No longer an appointed representative
This firm is still listed on the FCA register, but the record is closed. Cover on business done while it was authorised generally still applies, and it cannot take on new regulated business. Registration ended 24 October 2024.
Website, phone number and address
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No website on the FCA register
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Last known phone number
01628 624918
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Last known address
The Estate Office, New Road, Great Tew, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 4AH, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01628 624918 is
- Who else gives the postcode OX7 4AH
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- The record is closedCover you already have generally survives the cancellation: FSCS exists for firms that have failed, and the Financial Ombudsman Service can look at a complaint about a firm that has stopped trading, as long as the business was done while it was authorised. New business with this firm has no cover at all, because it is no longer permitted to carry it out.
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
- 12117198 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 23 July 2019 (7 years old)
- Registered office
- C/O Clyde & Co Llp,, St Botolph Building, 138 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7AR, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Primary education (SIC 85200)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Frederick Robin Knipe | Director | Oct 1968 | 23 Jul 2019 | 27 other companies |
| Jonathan Arthur Duncan Ritchie | Director | Jun 1984 | 3 Jan 2025 | 15 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
- 31
- closed down
- 9
- are FCA-registered
- 9
In the full report: all 31 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 9 on the FCA register, including 8 no longer authorised
- The 11 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 5 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£1.53m
Down £520k from −£1.01m
Cash at bank
£523k
+12% from £468k
Employees (average)
29
−3.3% from 30
Owed within a year
£879k
+33% from £662k
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £1.53m more than it owned.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 4 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2023
- 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 12117198. 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
This firm’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
24 October 2024
- Stopped being an appointed representative
FCA register
2019
23 July 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Chatsworth Bidco Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 11 events
- All 11 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 8
Connected firms
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with this firm. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 6
- no longer authorised
- 5
- share a director
- 6
In the full report: all 6 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (6), the same postcode (6)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 3 past links through former directors
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- 31 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 4 years of accounts, charted
- All 11 events in its history
- 6 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