Membership Plans Limited
Reference number: 809600
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Registered with the FCA
This firm is registered as a small payment institution. That is a lighter regime than full FCA authorisation, applied to smaller payment firms, and safeguarding of customer money is optional at this size.
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
Affinity House, Bindon Road, Taunton, Somerset, TA2 6AA, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When privilegeplan.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01536 771219 is
- Who else gives the postcode TA2 6AA
Other names (3)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Lloyd & Whyte Flexiplan Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Privilege Plan Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Privilege Plan Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Handle payments & transfers No FSCS coverSafeguarding is optional for a payment firm of this size, so your money may not be held in a separate protected account. Ask the firm whether it safeguards customer funds before sending it money. FSCS protection does not apply either way.
- 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 (4 permissions)
- 1. Services enabling cash to be placed on a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
- 2. Services enabling cash withdrawals from a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
- 3. Executing payment transactions (no credit line)
- 5. Issuing and/or acquiring of payment instruments.
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
- 06322047 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 24 July 2007 (19 years old)
- Registered office
- Affinity House, Bindon Road, Taunton, TA2 6AA, England
- Nature of business
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- Other business support service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 82990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Astley | Director | Nov 1959 | 1 Oct 2021 | 22 other companies |
| David Robert Moore | Director | Feb 1966 | 1 Oct 2021 | 38 other companies |
| Matthew Mervyn Pyke | Director | Aug 1970 | 1 Oct 2021 | 38 other companies |
| Paul Short | Director | Jul 1985 | 1 Aug 2023 | 1 other company |
| Stephen Astley | Secretary | Not published | 1 Oct 2021 | – |
Other companies run by these 4 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 companies
- 48
- closed down
- 22
- are FCA-registered
- 16
In the full report: all 48 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 4 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 16 on the FCA register, including one no longer authorised
- The 29 companies these 4 directors run together
- All 9 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£34.0k
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£114k
−36% from £177k
Employees (average)
4
Same as 4
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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 06322047. 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
Membership Plans’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
30 March 2022
- Changed its registered name from "Privilege Plan Ltd"
FCA register
2021
1 October 2021
- Board replaced: all 4 directors left and 3 new directors took over
- Lesley Jane Bailey stopped being a part-owner
- Lloyd & Whyte Group Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
- Richard Bailey stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2018
8 August 2018
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2017
1 January 2017
- Richard Bailey became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2016
24 July 2016
- Lesley Jane Bailey became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2007
24 July 2007
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 24 events
- All 24 events in its history (10 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 12
Firms connected to Membership Plans
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Membership Plans. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 12
- share a director
- 12
- share its postcode
- 2
In the full report: all 12 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (12), the same postcode (2)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Membership Plans
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In Taunton
Elsewhere in the UK
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- 48 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 24 events in its history
- 12 connected firms, 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
- How safeguarding works fca.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk