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 26 March 2025.
Website, phone number and address
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No website on the FCA register
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Last known phone number
07816 051809
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Last known address
Suite 4, New Humberstone House, 40 Thurmaston Lane, Leicester, Leicester, LE5 0TE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07816 051809 is
- Who else gives the postcode LE5 0TE
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Cogent Financial Trading name: A name it trades under now.
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
- 16216583 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 29 January 2025 (1 year old)
- Registered office
- Suite 4 New Humberstone House, 40 Thurmaston Lane, Leicester, LE5 0TE, England
- Nature of business
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- Activities of insurance agents and brokers (SIC 66220)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lee Thomas Freer | Director | May 1990 | 29 Jan 2025 | 2 other companies |
| Michael Lee Norwood | Director | Jun 1987 | 29 Jan 2025 | 8 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
- 9
- closed down
- 2
- are FCA-registered
- 2
In the full report: all 9 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 2 on the FCA register
- The 1 company these 2 directors run together
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£512
No earlier figure to compare
Employees (average)
3
No earlier figure to compare
Owed within a year
£22.6k
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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 16216583. 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
Cogent Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
26 March 2025
- Stopped being an appointed representative
FCA register
29 January 2025
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Jrjf Management Ltd became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 6 events
- All 6 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 2
Firms connected to Cogent Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Cogent Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 6
- share a director
- 2
- share its postcode
- 4
In the full report: all 6 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (2), the same postcode (4)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Cogent Services
Other firms of the same type (insurance broker), nearest first.
In Leicester
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- 9 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- All 6 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