Acts as a payment agent
This firm does not hold FCA authorisation of its own, and acts as a payment agent under another firm's authorisation.
- Agent for 11 years
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 1967
- Accounts filed up to 30 September 2025
- Your funds are not FSCS protected
The FCA register does not name a principal for this firm.
This company holds another FCA record
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Website, phone number and address
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No website on the FCA register
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Phone number
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Address
Victoria Road, Barnstaple, Devon, EX32 8NP, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01271 324806 is
- Who else gives the postcode EX32 8NP
Past FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection works through the principalThis firm acts as an agent of an authorised payment or e-money firm rather than holding its own authorisation. FSCS does not protect money held by an agent. Funds should be safeguarded by the principal, and the Financial Ombudsman Service may still be able to look at a complaint.
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
- TAW GARAGES LIMITED
- Company number
- 00923161 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 21 November 1967 (58 years old)
- Registered office
- 69 High Street, Bideford, Devon, EX39 2AT, England
- Nature of business
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- Sale of new cars and light motor vehicles (SIC 45111)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Richard Brend | Director | May 1993 | 31 Mar 2015 | 1 other company |
| Ryan Percival Brend | Director | Oct 1991 | 10 Jun 2025 | 1 other company |
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 company
- 1
- still active
- 1
- run together
- 1
In the full report: all 1 company, 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 1 company these 2 directors run together
- All 10 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Turnover
£33.9m
No earlier figure to compare
Profit before tax
−£877k
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Net assets
£3.68m
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Cash at bank
£360k
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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 00923161. 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
Taw Garages’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2016
6 April 2016
- Taw Garage (Holdings) Limited took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2015
20 October 2015
- Status on the FCA register became "PSD Agent"
FCA register
1967
21 November 1967
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 18 events
- All 18 events in its history (3 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 14
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Sources and links
- Its entry on the FCA register register.fca.org.uk
- Its Companies House record gov.uk
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