Laybrook Group Limited
Reference number: 1000411
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Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 3 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2021
- Accounts filed up to 30 September 2025
Responsible principal firm
First Senior Finance Limited Reference number: 726510 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- LAYBROOK GROUP LIMITED (FRN 1000411) is an AR of First Senior Finance Limited (FRN 726510). When you use LAYBROOK GROUP's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from LAYBROOK GROUP, complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- 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
Units 4 & 5, Arena 14 Business Park, Charbridge Way, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX26 4ST, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When laybrook.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01869 255400 is
- Who else gives the postcode OX26 4ST
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through First Senior Finance 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
- 13616740 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 13 September 2021 (5 years old)
- Registered office
- Faveo House 2 Somerville Court, Banbury Business Park, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, OX17 3SN, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Other manufacturing not elsewhere classified (SIC 32990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Francis Jude Kavanagh | Director | Feb 1971 | 13 Sep 2021 | 6 other companies |
| Brett Nicholas Gilham | Director | Apr 1976 | 2 Apr 2024 | 2 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
- 8
- closed down
- 4
- still active
- 4
In the full report: all 8 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
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£661k
+139% from £277k
Cash at bank
£702k
+26% from £556k
Employees (average)
29
−6.5% from 31
Owed within a year
£716k
−14% from £829k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 5 years of accounts
- Every year from 2021 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 13616740. 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
Laybrook Group’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
2 April 2024
- Brett Nicholas Gilham appointed as a director
Companies House
2023
25 July 2023
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2021
13 September 2021
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Michael Francis Jude Kavanagh took control (75–100% of shares)
- Michael Francis Jude Kavanagh appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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- 8 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 5 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