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 2019
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
Responsible principal firm
Vodafone Limited Reference number: 712210 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.
- AKIN COMMUNICATIONS LTD (FRN 952736) is an AR of Vodafone Limited (FRN 712210). When you use AKIN COMMUNICATIONS's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from AKIN COMMUNICATIONS, 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
49 Dudley Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 3ER, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07908 123431 is
- Who else gives the postcode WV1 3ER
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Vodafone 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
- 11768648 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 15 January 2019 (7 years old)
- Registered office
- 1 Delany Avenue, Wellesbourne, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV35 9UA, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Retail sale of mobile telephones (SIC 47421)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard James Austin | Director | Jun 1982 | 15 Jan 2019 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- Both people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£891k
+68% from £531k
Cash at bank
£789k
+53% from £516k
Owed within a year
£391k
+69% from £232k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2025
- 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 11768648. 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
Akin Communications’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
21 May 2026
- Akin Group Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
- Richard James Austin gave up control
Companies House
2021
11 June 2021
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
30 April 2021
- Leyla Sukran Zaghlul stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2019
15 January 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Leyla Sukran Zaghlul became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Richard James Austin took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 10 events
- All 10 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
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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