Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 5 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2021
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2026
Responsible principal firm
New Leaf Distribution Limited Reference number: 460421 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- Aitken Financial Services Ltd (FRN 959641) is an AR of New Leaf Distribution Limited (FRN 460421). When you use Aitken Financial Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Aitken Financial Services, complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
Website, phone number and address
Compare these against whatever you were given. Scammers clone real firm names and reference numbers but use their own phone number and website, so a detail that does not match the register is the clearest warning sign there is.
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Aitken Financial Services, 146/5 Turnhouse Road, Edinburgh, EH12 0AD, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0131 202 8393 is
- Who else gives the postcode EH12 0AD
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Scott Aitken Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through New Leaf Distribution Limited, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
FCA disciplinary action and complaints
No FCA disciplinary action.
The Financial Ombudsman Service only publishes complaint figures for firms with 30 or more new complaints in six months, so there are none here for this firm.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- SC708247 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 1 September 2021 (5 years old)
- Registered office
- Unit 4b Gateway Business Park, Beancross Road, Grangemouth, FK3 8WX, Scotland
- Nature of business
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- Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 66190)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott James Aitken | Director | Oct 1990 | 1 Sep 2021 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£220
Up £80 from £140
Cash at bank
£8,802
+261% from £2,441
Owed within a year
£9,861
+258% from £2,757
Net assets
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2022 to 2026
- The chart, over every year
- Every filed figure, year by year
About these figures
- Turnover
- Money taken from sales in the year, before any costs.
- Profit before tax
- What was left after the year’s costs, before corporation tax. A minus figure is a loss.
- Net assets, or total equity
- Everything the company owns minus everything it owes. A minus figure means it owes more than it owns.
- Total assets and total liabilities
- Everything the company owns, and everything it owes, on the last day of the year. The gap between them is its net assets.
- Cash at bank
- Money in the company’s accounts on the last day of the year.
- Owed within a year, owed after a year
- Debts and bills due in the next twelve months, and those due later.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company SC708247. Every figure is as filed, apart from total assets and total liabilities, which are added up from filed figures. Nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Aitken Financial Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
3 July 2022
- Changed its registered name from "Scott Aitken"
FCA register
2021
4 October 2021
- Became an appointed representative
- Began trading as "Aitken Financial Services"
FCA register
1 September 2021
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Scott James Aitken took control (75–100% of shares)
- Scott James Aitken appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Aitken Financial Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Aitken Financial Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Aitken Financial Services
Other firms of the same type (pension transfer adviser), nearest first.
In Edinburgh
In the Edinburgh (EH) postcode area
Firms are listed by type and location, best known first. Being listed is not a recommendation: check any firm before you deal with it.
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 6 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, named, and who links them
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk