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 2020
- Accounts filed up to 30 April 2025
Responsible principal firm
AFS Compliance Ltd Reference number: 625035 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.
- Forest Horizon Limited (FRN 1039554) introduces customers to AFS Compliance Ltd (FRN 625035). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Forest Horizon.
- Example: if Forest Horizon refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Forest Horizon 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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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Greenbank Court , Challenge Way,, Greenbank Business Park, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB1 5QB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01254 958773 is
- Who else gives the postcode BB1 5QB
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through AFS Compliance 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
- 12411182 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 17 January 2020 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- Greenbank Court Challenge Way, Greenbank Business Park, Blackburn, BB1 5QB, England
- Nature of business
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- Other service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 96090)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael David Geddes | Director | Feb 1970 | 1 Oct 2020 | 14 other companies |
| David John Metcalfe | Director | Dec 1966 | 17 Oct 2024 | 5 other companies |
Other companies run by these 2 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 14
- closed down
- 1
- are FCA-registered
- 4
In the full report: all 14 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 4 on the FCA register
- The 5 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£1
Same as £1
These accounts were filed as dormant: the company reported no significant trading in the period.
Net assets
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 12411182. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Forest Horizon’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
9 August 2025
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2020
17 January 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Afs Compliance Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 7 events
- All 7 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
Firms connected to Forest Horizon
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Forest Horizon. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 3
- share a director
- 3
- share its postcode
- 2
In the full report: all 3 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (3), the same postcode (2)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like Forest Horizon
Other firms of the same type (mortgage adviser or broker), nearest first.
In Blackburn
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- 14 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 7 events in its history
- 3 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