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 3 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2020
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
Responsible principal firm
SME HCI Limited Reference number: 626422 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.
- Hardscape Group Limited (FRN 994467) introduces customers to SME HCI Limited (FRN 626422). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Hardscape Group.
- Example: if Hardscape Group refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Hardscape Group 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
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Unit A5, Deakins Business Park, Blackburn Road, Bolton, Lancashire, BL7 9RP, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01204 565500 is
- Who else gives the postcode BL7 9RP
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through SME HCI 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
- 13032345 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 19 November 2020 (5 years old)
- Registered office
- Eagley House Deakins Business Park, Blackburn Road, Egerton, Bolton, Lancashire, BL7 9RP, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified (SIC 64209)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Richard Collins | Director | Aug 1983 | 19 Nov 2020 | 1 other company |
| Mathew James Haslam | Director | May 1962 | 19 Nov 2020 | 5 other companies |
| Alexander Peter Warren | Director | Jan 1978 | 19 Nov 2020 | 3 other companies |
| Christopher James Wood | Director | Aug 1975 | 19 Nov 2020 | 3 other companies |
| Graham Lang | Director | Jun 1971 | 1 Jun 2026 | 3 other companies |
Other companies run by these 5 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
- 7
- still active
- 7
- run together
- 3
In the full report: all 7 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 5 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 3 companies these 5 directors run together
- All 6 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£27.4m
+18% from £23.3m
Profit before tax
£906k
−1.9% from £924k
Net assets
£3.13m
+15% from £2.73m
Cash at bank
£2.57m
+21% from £2.12m
Turnover and profit
In the full report: all 4 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 to 2025
- Both charts, 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.
The figures for the year to 31 March 2025 were read from the printed accounts, because the filing does not tag them in a form that can be read automatically. They were checked against the accounts’ own totals.
These are group figures: the firm and the companies it owns, combined.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 13032345. 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
Hardscape Group’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
4 April 2023
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2022
14 July 2022
- Hardscape (Eot) Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
- Mathew James Haslam gave up control
Companies House
2020
19 November 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Mathew James Haslam took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 12 events
- All 12 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 7
Firms connected to Hardscape Group
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Hardscape Group. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 2
- share its postcode
- 2
In the full report: all 2 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same postcode (2)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
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- 7 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 4 years of accounts, charted
- All 12 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