Holywell Travel Limited
Reference number: 742568
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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 10 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2007
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
- One of its directors is also a director of a firm that is no longer authorised
- Its whole board of directors changed in December 2025
- On its latest accounts it owed £8,783 more than it owned
Responsible principal firm
Travel Insurance Facilities Plc Reference number: 306537 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.
- Holywell Travel Limited (FRN 742568) introduces customers to Travel Insurance Facilities Plc (FRN 306537). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Holywell Travel.
- Example: if Holywell Travel refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Holywell Travel 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
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
33 Chester Road West, Queensferry, Deeside, Flintshire, CH5 1SA, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When holywelltravel.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01352 717680 is
- Who else gives the postcode CH5 1SA
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Holywell travel Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Travel Insurance Facilities PLC, 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
- 06168601 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 19 March 2007 (19 years old)
- Registered office
- St. Andrews House, West Street, Woking, GU21 6EB, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Travel agency activities (SIC 79110)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Vim Vithaldas | Director | Jan 1967 | 16 Dec 2025 | 80 other companies |
| Gary Innes Lewis | Director | Mar 1970 | 16 Dec 2025 | 29 other companies |
Other companies run by these 2 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
- 83
- closed down
- 49
- are FCA-registered
- 6
In the full report: all 83 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 6 on the FCA register, including 2 no longer authorised
- The 26 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 6 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£8,783
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£4,889
+116% from £2,266
Employees (average)
6
Same as 6
Owed within a year
£15.2k
−17% from £18.3k
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £8,783 more than it owned.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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 06168601. 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
Holywell Travel’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
15 January 2026
- Brian John Loynton gave up control
- Newell's Travel Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2025
16 December 2025
- Board replaced: its only director left and 2 new directors took over
Companies House
2020
20 March 2020
- Changed its registered name from "Holywell travel Ltd"
FCA register
2017
19 March 2017
- Brian John Loynton took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2016
31 March 2016
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2007
19 March 2007
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 17 events
- All 17 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 10
Firms connected to Holywell Travel
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Holywell Travel. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 8
- no longer authorised
- 2
- share a director
- 6
In the full report: all 8 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (6), the same postcode (2)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Holywell Travel
Other firms of the same type (insurance broker), nearest first.
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- 83 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 17 events in its history
- 8 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