About Us…

…at East Yorkshire Wills & Securities

Individuals, businesses and Organisations throughout the Country create hundreds if not thousands of pages of documents on a daily basis which must, for a variety of reasons, be kept and stored for future reference.

H.M.Revenue and Customs require all persons (not just businesses) to keep records for at least 6 years and many regulatory organisations require members to keep records for very much longer.

While most businesses strive to achieve a paperless office it still remains just a dream!

Who are we?

East Yorkshire Wills & Securities was formed in 2001 to provide a 3rd party independent storage facility.

Historical development

Traditional storage system for solicitors’ wills and deeds were generally in manual paper-based systems which were compiled over many decades. Those documents would simply gather dust in a secure room until someone enquired if the document was held by them.

Such systems are flawed because if no one makes an enquiry the chances are that the document will remain in archives indefinitely. What would happen if the client moved home or the firm of solicitors changed name, merged with another firm or moved offices?

Without any proper database, notifying clients is time consuming and costly. To create a digital database requires full compliance registration under the Data Protection Act.

East Yorkshire Wills & Securities was formed initially to provide a service to solicitors wishing to outsource the storage of documents and/or to create a database from their existing paper records, to re-establish and maintain contact with such client base and market their services to those existing clients and to individuals for safe storage of documents such as title deeds, wills, life policies and important documents.