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 16 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2010
- Accounts filed up to 29 September 2025
Responsible principal firm
Personal Touch Financial Services Limited Reference number: 187834 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.
- Grapevine Financial Services Ltd (FRN 524838) is an AR of Personal Touch Financial Services Limited (FRN 187834). When you use Grapevine Financial Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Grapevine Financial Services, 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
Unit 146, Jarrow Business Centre, Rolling Mill Road, Jarrow, Tyne & wear, NE32 3DT, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0845 805 7353 is
- Who else gives the postcode NE32 3DT
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Personal Touch Financial Services 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 name
- GRAPEVINE FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
- Company number
- 07206558 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 29 March 2010 (16 years old)
- Registered office
- 146 Jarrow Business Centre Rolling Mill Road, Jarrow, NE32 3DT, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alan Hood | Director | Sep 1961 | 29 Mar 2010 | None |
| Paul White | Secretary | Not published | 29 Mar 2010 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£30.2k
+2.2% from £29.5k
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£0
−100% from £3,004
Net assets
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 07206558. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Grapevine Financial Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Alan Hood took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2010
26 May 2010
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
29 March 2010
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Alan Hood appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Grapevine Financial Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Grapevine Financial Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 3
- share its postcode
- 3
In the full report: all 3 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same postcode (3)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Grapevine Financial Services
Other firms of the same type (mortgage adviser or broker), nearest first.
In the Newcastle (NE) postcode area
Firms are listed by type and location, best known first. Being listed is not a recommendation: check any firm before you deal with it.
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 4 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