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 2023
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
Responsible principal firm
SHERMIN FINANCE LIMITED Reference number: 727594 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.
- McGuinness Kitchens Ltd (FRN 1043654) introduces customers to SHERMIN FINANCE LIMITED (FRN 727594). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not McGuinness Kitchens.
- Example: if McGuinness Kitchens refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from McGuinness Kitchens 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
38 Glorney Mead, Badshot Lea, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 9NL, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0800 009 6951 is
- Who else gives the postcode GU9 9NL
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Shermin Finance 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
- 15198134 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 9 October 2023 (3 years old)
- Registered office
- 38 Glorney Mead, Badshot Lea, Farnham, GU9 9NL, England
- Nature of business
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- Other construction installation (SIC 43290)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Alan Mcguinness | Director | Feb 1965 | 9 Oct 2023 | 4 other companies |
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 companies
- 4
- closed down
- 4
In the full report: all 4 companies, 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
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£140
Down £150 from £290
Employees (average)
2
Same as 2
Owed within a year
£69.8k
−5.8% from £74.1k
Assets and liabilities
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 15198134. 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
McGuinness Kitchens’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
7 October 2025
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2023
9 October 2023
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Richard Alan McGuinness took control (75–100% of shares)
- Richard Alan McGuinness appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms like McGuinness Kitchens
Other firms of the same type (home improvement or trades), nearest first.
In Farnham
In the Guildford (GU) postcode area
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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
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