UK Company Insolvency Notices (The Gazette)

Built for scheduled overnight runs and daily insolvency alerts. Every night, get the UK companies that went into liquidation or administration, or had a winding-up petition or winding-up order, as published in The Gazette, the UK's official public record. Each notice comes as one clean, flat row: company name, company number, notice type, publication date, the date of the resolution, order or petition, court and case number, who presented a petition, the insolvency practitioners and their firms, the company's address, postcode and local authority area, and a link to the official notice.

Filter by notice type, company name, company number or location. Schedule it for 10pm, turn on onlyNewNotices, and you'll have each day's new insolvencies in your inbox, Slack or CRM before the working day starts.

Company notices only. Personal insolvency (bankruptcies, IVAs, debt relief orders) is never fetched.

What it's for

• Credit control and trade credit: hear the morning after a customer goes into liquidation or administration, or has a winding-up petition presented against it, so you can stop supply and file your claim with the practitioner in time.
• Supplier and counterparty risk: watch a list of company numbers and get a row only when one of them appears in The Gazette.
• Insolvency practitioners, lawyers and asset buyers: a daily feed of new appointments, petitions and orders in your region, with the court, case number and appointed practitioners in every row.
• Debt recovery, lenders and factoring: spot distress early. A winding-up petition usually comes weeks before the order.
• Journalists and researchers: local business failures, or every administration in a month, with the official notice link for each.
• AI agents: one call answers "which companies near Leeds went into liquidation this week?" (see MCP below).

Why it runs overnight

The Gazette's fair-use policy says automated tools must "carry out crawling in non-business hours between 9pm and 7am UK" and comply with its robots.txt and "any crawl delay instructions" (one request every 10 seconds). This actor follows that to the letter:

• Schedule it. In Apify Console go to Schedules → Create, set it to run daily at 22:00 with the timezone Europe/London (cron 0 22 * * *), and pick this actor with your input. A run started during the day doesn't contact The Gazette, charges for no notices, and finishes straight away with a single row (message, nextWindowOpensAt) saying so.
• A nightly run is small. With the default window (today and yesterday) and onlyNewNotices, each night only fetches the notices you haven't had yet.
• Long runs stop safely before 7am, keeping everything they've returned so far.

Input

Field	What it does
publishedWithinDays	Notices published in the last N days, counting today (default 2: today and yesterday; up to 31).
publishedFrom, publishedTo	Or a date range (YYYY-MM-DD), up to 31 days per run.
noticeGroups	winding-up-petition, winding-up-order, resolution, liquidator-appointment, administration, receivership, final-account, meeting-or-decision, notice-to-creditors, dividend, arrangement-or-moratorium, other. Empty for all.
noticeCodes	The Gazette's 4-digit notice codes, e.g. 2450 (petitions to wind up), 2452 (winding-up orders).
companyNames	Company name contains any of these words or phrases.
companyNumbers	Companies House numbers to watch, e.g. 01234567, SC123456.
locations, radiusMiles	Up to 10 postcodes, postcode districts (LS1) or towns, and a radius in miles (default 5).
includeDetails	Read each full notice for the company number, court, case number, practitioners, address and event date (on by default).
includeNoticeText	Add the notice as plain text, up to 4,000 characters.
onlyNewNotices	Skip notices this search returned on earlier runs. Pair it with a schedule.
maxResults	Cap (default 500).

Nightly alert: new liquidations, administrations and petitions (schedule it daily at 22:00 UK time):

{
    "noticeGroups": ["winding-up-petition", "winding-up-order", "resolution", "liquidator-appointment", "administration"],
    "publishedWithinDays": 2,
    "onlyNewNotices": true
}

Watch your customers by company number:

{
    "companyNumbers": ["01234567", "SC123456", "09876543"],
    "publishedWithinDays": 3,
    "onlyNewNotices": true
}

Every winding-up petition within 10 miles of Manchester in the last week:

{
    "noticeGroups": ["winding-up-petition"],
    "locations": ["Manchester"],
    "radiusMiles": 10,
    "publishedWithinDays": 7
}

Send the results where you want them with an integration: email, Slack, Google Sheets, or a webhook into your CRM.

Output

One row per notice:

{
    "noticeId": "5230001",
    "noticeCode": "2454",
    "noticeType": "Appointment of Liquidators",
    "noticeGroup": "liquidator-appointment",
    "companyName": "EXAMPLE TRADING LIMITED",
    "companyNumber": "12345678",
    "otherCompanyNames": [],
    "publishedAt": "2026-10-26T11:05:09.000Z",
    "publicationDate": "2026-10-26",
    "eventDate": "2026-10-15",
    "court": "High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts in Leeds",
    "caseNumber": "000898 of 2026",
    "petitioner": null,
    "practitioners": [
        { "name": "Jane Example", "firm": "Example Recovery LLP", "ipNumber": "12345" },
        { "name": "John Sample", "firm": "Example Recovery LLP", "ipNumber": "23456" }
    ],
    "practitionerNames": ["Jane Example", "John Sample"],
    "practitionerFirms": ["Example Recovery LLP"],
    "address": "Unit 4, Example Park, Leeds, LS1 4AP",
    "postcode": "LS1 4AP",
    "area": "Leeds",
    "latitude": 53.79,
    "longitude": -1.54,
    "summary": "In the High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts in Leeds No 000898 of 2026 EXAMPLE TRADING LIMITED (Company Number 12345678) ...",
    "noticeText": null,
    "noticeUrl": "https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/5230001",
    "source": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: The Gazette (thegazette.co.uk)."
}

Fields a notice doesn't publish are null. With includeDetails off, you get the company name, notice type, dates, location and link only, and a run is much faster (100 notices per request instead of one).

Pricing

$0.003 per notice returned, plus a token $0.00005 per run. 1,000 notices cost about $3. A nightly alert that finds 30 new notices costs about $2.70 a month. Notices your filters drop cost nothing, and a run started outside the overnight window charges for no notices.

Good to know

• Speed. The Gazette allows one request every 10 seconds. A feed request lists 100 notices, and reading a full notice takes one request, so includeDetails returns about 360 notices an hour. Filter by notice type, company or location to keep nightly runs short, or turn includeDetails off for a quick list.
• Company notices only. The actor requests only The Gazette's Corporate Insolvency category, and drops the notice types in it that are about individuals (insolvent partnerships, re-use of a prohibited name). Personal insolvency notices are personal data, which the Open Government Licence doesn't cover.
• Insolvency practitioners appear in their professional role. Use the data lawfully: UK GDPR and PECR still apply to any marketing you do with it.
• petitioner is filled in for winding-up petitions when the petitioner is an organisation (HMRC, a supplier, a landlord company). A petitioner who is a private individual is left out.
• Insolvency practitioners are the office-holders the notice tags with an IP number. Some notices only name them in the text; turn on includeNoticeText to see it.
• The Gazette's location search takes full postcodes, so a town or postcode district is first turned into the postcode nearest its centre with postcodes.io, and the radius is measured from there.
• companyNumbers runs a full-text search on The Gazette for each number, then checks the number on each full notice.
• onlyNewNotices remembers results in a named key-value store in your Apify account (uk-gazette-insolvency-seen), separately for each set of filters. Delete the store to start afresh.
• Notices The Gazette asks crawlers to leave alone (in its robots.txt) are skipped.
• The Gazette covers England and Wales (London Gazette), Scotland (Edinburgh Gazette) and Northern Ireland (Belfast Gazette).

Use it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor (MCP)

AI assistants can call this actor as a tool through Apify's MCP server. Add this server URL to your MCP client and sign in with your Apify account when prompted:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=onibaku/uk-gazette-insolvency

AI agents should run it between 9pm and 7am UK time; at other times it returns nothing.

Data source

The Gazette notice feed and notice pages, fetched under The Gazette's fair-use policy. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Every row's noticeUrl links to the official notice.

This actor isn't affiliated with or endorsed by The Gazette, The National Archives or The Stationery Office (TSO).

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