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 2 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2023
- Accounts filed up to 31 January 2026
- On its latest accounts it owed £45.2k more than it owned
Responsible principal firm
IDEAL SALES SOLUTIONS LTD Reference number: 703401 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.
- Carnforth Carpets Limited (FRN 1014180) introduces customers to IDEAL SALES SOLUTIONS LTD (FRN 703401). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Carnforth Carpets.
- Example: if Carnforth Carpets refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Carnforth Carpets 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
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
5 Market Street, Carnforth, Lancashire, LA5 9JX, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01524 941523 is
- Who else gives the postcode LA5 9JX
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Ideal Sales Solutions 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 number
- 14621892 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 27 January 2023 (3 years old)
- Registered office
- 3 Clark Mews, Haverflatts Lane, Milnthorpe, LA7 7PS, England
- Nature of business
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- Retail sale of carpets, rugs, wall and floor coverings in specialised stores (SIC 47530)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Gordon | Director | Oct 1979 | 27 Jan 2023 | None |
| Chelton Conor Gravesande | Director | Mar 1997 | 11 Sep 2024 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£45.2k
Up £9,519 from −£54.7k
Employees (average)
7
+40% from 5
Owed within a year
£104k
+21% from £85.5k
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £45.2k 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 14621892. 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
Carnforth Carpets’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
11 September 2024
- Chelton Conor Gravesande appointed as a director
Companies House
14 May 2024
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2023
27 January 2023
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Andrew Gordon took control (75–100% of shares)
- Andrew Gordon appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms like Carnforth Carpets
Other firms of the same type (retailer), nearest first.
In Carnforth
In the Lancaster (LA) postcode area
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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