# Corporate directors research more difficult

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/04/22/corporate-directors-research-more-difficult/
- Published: 2003-04-22T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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.

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