Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 14 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2005
- Accounts filed up to 30 June 2025
Responsible principal firm
ValidPath Limited Reference number: 197107 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- David Gascoyne Financial Services Ltd (FRN 574918) is an AR of ValidPath Limited (FRN 197107). When you use David Gascoyne Financial Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from David Gascoyne Financial Services, complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- Before you proceed, confirm contact details match the official FCA register for both firms. Scammers sometimes clone legitimate AR names and FRNs but use fake phone numbers and websites.
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
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Address
Unit 5 Duffryn Court, Riverside Business Park, Swansea Vale, Swansea, SA7 0AP, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01792 712711 is
- Who else gives the postcode SA7 0AP
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through ValidPath Limited, the principal firm responsible for this firm's regulated activity. FSCS cover and the Financial Ombudsman Service apply as they would to the principal.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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 name
- DAVID GASCOYNE FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
- Company number
- 05466632 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 28 May 2005 (21 years old)
- Registered office
- Unit 5, Duffryn Court Riverside Business Park, Swansea Vale, Swansea, SA7 0AP, Wales
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Liam Gascoyne | Director | May 1970 | 28 May 2005 | 2 other companies |
| Elizabeth Rachael Hewlett | Director | May 1975 | 6 Jun 2007 | None |
| Pamela Paz Gascoyne | Secretary | Not published | 1 Nov 2023 | – |
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
- 2
- closed down
- 1
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 2 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 one on the FCA register
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£39.8k
−63% from £109k
Employees (average)
0
−100% from 3
Owed within a year
£31.8k
−6% from £33.8k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 05466632. 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
David Gascoyne Financial Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2017
28 May 2017
- David Liam Gascoyne became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- Elizabeth Rachael Hewlett became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2012
10 February 2012
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2007
6 June 2007
- Elizabeth Rachael Hewlett appointed as a director
Companies House
2005
28 May 2005
- Incorporated at Companies House
- David Liam Gascoyne appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to David Gascoyne Financial Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with David Gascoyne Financial Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- past link
- 1
In the full report: all 0 connected firms, named
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like David Gascoyne Financial Services
Other firms of the same type (financial adviser), nearest first.
In the Swansea (SA) postcode area
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- 2 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 6 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