Introducer appointed representative
This firm can only introduce you to its principal, and cannot give financial advice, recommend products, or arrange deals alone.
- Appointed for under a year
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 1997
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2026
Responsible principal firm
Key Commercial Finance Solutions Ltd Reference number: 673419 View firm →What does this mean?
- An introducer appointed representative can only pass your details to its principal firm. It cannot recommend products, give financial advice, or arrange deals on its own.
- Dickinsons Limited (FRN 1045067) introduces customers to Key Commercial Finance Solutions Ltd (FRN 673419). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Dickinsons.
- Example: if Dickinsons refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Dickinsons itself.
- 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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Phone number
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Address
Unit 7, Arden Court, Arden industrial estate, Alcester, Warwickshire, B49 6HN, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When nowebsite.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07983 742111 is
- Who else gives the postcode B49 6HN
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Key Commercial Finance Solutions Ltd, 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 number
- 03429560 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 4 September 1997 (29 years old)
- Registered office
- The Gables, Greenhill Park Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, WR11 4NL
- Nature of business
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- Non-life insurance (SIC 65120)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keith Frank Dickinson | Director | Mar 1952 | 4 Sep 1997 | 14 other companies |
| Sarah Dickinson | Director | Oct 1971 | 3 Apr 2024 | 2 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
- 14
- closed down
- 10
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 14 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
- The 2 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 6 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£4,107
Up £5,973 from −£1,866
Employees (average)
0
Same as 0
Owed within a year
£47.5k
+68% from £28.2k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2026
- 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 03429560. 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
Dickinsons’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
26 March 2026
- Keith Dickinson gave up control
Companies House
2025
25 November 2025
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2016
4 September 2016
- Keith Dickinson took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
6 April 2016
- Keith Frank Dickinson took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
1997
4 September 1997
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 15 events
- All 15 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 10
Firms connected to Dickinsons
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Dickinsons. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 2
- share a director
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: all 2 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Dickinsons
Other firms of the same type (mortgage adviser or broker), nearest first.
In Alcester
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- 14 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 15 events in its history
- 2 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