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 under a year
- 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.
- JOE MCBRIDE PLUMBING & HEATING LIMITED (FRN 1046082) introduces customers to TRADEHELP LTD (FRN 697812). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not JOE MCBRIDE PLUMBING & HEATING.
- Example: if JOE MCBRIDE PLUMBING & HEATING refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from JOE MCBRIDE PLUMBING & HEATING 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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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
74 Heritage Green, Kessingland, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 7UP, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07508 021528 is
- Who else gives the postcode NR33 7UP
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
- 09384255 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 12 January 2015 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- 3 Sanctuary Close, Kessingland, Lowestoft, Suffolk, NR33 7SX, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation (SIC 43220)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Ross Mcbride | Director | Jun 1987 | 12 Jan 2015 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£190k
−8.6% from £208k
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£116k
+83% from £63.4k
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 09384255. 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
Joe McBride Plumbing & Heating’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
13 November 2025
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2017
1 January 2017
- Joe Ross McBride took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
12 January 2015
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Joe Ross McBride appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms like Joe McBride Plumbing & Heating
Other firms of the same type (home improvement or trades), nearest first.
In Lowestoft
In the Norwich (NR) postcode area
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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