Separated Families (Europe) Ltd was incorporated on 29 June 2010 by incorporation agent, Barbara Z Kahan, who resigned the same day. This is the same Barbara Z Kahan who incorporated Isle of Wight Separated Families three months earlier on 29 March 2010 and resigned the same day. Barbara Kahan was not the real person behind either company - she was an incorporation agent about whom The Times, in 2016, published an article entitled “How can one 84-year-old woman set up 24,000 companies?”

Three months later on 29 June 2010 Barbara Kahan incorporated another company called Separated Families (Europe) Ltd, again resigning the same day.

On 8 July 2010 Nick Woodall and Fiona Hubbard (who was also listed as a director of the Centre for Separated Families) were appointed directors of Separated Families (Europe) Ltd, though Companies House was not informed of this until seven months later on 8 February 2011.

From 30 June 2016 it became a legal requirement for companies to notify Companies House of “people with significant control” in their annual confirmation statements. On 8 July 2017 Companies House registered receipt of a “confirmation statement made on 29 June 2017 with no updates”. It did not provide names of any officers of the company nor of any people with significant control.

On 21 November 2018 Nick Woodall notified Companies House that he was a “person with significant control” from 6 April 2016. He had unlawfully withheld the fact that he had significant control from the confirmation statement he submitted on 29 June 2017, contravening Section 853I of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015. As an accountant, Nick Woodall cannot plead ignorance of this requirement.

Separated Families (Europe) submitted accounts for a dormant company up to 31 March 2014, even though it was trading as “Centre for Separated Families, part of Separated Families (Europe)”.