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 4 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 1952
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
Responsible principal firm
Golden Charter Limited Reference number: 965279 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.
- R.B. STEELE LIMITED (FRN 980461) introduces customers to Golden Charter Limited (FRN 965279). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not R.B. STEELE.
- Example: if R.B. STEELE refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from R.B. STEELE 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
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
42-48 Byres Road, Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, KA13 6JU, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01294 552565 is
- Who else gives the postcode KA13 6JU
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Steeles Coaches Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Golden Charter 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
- SC029160 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 25 November 1952 (73 years old)
- Registered office
- 42-48 Byres Road, Kilwinning, KA13 6JU, Scotland
- Nature of business
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- Funeral and related activities (SIC 96030)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Gordon Steele | Director | Dec 1972 | 24 Jan 2013 | None |
| Donna Reid | Director | May 1969 | 13 May 2014 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
- All 7 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£1.22m
+2.3% from £1.19m
Cash at bank
£1.06m
+4% from £1.02m
Employees (average)
7
−13% from 8
Owed within a year
£55.8k
+4.2% from £53.5k
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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company SC029160. 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
R.b. Steele’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
5 August 2022
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2020
24 November 2020
- Joan Steele stopped being the majority owner
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Donna Reid became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Joan Steele became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
- Robert Gordon Steele became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
1952
25 November 1952
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 16 events
- All 16 events in its history (6 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 9
Firms like R.b. Steele
Other firms of the same type (funeral director), nearest first.
In Kilwinning
In the Kilmarnock (KA) postcode area
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- All 16 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
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk