Vertical Travel Limited
Reference number: 943882
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Introducer appointed representative
This firm can only introduce you to its principal, and cannot give financial advice, recommend products, or arrange deals alone.
- Appointed for 5 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2008
- Accounts filed up to 30 April 2025
- On its latest accounts it owed £1.01m more than it owned
- 1 thing worth a closer look in the background checks
Responsible principal firm
ONLINE TRAVEL INSURANCE SERVICES LIMITED Reference number: 480416 View firm →What does this mean?
- An introducer appointed representative can only pass your details to its principal firm. It cannot recommend products, give financial advice, or arrange deals on its own.
- Vertical Travel Limited (FRN 943882) introduces customers to ONLINE TRAVEL INSURANCE SERVICES LIMITED (FRN 480416). Any regulated advice or arranging is done by the principal, not Vertical Travel.
- Example: if Vertical Travel refers you to a financial adviser, the advice should come from the principal firm, not from Vertical Travel itself.
- 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
14 Hemmells, Basildon, Essex, SS15 6ED, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks, 1 thing worth a closer look
- When verticaltravelgroup.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07718 325711 is
- Who else gives the postcode SS15 6ED
Other names (5)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Amathus Holidays Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Holiday Elite Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Instant Holidays Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Your Holiday Booking Trading name: A name it trades under now.
- Instant Breaks Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Online Travel Insurance Services 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
- 06760416 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 27 November 2008 (17 years old)
- Registered office
- Matches the FCA register address ✓
- Nature of business
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- Travel agency activities (SIC 79110)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Leslie Healey | Director | Jul 1951 | 27 Nov 2008 | 39 other companies |
| Yvonne Leslie | Director | Jun 1965 | 5 Mar 2023 | 5 other companies |
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
- 39
- closed down
- 13
- went insolvent
- 2
In the full report: all 39 companies, named
- What each company does, and whether it is still trading
- Which of these 2 directors sit on each board, and since when
- The 2 that went into liquidation or administration
- The one on the FCA register
- The 5 companies these 2 directors run together
- All 4 people who have ever been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
−£1.01m
Down £17.4k from −£990k
Cash at bank
£2,995
<1% from £2,978
Employees (average)
0
−100% from 1
Owed within a year
£1.01m
−3.5% from £1.05m
Net assets are negative: on its last balance sheet the company owed £1.01m more than it owned.
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 06760416. 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
Vertical Travel’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2023
5 March 2023
- Janette Healey stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2021
28 January 2021
- Became an introducer appointed representative
FCA register
2016
6 April 2016
- Janette Healey became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Notsallow 134 Limited became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
2008
27 November 2008
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 17 events
- All 17 events in its history (5 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 6
Firms connected to Vertical Travel
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Vertical Travel. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firm
- 1
- share its postcode
- 1
- past link
- 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
- 1 past link through former directors
Firms like Vertical Travel
Other firms of the same type (insurance broker), nearest first.
In Basildon
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- 39 other companies its directors have run, named
- 3 background checks on its contact details, 1 flagged
- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 17 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