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
78 Laurelgrove Dale, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT8 6ZF, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When mclaughlinwoodsltd.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 028 9070 2539 is
- Who else gives the postcode BT8 6ZF
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- www.mclaughlinwoodsbuilders.com Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
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 (1 permission)
- Credit Broking
Limits on what they may do
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Not permitted to canvass off trade premises
The firm is not permitted to canvass regulated borrower-lender-supplier agreements or regulated consumer hire agreements off trade premises
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
- NI627251 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 15 October 2014 (12 years old)
- Registered office
- 78 Laurelgrove Dale, Belfast, BT8 6ZF
- Nature of business
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- Other building completion and finishing (SIC 43390)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gerard Woods | Director | Aug 1958 | 15 Oct 2014 | None |
| Patrick Gerard Woods | Director | Jan 1991 | 8 Feb 2022 | 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
£259k
+54% from £168k
Cash at bank
£293k
+19% from £247k
Employees (average)
8
Same as 8
Owed within a year
£210k
+11% from £190k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 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 NI627251. 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
McLaughlin & Woods’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
5 February 2024
- Patrick Gerard Woods became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2021
20 December 2021
- Thomas McLaughlin stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2016
24 October 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- FCA imposed a requirement (Not permitted to canvass off trade premises)
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
6 April 2016
- Gerard Woods became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Thomas McLaughlin became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2014
15 October 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 21 events
- All 21 events in its history (8 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