Christmas and new year opening times at Companies House

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Same day services

If you’re using a same day service to change a company name online or incorporate a company (software only), apply before:

12pm on Thursday 24 December or we may not process your application until Tuesday 29 December
2pm on Thursday 31 December or we may not process your application until Monday 4 January

You must file your statement of capital when reducing capital in a company (SH19) and any supporting documents before 11am on Thursday 24 December. You must use the upload a document to Companies House service to file your documents.

If we receive your documents after 11am, we may not process your application until Tuesday 29 December.

You must place your order before 11am to use the express dispatch service on:

If you order after 11am we’ll still produce your order, but we cannot guarantee when it will be dispatched.

Companies House online services are available throughout the Christmas and new year period.

You can use our online services to:

You’ll need your company authentication code. Allow plenty of time if you need to request a code as we’ll send it to your company by post.

If you need to file your accounts on paper, you should send them to us well before the deadline and consider using guaranteed next day delivery.

We cannot accept postal delays as a reason to appeal a late filing penalty.