Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
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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Phone number
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Address
Unit A, 14 Eelmoor Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7QN, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When bluebox.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3603 4391 is
- Who else gives the postcode GU14 7QN
Other names (3)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Blue Box Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- ClickCopiers Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- CopiersUK Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit · Hire out goods to consumers No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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- Credit Broking
- Entering into Regulated Consumer Hire Agreements as owner
- Entering into regulated credit agreement as Lender (Excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
- Exercising/having right to exercise lender's rights and duties under a regulated credit agreement (excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the owner's rights and duties under a regulated consumer hire agreement
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
- 05291470 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 19 November 2004 (21 years old)
- Registered office
- 14 Eelmoor Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7QN
- Nature of business
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- Repair of other equipment (SIC 33190)
- Renting and leasing of office machinery and equipment (including computers) (SIC 77330)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philip James Whitehorne | Director | Mar 1971 | 19 Nov 2004 | 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
£370k
+20% from £309k
Cash at bank
£416k
+30% from £320k
Employees (average)
4
Same as 4
Owed within a year
£173k
+27% from £136k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 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 05291470. 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
Blue Box One’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
19 November 2016
- Philip James Whitehorne took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
20 April 2015
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2004
19 November 2004
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 11 events
- All 11 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 1
Firms like Blue Box One
Other firms of the same type (lender), nearest first.
In Farnborough
In the Guildford (GU) postcode area
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 11 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
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk