Introducer appointed representative
This firm can only introduce you to its principal, and cannot give financial advice, recommend products, or arrange deals alone.
- Appointed for 3 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2019
- Accounts filed up to 30 September 2025
Responsible principal firm
Golden Charter Limited Reference number: 965279 View firm →What does this mean?
- An introducer appointed representative can only pass your details to its principal firm. It cannot recommend products, give financial advice, or arrange deals on its own.
- BAKERS FUNERAL SERVICES LIMITED (FRN 986844) introduces customers to Golden Charter Limited (FRN 965279). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not BAKERS FUNERAL SERVICES.
- Example: if BAKERS FUNERAL SERVICES refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from BAKERS FUNERAL SERVICES itself.
- 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
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Eves Corner, Danbury, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 4QB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01245 221100 is
- Who else gives the postcode CM3 4QB
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Golden Charter 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
- 12199770 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 10 September 2019 (7 years old)
- Registered office
- Eves Corner, Danbury, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 4QB, England
- Nature of business
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- Funeral and related activities (SIC 96030)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter John Smyth | Director | Jun 1961 | 30 Oct 2019 | 3 other companies |
Other companies run by its director
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- other companies
- 3
- still active
- 3
In the full report: all 3 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 7 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£23.9k
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£53.3k
+94% from £27.5k
Employees (average)
11
−15% from 13
Owed within a year
£215k
<1% from £214k
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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 12199770. 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
Bakers Funeral Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
23 October 2025
- Bakers Of Danbury Limited gave up control
- Peter John Smyth took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2022
9 November 2022
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2019
10 September 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Bakers Of Danbury Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 18 events
- All 18 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 13
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- All 18 events in its history
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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
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