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 2014
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2026
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 Plumbing And Heating Ltd (FRN 985759) introduces customers to TRADEHELP LTD (FRN 697812). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Ford Plumbing And Heating.
- Example: if Ford Plumbing And Heating refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Ford 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
104 Woodstock Road, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 1DY, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When fordplumbingandheating.net first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07914 406412 is
- Who else gives the postcode OX28 1DY
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
- 08900467 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 18 February 2014 (12 years old)
- Registered office
- 13-15 High Street, Witney, Oxon, OX28 6HW, United Kingdom
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew David Ford | Director | Jan 1984 | 18 Feb 2014 | None |
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
£97.6k
−5.5% from £103k
Cash at bank
£72.5k
−32% from £107k
Owed within a year
£48.6k
−21% from £61.3k
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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 08900467. 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
Ford Plumbing And Heating’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
21 October 2022
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Matthew David Ford took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2014
18 February 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 6 events
- All 6 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
Firms like Ford Plumbing And Heating
Other firms of the same type (home improvement or trades), nearest first.
In Witney
In the Oxford (OX) postcode area
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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