Advanced Payment Guarantee
When you move home, it is standard practice to pay your removal company in advance. You would obviously be concerned therefore that if your chosen remover suffered financial failure before your moving date, you would have lost any payment made and so for that reason, BAR members provide an Advanced Payment Guarantee to their customers. All BAR members are financially vetted and provide the safety net of an APG scheme.
BAR Member companies will provide you with details of the scheme to which they belong, and whether the cover provided is for moves within the UK only or on a Worldwide basis, and so it is important that you ensure your chosen mover provides the appropriate level of cover for the type of move that you are undertaking. The guarantee applies to private individuals moving home to, from or within the United Kingdom and so you can have total confidence in using a BAR Member company for your move.
The Scheme does of course have terms and conditions, and those full terms and conditions can be downloaded here.
For any customer queries under the BAR APG Scheme, please email apgscheme@bar.co.uk.

Feedback from customers of a former BAR Member
Thank goodness for your organisation that has been able to compensate us for some of the extra monies we unfortunately had to pay!!
Many thanks to you and your team.
I am very grateful to the British Association of Removers for recovering at least part of my loss. Thank you for all your efforts.
Many thanks to you all, your hard work is appreciated.
Thank you for your assistance with this matter and getting us some recompense for what can only be described as a very stressful experience.
Once again thank you for your help.
Companies whose Membership has ceased
Member | Membership Ceased | Company Reg No. | BAR Membership No. | Liquidator Details | Comment |
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Hunts International (Removers) Limited | 26/02/2020 | 02969895 | W078 | Adam Peter Jordan & Nickolas Garth Rimes
T: 01527 558 410 |
Company in liquidation |
Scotts of Somerset | 19/11/2019 | 10598214 | S115 | N/A | Membership terminated |
Movecorp Ltd | 11/10/2019 | 8079467 | M097 | Brooke Overton-Yorke
T: 0207 516 2478 |
Company in liquidation |
The Removal Team Ltd | 02/03/2020 | 09331672 | T073 | Michael Chamberlain
T: 0113 242 0808 |
Company in liquidation |
Mr Shifter Removals & Storage | 20/05/2020 | N/A | S009 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
All Moves UK Ltd | 01/07/2020 | 06720415 | A129 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Botrans Removals and Storage | 01/07/2020 | N/A | B120 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Central Moves Ltd | 01/07/2020 | 04154268 | C095 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Dibbens Removals | 01/07/2020 | N/A | D051 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Direct Moves | 01/07/2020 | N/A | D057 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
House 2 Home Removals Ltd | 01/07/2020 | 05688722 | H102 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
George Lambert & Son Ltd | 01/07/2020 | 00821889 | L004 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Kings Removal Services Ltd | 01/07/2020 | 2036062 | K007 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Appleyards of East Yorkshire | 01/07/2020 | 00967750 | A116 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
HN Pack & Storage | 01/07/2020 | 8887313 | H106 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Earls Removals Ltd | 01/07/2020 | 09181052 | E045 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Relocations Direct Ltd | 01/07/2020 | 08919902 | R091 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Bishop’s Move Ltd | 17/07/2020 | 003252 | B001 | Smith and Williamson LLP
T: 0207 131 4000 E: Email: Bishopsmove@smithandwilliamson.com |
Placed into administration |
Reliable Moving & Storage | 22/09/2020 | 7724632 | R086 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
Dolphin Movers Ltd | 06/11/2020 | 03400356 | D052 | N/A | Resigned from Membership |
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