Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
This company holds another FCA record
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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
2 Britannia Crescent, Wivenhoe, Colchester, Essex, CO7 9PE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07500 874095 is
- Who else gives the postcode CO7 9PE
Other names (3)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Snap-on Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Snap-on Diagnostics Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Snap-on Tools Trading name: A name it trades under now.
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 (2 permissions)
- Entering into regulated credit agreement as Lender (Excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
- Exercising/having right to exercise lender's rights and duties under a regulated credit agreement (excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
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
- 07807697 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 12 October 2011 (15 years old)
- Registered office
- First Floor Black Country House, Rounds Green Road, Oldbury, West Midlands, B69 2DG
- Nature of business
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- Other retail sale not in stores, stalls or markets (SIC 47990)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simon John Osborne | Director | Dec 1970 | 12 Oct 2011 | None |
| Julie Grimsey | Secretary | Not published | 12 Oct 2011 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£222k
+5.2% from £211k
Employees (average)
2
Same as 2
Owed within a year
£98.9k
−2.4% from £101k
No turnover or profit for the year to 31 October 2025: the accounts print them but do not tag them. The last tagged figures are £373k turnover and −£12.9k profit, for the year to 31 October 2019.
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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 07807697. 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
Osborne Simon’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Simon John Osborne took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
27 February 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2011
12 October 2011
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 10 events
- All 10 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 1
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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