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 4 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2020
- Accounts filed up to 31 August 2025
Responsible principal firm
Open Prepaid Funerals Limited Reference number: 962403 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.
- MARTIN'S FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD (FRN 984207) introduces customers to Open Prepaid Funerals Limited (FRN 962403). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not MARTIN'S FUNERAL DIRECTORS.
- Example: if MARTIN'S FUNERAL DIRECTORS refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from MARTIN'S FUNERAL DIRECTORS 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
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
185 Ballygawley Road, Dungannon, BT70 1RY, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 028 8776 1219 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode BT70 1RY
Other names (2)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- F Martin & Sons Funeral Directors Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Fred Martin & Sons Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Open Prepaid Funerals 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
- NI671847 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 18 August 2020 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- 185 Ballygawley Road, Dungannon, BT70 1RY, Northern Ireland
- Nature of business
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- Funeral and related activities (SIC 96030)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Keith Martin | Director | Sep 1958 | 18 Aug 2020 | None |
| John Frederick Martin | Director | Feb 1963 | 1 Aug 2026 | 1 other company |
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 company
- 1
- still active
- 1
- is FCA-registered
- 1
In the full report: all 1 company, 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 one on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- All 3 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£511k
+28% from £399k
Cash at bank
£391k
+19% from £329k
Employees (average)
4
Same as 4
Owed within a year
£120k
−6.1% from £128k
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 NI671847. 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
Martin's Funeral Directors’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
14 October 2026
- Changed its registered name from "MARTINS FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD"
FCA register
31 August 2026
- John Frederick Martin stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
1 August 2026
- John Frederick Martin became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2022
28 September 2022
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2020
18 August 2020
- Incorporated at Companies House
- John Frederick Martin became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Samuel Keith Martin became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 15 events
- All 15 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
Firms connected to Martin's Funeral Directors
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Martin's Funeral Directors. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share a director
- 1
- share its phone number
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: shared directors (1), the same phone number (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Martin's Funeral Directors
Other firms of the same type (funeral director), nearest first.
In Dungannon
In the Belfast (BT) postcode area
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- 1 other company its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 5 years of accounts, charted
- All 15 events in its history
- 1 connected firm, named, and who links them
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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