Latest news from Companies House A round-up of all our latest news and updates. Contacting Companies House We're receiving high volumes of calls and our contact centre lines are very busy. You might hear an engaged tone when you try to call. If you need to contact us, you can email us on enquiries@companieshouse.gov.uk or search for information on gov.uk/companieshouse. Working at Companies House  Members of our executive team tell us why Companies House is special to them. This is the last in a series of features where employees reflect on what makes Companies House a great place to work. Closing your company and applying for voluntary strike off If you're thinking about closing your company, there are certain responsibilities you must consider before applying for voluntary strike off. Find out how to close down your business properly and remove your company from the Companies House register. Help to Grow: Digital Help to Grow: Digital is a new UK-wide scheme to help small and medium size businesses (SMEs) adopt digital technologies that are proven to increase their productivity. The scheme will offer SMEs free and impartial advice on how technology can help their business. An online platform will help them to: - identify their digital technology needs
- assess technology purchasing options
- implement new technologies in their operations
The scheme will also offer eligible SMEs a grant token worth up to £5,000 to cover up to half of the costs of pre-approved, digital technology solutions. File your information online Use our online services to make sure your information is processed as quickly as possible. See a full list of Companies House documents you can file online, and visit our YouTube channel to see our how to videos. We've also developed a service to Upload a document to Companies House instead of sending a paper document by post. Research at Companies House  We're making changes to our confirmation statement filing service. Join our user research panel to have your say about how we develop this service. Government boosts UK resilience against climate change New research to step up the UK's resilience to the impacts of climate change has been made possible by the launch of a new £5 million research programme, Climate Services for a Net Zero Resilient World. The programme is a key step in the government's commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2030. Join the Race to Zero Race to Zero is the UN-backed global campaign rallying companies, cities, regions, financial, educational, and healthcare institutions to take rigorous and immediate action to halve global emissions by 2030 and deliver a healthier, fairer zero carbon world in time. Smaller businesses and organisations are invited to visit the UK Business Climate Hub to make a small business-friendly commitment to reaching net-zero emissions, and to find out more about practical steps they can start taking today. Larger businesses and organisations are invited to join through Business ambition for 1.5°C (led by the Science Based Targets initiative in partnership with the UN Global Compact and the We Mean Business coalition). COVID-19 updates Find out how to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading in your workplace in the latest working safely guidance. COVID-19 support is available to businesses. You may be eligible for loans, tax relief and cash grants, whether your business is open or closed. Use the checker tool to find out what COVID-19 financial support is available for you or see a list of financial support measures for businesses. Update your details We've introduced 2 questions to our subscriber preferences page. Please update your preferences so that we can send you content that's tailored to you. | 
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