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 1 year
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2023
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2026
Responsible principal firm
Monopoly Insurance Services Ltd Reference number: 940197 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.
- SEEK TO PROTECT LIMITED (FRN 1032886) is an AR of Monopoly Insurance Services Ltd (FRN 940197). When you use SEEK TO PROTECT's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from SEEK TO PROTECT, 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
Gatcombe House, Copnor Road, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO3 5EJ, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When seektoprotect.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 0808 501 2571 is
- Who else gives the postcode PO3 5EJ
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Monopoly Insurance Services Ltd, 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
- 14735816 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 16 March 2023 (3 years old)
- Registered office
- Gatcombe House, Copnor Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5EJ, England
- Nature of business
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- Life insurance (SIC 65110)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Robert Turnbull | Director | Dec 1991 | 16 Mar 2023 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£21.0k
No earlier figure to compare
Employees (average)
0
−100% from 1
Owed within a year
£8,593
−32% from £12.6k
Assets and liabilities
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 14735816. 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
Seek to Protect’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
14 May 2025
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2023
16 March 2023
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Lewis Robert Turnbull took control (75–100% of shares)
- Lewis Robert Turnbull appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Seek to Protect
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Seek to Protect. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 3
- share its postcode
- 3
In the full report: all 3 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same postcode (3)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Seek to Protect
Other firms of the same type (insurance broker), nearest first.
In Portsmouth
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- All 4 events in its history
- 3 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