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 29 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 1995
- Accounts filed up to 30 September 2025
- On its latest accounts it owed £13.6k more than it owned
Responsible principal firm
Quilter Financial Services Limited Reference number: 440703 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.
- Grovewood Insurance Services Limited (FRN 183300) is an AR of Quilter Financial Services Limited (FRN 440703). When you use Grovewood Insurance Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Grovewood Insurance 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
Grovewood House, Bolter End Lane, Bolter End, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 3LU, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01494 881327 is
- Who else gives the postcode HP14 3LU
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Quilter 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 number
- 03091138 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 14 August 1995 (31 years old)
- Registered office
- Grovewood House Bolter End Land, Bolter End, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 3LU, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Life insurance (SIC 65110)
- Non-life insurance (SIC 65120)
- Life reinsurance (SIC 65201)
- Non-life reinsurance (SIC 65202)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rodney Gerald Frank Annable | Director | Jan 1955 | 25 Sep 1995 | 2 other companies |
| Nichola Amanda Caroline Annable | Secretary | Not published | 25 Sep 1995 | – |
Other companies run by its director
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
- 2
- closed down
- 1
- still active
- 1
In the full report: all 2 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 2 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£13.6k
Down £7,111 from −£6,466
Cash at bank
£186
−98% from £8,564
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£68.1k
+8.7% from £62.6k
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £13.6k more than it owned.
No turnover or profit for the year to 30 September 2025: the accounts print them but do not tag them. The last tagged figures are £50.1k turnover and £26.8k profit, for the year to 30 September 2019.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 03091138. 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
Grovewood Insurance Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
14 August 2016
- Rodney Gerald Frank Annable took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
1997
15 February 1997
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
1995
25 September 1995
- Rodney Gerald Frank Annable appointed as a director
Companies House
14 August 1995
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 4 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