GB Vans Limited
Reference number: 943413
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
Lantern Service Station, London Road, Milton Common, Thame, OX9 2JL, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When gbvans.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01844 279882 is
- Who else gives the postcode OX9 2JL
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- GB Vans Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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- Credit Broking
- Debt Adjusting
- Debt-counselling
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
- 12865197 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 8 September 2020 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- Rectory Mews, Crown Road, Wheatley, Oxfordshire, OX33 1UL, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Sale of other motor vehicles (SIC 45190)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Mark Bennett | Director | Oct 1960 | 8 Sep 2020 | 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
−£20.4k
−163% from £32.4k
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£86.5k
−11% from £96.7k
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £20.4k more than it owned.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 12865197. 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
GB Vans’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
1 September 2024
- Richard John Griffin stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2021
22 July 2021
- Changed its registered name from "GB Vans"
FCA register
16 July 2021
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2020
8 September 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Richard John Griffin became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Sean Mark Bennett took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 13 events
- All 13 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
Firms like GB Vans
Other firms of the same type (car dealer), nearest first.
In the Oxford (OX) postcode area
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 13 events in its history
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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