Trust Financial Planning Declared in Default: What Leicester Investors Need to Know
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme declared Trust Financial Planning Limited in default on 30 April 2026. If you invested in Trust Bonds or preference shares issued by Trust Financial Planning, or if you received financial advice from the Leicester firm and suffered losses, you may now be eligible for FSCS compensation of up to £85,000.
Trust Financial Planning Limited (FRN 407457) was a small IFA based in Leicester, incorporated in December 2001. Its founder and director, Daniel Gerald Scott Brittenden, described the firm as a holistic financial planning business with a Christian ethos. For more than two decades the firm provided advice to a community of clients who trusted it with their financial wellbeing.
Alongside its advisory work, Trust Financial Planning issued its own investment product: preference shares in the company itself, marketed to clients as Trust Bonds. Clients who purchased these bonds were, in effect, lending money to the firm in exchange for a promised return. The FCA placed voluntary restrictions on the firm in 2025, and by August of that year Brittenden concluded the firm could not continue and placed it into creditors’ voluntary liquidation, with Begbies Traynor practitioners Paul Stanley and Dean Watson appointed as joint liquidators.
The FSCS investigation found that there may be valid claims in connection with the Trust Bonds. When an adviser sells its own bonds to clients, there is an inherent conflict of interest. The adviser benefits from the investment, while the client takes on the risk of losing their money if the firm fails. Where that conflict was not properly disclosed, or where the bonds were not suitable for the individual client’s circumstances, the advice may have fallen below the standard required by FCA rules.
If you invested in Trust Bonds or received advice from Trust Financial Planning Limited and have suffered losses, please speak to our team. You trusted a regulated adviser, and that trust deserves to be respected. If your claim is not successful, you will not pay a penny.
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If you had dealings with Trust Financial Planning Limited and are worried about your money, please book a free consultation with our team. You may feel embarrassed about what has happened, but you should not. You were let down by people who had a professional and legal duty to act in your best interest. We will carry out all the investigative work on your behalf, at no cost to you. If your claim is not successful, you will not pay a penny. Call us during office hours or email hello@claimmyloss.co.uk — we are here for you.
