Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
Website, phone number and address
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Phone number
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Address
5-17, The Triangle, Hammersmith Grove, London, W6 0LG, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When unitylink.com first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 020 8772 2160 is
- Who else gives the postcode W6 0LG
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Handle payments & transfers Funds safeguardedYour money must be kept in a separate safeguarded account. If the firm fails, all safeguarded funds should be returned to you. With no upper limit, unlike the capped amounts under FSCS. Safeguarding works differently from FSCS, but protects your full balance when the rules are followed correctly.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
Show FCA detail (1 permission)
- 6. Money remittance.
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
- 03547586 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 17 April 1998 (28 years old)
- Registered office
- 5-17 The Triangle Hammersmith Grove, London, W6 0LG, England
- Nature of business
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- Activities of other holding companies not elsewhere classified (SIC 64209)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Osei Mensah | Director | Jul 1958 | 5 May 1998 | None |
| Surendra Appadoo | Director | Nov 1967 | 30 Dec 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
- closed down
- 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
- All 18 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£2.62m
−32% from £3.85m
Cash at bank
£3.12m
+28% from £2.44m
Employees (average)
15
−40% from 25
Owed within a year
£2.30m
+87% from £1.23m
* Cash at bank usually includes customers’ money.
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.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 03547586. 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
Unity Link Financial Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2018
25 July 2018
- Changed its registered name from "Unity Link Financial Services Limited"
FCA register
19 March 2018
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- No longer regulated by the FCA
- Became an authorised payment institution
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Douglas Osei Mensah took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2013
1 April 2013
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
FCA register
1998
17 April 1998
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 39 events
- All 39 events in its history (7 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 32
Firms connected to Unity Link Financial Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Unity Link Financial Services. 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 Unity Link Financial Services
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- 1 other company its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details
- 7 years of accounts, charted
- All 39 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
- How safeguarding works fca.org.uk
- Complaints the Financial Ombudsman Service can help with financial-ombudsman.org.uk
- Report a scam to the FCA fca.org.uk