Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers Limited
Reference number: 227880
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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 23 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2003
- Accounts filed up to 31 December 2025
Responsible principal firm
Best Practice IFA Group Limited Reference number: 223112 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.
- Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers Limited (FRN 227880) is an AR of Best Practice IFA Group Limited (FRN 223112). When you use Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers, 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
Unit 4, Thornbury Office Park, Midland Way, Thornbury, Bristol, Gloucestershire, BS35 2BS, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When sovereign-ifa.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 01454 416653 is
- Who else gives the postcode BS35 2BS
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Best Practice IFA Group 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.
- Company number
- 04852639 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 31 July 2003 (23 years old)
- Registered office
- C/O Mgb Accountants - Suite 22 Trym Lodge, 1 Henbury Road, Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol, BS9 3HQ, United Kingdom
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Anthony Hibbitt | Director | Jun 1979 | 1 Jan 2011 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- All 6 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£164k
+2.4% from £160k
Cash at bank
£204k
+31% from £156k
Employees (average)
5
Same as 5
Owed within a year
£134k
+109% from £64.2k
Assets and liabilities
In the full report: all 7 years of accounts
- Every year from 2019 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 04852639. 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
Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2025
4 April 2025
- James Richard Marchant no longer has significant control
- Sovereign Holdings (Bristol) Limited became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2023
22 December 2023
- Changed its registered name from "Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers Ltd"
FCA register
2016
31 July 2016
- James Richard Marchant gained significant control
- Mark Anthony Hibbitt gained significant control
Companies House
2003
22 August 2003
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
31 July 2003
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 18 events
- All 18 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 11
Firms connected to Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers. 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 Sovereign Independent Financial Advisers
Other firms of the same type (financial adviser), nearest first.
In Bristol
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- Every company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 18 events in its history
- 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