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 1 year
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2024
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House
Responsible principal firm
HAWKSTONE FARLEY GROUP LTD Reference number: 987531 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.
- Dorset Vehicle Sales Limited (FRN 1039029) introduces customers to HAWKSTONE FARLEY GROUP LTD (FRN 987531). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Dorset Vehicle Sales.
- Example: if Dorset Vehicle Sales refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Dorset Vehicle Sales 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
Dorset Vehicle Sales, Mannings Heath Road, Poole, Bournemouth, BH12 4NQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When dorsetvehiclesales.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07707 043721 is
- Who else gives the postcode BH12 4NQ
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Hawkstone Farley Group 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.
Concerns on the company record
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House.
- Confirmation statement is overdue at Companies House.
- Company number
- 16066721 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 7 November 2024 (1 year old)
- Registered office
- Elson Geaves, Forest Links Road, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9PH, England
- Nature of business
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- Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45112)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Andrej Maksimov | Director | Oct 1985 | 7 Nov 2024 | 1 other company |
Other companies run by its director
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 company
- 1
- still active
- 1
In the full report: all 1 company, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
Key dates in its history
Dorset Vehicle Sales’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
20 August 2025
- Became an introducer appointed representative
- Began trading as "Dorset Vehicle Sales"
FCA register
2024
7 November 2024
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Andrej Maksimov took control (75–100% of shares)
- Andrej Maksimov appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Dorset Vehicle Sales
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Dorset Vehicle Sales. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- no longer authorised
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Dorset Vehicle Sales
Other firms of the same type (car dealer), nearest first.
In Poole
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- 1 other company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 5 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, 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