Company secretarial,
always compliant.
Statutory filings, PSC registers, and full Companies Act 2006 compliance management — handled professionally so you never miss a deadline.
What Is Company Secretarial?
Company secretarial work covers the administrative and legal compliance obligations that every limited company must fulfil under the Companies Act 2006. This includes maintaining statutory registers, filing documents with Companies House, and ensuring the company's records are accurate and up to date.
These obligations are easy to overlook in the day-to-day running of a business, but the consequences of missing them — from a struck-off company to an inaccurate public register — can be serious. We manage all of this on your behalf.
What We Manage
We file the annual confirmation statement (previously known as the annual return) with Companies House on your behalf, ensuring all information — registered office, directors, shareholders, share capital, and SIC codes — is accurate and up to date. We also maintain your statutory registers throughout the year: the register of directors, register of members, and PSC (Persons with Significant Control) register. These must be kept current and must be available for inspection; we make sure they always are.
When changes occur in your company — a new director is appointed, a shareholder transfers their shares, you change your registered office, or you allot new shares — we prepare and file the necessary forms with Companies House promptly. We also prepare dividend vouchers and board meeting minutes, which are essential documents for validating dividend payments and recording significant decisions. Having these prepared properly at the time of the decision is far preferable to reconstructing them later.
Any correspondence from Companies House is handled through us, so you are never left trying to interpret statutory notices or respond to queries on your own. We track all filing deadlines proactively and remind you of anything that requires your input — keeping your company compliant and its public register accurate throughout the year, without it ever becoming a distraction from running your business.
Why Choose Brathwaite?
Annual confirmation statement (CS01) filed with Companies House on time
PSC (Persons with Significant Control) register maintenance and filing
Director appointment, resignation, and change of details filings
Share allotment, transfer, and restructuring documentation
Registered office address changes and statutory record updates
Board minutes and written resolutions prepared professionally
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a confirmation statement?
The confirmation statement (previously the annual return) is a filing every limited company must make to Companies House at least once every 12 months. It confirms that the information held at Companies House — directors, shareholders, registered office, and SIC codes — is accurate. We file this on your behalf so you never miss the deadline.
Who is a person with significant control (PSC)?
A PSC is any individual who directly or indirectly holds more than 25% of shares or voting rights in a company, or who otherwise has the right to appoint or remove the majority of directors. All companies must maintain a PSC register and file PSC information with Companies House. We ensure this is always up to date.
What are the penalties for late company secretarial filings?
Filing a confirmation statement late does not incur an automatic financial penalty, but persistent failure to file can result in the company being struck off the register. Late accounts filings do attract automatic penalties starting at £150 for companies up to one month late. We ensure all deadlines are met.
Do I need a company secretary?
Since the Companies Act 2006, private limited companies are no longer required to appoint a company secretary. However, the statutory responsibilities that a company secretary would traditionally fulfil — filings, records, shareholder communications — still exist. We handle all of these on your behalf as part of our company secretarial service.