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 2024
- Accounts filed up to 31 January 2026
Responsible principal firm
Leisure Vehicle Franchising Ltd Reference number: 668660 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.
- Oakwood Ventures Limited (FRN 1026248) introduces customers to Leisure Vehicle Franchising Ltd (FRN 668660). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Oakwood Ventures.
- Example: if Oakwood Ventures refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Oakwood Ventures 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
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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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
51 Oakwood Road, Hayling Island, Hampshire, PO11 9AY, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07745 159493 is
- Who else gives the postcode PO11 9AY
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Leisure Vehicle Franchising Ltd, 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
- 15460456 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 2 February 2024 (2 years old)
- Registered office
- 51 Oakwood Road, Hayling Island, PO11 9AY, England
- Nature of business
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- Other building completion and finishing (SIC 43390)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Joseph Baines | Director | Jan 1964 | 2 Feb 2024 | None |
| Joanne Baines | Director | Nov 1963 | 10 Nov 2024 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£4,756
Up £4,755 from £1
Cash at bank
£20.2k
No earlier figure to compare
Employees (average)
2
No earlier figure to compare
Owed within a year
£58.7k
No earlier figure to compare
Net assets
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 15460456. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Oakwood Ventures’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
28 February 2025
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2024
10 November 2024
- Joanne Baines appointed as a director
Companies House
2 February 2024
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Joanne Baines became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- William Joseph Baines took control (75–100% of shares)
- William Joseph Baines appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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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