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 1 year
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2023
- Accounts filed up to 30 November 2024
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House
- On its latest accounts it owed £1,039 more than it owned
Responsible principal firm
Social Money Limited Reference number: 675283 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.
- SOFA HUB LTD (FRN 1030932) introduces customers to Social Money Limited (FRN 675283). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not SOFA HUB.
- Example: if SOFA HUB refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from SOFA HUB 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
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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Phone number
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Address
Unit 34 Caldervale Mills, Huddersfield Road, Dewsbury, Kirklees, WF13 3JL, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 07400 445515 is
- Who else gives the postcode WF13 3JL
Other names (5)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Sofa 24 Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Sofa Nation Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Sofas24 Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- sofasTwentyfour Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- The Sofa Nation Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Social Money 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.
Concerns on the company record
- Accounts are overdue at Companies House.
- Company number
- 15305823 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 23 November 2023 (2 years old)
- Registered office
- Unit 34 Caldervale Mills, Huddersfield Road, Dewsbury, WF13 3JL, England
- Nature of business
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- Wholesale of furniture, carpets and lighting equipment (SIC 46470)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohammed Shaban | Director | Jan 1971 | 23 Nov 2023 | None |
| Mohammed Shaban | Secretary | Not published | 23 Nov 2023 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£1,039
No earlier figure to compare
Cash at bank
£36
No earlier figure to compare
Employees (average)
1
No earlier figure to compare
Owed within a year
£1,075
No earlier figure to compare
Its next accounts are overdue at Companies House.
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £1,039 more than it owned.
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 15305823. Figures are exactly as filed; nothing is estimated.
Key dates in its history
Sofa Hub’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
28 March 2025
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2023
23 November 2023
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Mohammed Shaban took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
In the full report: all 9 events
- All 9 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 1
Firms connected to Sofa Hub
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Sofa Hub. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Sofa Hub
Other firms of the same type (credit broker), nearest first.
In Dewsbury
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- 1 connected firm, 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