Introducer appointed representative
This firm can only introduce you to its principal, and cannot give financial advice, recommend products, or arrange deals alone.
Responsible principal firm
TRADEHELP LTD Reference number: 697812 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.
- Ford and Son Plumbing and Heating Ltd (FRN 1055077) introduces customers to TRADEHELP LTD (FRN 697812). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Ford and Son Plumbing and Heating.
- Example: if Ford and Son Plumbing and Heating refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Ford and Son Plumbing and Heating 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
10 Doals Gate, Bacup, Lancashire, OL13 8JN, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When fordandsonplumbing.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07584 678617 is
- Who else gives the postcode OL13 8JN
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Tradehelp 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
- 16830402 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 4 November 2025 (less than a year old)
- Registered office
- 10 Doals Gate, Weir, Bacup, Lancashire, OL13 8JN, England
- Nature of business
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- Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation (SIC 43220)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Luke Mackenzie Ford | Director | Oct 1993 | 4 Nov 2025 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Key dates in its history
Ford and Son Plumbing and Heating’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
18 April 2026
- Became an introducer appointed representative
- Began trading as "Ford and Son plumbing and Heating"
FCA register
2025
4 November 2025
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Luke Mackenzie Ford took control (75–100% of shares)
- Luke Mackenzie Ford 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
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk