Wedding venue companies house panic

[worriedbride]

I am not a business person so don't know what this means.

Should I be worried? Or is everything fine? Am about to pay a significant deposit to this business for services I won't receive for over a year.

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09160867/filing-history

Well, that specific company does not exist any more.
(A Dissolved company is like being dead for a person).

DO NOT pay them any money.

They have already wound up - possibly a new front for the business now. I would look elsewhere.

Look for another venue, it looks like the conpany is in financial difficulties and has applied to be wound down. You will definitely not see your money again, the company will use it to pay off creditors.

I'd flag this as an issue with conpanies house.

Dissolved in April. Find somewhere OP!

Are you certain that the organisation you are dealing with is purporting to be this specific company, amd not something with a similar name, a sole trade or partnership rather than a company, etc?

Ask them which registered company they are, because there's another company which is solvent and trading:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12427929

I would ask for clarification who you are actually paying the money too as that specific company no longer exists.

In all likelihood another company has taken over and it is them you are technically dealing with. This does indicate some uncertainty but hospitality is quite uncertain at the moment.

You absolutely have to be looking at the correct company name, word for word, letter for letter. Companies can be set up with very similar names, and be used for a single purpose, anything from different tax rules to separating profits or costs, like employee benefits or VAT. So you might have Joe Bloggs Building Ltd and Joe Bloggs Building Works Ltd. They are two separate legal entities, even if they are run by the same person.

Looking at the website, they don't publish their CH number, so just ask them to confirm it.

Actually, looks like they operate through this company for weddings:https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11238500/filing-history

That's the one they name in the legal bit on the wedding website anyway!

find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11238500/filing-history

Wait wait there are multiple

Sorry! There are two with similar names for the same place. Is the latest link better??

You need to know the full, accurate, name of the company you are dealing with.

The should state their company number on their website, invoices and other documentation.

You need to look at the registered address and the owners/interested parties and match this up with the people you are dealing with.

If it's the company that has been dissolved, you should not be doing business with them. If the same people have opened a new firm under substantially the same name, then you should also be wary. They have likely done so for (at least slightly) nefarious reasons, like escaping creditors.

From goggling, and looking at their website, they don't appear to state the company details on the website.
This is a legal requirement, but lots of companies don't presumably as they don't know they have to.

If you are at the point of paying money over you presumably have a contract, which should detail exactly who the contracting parties are.

It looks like the property itself is held in one company and the events are run though another company, both with the same directors. This wouldn't be an unusual set up.

It also looks like an original company went bust, looking at the dates likely due to covid. That company did not appear to own a property.
The people associated with that company are not the people associated with the 2 newer companies.

Does wedding insurance cover this sort of thing?

@worriedbride dont touch them with a barge pole!!! book somewhere else. well done you for checking the company on the website.

I live near the venue and know people who work there. I think it was taken over by new owners.

I've been and visited and they told me the same. I think I just brought up the wrong companies house (first link) and the second link is the new owners which looks fine.