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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Website
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Phone number
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Address
Creditlink Account Recovery Solutions Ltd, Midpoint, Alencon Link, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 7PP, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When carsuk.org first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01256 306700 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode RG21 7PP
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- C.A.R.S. Trading name: A name it trades under now.
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Permissions on the FCA record
- Lend or arrange credit
Show FCA detail (1 permission)
- Debt-collecting
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
- 04296927 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 1 October 2001 (25 years old)
- Registered office
- 5th Floor Midpoint, Alencon Link, Basingstoke, RG21 7PP, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 82990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Peter Royston Copperwheat | Director | Apr 1971 | 6 Apr 2004 | None |
| Anne Mcvicker | Director | Feb 1979 | 12 Nov 2024 | None |
| SHOOSMITHS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate secretary | Not published | 26 Feb 2013 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
- All 10 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£2.02m
+139% from £846k
Cash at bank
£1.41m
+19% from £1.18m
Employees (average)
66
−8.3% from 72
Owed within a year
£1.09m
+12% from £974k
No turnover or profit for the year to 31 December 2025: the accounts print them but do not tag them. The last tagged figures are £3.79m turnover and £77.1k profit, for the year to 31 December 2023.
Assets and liabilities
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 04296927. 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
Credit Link Account Recovery Solutions’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2018
2 March 2018
- Donald Joseph Edwards gave up control
- James Christopher Flowers took control (75–100% of votes)
Companies House
2017
20 June 2017
- Donald Joseph Edwards took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2016
20 May 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2001
1 October 2001
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 25 events
- All 25 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 16
Firms connected to Credit Link Account Recovery Solutions
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Credit Link Account Recovery Solutions. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 4
- share its phone number
- 1
- share its postcode
- 4
In the full report: all 4 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same phone number (1), the same postcode (4)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Credit Link Account Recovery Solutions
Other firms of the same type (debt collector), nearest first.
In the Reading (RG) postcode area
Elsewhere in the UK
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- All 25 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
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk