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 1 year
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2013
- Accounts filed up to 31 August 2025
- Its whole board of directors changed in September 2025
Responsible principal firm
Openwork Limited Reference number: 408285 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.
- LDF Accountancy Services Ltd (FRN 1038889) introduces customers to Openwork Limited (FRN 408285). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not LDF Accountancy Services.
- Example: if LDF Accountancy Services refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from LDF Accountancy 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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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
L D F Accounting Services Ltd, 1 Alberto Street, Stockton-On-Tees, Stockton-On-Tees, TS18 2BQ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01642 631698 is
- Who else gives the postcode TS18 2BQ
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Openwork 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
- 08652191 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 15 August 2013 (13 years old)
- Registered office
- 1 Alberto Street, Stockton On Tees, Cleveland, TS18 2BQ, England
- Nature of business
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- Accounting and auditing activities (SIC 69201)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dean Coleman | Director | Sep 1995 | 1 Sep 2025 | 1 other company |
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 company
- 1
- still active
- 1
In the full report: all 1 company, 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 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£102
Up £15 from £87
Cash at bank
£56.0k
+9.1% from £51.4k
Employees (average)
4
Same as 4
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 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 08652191. 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
LDF Accountancy Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
1 September 2025
- Board replaced: both directors left and a new director took over
- D Coleman Holdings Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
- Dawn Fawcett stopped being a part-owner
- Lee Derek Fawcett stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
5 August 2025
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2024
13 March 2024
- Dawn Fawcett became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Lee Derek Fawcett became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2013
15 August 2013
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 13 events
- All 13 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 5
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- 1 other company its directors have run, named
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- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 13 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
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