Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 7 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2019
- Accounts filed up to 30 April 2026
Responsible principal firm
Rural Finance Limited Reference number: 630701 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- Gosford Finance & Loans LTD (FRN 913256) is an AR of Rural Finance Limited (FRN 630701). When you use Gosford Finance & Loans's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Gosford Finance & Loans, complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- 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
72B Gosford Road, Markethill, Armagh, County Armagh, BT60 1RH, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 028 3755 2565 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode BT60 1RH
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Gosford Finance & Loans Limited Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Rural Finance Limited, 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
- NI664198 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 5 September 2019 (7 years old)
- Registered office
- 6 Fairgreen Road, Markethill, Co Armagh, BT60 1PW, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Robert Walter Sloan | Director | Sep 1976 | 5 Sep 2019 | 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
£8,654
+166% from £3,254
Cash at bank
£32.4k
+64% from £19.7k
Employees (average)
4
+100% from 2
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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company NI664198. 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
Gosford Finance & Loans’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
12 February 2024
- Changed its registered name from "Gosford Finance & Loans Limited"
FCA register
2019
10 September 2019
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
5 September 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Ashleigh Jay Sloan became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Mark Robert Walter Sloan became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Mark Robert Walter Sloan appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Gosford Finance & Loans
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Gosford Finance & Loans. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 2
- share its phone number
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: all 2 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same phone number (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Gosford Finance & Loans
Other firms of the same type (credit broker), nearest first.
In Armagh
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 6 events in its history
- 2 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