Lantern Debt Recovery Services Limited
Reference number: 718024
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Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
83 Bradford Road, Stanningley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 6AT, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When lanternuk.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0113 887 6876 is
- Who else gives the postcode LS28 6AT
Other names (7)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Castor Financing Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Lantern Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Lantern Debt Recovery Services Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
- Motormile Finance UK Limited Former name: A name it was registered under before.
- MMF Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
- MMF Debt Purchase Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
- MMF UK Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Show FCA detail (7 permissions)
- Debt Administration
- Debt-collecting
- Exercising/having right to exercise lender's rights and duties under a regulated credit agreement (excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the lender's rights and duties in relation to high-cost short-term credit
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the lender's rights and duties under a bill of sale loan agreement
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the lender's rights and duties under a regulated home credit loan agreement
- Exercising or having the right to exercise the owner's rights and duties under a regulated consumer hire agreement
Financial Ombudsman complaints
Ombudsman complaints
- new complaints, January–June 2025
- 51
- upheld, against a 31% median
- 68%
- about banking and credit
- 51
A bigger firm gets more complaints simply because it has more customers.
Companies House record
The company behind the firm: its status, age, registered office and directors.
- Company number
- 06637307 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 3 July 2008 (18 years old)
- Registered office
- Protection House 83 Bradford Road, Stanningley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, LS28 6AT
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew John Kirk | Director | Mar 1981 | 1 Aug 2019 | 11 other companies |
| Andrew Mark Jones | Director | Dec 1968 | 1 Aug 2019 | 1 other company |
| Paul Anthony Mason | Director | May 1970 | 1 Nov 2023 | 18 other companies |
Other companies run by these 3 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
- 24
- closed down
- 9
- are FCA-registered
- 4
In the full report: all 24 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 3 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 4 on the FCA register
- The 6 companies these 3 directors run together
- All 13 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Key dates in its history
Lantern Debt Recovery Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
14 January 2025
- Changed its registered name from "Lantern Debt Recovery Services Ltd"
FCA register
2021
23 August 2021
- Copper Street One Limited gave up control
- Lantern Group Holdings Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2018
14 March 2018
- Changed its registered name from "Motormile Finance UK Limited"
FCA register
2017
15 November 2017
- Barnaby Edward Page stopped being a part-owner
- Neil Anthony Petty stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
9 October 2017
- Copper Street One Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
18 May 2017
- Barnaby Edward Page became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Neil Anthony Petty became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2016
25 August 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2008
3 July 2008
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 44 events
- All 44 events in its history (12 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 21
Firms connected to Lantern Debt Recovery Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Lantern Debt Recovery Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 6
- no longer authorised
- 1
- share a director
- 3
In the full report: all 6 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (3), the same postcode (3)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like Lantern Debt Recovery Services
Other firms of the same type (debt collector), nearest first.
In the Leeds (LS) postcode area
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- 24 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- All 44 events in its history
- 6 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
- Ombudsman complaints data, January–June 2025 financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk