Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
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
Unit 2, Lion Lane, Needham Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8NT, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When marcus-james.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01449 720886 is
- Who else gives the postcode IP6 8NT
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 (3 permissions)
- Credit Broking
- Debt Adjusting
- Debt-counselling
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
- 10471277 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 9 November 2016 (9 years old)
- Registered office
- Unit 2 Lion Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 8NT, England
- Nature of business
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- Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45112)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark David Thornton | Director | Apr 1966 | 9 Nov 2016 | None |
| Anthony Fullman | Director | Jul 1980 | 11 Oct 2025 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
- All 3 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£80.9k
+203% from £26.7k
Employees (average)
2
Same as 2
Owed within a year
£189k
−18% from £230k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 to 2024
- 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 10471277. 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
Marcus James Cars’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
30 May 2025
- Simon Murrell stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2018
27 March 2018
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2016
9 November 2016
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Mark David Thornton took control (75–100% of shares)
- Simon Murrell became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 12 events
- All 12 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
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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