After you have incorporated a company with a company formation agent, there are three sets of documents that you should be provided with.

Incorporation Certificate

When your company is formed it will be issued with an incorporation certificate by Companies House.  This states the company number, the name of the company, the company’s country of registration and the date of incorporation.  Your company number will remain the same until the company is dissolved, but if the company’s name is changed Companies House will issue you with a Certificate of Change of Name.

Memorandum and Articles of Association

When you register a company you will need to supply Memorandum and Articles of Association along with the company formation application form.  The purpose of these documents is to set out the manner in which the company is structured and run.  If a company decides to change these documents then Companies House must be informed, if this is not done there can be criminal and monetary penalties.

Company Register

The company register keeps up to date information about the members, subscribers, directors and company secretaries of your limited company.  It will also contain other documents such as minutes of board meetings, shareholder resolutions and possibly other relevant company documents.. By law you are required to keep the company register up to date.

Wisteria Formations offers these three sets of documents as part of the basic incorporation service.  In addition to this, official hard copies of these documents can be purchased during the application process.  To form your company with Wisteria Formations visit: http://www.wisteriaformations.co.uk/uk_company_registration