LEA Financial Services Limited
Reference number: 482614
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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
6 Keppel Place, Plymouth, Devon, PL2 1AX, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When lea-financial-services.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01752 561981 is
- Who else gives the postcode PL2 1AX
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Aureus, LEAF, LEAF Services Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- LEA FS Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Give regulated advice FSCS may applyA claim for unsuitable advice is itself FSCS-protected, up to the limit that applies to the product you were advised on.
- Manage or trade investments FSCS may applyEligible investment and pension claims are typically FSCS-protected up to £85,000 per person, depending on the product and your circumstances.
- Advise on or arrange mortgages FSCS may applyMortgage advice and arranging may be FSCS-covered, up to the limit that applies.
- 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.
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- Acting as a CBTL advisor
- Acting as a CBTL arranger
- Advising on investments (except on Pension Transfers and Pension Opt Outs)
- Advising on P2P agreements
- Advising on regulated mortgage contracts
- Arranging (bringing about) deals in investments
- Arranging (bringing about) regulated mortgage contracts
- Credit Broking
- Debt-counselling
- Making arrangements with a view to regulated mortgage contracts
- Making arrangements with a view to transactions in investments
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
- 06567926 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 16 April 2008 (18 years old)
- Registered office
- 6 Keppel Place, Stoke, Plymouth, Devon, PL2 1AX
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Andrew Simon Paul Whitfield | Director | Sep 1980 | 16 Apr 2008 | 12 other companies |
| Leslie William Peter Whitfield | Director | Sep 1946 | 16 Apr 2008 | 8 other companies |
| Andrew Simon Paul Whitfield | Secretary | Not published | 16 Apr 2008 | 12 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
- 15
- closed down
- 14
- run together
- 5
In the full report: all 15 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
- The 5 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£33.4k
+47% from £22.8k
Net assets
£42.6k
+12% from £38.2k
Employees (average)
2
Same as 2
Owed within a year
£3,126
−45% from £5,699
Turnover
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2025
- 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 06567926. 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
LEA Financial Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2021
1 September 2021
- Ellen Ann Whitfield stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Andrew Simon Paul Whitfield became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Ellen Ann Whitfield became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Leslie William Peter Whitfield became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2013
1 April 2013
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
2008
4 June 2008
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
20 May 2008
- Regulated by the Financial Services Authority from this date
FCA register
16 April 2008
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 16 events
- All 16 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
Firms like LEA Financial Services
Other firms of the same type (mortgage adviser or broker), nearest first.
In Plymouth
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- 15 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 16 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
- Check your FSCS cover fscs.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk