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
Direct House, Green Wood Drive, Manor Park, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 1UG, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When dcbltd.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3298 0201 is
- Who else gives the postcode WA7 1UG
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- DCBL 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 (2 permissions)
- Debt Administration
- 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
- 07408649 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 15 October 2010 (16 years old)
- Registered office
- Direct House Greenwood Drive, Manor Park, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 1UG, England
- Nature of business
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- Activities of patent and copyright agents; other legal activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 69109)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Gary Robinson | Director | Feb 1966 | 15 Oct 2010 | 4 other companies |
| Darren John Connor | Director | Jun 1970 | 23 Jun 2020 | 1 other company |
| Lee Samuels-Camozzi | Director | Dec 1981 | 26 Oct 2023 | 1 other company |
Other companies run by these 3 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
- 5
- closed down
- 3
- run together
- 1
In the full report: all 5 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 3 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 1 company these 3 directors run together
- All 10 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
£4.01m
+8.3% from £3.70m
Net assets
£4.93m
+11% from £4.45m
Cash at bank
£5.96m
<1% from £5.97m
Owed within a year
£5.00m
+1.2% from £4.94m
Profit before tax
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2025
- Both charts, 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 07408649. 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
Direct Collection Bailiffs’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Gary Robinson became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
17 March 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2010
15 October 2010
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 23 events
- All 23 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 17
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In the Warrington (WA) postcode area
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- 5 other companies its directors have run, named
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- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 23 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