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 4 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2007
- Accounts filed up to 31 May 2025
- Its whole board of directors changed in March 2024
Responsible principal firm
Golden Charter Limited Reference number: 965279 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.
- EAST DURHAM FUNERAL SERVICE LTD (FRN 983276) introduces customers to Golden Charter Limited (FRN 965279). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not EAST DURHAM FUNERAL SERVICE.
- Example: if EAST DURHAM FUNERAL SERVICE refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from EAST DURHAM FUNERAL SERVICE 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
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Exchange Building, 66 Church Street, Hartlepool, Cleveland, TS24 7DN, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0191 586 4322 is
- Who else gives the postcode TS24 7DN
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- East Durham Funeral Homes Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Golden Charter 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
- 06149524 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 9 March 2007 (19 years old)
- Registered office
- Matches the FCA register address ✓
- Nature of business
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- Funeral and related activities (SIC 96030)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Maddison | Director | Jun 1986 | 31 Mar 2024 | None |
| Audrey Huntingdon | Secretary | Not published | 12 Nov 2007 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- Both people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£209k
−9.2% from £230k
Employees (average)
6
−14% from 7
Owed within a year
£48.9k
+94% from £25.2k
Assets and liabilities
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 06149524. 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
East Durham Funeral Service’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
31 March 2024
- Board replaced: its only director left and a new director took over
Companies House
2022
13 September 2022
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Philip Maddison became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- Tom Maddison became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2007
9 March 2007
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 9 events
- All 9 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
Firms connected to East Durham Funeral Service
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with East Durham Funeral Service. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 4
- no longer authorised
- 1
- share its postcode
- 4
In the full report: all 4 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same postcode (4)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like East Durham Funeral Service
Other firms of the same type (funeral director), nearest first.
In Hartlepool
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- All 9 events in its history
- 4 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