Secure Collections Limited
Reference number: 795983
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Registered with the FCA
This firm is registered as a small payment institution. That is a lighter regime than full FCA authorisation, applied to smaller payment firms, and safeguarding of customer money is optional at this size.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
Suite 6, Centre for Advanced Industry, Coble Dene, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE29 6DE, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When cleardebit.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0191 296 6405 is
- Who else gives the postcode NE29 6DE
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- ClearDebit Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Handle payments & transfers No FSCS coverSafeguarding is optional for a payment firm of this size, so your money may not be held in a separate protected account. Ask the firm whether it safeguards customer funds before sending it money. FSCS protection does not apply either way.
- 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)
- 1. Services enabling cash to be placed on a payment account as well as all the operations required for operating a payment account.
- 3. Executing payment transactions (no credit line)
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
- 04962772 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 13 November 2003 (22 years old)
- Registered office
- 107 Cheapside, London, EC2V 6DN, England
- Nature of business
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- Other professional, scientific and technical activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 74909)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Godley | Director | Mar 1979 | 22 Nov 2022 | 16 other companies |
| Mark Andrew Roberts | Director | Mar 1973 | 18 Jan 2023 | 8 other companies |
| Nigel Bayles | Director | May 1978 | 16 Jan 2026 | 69 other companies |
Other companies run by these 3 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
- 77
- closed down
- 9
- are FCA-registered
- 3
In the full report: all 77 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 3 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 3 on the FCA register
- The 10 companies these 3 directors run together
- All 11 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£893k
+80% from £497k
Cash at bank
£329k
−54% from £723k
Employees (average)
7
+40% from 5
Owed within a year
£141k
−49% from £276k
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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 04962772. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Secure Collections’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2021
30 November 2021
- Board replaced: both directors left and 2 new directors took over
- Alan Richardson stopped being a part-owner
- Clearcourse Payments Holdco Ltd took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2018
26 April 2018
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Registered as a small payment institution
FCA register
2016
1 October 2016
- Alan Richardson became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2003
13 November 2003
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 25 events
- All 25 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 17
Firms connected to Secure Collections
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Secure Collections. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 5
- share a director
- 3
- share its postcode
- 2
In the full report: all 5 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: shared directors (3), the same postcode (2)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Secure Collections
Other firms of the same type (payment or money transfer firm), nearest first.
In the Newcastle (NE) postcode area
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- 77 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 25 events in its history
- 5 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
- How safeguarding works fca.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk