UK Insolvency Monitor (The Gazette)

Track every new UK company failure the day it becomes official. This actor reads the insolvency notices published in The Gazette, the UK government's official public record, and returns each one as a clean row with the Companies House number, registered address and the acting insolvency practitioner. Point it at a watchlist or pull the whole feed, run it on a schedule, and get a Slack digest of only the notices that are new since last time.

No API key. You only pay for notices you actually get back.

Who uses this

• Insolvency practitioners and turnaround firms watching for winding-up petitions to reach directors before the hearing.
• Credit control and risk teams screening customers and suppliers against fresh administrations, liquidations and bankruptcy orders.
• Debt collectors and litigation funders catching petitions early.
• Business and asset buyers looking for distressed companies.
• Data teams who want the Gazette insolvency feed as tidy JSON, keyed on the Companies House number so it joins straight to their own records.

What you get

One record per notice:

Field	Description
category	Notice type in plain words (e.g. "Petitions to Wind Up (Companies)")
subjectName	The company or person the notice concerns
companyNumber	Companies House number, so you can join to your own data
companyName	Registered company name
companyAddress / companyPostcode	Registered address
personName	Named individual, for personal bankruptcy notices
publicationDate	When the notice was gazetted
insolvencyDate	Date of the petition, order or appointment
courtOrHearing	Court or hearing details, where stated
practitionerFirm / practitionerAddress	Acting practitioner or petitioner's firm
edition	London, Edinburgh or Belfast
summary	Plain-text snippet of the notice
noticeUrl	Link to the official notice
isNew	In monitor mode, whether the notice is new since the last run

Notice types you can track

Company winding-up petitions and orders, administrations, voluntary winding-up resolutions, liquidator appointments, notices to creditors, meetings of creditors, final meetings, dividend notices, petition dismissals, personal bankruptcy orders and trustee appointments. Pick any combination.

Input examples

Watch all new company winding-up petitions and administrations from the last week:

{
  "noticeCategories": ["company-winding-up-petitions", "administrations"],
  "sinceDays": 7,
  "maxNotices": 500
}

Scheduled monitor with a Slack alert on new liquidations that mention "construction":

{
  "noticeCategories": ["liquidator-appointments", "resolutions-for-winding-up"],
  "keywords": ["construction"],
  "sinceDays": 2,
  "monitorMode": true,
  "webhookUrl": "https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXX/YYY/ZZZ"
}

Track personal bankruptcy orders for a specific name:

{
  "noticeCategories": ["personal-bankruptcy-orders"],
  "keywords": ["Roberts"],
  "sinceDays": 30
}

How monitor mode works

Turn on monitorMode and schedule the actor (daily is typical). The first run records what is already published as a baseline. Every run after that returns, and charges for, only notices that are new since the previous run, and posts them to your webhook if you set one. That way a daily run costs you a handful of new notices, not the whole feed each time.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription. Users on higher Apify plans get automatic discounts.

Event	Price	When
Run started	$0.005	Flat, once per run
Notice found	$0.005	Per new/matched insolvency notice returned with its data
Digest sent	$0.03	Monitor mode only, per Slack/webhook digest actually posted

A thousand notices costs $5, platform usage included. In monitor mode the persistent seen-set means you are never billed twice for the same notice, so a quiet scheduled run only pays the small run fee.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The Gazette (thegazette.co.uk), the official public record of record for the UK, published by The Stationery Office. These are statutory notices, public by law.

Do I need an account or API key? No. Nothing to set up.

How fresh is it? Notices appear here as soon as they are gazetted, which is the same moment they become the official public record.

Can I get the Companies House number? Yes, whenever the notice names a registered company. That is what makes this easy to join to Pappers, Companies House data or your own CRM.

Does it cover Scotland and Northern Ireland? Yes. The Gazette publishes London, Edinburgh and Belfast editions, and the edition field tells you which.

What about personal insolvency? Bankruptcy orders and trustee appointments are covered, with the individual's name and, where published, address.

Can I search by company name? Yes, use keywords. Leave it empty to get every notice of the types you selected.

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