Register office
Contact details for the Register Office.
Sandwell Register Office,
Highfields, High Street,
West Bromwich B70 8RJ.
Tel: 0121 569 2480 - all appointments and general enquiries
Fax: 0121 569 2473
Email: registrars_westbromwich@sandwell.gov.uk
Map: Find Sandwell Register Office using Google Maps
Opening Hours:
- Monday to Thursday: 8.30am - 4.30pm
- Friday: 8.30am - 4pm
- Saturday: By appointment
- Sunday: By appointment
Weddings and Civil Partnerships
Sandwell Register Office is located at Highfields, a Grade II listed building (Circa 1830) set in its own grounds and could provide the perfect setting if you are planning a civil marriage, civil partnership, naming ceremony, renewal of vows or a citizenship ceremony.
Sandwell Suite or Highfields Room?
Ceremonies can be held in a choice of two rooms, each with a different seating capacity creating the perfect atmosphere for either the smaller, more intimate ceremony or larger gatherings of up to 90 guests.
We offer a choice of ceremonies for which different fees are payable. If you would like to view a room before deciding on your venue please contact the Registrar.
The Sandwell Register Office is available for ceremonies on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays and Public Holidays
- Information about Weddings and Civil Partnersips at the Register Office
- Approved premises in Sandwell
Getting copy certificates
We can supply certificates for births, marriages and deaths that occurred in the Sandwell area.
Tel: 0121 569 2481 for advice from our Archive Team
Register births
Births can be registered at Sandwell Register Office. The birth must be registered, by law, within 42 days of the baby's arrival. The birth must be registered in the district where it occured.
Register deaths
The death must be registered in the District Register Office where it occurred.
The Register Office operates an appointment system - if you wish to make an appointment telephone the office.
Tell Us Once
If you've just had a baby
We can help you tell the people who need to know.
When you have a new baby, there are lots of things that need to be done. One of these things is contacting the government departments and local council services that need to be told about the birth. Until now, you had to contact all of them individually.
Sandwell Council is providing a service which can help you give the information to the Department of Work and Pensions. If you want they can pass this information on to a number of other organisations.
How can this service help you
You often have to contact several government departments and parts of the local council to give them the same information about the birth. It's important that you do this as soon as possible as it may affect your entitlements, such as Child Benefit, Working Tax Credits or Child Tax Credits.
We want to make this easier for you, so if you want to use the service after registering the birth we will ask you some simple questions. This means that you won't have to send a copy of the birth certificate in the post as will contact the organisations that need to know on your behalf.
How can you contact us to use the service
If you would like to use the service, please call 0121 569 2480 to make an appointment.
When someone has died
When someone has died, there are lots of things that need to be done, at a time when you probably least feel like doing them. One of these is contacting government departments and local council services that need to be told.
Sandwell Council is providing a service which we hope will make things easier. This new service means that you can just tell us and these organisations will be contacted.
How the service can help you
When someone has died, their death needs to be registered with the Registrar. Once that's done, several other organisations may have to be contacted and given the same information.
We can help you to give the information to the Department for Work and Pensions and they can pass on this information to a number of other government departments and local council services for you.
How you can contact us to use the service
There are different ways you can use the service:
In person - If you would like to come and use the service please call 0121 569 2480 to make an appointment. Our offices are open Monday to Thursday 8.30am to 4.30pm. Friday 8.30am - 4.00pm. You need to have registered the death before you see us.
By telephone - If you would like to speak to someone on the phone please call the Department for Work and Pensions on 0800 085 7308. The lines are open Monday to Friday between 8am and 8pm. This number is free to call from a BT landline, but other providers, including mobile phone providers, may charge you. If you don't speak English, call us on 0800 085 7308 and one of our Advisers and an interpreter will call you back and help you.
Nationality checking service
The Register Office now offers an optional service to those applicants who wish to take advantage of it. For a modest fee, they will check that applications for British nationality are completed correctly and have been submitted with all the necessary supporting documents and the correct fee.
Citizenship cermonies
In Sandwell approximately 500 people apply for British Citizenship each year.
At the ceremony, every applicant for British Citizenship is required to swear an oath of allegiance to the Crown and make a pledge to uphold the values and laws of the United Kingdom .
Sandwell Register Office
High Street
West Bromwich
B70 8RJ
Tel: 0121 569 2480
Fax: 0121 569 2473