UK SIC 2007 · 82911
Activities of collection agencies (SIC code 82911)
Activities of collection agencies is UK SIC code 82911. It sits in division 82 (Office administrative, office support and other business support activities) of the SIC 2007 list. On the August 2026 Companies House register, 728 active UK companies list 82911 among their SIC codes. 517 of them list it first.
Division 82: Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
Without 82990 this division would be small. That code, other business support n.e.c., is what companies in every industry pick when nothing else describes them. So a list built on 82990 alone is noisy. It holds virtual assistants, consultants, agencies and plain misclassifications side by side. The specific codes are much cleaner. Code 82110 covers combined office administrative services. Code 82301 is for exhibition and fair organisers, and 82302 for conference organisers. Code 82920 covers the packaging and fulfilment trade that grew up with online retail.
Who prospects SIC 82911 companies
Work the edges of this division, not the middle. Event organisers under 82301 and 82302 buy venues, AV production, registration platforms, sponsorship sales and event insurance. A new incorporation there often means an events director has gone independent. Packaging and fulfilment companies under 82920 attract machinery suppliers, courier partnerships and warehouse property agents. Treat 82990 with more care. Layer filters on first: incorporation date, location, officer history and website quality. That turns an unusable catch-all into a source of businesses that tidier competitor lists never reach.
Lead generation for lead generation teams →How to read SIC 82911
SIC 82911 is a five-digit code, and the digits are not arbitrary. The first two, 82, are the division, office administrative, office support and other business support activities. Add the third and you have group 829; the fourth narrows it to a class, and the fifth to the subclass, which is the level Companies House actually asks a company to pick. The whole division sits under section N, administrative and support service activities, the broadest tier there is. Reading a code left to right therefore goes from a whole sector down to one activity.
More on how SIC 82911 is built
A company chooses its own codes when it incorporates and can change them on any confirmation statement. It may list up to four, and Companies House does not check whether they are right. That is why 82911 is worth reading as a claim the company made about itself rather than as a verified fact, and why the first-position and any-position counts above differ.
Measured on the August 2026 register, the busiest registered-office post towns for 82911 are London (164), Manchester (28), Birmingham (20), Liverpool (14) and Leeds (14). Those are registered-office locations, which is where the paperwork sits rather than necessarily where the work happens, so treat them as where to start looking rather than as a service area.
Using SIC 82911 as a filter
728 companies is 0.01 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register, and ranks 82911 8th most used of the 8 codes we track in division 82. That is the pool before any filter. Whether it is a big market for you depends on what you sell, but it is the number every other filter on this page cuts down from.
More on filtering by SIC 82911
517 companies put 82911 first and a further 211, 29 per cent, list it in one of their other three SIC slots. That gap is the difference between a tight list and a broad one. First-code-only is the safer filter when you are writing to them; matching any position is worth it when you need the volume.
These companies are spread out. London is the largest single cluster at 23 per cent and the top five post towns together hold only 33 per cent, so the remaining 67 per cent sits across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows this list without gutting it, which makes it a reasonable code to work territory by territory.
In practice the code on its own is rarely the whole filter. Pair 82911 with an incorporation date to catch companies in their first months, when they are still choosing suppliers, or with a filing deadline to reach them while the year end is on their mind. A worked example for this code: 82911, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, which turns a 728 company pool into a list you can write to in an afternoon. Add the poor-website filter if what you sell is a website, or a recent change of officer if you sell to whoever just took the job. Every company you pull carries the Companies House record, the director's name, a verified website and a verified email, and the ones we cannot complete are not charged.
Where SIC 82911 clusters in the UK
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN · COMPANIES HOUSE REGISTER, AUGUST 2026
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How many UK companies use SIC code 82911?
728 active UK companies list 82911 (Activities of collection agencies) among their registered SIC codes. Each company may register up to four. Of those, 517 put it first. The figures come from the August 2026 Companies House register snapshot, and count active companies only.
Is it a problem that my company is registered under 82990?
Not legally. Code 82990 is valid and Companies House never queries the choice. The downside is visibility. Directories, lenders and data platforms cannot tell what you do from a catch-all entry. If a better code exists for your trade, swap it in on your next confirmation statement (CS01). You can hold up to 4 codes, so you can keep 82990 alongside it.
What SIC code should a virtual assistant business use?
Most VAs choose 82110, combined office administrative services. Others use the broader 82990 when the work spans admin, inbox management and social media. Neither needs approval, and you can change the choice on any confirmation statement. If a big share of your work is specialised, such as bookkeeping under 69202, list that code too. A company may declare up to 4.
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