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 2013
- Accounts filed up to 30 November 2025
Responsible principal firm
IDEAL SALES SOLUTIONS LTD Reference number: 703401 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.
- Exploring Flooring Ltd (FRN 1034346) introduces customers to IDEAL SALES SOLUTIONS LTD (FRN 703401). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Exploring Flooring.
- Example: if Exploring Flooring refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Exploring Flooring 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
Unit 13, Baublock, Blackburn Road, Simonstone, Burnley, Lancashire, BB12 7FS, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When exploringflooring.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07581 133389 is
- Who else gives the postcode BB12 7FS
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Ideal Sales Solutions 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.
- Company number
- 08793092 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 27 November 2013 (12 years old)
- Registered office
- Unit 13 Baublock, Blackburn Road, Simonstone, Burnley, BB12 7FS, England
- Nature of business
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- Floor and wall covering (SIC 43330)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Anthony Schofield | Director | Nov 1988 | 27 Nov 2013 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£86.5k
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£76.0k
+15% from £65.9k
Employees (average)
2
Same as 2
Owed within a year
£69.7k
−4.7% from £73.2k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 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 08793092. 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
Exploring Flooring’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
21 May 2025
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2016
26 November 2016
- Luke Anthony Schofield took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2013
27 November 2013
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Luke Anthony Schofield 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
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
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