Authorised, but in an insolvency process
This firm is under the control of insolvency practitioners and may have stopped taking on new business. If you are or were a customer, deal with the appointed office holders rather than the firm.
- No FCA actions
- Company: in liquidation
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House
What the FCA says
ATTENTION - Firm in an insolvency process
This firm is in an insolvency process. It is under the control of the appointed insolvency office holder(s) and may have stopped taking on new business. It has to continue to meet our standards in line with its regulatory status, including when dealing with its customers. If you are/were a customer check how this affects you with the firm or the appointed insolvency office holder(s).
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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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
Anthony Davidson and Charles Turner, Opus Restructuring LLP, 322 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7PB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode WC1V 7PB
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Centre 70 Advice and Counselling Trading name: A name it trades under now.
The firm, by virtue of its constitution or any enactment, must be:(i) required (after payment of outgoings) to apply the whole of its income and any capital it expends for charitable or public purposes, and (ii) prohibited from directly or indirectly distributing amongst its members any part of its assets (otherwise than for charitable or public purposes); And the firm must not have any associate (other than a not-for profit debt advice body) which carries on debt adjusting or debt counselling or providing credit information services.)
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- In an insolvency processMoney the firm held is returned through the appointed office holders, which takes time and can fall short. The FSCS covers eligible claims up to its limits, and the Ombudsman can still look at a complaint.
Show FCA detail (3 permissions)
- Debt Adjusting
- Debt-counselling
- Providing Credit Information Services
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.
Concerns on the company record
- Companies House records this company in liquidation, but it is still authorised on the FCA register.
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House.
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House.
- This company has insolvency history on record.
- Company number
- 02087528 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Liquidation
- Company type
- Private company limited by guarantee
- Incorporated
- 7 January 1987 (39 years old)
- Registered office
- 1 Radian Court, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK5 8PJ
- Nature of business
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- Other social work activities without accommodation not elsewhere classified (SIC 88990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Katherine Fiona White | Director | Feb 1972 | 2 Jun 2015 | None |
| Katherine Sophie Massey | Director | Apr 1973 | 5 Feb 2019 | None |
| Laura Maria Cassidy | Director | Feb 1985 | 12 Sep 2019 | None |
| Gargie Ahmad | Director | Jul 1993 | 7 Dec 2021 | None |
| Tobias Alexander O'Brien | Director | Feb 1993 | 15 Oct 2024 | None |
| Katherine Sophie Massey | Secretary | Not published | 1 Oct 2025 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 5 directors run no other company
- All 71 people who have been directors, with their dates
Key dates in its history
Centre 70’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2014
1 April 2014
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Not for profit firm)
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
1987
7 January 1987
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 146 events
- All 146 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 138
Firms connected to Centre 70
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Centre 70. 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 Centre 70
Other firms of the same type (debt advice or management), nearest first.
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 1 background check on its contact details
- All 146 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
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk