A confirmation statement is an annual statement which provides a snapshot of general information about your company. It contains information about business activities, capital, shareholders and people with significant control. You must file a confirmation statement every 12 months. Your company’s confirmation statement can either be filed at Companies House online or in paper form. This guide will

This quick guide to shareholder rights and shareholding percentages sets out the legal rights of shareholders (such as how much control they have over the company) depending on the percentage of shares that they own. You can use this quick guide to help you decide how many shares to issue to different shareholders when you start your company, and/or whether to issue or transfer shares in future.

This checklist of information to include to ensure your website is legally compliant allows you to quickly and easily check that your sales website complies with the law. It covers all of the legal requirements you must include on your website, including: general business information; privacy and cookies notices (to help you comply with GDPR requirements); product or service information; sales

This guide contains detailed instructions on how to complete every section of a stock transfer form. If your board is being asked to approve a transfer of shares or if one of your company’s shareholders wishes to transfer any of their shares, your board or shareholder will find this a helpful box-by-box guide to how the required Stock Transfer Form should be completed, signed and (where

This step-by-step guide to filling in the UK design registration form explains how to complete the paper application form (Form DF2A) to apply to register a design with the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO). This guide will help you to fill out the application form properly, which should help you to avoid common pitfalls and minimise the risk of delays with your application. Alternatively,

These are template registers, for use by a company. This set of company registers includes a register of members, register of directors, register of secretaries, register of directors’ residential addresses, and a PSC register. Keeping proper company registers is important. You must have an up to date set. Failure to do so is an offence committed by both your company and any officers at fault. The

You can use these board minutes appointing a new secretary as part of your company's internal process. They are for use by companies with the model articles of association. It is very unlikely that you are legally required to have a company secretary, but you can choose to appoint one if you wish, for example if your business is a reasonable size and has a lot of shareholders. The most

Use these board minutes accepting a secretary's resignation as part of your company's internal process if your company secretary resigns from their post. They are for use by companies which have the model articles of association. Your directors should formally accept any resignation by your company secretary. One straightforward way to do this is at a board meeting. Use these minutes to document

This shareholder resolution can be used if you need your shareholders to authorise a director to approve their own service agreement or letter of appointment. Whilst directors’ service agreements or letters of appointment can usually be approved by the board, in some circumstances you will need the involvement of your shareholders. For example, if your articles of association prohibit directors

As your company grows, you are likely to want to appoint new directors to the board. On rare occasions, you may need approval from your shareholders in order to do so. You can use this template for a shareholder written resolution to be circulated to all shareholders eligible to vote; you will need to ensure it has been approved by your board first. To obtain approval from your board, you should

Use these board minutes amending a company's articles of association as part of your company's internal process to approve and adopt the new or amended articles as part of your company's constitution. It is important that you get the approval of your board of directors, but there are further steps to take after this to formally adopt amended articles. Next (for the majority of companies) you must:

Use these minutes during a board meeting to approve a particular contract or agreement and authorise a specified person to sign it on behalf of your company. By using these template minutes to authorise signature of a company document, you make sure the proper process is followed and that all the necessary people agree on who is authorised to sign what documents. Note that it may not be practical

As your company grows, you are likely to want to appoint new directors to the board. If your company has only one director, you can use this sole director resolution to approve the appointment of a new director to the board. This template sole director resolution is suitable for you to use if your company has the model articles of association. If you have a shareholders agreement, and/or your

This template letter explaining why data processing will continue will allow you to produce a letter to be sent in response to a request that you stop using personal data, explaining why you will not comply with the request. There are circumstances in which you can refuse a request to stop using an individual's personal data. If you do not have to stop using the person's data and you intend to

As your company grows, you are likely to want to appoint new directors to the board. On rare occasions, you may need approval from your shareholders in order to do so. You can use this template sole director resolution to approve the circulation of a written resolution to your shareholders to approve the appointment of a new director. After having your sole director sign this written board

Use this template written board resolution if you want to issue shares to some (but not all) of your company's existing shareholders, or to a new shareholder, and you need to disapply pre-emption rights. Pre-emption rights mean that existing shareholders have the right to buy any new shares issued on identical or more favourable terms, in proportion to their existing shareholdings. If you want to

This template letter supplying data to a third party in response to a portability request will allow you to produce a letter to accompany data you are transferring to a third party in response to such a request from an individual. This type of portability request is a request that certain personal data in electronic format is sent directly to another person or business in a commonly used machine

You can use this written board resolution amending a company's articles of association as part of the process of changing your articles. A written resolution may be more convenient than a board meeting as you can pass it simply by having your directors sign it. The approval of your board of directors is important, but it is only the first step in making a change to your company's articles of

Use this template shareholder resolution to authorise directors who hold shares to vote on a dividend. By passing this shareholder resolution, any directors of your company who also hold shares will be authorised to vote at board meetings on the payment of a dividend. You should only use this template if your company has the model articles of association. Without the correct approval from

Use this template for a written board resolution to approve a change of your company's registered office by its directors in writing (rather than at a board meeting). By using this template, you ensure you follow the correct legal process for changing your company's registered office, so the change will be valid. Note you should only use this template if your company has the model articles of