Hocketts Limited
Reference number: 988706
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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 3 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2022
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
Responsible principal firm
ValidPath Limited Reference number: 197107 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.
- Hocketts Limited (FRN 988706) is an AR of ValidPath Limited (FRN 197107). When you use Hocketts's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Hocketts, 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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Phone number
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Address
Berkeley Square House, London, Westminster, W1J 6BD, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When hocketts.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 3868 6118 is
- Whether W1J 6BD is a shared office: 45 other firms give it
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through ValidPath 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
- 14525203 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 6 December 2022 (3 years old)
- Registered office
- 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Life insurance (SIC 65110)
- Non-life insurance (SIC 65120)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christophe Beaupain | Director | Dec 1979 | 6 Dec 2022 | None |
| Christophe Beaupain | Secretary | Not published | 6 Dec 2022 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£39.4k
+53% from £25.8k
Employees (average)
2
+100% from 1
Owed within a year
£24.8k
+17% from £21.1k
Assets and liabilities
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 14525203. 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
Hocketts’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
13 December 2022
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
6 December 2022
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Christophe Beaupain took control (75–100% of shares)
- Christophe Beaupain appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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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