No longer an appointed representative
This firm is still listed on the FCA register, but the record is closed. Cover on business done while it was authorised generally still applies, and it cannot take on new regulated business. Registration ended 3 October 2025.
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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Last known website
expanda-box.co.uk
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Last known phone number
07565 904658
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Last known address
Otes, Faggotters Lane, Matching Tye, Harlow, Essex, CM17 0NU, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When expanda-box.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07565 904658 is
- Who else gives the postcode CM17 0NU
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- The record is closedCover you already have generally survives the cancellation: FSCS exists for firms that have failed, and the Financial Ombudsman Service can look at a complaint about a firm that has stopped trading, as long as the business was done while it was authorised. New business with this firm has no cover at all, because it is no longer permitted to carry it out.
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.
- Company number
- 15286198 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 15 November 2023 (2 years old)
- Registered office
- Otes Faggotters Lane, Matching Tye, Harlow, CM17 0NU, England
- Nature of business
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- Agents specialised in the sale of other particular products (SIC 46180)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Newman | Director | Apr 1944 | 15 Nov 2023 | None |
| Gavin Mcbride Wilson | Director | Mar 1952 | 15 Nov 2023 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
−£26.8k
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£124
No earlier figure to compare
Its next accounts are overdue at Companies House.
Total equity is negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £26.8k more than it owned.
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 15286198. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Expandabox UK’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
3 October 2025
- Stopped being an appointed representative
FCA register
2023
15 November 2023
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Gavin McBride Wilson became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Michael Newman became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Gavin McBride Wilson appointed as a director
- Michael Newman appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk