UK Company Changes: Strike-offs, Liquidations & Status Feed

Find UK companies heading for liquidation, administration or strike-off, every month. Filter by industry (SIC), postcode or company number.

Every month Companies House publishes the whole UK company register. This Actor compares the months for you and returns only what changed: companies proposed for strike-off, entering liquidation or administration, changing industry code or name, or newly appearing. No scraping, no login, no personal data.

Who uses it

• Credit control and supplier risk: find out when a customer or supplier enters liquidation.
• Insolvency and turnaround professionals: build a monthly list of distressed companies in a sector or area.
• Analysts and researchers: count business births and failures by industry and postcode.
• AI agents: a single reliable "did anything happen to this company?" tool.

What does this Actor do?

Every month Companies House publishes a free snapshot of every company on the register. This Actor compares consecutive snapshots and returns the differences as one record per change, so you do not have to download and diff 5 million rows yourself.

• Status moves: for example Active to "Active - Proposal to Strike off", or to Liquidation.
• Filter by new status, SIC code prefix, postcode area, company number, name text and date range.
• Company-level only: no director, officer or shareholder (PSC) data and no street addresses.
• No scraping and no login: it uses Companies House's official free bulk data.

How to use it

1. Open the Input tab and choose event types (default: status changes).
2. Optionally narrow by new status (for example Liquidation), SIC prefix (62 for IT), or postcode area (EC1).
3. Set Maximum results and run. Results appear in the Output tab and via the API.

Example inputs (copy, paste, run)

Counts are what these return against the data bundled today (August to October 2026).

1. Companies that entered liquidation or administration in the latest month (credit control)

{"eventTypes": ["status_change"], "statusTo": ["Liquidation", "In Administration"], "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "maxResults": 5000}

Returns about 2,470 companies, for example GREENS MOTORS LTD (Active to In Administration).

2. IT companies with a strike-off proposal in the EC postcode area (sector and area screening)

{"eventTypes": ["status_change"], "statusTo": ["Active - Proposal to Strike off"], "sicPrefixes": ["62"], "postcodeAreas": ["EC"], "maxResults": 5000}

Returns about 960 companies across the two months.

3. New restaurant and food-service companies in the latest month (market entry tracking)

{"eventTypes": ["new_company"], "sicPrefixes": ["56"], "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "maxResults": 10000}

Returns about 4,700 newly appearing companies.

4. Watch a list of companies for any change (supplier monitoring)

{"eventTypes": ["status_change", "name_change", "sic_change"], "companyNumbers": ["00076181", "00444860"], "maxResults": 100}

Returns every status, name or industry change for exactly those company numbers.

Run any of these on a schedule (Apify Schedules) and connect the results to email, Slack or a webhook to get a monthly alert.

Input

Field	Meaning
eventTypes	status_change, new_company, name_change, sic_change, accounts_category_change, charges_change, category_change, dissolution_date_set
statusTo	only status changes into these statuses, for example ["Liquidation"]
dateFrom / dateTo	monthly snapshot dates, YYYY-MM-DD
sicPrefixes	SIC codes starting with, for example ["62", "6820"]
postcodeAreas	registered-office postcode prefixes, for example ["EC1", "M"]
companyNumbers	specific company numbers
nameContains	text the company name must contain
maxResults	cap on records returned (you are charged per record returned)

Output example

{
  "snapshotDate": "2026-10-01",
  "previousSnapshotDate": "2026-09-01",
  "eventType": "status_change",
  "companyNumber": "00444860",
  "companyName": "EXAMPLE COMPANY LIMITED",
  "field": "status",
  "oldValue": "Active",
  "newValue": "Liquidation",
  "currentStatus": "Liquidation",
  "category": "Private Limited Company",
  "sicCodes": ["62020 - Information technology consultancy activities"],
  "postTown": "LONDON",
  "postcodeOutward": "EC1V",
  "companyUrl": "https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00444860",
  "source": "Companies House"
}

Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged for each change record returned, plus a tiny start fee. Use maxResults to cap a run. You are never charged for records you do not receive.

Good to know (limits)

• Monthly granularity. Changes are found by comparing monthly snapshots. This is not a real-time feed, and an event shows the snapshot in which it was first seen, not the exact filing date.
• removed_from_snapshot means the company no longer appears on Companies House's live-company snapshot (typically because it has been dissolved). Treat it as a strong signal, not a legal finding.
• Coverage depends on available snapshots; see SUMMARY in the run's key-value store for the snapshot dates included.
• Companies House data is published free of charge at download.companieshouse.gov.uk. This Actor adds the diffing, filtering and API delivery.

Is it legal?

The data comes from Companies House's official free bulk download, which states it imposes no rules on how register information is used and that users are responsible for complying with data protection, copyright and other law. This Actor returns company-level fields only and deliberately excludes officers, PSCs and street addresses. You remain responsible for your own use of the data, including compliance with the UK GDPR if you combine it with personal data.

Disclaimer

Not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by Companies House. Information is provided as is, without warranty, and is not legal, credit or financial advice. Contains public sector information published by Companies House.

Feedback

Found a wrong status, a missing filter, or want another register covered? Open an issue from the Actor page.