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Hi all,
I'm a trustee of a charitable company. We're minded to change our company name to match our operating name.
Our operating name has an apostophe in it - let's call it "The Bo'ness Trust".
Obviously this would be permitted by Companies House.
My question is, does this cause difficulties elsewhere?
Eg, databases seem to hate punctuation; bank accounts may not cope; bank transfers from non-compliant software to those names; etc.
Would we be better calling it The Boness Trust, without apostrophe? It still makes sense as a word like that, but ideally it should still match the genuine operating name, "The Bo'ness Trust" - so we want that if we can be confident we're not causing trouble for ourselves.
Thoughts? Thanks,
eteb3
PS I know the usual advice is that a trading name different from a company name doesn't matter. But charity donors are not like paying customers, and their confidence is affected while the company name is "wrong".
I'm a trustee of a charitable company. We're minded to change our company name to match our operating name.
Our operating name has an apostophe in it - let's call it "The Bo'ness Trust".
Obviously this would be permitted by Companies House.
My question is, does this cause difficulties elsewhere?
Eg, databases seem to hate punctuation; bank accounts may not cope; bank transfers from non-compliant software to those names; etc.
Would we be better calling it The Boness Trust, without apostrophe? It still makes sense as a word like that, but ideally it should still match the genuine operating name, "The Bo'ness Trust" - so we want that if we can be confident we're not causing trouble for ourselves.
Thoughts? Thanks,
eteb3
PS I know the usual advice is that a trading name different from a company name doesn't matter. But charity donors are not like paying customers, and their confidence is affected while the company name is "wrong".
