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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Phone number
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Address
Tavern House, Station Road, Ardleigh, Colchester, Essex, CO7 7RS, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When douglassteers.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0345 500 0909 is
- Who else gives the postcode CO7 7RS
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Hold or safeguard your money · Manage or trade investments FSCS may applyEligible investment and pension claims are typically FSCS-protected up to £85,000 per person, depending on the product and your circumstances.
- Give regulated advice FSCS may applyA claim for unsuitable advice is itself FSCS-protected, up to the limit that applies to the product you were advised on.
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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- Advising on investments (except on Pension Transfers and Pension Opt Outs)
- Advising on P2P agreements
- Advising on Pension Transfers and Pension Opt Outs
- Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments
- Arranging safeguarding and administration of assets
- Credit Broking
- Dealing in investments as agent
- Debt-counselling
- Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
- Managing investments
Limits on what they may do
- This firm may handle your money in passing but must not hold it, so payments should go to the product provider, never to a personal account.
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Limited pension transfer activity
This activity is limited to the provision of advice in relation to the conversion or transfer of benefits from: pension policies with a Guaranteed Annuity Rate (for the avoidance of doubt, this includes policies which are retirement annuity contracts with a minimum guaranteed income, where that income satisfies limb (b) of the Glossary definition of Guaranteed Annuity Rate): defined contribution occupational schemes without safeguarded benefits.
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
- 04148619 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 26 January 2001 (25 years old)
- Registered office
- Old Firestation The Quayside Maltings, High Street, Mistley, Manningtree, Essex, CO11 1AR
- Nature of business
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- Financial leasing (SIC 64910)
- Activities of insurance agents and brokers (SIC 66220)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| David Douglas Steers | Director | May 1968 | 26 Jan 2001 | None |
| Henry David Steers | Director | Nov 1999 | 19 May 2025 | None |
| Toby George Steers | Director | Apr 1997 | 19 May 2025 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 3 directors run no other company
- All 4 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£983k
+47% from £668k
Cash at bank
£381k
−22% from £488k
Employees (average)
55
+10% from 50
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 04148619. 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
Douglas Steers & Company’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
17 September 2025
- FCA imposed a requirement (May control but not hold client money)
FCA register
2024
19 April 2024
- David Douglas Steers stopped being a part-owner
- Douglas Steers & Company Holdings Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2017
26 January 2017
- David Douglas Steers became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2015
28 September 2015
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Limited pension transfer activity)
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2001
26 January 2001
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 14 events
- All 14 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Check your FSCS cover fscs.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk