Your home shouldn't be on the public register. Use a professional Woolwich, London SE18 service address to keep your personal details private.
When you incorporate a limited company in the UK, the directors' details — including their usual residential address — become part of the public Companies House register if you don't provide a separate service address.
Using a service address is completely legal and widely recommended. It means official correspondence addressed to you as a director is delivered to a professional commercial address, while your home stays off the database that anyone can search online. It also protects you from junk mail, identity-targeting scams and unwanted visitors.
A service address is the address shown on the Companies House register for a director or other company officer, in place of their usual residential address. It keeps your home address off the public register while still meeting your legal filing obligations.
Yes. Companies House accepts any address where documents can be delivered to the director. A professional virtual service address at a real commercial location like ours is perfectly acceptable.
No. The registered office is the statutory address of the company itself, where official company mail is delivered. A service address relates to individual officers (directors, secretaries, PSCs) to protect their home addresses. You can use ours for either or both.
Yes. Sections of the statutory registers require addresses for shareholders and people with significant control (PSCs). Our SE18 address can serve these entries too, keeping personal residential details private.
Learn the full steps in our guide: how to register a limited company with a virtual address.