Virtual Office London - EC1 Address

If all your business owners live in the UK you can apply for our business address today.

All your mail can be scanned and/or posted,

quick online signup in less than 15 mins.

ID is required for all business owners. We require proof of identity and also a seperate proof of address.

From £15 per month or £150 a year (save 20%)

If any of your business owners live outside the UK

you can apply for the INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SERVICE

All your mail can be posted and scanned to you directly to your overseas address.

ID will need to be certified/notarised for all business owners living outside UK.

From £17 per month or £170 a year (save 20%)

Scan only option applies to UK based owner companies only

Mail received at the virtual office in London, is scanned and uploaded into your personal online account 

There are no costs to you - it is included in the monthly or annual fee 

There are some restrictions - please check the terms and conditions so you are aware.

If you have also requested it to be emailed - we can email it to 2 seperate email addresses - in pdf format.

From the dashboard you can download it, then print it, or you can also choose to delete it.

It will be held electronically for 6 months if you have an active account with us, after 6 months it will automatically be deleted.

If you cancel the service, any mail held in your dashboard will be deleted due to data protection.

If you want your mail posted, we ask you to provide us with a mail forwarding address - usually this is your home address.

Proof of address is required for any address used as a forwarding address.

We are really flexible with how your mail can be posted - you get to choose if you want it daily, weekly or monthly.

You can also choose to have it sent by 1st or 2nd class. Overseas customers' mail is sent via airmail.

If you decide to change your mind during your time with us, you can notify us via the online dashboard.

We request an initial £20 deposit that will enable us to forward your post - we charge the deposit account the cost of Royal Mail stamp. 

This usually lasts a year but if you have frequent mail and larger heavier items this deposit may be depleted quicker and you will be notified to top up your deposit account. This is easily done in your online dashboard.

If we receive returned mail from the mail forwarding address on file, we will hold all mail until a new forwarding address and ID is provided.

If you cancel the London virtual office service, any mail received after your renewal date will be returned to sender.

The POST+ service combines the scan only and post only service (as described above).

You will receive a copy of the mail via upload and directly into your email inbox.

You can at that point ask us to shred the item if you are happy just to receive an electronic copy. 

If you want it forwarded you can have it sent as frequently and by whatever class you choose.

The cost of scanning your mail is included in the monthly or annual price, however we will ask for an initial £20 mailing deposit upon sign up.

The deposit may be to be topped up via the online dashboard if it the total gets below £5. 

Upon cancelling the virtual office any scans and mail held in the online account or at our offices will be deleted or returned to sender. 

A virtual office in London offers a prestigious business address for your website and company stationery without the high costs of London rents and overheads. This means no rent, rates, telephone lines, or utility bills to worry about. You can secure a London business address for as little as £12 a month.

Many of our home based clients run their businesses from home but do not wish to provide their home address to clients and suppliers on invoices or be publically available on websites.

International based and equally UK based business may want to open a London office to market to the UK or test their services/products. Before committing to renting offices, using a virtual office will reduce the risks and financial costs

• Limited companies are legally required to register their company at Companies House. They maintain a register of every limited company in the UK.

• A company uses our business address, safe in the knowledge that their personal and private details are private and confidential. We are licenced by HMRC and London Trading Standards, plus registered with the ICO to ensure that you can have confidence in our services

• Company Directors can apply to use the address, rather than have to declare their personal residential address on the publically available company registers. Directors can only use the address for the one company; they can not use it for any other companies of which they may be directors.

• A limited company can also choose to use the virtual address for their customers and suppliers and with banks, so that they have one address for all their business mail. 

• By registering the address at Companies House and HMRC, your official mail arrives at the London address. Mail is forwarded to you by email.

• Sole traders can also apply for our business address services, for use as a contact address on websites and stationery.

• We are unable to sign for large packages or trade deliveries and parcels, all mail sent to the virtual address should be normal general mail.

• We do not accept any package containing dangerous, live or perishable items, plus anything we consider to be unreasonable or unlawful.

• Our London virtual office, is for administrative purposes only, and provides you with a business mailing address only.

• It is unsuitable for holding meetings or as a venue to meet your clients. You cannot collect your mail from our London address.

• The address can not be used to register for VAT - as this is not where your invoices/financial paperwork is kept. The VAT address is where HMRC will turn up to if they want to inspect your company.

• The address can not be used for car registations or driving licences, where we are likely to receive traffic enforcement fines. These will be returned to sender.

I-Support is registered and licenced by HMRC and registered with the appropriate Local London Authority in order to provide mailing addresses.

As part of our licence and Anti-Money Laundering requirements, we are required to know who our clients are, what they are using the address for and where the mail is to be forwarded.

This means that clients will need to provide details of company directors and beneficial owners.

We ask that all business owners provide proof of their identity (driving licence or passport) and proof of their current address (utility bill or bank statement - not more than 3 months old).

UK based clients ID are electronically checked, but, if we are unable to confirm your identity, you are required to provide certified copies.

Non-UK clients need to provide certified/notarised ID, as we are unable to electronically verify your documents and details.

If registered at Companies House, a limited company needs to provide a copy of their certificate of incorporation.

Once we have all the necessary ID, for UK applicants, we carry out online verification checks, which check a number of data sources to confirm your name and the address that has been given, to ensure there is a link.

Once we have verified the ID we can approve your application to use the address.

Please note, that we are required to provide your ID to Police, trading standards etc. if they are investigating your company.

We do not give out your details to any third parties for marketing purposes.

If you have all your ID ready before you start, you can upload it whilst completing the application form, this will ensure that we can quickly deal with your application.

Please note that we can not approve your application until we have the correct ID.