Corporate directors research more difficult
Howard Lake | 22 April 2003 | News
Fundraising researchers are going to find it a little more difficult to research business leaders.
The Observer reports that 1,852 British directors of companies have successfully applied to have their home addresses removed from their listing on the Companies House register.
They had applied to the Government under the amended Companies Act on the grounds that their business activities exposed them to the threat of physical assault. Their addresses disappear from the register for five years, after which the decision is reviewed.
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Of course directors can still be reached via their company’s official addresses, but home addresses of directors can prove very useful to prospect researchers seeking to link networks of contacts, or to identify key individuals in a certain geographical location.
Read Attack fears force bosses into hiding by Enda Curran at The Observer.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.