Companies House Fails to Acknowledge Declan's Annual Return for Network for Church Monitoring

Network for Church Monitoring
February 7, 2012

http://network-of-those-abused-by-church.blogspot.com/2012/02/companies-house-fails-to-acknowledge.html

The first time Declan had any dealings with Companies House - the government body charged with registering all companies in the UK, including non-profits - he was told that Network of those Abused by Church was an "offensive company name" (see blog of 17 January 2011 Companies House refuses to register NAC: "Offensive company name"). We have since assumed that the high profile US organisation Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) would be told by Companies House to change their name if they want the company incorporated in the UK.

Now Companies House is not acknowledging Declan's Annual Return, which Declan handed in to the London office on 3 February. This is concerning because whose to say they will not turn around come our deadline next week and say they don't have an Annual Return from us and therefore they are legally entitled to shut us down. What happens then is even more concerning: the company Network for Church Monitoring passes to the Crown because it doesn't have a legal owner, and if Declan wants it back he has to get a court order. It seems to me that this is another neat trick that Companies House can use to take out an organisation the Government doesn't like.