Authorisation being cancelled, 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
- Accounts filed up to 28 February 2025
- Company: in liquidation
- Its phone number is also given by a firm that is no longer authorised
- One of its directors is also a director of a firm that is no longer authorised
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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Phone number
Also given by 2 firms that are no longer authorised. Check you are dealing with the firm on this page.
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Address
OFFICIAL RECEIVER, PO BOX 16647, Birmingham, B2 2NQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0300 678 0016 is, and the 9 other firms that give it
- Who else gives the postcode B2 2NQ
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)
- Credit Broking
- Debt Adjusting
- Debt-counselling
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.
- This company has insolvency history on record.
- Company number
- 12586334 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Liquidation
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 5 May 2020 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- Pitchside Clifton Gate Business Park, Wigginton Road, York, North Yorkshire, YO32 2RH, England
- Nature of business
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- Renting and leasing of cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 77110)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Edward John Clapham | Director | Jul 1992 | 5 May 2020 | 1 other company |
| James Edward Clapham | Director | Apr 1987 | 2 Mar 2021 | 7 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
- 7
- closed down
- 3
- went insolvent
- 1
In the full report: all 7 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- The one that went into liquidation or administration
- The one on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 1 company these 2 directors run together
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£597k
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£63.9k
+327% from £15.0k
Owed within a year
£1.18m
+867% from £122k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 to 2025
- 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 12586334. 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
Clapham Commercials Leasing’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
5 April 2022
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Applied to cancel its FCA authorisation
FCA register
2021
1 March 2021
- James Edward Clapham became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2020
5 May 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Edward John Clapham became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 9 events
- All 9 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 2
Firms connected to Clapham Commercials Leasing
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Clapham Commercials Leasing. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 10
- no longer authorised
- 3
- share a director
- 1
In the full report: all 10 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (1), the same phone number (9)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Clapham Commercials Leasing
Other firms of the same type (credit broker), nearest first.
In Birmingham
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- 7 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 9 events in its history
- 10 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