New companies in South East
South East saw 1,550 new companies incorporated in the week of 19 October to 25 October 2026, 6% below the year-earlier weekly average (adjusted for companies dissolved since). About 656 of them are expected to trade, judging by what happened to similar companies. Rising this week: Education. Among companies formed in the last 8 weeks, 1,176 already have a website verified as theirs and 178 have registered food premises.
Updated 30 October 2026 · covers Monday 19 October to Sunday 25 October 2026 · next update Monday · RSS · JSON
Of this week's 1,550: 1,303 operating businesses formed at their own or a home address; 33 at a mass-formation or virtual-office address; 213 property or holding companies; 1,030 of the 1,550 checked so far have no website yet.
For accountants, accounts due: 79,495 companies in South East have accounts due in the next three months and are not registered at an accountant's address. They've filed trading accounts before, are current on their confirmation statement and are registered at their own address (11,725 within a month, 12,591 in one to two, 55,179 in two to three); 4,134 more are already overdue but not yet in strike-off. The free Monday email names five of them; the accountancy subscription has them with due date and registered office, in a weekly batch of the ones due about twelve weeks out. Register of 2026-10.
For accountants, companies that may be changing accountant: 1,040 established South East companies moved their registered office away from an accountancy firm's address between 2 October 2026 and 30 October 2026, which can mean they've parted with that firm. The accountancy subscription names them each week, on the Something changed sheet. Counted from the office changes filed at Companies House, against the addresses where accountancy firms are registered.
Ranked by the model this week: A 180 B 312 C 390 D 500 E 168 · 1262 operating businesses. Band A companies went on to trade about 67% of the time on held-out tests of companies formed since the 2024 fee rise, band E about 15%. Followed for three years, 89% of the companies we ranked A were still registered, against 49% of all new companies (why a ranked lead is worth more). Which company is in which band, and how to reach it, is in the paid list; see a real week.
What they do
Primary SIC code of the 1,550 companies incorporated this week. Rising against the previous 12 weeks: Education.
What happens to them
Of the 148,357 companies formed in South East between January 2022 and September 2023 at their own address, 57% were still on the register three years later and 39% had filed trading accounts (UK: 51% and 35%). Most of the rest never traded: they missed their first confirmation statement and were struck off at about seventeen months. The Business Survival Index: every council and constituency compared · how this is measured, why it agrees with the ONS, and why it excludes the roughly 4% of companies whose address the registrar has since removed · CSV.
The 64 councils in South East
The last four complete weeks. Own address leaves out formation agents and virtual offices, whose registrations say where the agent is rather than the business.
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Parliamentary constituencies in South East
AldershotArundel and South DownsAshfordAylesburyBanburyBasingstokeBeaconsfieldBexhill and BattleBicester and WoodstockBognor Regis and LittlehamptonBracknellBrighton Kemptown and PeacehavenBrighton PavilionBuckingham and BletchleyCanterburyChatham and AylesfordChesham and AmershamChichesterCrawleyDartfordDidcot and WantageDorking and HorleyDover and DealEarley and WoodleyEast Grinstead and UckfieldEast HampshireEast SurreyEast ThanetEast Worthing and ShorehamEastbourneEastleighEpsom and EwellEsher and WaltonFareham and WaterloovilleFarnham and BordonFaversham and Mid KentFolkestone and HytheGillingham and RainhamGodalming and AshGosportGraveshamGuildfordHamble ValleyHastings and RyeHavantHenley and ThameHerne Bay and SandwichHorshamHove and PortsladeIsle of Wight EastIsle of Wight WestLewesMaidenheadMaidstone and MallingMid BuckinghamshireMid SussexMilton Keynes CentralMilton Keynes NorthNew Forest EastNew Forest WestNewburyNorth East HampshireNorth West HampshireOxford EastOxford West and AbingdonPortsmouth NorthPortsmouth SouthReading CentralReading West and Mid BerkshireReigateRochester and StroodRomsey and Southampton NorthRunnymede and WeybridgeSevenoaksSittingbourne and SheppeySloughSouthampton ItchenSouthampton TestSpelthorneSurrey HeathSussex WealdTonbridgeTunbridge WellsWeald of KentWinchesterWindsorWitneyWokingWokinghamWorthing WestWycombe
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