Protek One Limited
Reference number: 1042300
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No longer an appointed representative
This firm is still listed on the FCA register, but the record is closed. Cover on business done while it was authorised generally still applies, and it cannot take on new regulated business. Registration ended 10 October 2025.
Website, phone number and address
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Last known website
vanguardian.co.uk
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Last known phone number
0333 091 5800
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Last known address
1 Moor View, Armley, Leeds, Leeds, LS12 3HJ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When vanguardian.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0333 091 5800 is
- Who else gives the postcode LS12 3HJ
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Van Guardian Trading name: A name it trades under now.
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- The record is closedCover you already have generally survives the cancellation: FSCS exists for firms that have failed, and the Financial Ombudsman Service can look at a complaint about a firm that has stopped trading, as long as the business was done while it was authorised. New business with this firm has no cover at all, because it is no longer permitted to carry it out.
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
- 11802780 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 1 February 2019 (7 years old)
- Registered office
- 1 Moor View, Armley, Leeds, LS12 3HJ, England
- Nature of business
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- Manufacture of other electrical equipment (SIC 27900)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Frederick Horsfall | Director | Sep 1965 | 1 Feb 2019 | 1 other company |
Other companies run by its director
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 company
- 1
- closed down
- 1
In the full report: all 1 company, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of its director sits on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£141k
+570% from £21.0k
Cash at bank
£160k
+310% from £39.2k
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£82.7k
+121% from £37.4k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 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 11802780. 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
Protek One’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
10 October 2025
- Stopped being an appointed representative
- Began trading as "Van Guardian"
FCA register
2019
1 February 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Michael Frederick Horsfall took control (75–100% of shares)
- Michael Frederick Horsfall appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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- 1 other company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 5 events in its history
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk