Reflecting on a landmark year for Companies House
Reflecting on a landmark year for Companies House
Louise Smyth CBE looks back on a transformative year for Companies House, and sets out what's ahead for 2025.
Louise Smyth CBE looks back on a transformative year for Companies House, and sets out what's ahead for 2025.
The way we operate at Companies House is changing. Since 22 September 2022, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill has been making its way through Parliament. The changes set out in the Bill will improve transparency by making more financial information available to the public. This will help tackle economic crime and provide more information for enforcement agencies. As part of this package of reform, we are streamlining the accounts filing options available to small and micro companies.
To reinforce the commitments we’ve made around equality, diversity and inclusion, Companies House is a signatory of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. In doing this we committed to improving racial equality in the workplace. Find out more.
Sarah tells us how her personal experience motivated her to join the Companies House cancer network, offering support and a safe space to connect with colleagues.
Co-chair Leane Whelan explains how important the creation of our Working Families Network was to her during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how it continues to support colleagues.
When it comes to explaining the complex world of money in football few do it better than lecturer, author, podcaster, and media commentator Kieran Maguire. Here he shares some rare insight into how Companies House services help him to do his job.
Our senior equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) manager, Bailjit Gill, explains how, although our EDI strategy may be seen as an ambitious goal, we’re still determined to undertake the journey, recognising its importance to our employee and customer experience.
As part of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill, the government will introduce measures to prevent abuse of personal information held on the Companies House register.
Our engagement manager, Sarah Williams, tells us about the importance of embedding and supporting a health and wellbeing agenda in everything that we do.
Time is running out for overseas entities to comply with the new Register of Overseas Entities requirements. Here's how to speed up the process.
In this blog post, we provide a brief rundown of your separate filing responsibilities with both Companies House and HMRC, and how to balance them between yourself and your accountant.