Thanks such a smooth and ably chaired meeting of the OSM-UK chapter this evening.
As requested, here is a ‘one-pager’ on Companies Act changes as they relate to members’ addresses (and also the company’s registered office, as an afterthought).
If forum regulars think the doc would be better in this forum post in toto, please just let me know and I’ll move it here.
EDIT: I’ve made a significant change (2024-10-22 Tu; ~1500bytes) after turning up specifics of what secondary legislation is planned under the rather vague s. 120A.
TL;DR companies may no longer be required/allowed to disclose personal information that’s held on their register. (Policy shift from register existing for public consumption to existing for internal and Registrar consumption.)
Might be nice on its own (sub)subpage, but I don’t see a particular reason why it needs to be here in full other than potentially making it ever so slightly easier to look at the versioning.
[pay no attention to the edit, I should be asleep rather than trying to read very clearly worded titles]
I wonder if the “virtual office” solutions some companies offer meet the requirements for being able to sign for stuff. Are they good at notifying you if something has arrived? Do any of them do reduced rates for small orgs?
As long as there’s someone there to sign, that’s ok. Service varies enormously: some are just hotdesk venues with a keycode, afaict. I know Regus near us offers a full service, but ££.
For a charity I’m trustee of, I’ve had warm noises from our local “charity capacity-building charity”, https://www.pcvs.co.uk - though haven’t yet closed a deal. Likewise a community centre were happy to consider £50pa to receive our post and email us if we have any (which is very rare).