Authorised by the FCA
This firm is on the FCA register and authorised to carry out regulated activities.
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
Zen Shots Ltd, 77 Alston Drive, Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, MK13 9HG, United Kingdom
In the full report: 3 background checks
- When zenshots.co.uk first appeared online, and whether it can receive email
- What kind of line 07944 843877 is
- Who else gives the postcode MK13 9HG
Other names (3)
If you were contacted under any of these names, it is this firm.
- My Local Studio Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
- Squidge Media Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
- Squidge Print Former trading name: A name it used to trade under.
FCA permissions and consumer protection
- Lend or arrange credit No FSCS coverConsumer credit is not covered by the FSCS, so there is no compensation scheme if the firm fails.
- Complaints Ombudsman, freeYou can refer a complaint about this firm to the Financial Ombudsman Service for free, whichever activity it relates to.
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- Credit Broking
- Entering into regulated credit agreement as Lender (Excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
- Exercising/having right to exercise lender's rights and duties under a regulated credit agreement (excluding high-cost short-term credit, bill of sale agreement, and home collected credit agreement)
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
- 09302919 (opens Companies House in a new tab)
- Company status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 10 November 2014 (11 years old)
- Registered office
- 23 Darin Court, Crownhill, Milton Keynes, MK8 0AD, England
- Nature of business
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- Photographic activities not elsewhere classified (SIC 74209)
Directors and company secretaries
| Name | Role | Born | Appointed | Other companies |
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| Ashley James | Director | Jul 1987 | 6 Jul 2026 | None |
In the full report: every company its directors have run
- Confirmation that its director runs no other company
- All 3 people who have been directors, with their dates
Filed accounts and finances
Net assets
£241k
+10% from £218k
Employees (average)
46
−19% from 57
Owed within a year
£589k
+23% from £480k
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 09302919. 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
Zen Shots’s history from the FCA register and Companies House, newest first.
2026
12 July 2026
- Michael William Brown gave up control
Companies House
6 July 2026
- Board replaced: both directors left and a new director took over
Companies House
30 June 2026
- Hayley Kay Twizell stopped being a part-owner
Companies House
2021
6 July 2021
- Regulated by the FCA from this date
- Became authorised by the FCA
FCA register
2020
1 June 2020
- Hayley Kay Twizell became a part-owner (25–50% of shares)
Companies House
2016
6 April 2016
- Michael William Brown took control (75–100% of shares)
Companies House
2014
10 November 2014
- Incorporated at Companies House
Companies House
In the full report: all 22 events
- All 22 events in its history (8 shown here)
- Every director appointment and resignation: 5
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- 6 years of accounts, charted
- All 22 events in its history
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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