Which route applies for Togo
An apostille is one certificate that Convention countries agree to accept from one another without further steps. Togo has not joined the Hague Apostille Convention, so that shortcut does not open here. Papers going there need document legalisation for Togo: the UK certificate, then a consular stamp added by the desk that acts for the country. Both marks have to be on the file when it arrives.
Admissible is not the same as agreed
It helps to be precise about what you are buying. The chain answers a single question for the office abroad: is this foreign sheet what it claims to be, signed by the person it names? Once that is settled, the sheet is admissible. Everything the office does after that — reading it, weighing it, matching it against its own rules — is untouched by any stamp on the page.
So an apostille from the United Kingdom to Togo removes one reason for refusal and no others. People are caught out by this because the effort of the route feels like it ought to buy more. Treat the stamps as a passport for the paper, not as an endorsement of its contents, and the rest of your planning falls into place.
The Newcastle upon Tyne stages
Newcastle Register Office, at Civic Centre, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8QH, re-issues civil records as certified copies, which keeps the certificate in your drawer out of the post entirely. Court papers, school papers and company papers begin instead with the body whose signature appears at the foot, because that signature is what the next stage is built to recognise.
From there the sheet goes to the FCDO Legalisation Office, PO Box 6255, Milton Keynes MK10 1XX, which covers the whole country by post. What you need for an apostille for Togo at this stage is a signature that office already knows and a page nobody has altered. An apostille issued in Newcastle upon Tyne for use in Togo is fixed to that one page.
Cost and timing on this route
The UK charge is set: £45 per document by standard post, or £40 per document on the next-day service open to registered businesses. The consular stage is priced by the mission that applies the closing stamp. Because two bodies handle the file in turn, allow for two waits as well as two charges, and send the sheets by a tracked method in both directions.