companies House
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In government, the way we use words is very important. Find out why we're using plain English to improve our online guidance.

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Delivering a new service: file company accounts

Posted by: Ruth Ryan - Application development, Posted on: 21 December 2017 - Categories: Digital transformation, Running a company

A development team perspective on delivering a new service into private beta.

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Startups UK: Wake Up Gigs

Posted by: Esme Turner, Posted on: 13 December 2017 - Categories: Business stories
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Love live music but struggled to see any gigs since becoming a parent? Wake Up Gigs might just be the game changer you’ve been looking for…

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Nominet: a guide to getting your business online

Posted by: Neil Dagger, Posted on: 24 November 2017 - Categories: Starting a company

Read our guest post from Nominet on the importance of having a website for your company, how to get one and tips for using social media.

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Directors: how much do you know about competition law?

Posted by: Max Malagoni, Posted on: 16 October 2017 - Categories: Running a company
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The Competition and Markets Authority provides a guest post on recognising deceptively illegal business activities and how you can learn about best practices.

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Centenary Companies: Allsopp Bookbinders

Posted by: Jac Bond, Posted on: 3 October 2017 - Categories: Business stories
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...as a limited company on 20 March 1917. The business offers a wide range of professional bookbinding and print finishing services, and they recently published the Festival Guide for BBC...

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Service assessment: paying late filing penalties online

Posted by: Amy Harcombe - Lead product manager, Posted on: 25 September 2017 - Categories: Digital transformation, User research
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...what we do, what documents companies need to file, and the late filing penalty process, before talking specifically about this new service. I then ran through a demonstration of the...

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My work as a user researcher

Posted by: Amanda Hooper - User researcher, Posted on: 1 September 2017 - Categories: User research, Working at Companies House
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...available on GOV.UK. I work closely with our user experience team, product manager and scrum team; and I play a key role in representing user research at GDS assessments. I...

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Successfully register a company with Companies House

Posted by: Neil Butler, Posted on: 21 August 2017 - Categories: Starting a company
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Read our guide to avoid having your company incorporation application rejected.

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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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