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 4 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 1990
- Accounts filed up to 30 September 2025
Responsible principal firm
Ecclesiastical Planning Services Limited Reference number: 958152 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.
- Williamson Brothers Limited (FRN 980857) is an AR of Ecclesiastical Planning Services Limited (FRN 958152). When you use Williamson Brothers's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Williamson Brothers, 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
Birch House, Birches Head Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST1 6LH, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01782 212880 is
- Who else gives the postcode ST1 6LH
Other names (1)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- Williamson Brothers Family Funeral Directors Trading name: A name it trades under now.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through Ecclesiastical Planning 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
- 02529344 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 9 August 1990 (36 years old)
- Registered office
- Birch House, Birches Head Road, Hanley, Stoke On Trent, ST1 6LH
- Nature of business
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- Funeral and related activities (SIC 96030)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert John Williamson | Director | Sep 1965 | 1 Nov 1990 | None |
| Lesley Jayne Williamson | Director | Aug 1964 | 10 Apr 2015 | None |
| Lesley Jayne Williamson | Secretary | Not published | 25 Jan 2021 | – |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that these 2 directors run no other company
- All 4 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£8.57m
+1.6% from £8.43m
Cash at bank
£6.67m
+7.3% from £6.22m
Employees (average)
20
+5.3% from 19
Owed within a year
£246k
+26% from £194k
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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 02529344. 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
Williamson Brothers’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2022
12 August 2022
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
2017
25 January 2017
- Lesley Jayne Williamson became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
- Robert John Williamson became the majority owner (50–75% of shares)
Companies House
1990
9 August 1990
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 9 events
- All 9 events in its history (4 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 4
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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