Ocean Automotive Limited
Reference number: 841832
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Appointed representative
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts under a principal firm, which is legally responsible for its regulated business.
- Appointed for 7 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2000
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
Responsible principal firm
Automotive Compliance Limited Reference number: 497010 View firm →What does this mean?
- An appointed representative (AR) can carry out regulated financial services, but is not directly authorised by the FCA. A principal firm holds the authorisation and is legally responsible for the AR's conduct.
- Ocean Automotive Limited (FRN 841832) is an AR of Automotive Compliance Limited (FRN 497010). When you use Ocean Automotive's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Ocean Automotive, complaints and compensation usually follow the same rules as dealing with the principal, but this depends on the product and your circumstances.
- 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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Phone number
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Address
Ocean Automotive Limited, 582 -602 Ringwood Road, Poole, Dorset, BH12 4LY, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When oceanautomotive.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01202 724242 is, and the 3 other firms that give it
- Who else gives the postcode BH12 4LY
Other names (3)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Pebble Leasing Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Poole Audi Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Yeovil Audi Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Automotive Compliance 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
- 03982785 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 28 April 2000 (26 years old)
- Registered office
- 582-602 Ringwood Road, Poole, Dorset, BH12 4LY
- Nature of business
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- Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45111)
- Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45112)
- Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles (SIC 45200)
- Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories (SIC 45320)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Alison Gail Polkinghorne | Director | Jun 1970 | 17 Dec 2002 | 9 other companies |
| Stephen Kenneth Russell | Director | May 1968 | 17 Dec 2002 | 3 other companies |
| Alison Gail Polkinghorne | Secretary | Not published | 1 May 2002 | 9 other companies |
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 companies
- 9
- still active
- 9
- are FCA-registered
- 5
In the full report: all 9 companies, 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 5 on the FCA register
- The 3 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 10 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Profit before tax
£419k
−83% from £2.42m
Net assets
£10.9m
+4.8% from £10.4m
Cash at bank
£1,500
−98% from £92.0k
Owed within a year
£20.0m
+5.6% from £19.0m
The accounts for the year to 31 December 2025 do not tag turnover in a form that can be read automatically, so it is not shown. The last tagged figure is £113.5m, for the year to 31 December 2021.
Profit before tax
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 03982785. 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
Ocean Automotive’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2019
13 May 2019
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Ocean Automotive (Holdings) Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2000
28 April 2000
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 22 events
- All 22 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 16
Firms connected to Ocean Automotive
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Ocean Automotive. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 7
- share a director
- 4
- share its phone number
- 3
In the full report: all 7 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (4), the same phone number (3), the same postcode (4)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like Ocean Automotive
Other firms of the same type (car dealer), nearest first.
In Poole
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- 9 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 22 events in its history
- 7 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
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk