Distribe Limited
Reference number: 1063928
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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 2020
- Accounts filed up to 30 September 2025
Responsible principal firm
PHOENIX FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS LIMITED Reference number: 539195 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.
- Distribe Limited (FRN 1063928) introduces customers to PHOENIX FINANCIAL CONSULTANTS LIMITED (FRN 539195). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Distribe.
- Example: if Distribe refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Distribe 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
Lasyard House, Underhill Street, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, WV16 4BB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When distribe.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0808 188 9018 is
- Who else gives the postcode WV16 4BB
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Phoenix Financial Consultants 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 number
- 12915827 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 30 September 2020 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- Lasyard House, Underhill Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4BB, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods in specialised stores (not incl. hearing aids) not elsewhere classified (SIC 47749)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Vernon-Henshaw | Director | Feb 1973 | 30 Sep 2020 | None |
| David Vernon-Henshaw | Secretary | Not published | 30 Sep 2020 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£9,627
+276% from £2,560
Cash at bank
£20.2k
+40% from £14.4k
Employees (average)
0
Same as 0
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 4 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 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 12915827. 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
Distribe’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
18 September 2026
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2020
30 September 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- David Vernon-Henshaw took control (75–100% of shares)
- David Vernon-henshaw appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Distribe
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Distribe. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 2
- share its postcode
- 2
In the full report: all 2 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same postcode (2)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Distribe
Other firms of the same type (retailer), nearest first.
In the Wolverhampton (WV) postcode area
Firms are listed by type and location, best known first. Being listed is not a recommendation: check any firm before you deal with it.
Get the full report on Distribe
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 4 years of accounts, charted
- All 4 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