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 2 years
- Protected through the principal
- No FCA actions
- Active company since 2024
- Accounts filed up to 31 March 2025
Responsible principal firm
New Leaf Distribution Limited Reference number: 460421 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.
- Woodside Financial Services Ltd (FRN 1011867) is an AR of New Leaf Distribution Limited (FRN 460421). When you use Woodside Financial Services's services, the FCA authorisation sits with the principal firm.
- Example: if you take financial advice from Woodside Financial 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
Also given by a firm that is no longer authorised. Check you are dealing with the firm on this page.
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Address
2 Winchester Place, North Street, Poole, Bournemouth, BH15 1NX, United Kingdom
In the full report: 2 background checks
- What kind of line 01702 431130 is, and the 155 other firms that give it
- Who else gives the postcode BH15 1NX
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Protection through the principal firmProtection works through New Leaf Distribution 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
- 15538856 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 4 March 2024 (2 years old)
- Registered office
- 2 Winchester Place, North Street, Poole, BH15 1NX, England
- Nature of business
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- Activities of insurance agents and brokers (SIC 66220)
- Management consultancy activities other than financial management (SIC 70229)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Phillip Riches | Director | Apr 1977 | 4 Mar 2024 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£147
No earlier figure to compare
Employees (average)
1
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Owed within a year
£6,430
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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.
There is no turnover or profit: small companies do not have to publish them.
Accounts filed at Companies House for company 15538856. 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
Woodside Financial Services’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2024
19 April 2024
- Became an appointed representative
FCA register
4 March 2024
- Incorporated at Companies House
- James Phillip Riches took control (75–100% of shares)
- James Phillip Riches appointed as a director
Companies House
Director appointments and resignations, and trading names, appear under All events.
Firms connected to Woodside Financial Services
Other FCA-listed firms that share a director, phone number or address with Woodside Financial Services. A link shows who the firm is tied to, not whether either can be trusted.
- connected firms
- 12
- share its phone number
- 12
In the full report: all 12 connected firms, named
- How each is linked: the same phone number (12)
- Who links each one: the named directors, with dates
Firms like Woodside Financial Services
Other firms of the same type (insurance broker), nearest first.
In Poole
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- 12 connected firms, 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