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 1989
- Accounts filed up to 31 October 2024
Responsible principal firm
Kingfisher Insurance Services Limited Reference number: 310218 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.
- Kelsey Publishing Limited (FRN 739559) introduces customers to Kingfisher Insurance Services Limited (FRN 310218). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Kelsey Publishing.
- Example: if Kelsey Publishing refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Kelsey Publishing 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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Phone number
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Address
The Granary, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Maidstone, Kent, ME18 6AL, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When kelsey.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01959 541444 is
- Who else gives the postcode ME18 6AL
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Kelsey Media Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Volksworld Insurance Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Kingfisher Insurance Services 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
- 02387149 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 19 May 1989 (37 years old)
- Registered office
- The Granary Yalding Hill, Yalding, Maidstone, ME18 6AL, England
- Nature of business
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- Book publishing (SIC 58110)
- Publishing of consumer and business journals and periodicals (SIC 58142)
- Other amusement and recreation activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 93290)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Wright | Director | Apr 1969 | 29 Sep 2003 | 3 other companies |
Other companies run by its director
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
- 3
- closed down
- 1
- still active
- 2
In the full report: all 3 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- All 15 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
£1.18m
+79% from £661k
Net assets
£3.38m
−2.8% from £3.47m
Cash at bank
£2.11m
+32% from £1.60m
Employees (average)
134
−14% from 155
The accounts for the year to 31 October 2024 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £28.2m, for the year to 31 October 2022.
Profit before tax
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2024
- 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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 02387149. 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
Kelsey Publishing’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Kelsey Media Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
8 March 2016
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
1989
19 May 1989
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 32 events
- All 32 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 26
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In Maidstone
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- 3 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 32 events in its history
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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