Authorisation being cancelled
This firm has asked the FCA to cancel its authorisation. It is still in force until the FCA processes the application, so existing business keeps its protection, but its regulated work is winding down.
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
4 Somerville Road, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 2QU, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When sheargoldmusic.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01932 866577 is
- Who else gives the postcode KT11 2QU
Other names (3)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Sheargoldmusic.co.uk Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Sheargold Pianos Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
- Sheargold Music Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
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 (1 permission)
- Credit Broking
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
- 01371294 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 31 May 1978 (48 years old)
- Registered office
- The Hideaway, 4 Somerville Road, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 2QU, England
- Nature of business
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- Retail sale of musical instruments and scores (SIC 47591)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony William Sheargold | Director | Jun 1957 | Not published | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- All 4 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£250k
+18% from £211k
Employees (average)
5
−17% from 6
Owed within a year
£125k
+34% from £93.0k
No turnover or profit for the year to 30 April 2025: the accounts print them but do not tag them. The last tagged figures are £835k turnover and £4,208 profit, for the year to 30 April 2022.
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 6 years of accounts
- Every year from 2020 to 2025
- Both charts, 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 01371294. 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
Sheargold Pianos’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2018
11 December 2018
- Changed its registered name from "Sheargold Pianos Ltd"
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Anthony William Sheargold took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
28 February 2016
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Applied to cancel its FCA authorisation
FCA register
1978
31 May 1978
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 13 events
- All 13 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 3
Firms like Sheargold Pianos
Other firms of the same type (retailer), nearest first.
In Cobham
In the Kingston upon Thames (KT) postcode area
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- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 13 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