Christmas and new year opening times at Companies House

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Same day services

You must apply before 12pm on Tuesday 24 December if you’re using a same day service to:

If you apply after 12pm, we may not process your application until Friday 27 December.

You must file your statement of capital when reducing capital in a company (SH19) and any supporting documents before 11am on Tuesday 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 Friday 27 December.

To use the express dispatch service, you must place your order before 11am on Friday 20 December to meet Royal Mail posting dates.

If you order after 11am, we may not process your order until Friday 27 December.

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.

Telephone: 0303 1234 500

Date	Availability
Tuesday 24 December	Open 8:30am to 2pm
Wednesday 25 December	Closed
Thursday 26 December	Closed
Friday 27 December	Open 8:30am to 6pm
Monday 30 December	Open 8:30am to 6pm
Tuesday 31 December	Open 8:30am to 2pm
Wednesday 1 January	Closed
Thursday 2 January	Open 8:30am to 6pm (Edinburgh office closed)
Friday 3 January	Open 8:30am to 6pm

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.