No longer authorised
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. Authorisation ended 27 October 2026.
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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No website on the FCA register
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Last known phone number
0151 315 0899
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Last known address
Unit 1A Crystal Trading Estate, Old Racecourse Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, L31 8AW, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 0151 315 0899 is
- Who else gives the postcode L31 8AW
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Social Motors 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
FCA action
- action
- 1
- most recent
- October 2026
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Permission varied or cancelled on 27 October 2026
Name: SOCIAL MOTOR FINANCE LTD Reference Number: 957326 Type of action: Cancellation “The Authority has cancelled the permission and withdrawn the authorisation of SOCIAL MOTOR FINANCE LTD “the Firm” of Unit 1A Crystal Trading Estate, Old Racecourse Road, Liverpool, Merseyside L31 8AW “(principal place of business address) and 11 Bridge Street, Bury, Lancashire, England, BL0 9AB (registered office address). The reason for this action is that the Authority considers the Firm is carrying on no regulated activities to which its Part 4A permission relates. The Authority’s action took effect on 27 October 2026 and a copy of the Notice of Decision issued under Schedule 6A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the Act), which sets out the reason for the action, is displayed on the Authority’s website and can be accessed using the following link: https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/decision-notices/social-motor-finance-ltd-2026.pdf As a consequence of this action the Firm is no longer an authorised firm for the purposes of the Act and it may not carry on regulated activities which fall within the scope of the Act. ”
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
- 12324771 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 20 November 2019 (6 years old)
- Registered office
- 11 Bridge Street, Bury, Lancashire, BL0 9AB, England
- Nature of business
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- Other service activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 96090)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Stanton | Director | Apr 1984 | 20 Nov 2019 | 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
£13.0k
Same as £13.0k
Employees (average)
1
Same as 1
Owed within a year
£13.9k
Same as £13.9k
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 12324771. 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
Social Motor Finance’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
27 October 2026
- FCA action: Permission varied or cancelled
- No longer regulated by the FCA
- Its FCA authorisation was revoked
FCA register
2023
10 March 2023
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Began trading as "Social Motors"
FCA register
2019
20 November 2019
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Christopher Stanton took control (75–100% of shares)
- Christopher Stanton appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
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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