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 22 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2003
- Accounts filed up to 31 July 2025
Responsible principal firm
T.R.S. Independent Financial Advisers Reference number: 140448 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.
- Taurus Investor Services Ltd (FRN 407847) is an AR of T.R.S. Independent Financial Advisers (FRN 140448). When you use Taurus Investor Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Taurus Investor Services, 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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Phone number
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Address
Britannia House, 19 Bailey Street, Brynmawr, Gwent, NP23 4AN, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01495 313331 is, and the other firm that gives it
- Who else gives the postcode NP23 4AN
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through T.R.S. Independent Financial Advisers, 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 name
- TAURUS INVESTOR SERVICES LIMITED
- Company number
- 04699069 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 17 March 2003 (23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary James Stidolph | Director | Jan 1962 | 1 Sep 2003 | 6 other companies |
| Jacqueline Maureen Olding | Director | Nov 1965 | 1 Dec 2021 | 3 other companies |
| Helen Jones | Secretary | Not published | 1 Dec 2021 | – |
Other companies run by these 2 directors
A firm is run by people, and their other companies are their track record: what they built, what closed, and anything that failed. It is the check most people never think to make.
- other companies
- 7
- closed down
- 3
- run together
- 2
In the full report: all 7 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- Any that went into liquidation or administration
- The 2 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 7 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£334k
+16% from £287k
Cash at bank
£219k
+17% from £187k
Employees (average)
11
Same as 11
Owed within a year
£225k
+3.9% from £217k
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 04699069. 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
Taurus Investor Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Gary James Stidolph took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2004
20 September 2004
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2003
17 March 2003
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 13 events
- All 13 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 10
Firms connected to Taurus Investor Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Taurus Investor Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its phone number
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
In the full report: the connected firm, named
- How it is linked: the same phone number (1), the same postcode (1)
- Who links it to this firm: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Taurus Investor Services
Other firms of the same type (financial adviser), nearest first.
In the Newport (NP) postcode area
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- 7 other companies its directors have run, named
- 2 background checks on its contact details
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 13 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