Yes. The food-hygiene register and Companies House are both free and public, we're not pretending otherwise. The question is what it takes to turn them into a weekly list of new food businesses you can actually sell to. Here's the real answer.
| What you'd get | Free FSA + Companies House | Generic new-company list | OpenedThisWeek |
|---|---|---|---|
| New food businesses only | You filter itSift the whole register yourself | NoEvery new company, all sectors | YesFood venues, already sorted |
| Catches sole traders | Yes (FSA) | NoCompanies House misses them | Yes |
| Matched to Companies House | You match itJoin two datasets by hand | It is CH | Done for you |
| Safe-to-email (PECR) flag | No | No | On every row |
| How fresh | Daily, if you build it | Often monthlyCH bulk can be weeks stale | Weekly, at opening |
| Your effort each week | Scrape, join, filter, check | Filter the export | Open the email |
| Cost | £0 + your time | £29 for 200 raw rows* | £29/month, curated |
*A common new-company list sells 200 unfiltered rows for £29 as a one-off. Ours is the same price, recurring, food-only, and flagged for outreach.
To match what lands in your inbox on a Monday, you'd scrape the food-hygiene register, pull Companies House, join them on name and address, strip out everything that isn't a real new food venue, and work out which ones you can lawfully email. Then do it again next week. If your time is worth anything, that's the most expensive £29 you'll ever save.
Those are Companies House with a coat of paint. They miss every sole trader (a big share of new food businesses), cover every sector so you're still filtering, carry no food-hygiene signal, and give you nothing on who's lawful to email. You're buying raw material and doing the same work again.
Your first weekly pack, free, no card. Judge it against whatever you'd have built yourself.