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 13 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2013
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
Responsible principal firm
Vision Independent Financial Planning Ltd Reference number: 487395 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.
- Strategic Wealth and Financial Planning Ltd (FRN 603706) is an AR of Vision Independent Financial Planning Ltd (FRN 487395). When you use Strategic Wealth and Financial Planning's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Strategic Wealth and Financial Planning, 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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No website on the FCA register
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No phone number on the FCA register
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Address
37 Upcott Valley, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 1UX, United Kingdom
In the full report: 1 background check
- Who else gives the postcode EX20 1UX
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Stategic Wealth and Financial Planning Ltd Former name: A name it was registered under before.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Vision Independent Financial Planning 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
- 08511549 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 30 April 2013 (13 years old)
- Registered office
- Matches the FCA register address ✓
- Nature of business
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- Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russell Metherell | Director | Dec 1970 | 30 Apr 2013 | None |
| Abigail Jane Metherell | Director | Apr 1977 | 6 May 2022 | None |
| Abigail Jane Metherell | Secretary | Not published | 30 Apr 2013 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Total equity
£119k
−12% from £134k
Cash at bank
£88.1k
−1.4% from £89.4k
Owed within a year
£28.7k
−15% from £33.6k
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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 08511549. 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
Strategic Wealth and Financial Planning’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
6 May 2022
- Abigail Jane Metherell appointed as a director
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Abigail Jane Metherell became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Russell Metherell became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2013
6 August 2013
- Changed its registered name from "Stategic Wealth and Financial Planning Ltd"
FCA register
4 July 2013
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
30 April 2013
- Incorporated at Companies House
- Russell Metherell 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
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
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