Acts as a payment agent
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts as a payment agent under another firm's authorisation.
- Agent for 10 years
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2014
- Accounts filed up to 28 February 2025
- Your funds are not FSCS protected
This is one of the company's FCA records. It separately holds full FCA authorisation under FRN 762275 →.
Responsible principal firm
Western Union Payment Services GB Limited Reference number: 816890 View firm →This company holds another FCA record
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Website, phone number and address
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
20 Market Place, Frome, Somerset, BA11 1AN, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01373 463630 is
- Who else gives the postcode BA11 1AN
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Cash Brokers ( Frome ) Trading name: A name it trades under now.
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection works through the principalThis firm acts as an agent of an authorised payment or e-money firm rather than holding its own authorisation. FSCS does not protect money held by an agent. Funds should be safeguarded by the principal, and the Financial Ombudsman Service may still be able to look at a complaint.
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
- 09250113 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 6 October 2014 (12 years old)
- Registered office
- Cashbrokers, 20 Market Place, Frome, Somerset, BA11 1AN
- Nature of business
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- Retail sale of other second-hand goods in stores (not incl. antiques) (SIC 47799)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher James Higgins | Director | Nov 1962 | 6 Oct 2014 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£236k
+5.9% from £222k
Cash at bank
£150k
+66% from £90.7k
Employees (average)
3
+50% from 2
Owed within a year
£150k
+76% from £85.5k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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 09250113. 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
Longbourn Finance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
24 August 2016
- Status on the FCA register became "PSD Agent"
- Began trading as "Cash Brokers ( Frome )"
FCA register
6 April 2016
- Christopher James Higgins took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2014
6 October 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Christopher James Higgins appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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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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