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 1 year
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2022
- Accounts filed up to 31 May 2025
- On its latest accounts it owed £228 more than it owned
Responsible principal firm
ValidPath Limited Reference number: 197107 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.
- AWB FINANCIAL LTD (FRN 1039961) is an AR of ValidPath Limited (FRN 197107). When you use AWB FINANCIAL's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from AWB FINANCIAL, 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
The Manor House, The Grange, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 8YQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07342 379979 is
- Who else gives the postcode GL52 8YQ
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through ValidPath 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
- 14130506 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 25 May 2022 (4 years old)
- Registered office
- 201 The Manor House, The Grange, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8YQ, England
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Benson | Director | Sep 1974 | 25 May 2022 | 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
−£228
Up £3,882 from −£4,110
Employees (average)
2
Same as 2
Owed within a year
£12.8k
+40% from £9,122
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £228 more than it owned.
Assets and liabilities
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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 14130506. 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
Awb Financial’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
1 October 2025
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2022
25 May 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Andrew Benson took control (75–100% of shares)
- Andrew Benson appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Awb Financial
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Awb Financial. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 4
- share its postcode
- 4
In the full report: all 4 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same postcode (4)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Awb Financial
Other firms of the same type (financial adviser), nearest first.
In Cheltenham
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- All 4 events in its history
- 4 connected firms, 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