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 2 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2015
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
Responsible principal firm
TRADEHELP LTD Reference number: 697812 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.
- HOME SMART SERVICES LIMITED (FRN 1006822) introduces customers to TRADEHELP LTD (FRN 697812). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not HOME SMART SERVICES.
- Example: if HOME SMART SERVICES refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from HOME SMART SERVICES 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
Unit 1, Franklyn Court, Greave House Terrace, Lepton, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD8 0GB, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When smart-plumb.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01484 940930 is
- Who else gives the postcode HD8 0GB
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Home Smart Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Smart Plumbing Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Tradehelp Ltd, 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
- 09918997 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 16 December 2015 (10 years old)
- Registered office
- Unit 5 Norman House Greave House Terrace, Lepton, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD8 0DQ, England
- Nature of business
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- Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation (SIC 43220)
- Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies (SIC 46740)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Rowland Brown | Director | Jun 1989 | 16 Dec 2015 | None |
| Alison Claire Bamforth | Director | Jan 1980 | 3 Sep 2026 | None |
| Lewis Dean Wilkinson | Director | Feb 1999 | 3 Sep 2026 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 3 directors run no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£92.7k
<1% from £92.0k
Employees (average)
3
−25% from 4
Owed within a year
£91.9k
+22% from £75.5k
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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 09918997. 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
Home Smart Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
2 December 2023
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Ian Rowland Brown took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
16 December 2015
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 8 events
- All 8 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
Firms connected to Home Smart Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Home Smart Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Home Smart Services
Other firms of the same type (home improvement or trades), nearest first.
In Huddersfield
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
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 8 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, 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