Brightsun Travel UK Ltd
Reference number: 521046
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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 16 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 1986
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
Responsible principal firm
Caledon MGA Ltd Reference number: 305814 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.
- Brightsun Travel UK Ltd (FRN 521046) introduces customers to Caledon MGA Ltd (FRN 305814). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Brightsun Travel UK.
- Example: if Brightsun Travel UK refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Brightsun Travel UK 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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Phone number
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Address
14 Hanworth Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 1UA, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When brightsun.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 8819 1111 is
- Who else gives the postcode TW3 1UA
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- traveasy.com Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Caledon MGA Ltd, 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 name
- BRIGHTSUN TRAVEL (UK) LIMITED
- Company number
- 02024271 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 30 May 1986 (40 years old)
- Registered office
- Matches the FCA register address ✓
- Nature of business
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- Freight air transport (SIC 51210)
- Cargo handling for air transport activities (SIC 52242)
- Travel agency activities (SIC 79110)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deepak Nangla | Director | Feb 1970 | 1 Apr 1999 | 4 other companies |
| Payal Nangla | Director | Nov 1970 | 15 Jun 2020 | 2 other companies |
Other companies run by these 2 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 4
- still active
- 4
- run together
- 2
In the full report: all 4 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 4 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£422.2m
First group accounts: no earlier group figure to compare
Profit before tax
£4.86m
First group accounts: no earlier group figure to compare
Total equity
£17.0m
First group accounts: no earlier group figure to compare
Employees (average)
34
First group accounts: no earlier group figure to compare
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.
Figures from the year to 31 March 2025 are for the group: the company and the businesses it owns. Earlier years are the company’s own accounts, from before it had a group.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 02024271. 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
Brightsun Travel UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
15 March 2022
- Payal Nangla became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2016
11 April 2016
- Deepak Nangla gained significant control
Companies House
2010
24 March 2010
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
1986
30 May 1986
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 9 events
- All 9 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
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- 4 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 9 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