Companies House has begun proceedings to close down Big Society Network Ltd because it is more than three months late filing its accounts and its directors have ignored reminder letters.

Big Society Network was due to file its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2012 at the end of December and by the end of today these will be three months late.  Its entry on the Companies House Webcheck site has already been changed to ‘Active – Proposal to strike off’.

A Companies House spokesman said a compulsory winding-up order would be issued next week to let the directors know that the company will be closed unless the accounts are filed.  He said this is normally a three to four-month process so technically the directors still have until the end of June or July to get their accounts in and stave off closure.

He said standard reminder letters would have already been sent to the company’s registered office and then individually to its directors at home, who are listed online as Steve Moore, chief executive; Lucy Windmill, director of external relations, and Martyn Rose, co-founder and chair.  None have responded to the reminders, the spokesman said.

The last accounts filed by Big Society Network, for the year ended 31 March 2011, were also filed late, on 10 February 2012.  These abbreviated unaudited accounts showed a deficit of £25,141.

Big Society Network responded this morning with a statement that said: "The accounts are in the process of being filed."

Society Network Foundation, Big Society Network’s associated charity, filed its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2012 on 19 February this year - also late. These showed that the company was dormant during the period.  Since then it has been awarded £199,900 from the government's Social Action Fund.