Event catering activities (SIC code 56210)
Event catering activities is UK SIC code 56210. It sits in division 56 (Food and beverage service activities) of the SIC 2007 list. On the August 2026 Companies House register, 27,860 active UK companies list 56210 among their SIC codes. 18,595 of them list it first.
27,860active UK companies list SIC 56210 among their codes on the public recordCompanies House · counts as of August 2026
SIC 56210 in numbers
27,860 companies is 0.54 per cent of the 5,190,464 active companies on the UK register. 56210 is the 6th most used of the 7 codes we track in division 56.
18,595 put 56210 first and 9,265, 33 per cent, list it in one of their other three slots. First code only gives the tighter list; any position gives more of them.
ACTIVE COMPANIES BY REGISTERED-OFFICE POST TOWN (WHERE THE PAPERWORK SITS, NOT NECESSARILY THE WORK) · COMPANIES HOUSE PUBLIC RECORD, AUGUST 2026
London is the largest cluster at 22 per cent and the top five post towns hold 29 per cent, so the other 71 per cent sit across the rest of the country. A regional filter narrows the list without gutting it.
A worked example: 56210, registered office in London, incorporated in the last ninety days, from a pool of 27,860. Each lead you get arrives with a working website and a real email, and the director's name when the record has one. If we cannot complete one, you pay nothing.
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Division 56 is about serving food and drink to eat now. It is the home of the UK hospitality trade.
Related SIC codes
How to read SIC 56210
SIC 56210 reads as division 56 (food and beverage service activities), group 562, class 5621, then the full five digits, inside section I, accommodation and food service. A company picks its own codes, up to four, and Companies House does not check them, so 56210 is the company's own description of what it does, and 18,595 list it first where 27,860 list it anywhere.
Who sells into division 56
Hospitality churns fast and buys supplies constantly. That makes it one of the most worked sectors on the public record.
About SIC 56210
How many UK companies use SIC code 56210?
27,860 active UK companies list 56210 (Event catering activities) among their registered SIC codes. Each company may register up to four. Of those, 18,595 put it first. The figures come from the August 2026 Companies House register snapshot, and count active companies only.
Is my cafe 56101 or 56102?
The split is purely about alcohol. If the venue holds a premises licence and serves alcohol with meals, use 56101, licensed restaurants. Cafes, coffee shops and restaurants with no alcohol licence use 56102. If you get a licence later, change the code on a confirmation statement. Companies House applies no check.
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