Citizens Advice Solent East
Reference number: 617699
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
Unit 2-3, Ark Royal House, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth, PO1 2GF, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When casolenteast.org.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 023 9285 5862 is
- Who else gives the postcode PO1 2GF
Other names (4)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Citizens Advice Gosport Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Citizens Advice Havant Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Citizens Advice Portsmouth Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Portsmouth Citizens Advice Bureau Former name: A name it was registered under before.
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.)
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit 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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- 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.
- Company number
- 02946921 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private company limited by guarantee
- Incorporated
- 8 July 1994 (32 years old)
- Registered office
- Unit 2 & 3 Ark Royal House, Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2GF
- Nature of business
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- Non-trading company non trading (SIC 74990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Ashley Ian Cullen | Director | Feb 1958 | 27 Apr 2017 | 1 other company |
| Stefan Nienaltowski | Director | Jul 1955 | 25 Jan 2018 | 4 other companies |
| Thomas Antony Little | Director | Nov 1983 | 28 Sep 2021 | None |
| Peter Bernard Brook | Director | Sep 1954 | 12 Apr 2022 | 2 other companies |
| Robert Clive Sweatman | Director | Sep 1961 | 21 Oct 2024 | 3 other companies |
| Adam Christie | Director | May 1965 | 1 Dec 2024 | None |
| Laura Clare Small | Director | Mar 1986 | 1 Jan 2025 | None |
| Robert George Bosshardt | Director | Feb 1956 | 1 Jan 2025 | 5 other companies |
| Charles John Harrison Nicholas | Director | Jun 1997 | 21 Aug 2025 | None |
| James Richard Mackay | Director | Jul 1944 | 21 Aug 2025 | None |
| David Leslie Littlejohn | Director | Jul 1960 | 21 Sep 2026 | None |
Other companies run by these 11 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
- 13
- closed down
- 3
- run together
- 2
In the full report: all 13 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 11 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 companies these 11 directors run together
- All 115 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Employees (average)
50
No earlier 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 02946921. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Citizens Advice Solent East’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
23 October 2024
- Changed its registered name from "CITIZENS ADVICE PORTSMOUTH"
FCA register
2019
1 October 2019
- Changed its registered name from "Portsmouth Citizens Advice Bureau"
FCA register
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
1994
8 July 1994
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 236 events
- All 236 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 223
Firms like Citizens Advice Solent East
Other firms of the same type (debt advice or management), nearest first.
In Portsmouth
In the Portsmouth (PO) postcode area
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- 13 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 236 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