It started with one key and one industrial unit.
Bury, Greater Manchester. August 2021. One director, one address, and a sector that does not hand anything to newcomers.
The register records it plainly: Freedom Fire & Safety Ltd, company number 13589467, incorporated 27 August 2021, sole director, registered to Unit 19 on the Pilsworth Industrial Estate in Bury. Tom Letcher was twenty-five.
The business sits in an unglamorous corner of the economy where the consequences of cutting corners are measured in lives. Extinguishers that have not been serviced. Alarm panels nobody has tested. Risk assessments written to be filed rather than acted upon. It was built on the opposite proposition: certified work, documented properly, that stands up when an inspector or an insurer asks.
Tom to supply — the genuine beginnings The chapter needs your detail, not a summary. The first premises and what it actually looked like. The first stock you bought and what it cost. The first order and who it was for. What you were doing before August 2021, and why you started rather than stayed employed. Archive photographs of the unit, the first van, the first pallet — anything real beats anything staged.Warehouses, containers, channels, people.
What had to exist behind the growth before the growth could happen.
Rather than resell from a wholesaler and compete on price, the company went upstream: vetting its own suppliers, specifying its own products, and tracking every consignment from factory floor to the UK warehouse through a system built in-house. That vertical reach is unusual for an independent firm of this size.
Equipment
Extinguishers and emergency lighting — supply, installation, servicing and annual maintenance, certified at every visit.
Detection
Fire alarm systems designed, installed, commissioned and maintained, so a building warns people before anyone smells smoke.
Assurance
Fire risk assessments in line with the Fire Safety Order, plus warden and extinguisher training, and the records that evidence both.
Clients range from landlords and property managers to schools, care homes, offices, retail, warehousing and manufacturing — and, unusually for the sector, private homeowners as well.
Tom to supply — the operational build Warehouse square footage and when you moved in. Container volumes and shipping cadence. Number of SKUs. Which sales channels you run and when each opened. Headcount by year. The systems you built or bought. Photographs of the real warehouse and real stock will carry this chapter — no stock imagery.Decisive milestones. Verifiable numbers.
Every figure below states the period it covers and what it actually measures, with the evidence one click away. Nothing here is a vanity statistic.
Freedom Fire & Safety Ltd registered in England and Wales, sole director appointed on the day of incorporation.
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Companies House register, company number 13589467. Incorporation date and officer appointment are matters of public record and can be checked directly.
Age of the founder on the date the company was incorporated.
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Date of birth as recorded on the Companies House officer appointment (month and year only, as the register redacts the day).
TK — state what this measures: turnover, gross merchandise value, or net revenue.
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TK — filed accounts, management accounts signed by your accountant, or a platform export. Name the source and the date it was produced.
TK — define: despatched orders, or orders placed? Across which channels?
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TK — channel export or courier manifest totals for the stated period.
Not a collection of logos. One operating system.
A connected group built to move products, services and ideas further.
Freedom Fire & Safety
Fire safety products, installation and compliance — serving homes and businesses across the UK.
Explore business ↗Operating today
- Freedom Fire & SafetyThe business that started it. Fire safety products, installation and compliance — serving homes and businesses across the UK.
- Freedom GlobalTK — one line on what Freedom Global does today.
- Freedom DistributionTK — one line on the distribution arm.
Launching
- Freedom FacilitiesTK — what it will do, and the launch date.
- Hepa FellasTK — what it will do, and the launch date.
Planned — not yet trading
- FirestormTK
- VoltzTK
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- T3TK
The operating philosophy, in his own words.
1 · Creative thinking. Owning brands rather than reselling is one real answer; tracking your own supply chain end to end is another. What else does the trade not do?
2 · Growth and influence. What changed in your corner of the market because you were in it.
3 · Big-picture leadership. Why the group structure exists, and what the next five years actually require you to build.
4 · Resilience. A genuine setback and what you did about it. Assessors distrust a founder who cannot name one.
TK — one sentence, in Tom's own voice, on why the work matters.
Everything a stranger can check.
Registrations, governance, customer evidence and press — collected in one place so nobody has to take a claim on trust.
| Company | Freedom Fire & Safety Ltd |
|---|---|
| Company number | 13589467 |
| Incorporated | 27 August 2021, England and Wales |
| Status | Active |
| Nature of business | SIC 84250 — Fire service activities |
| Director | Tom Letcher — appointed 27 August 2021 |
| Registered office | Unit 19, Pilsworth Industrial Estate, Bury, BL9 8RE |
Source: Companies House register, verified 30 August 2026 — company 13589467.
Tom to supply — the rest of the record Accreditations with reference numbers. Insurance cover. HMRC and filing status. Jobs created by year. Customer evidence and testimonials, with permission to publish. Any press coverage. Environmental and social measures — fleet, extinguisher recycling, packaging, apprenticeships and funded qualifications.The line does not stop here.
Every company on the map that is not yet trading is a line already drawn and not yet walked.
Tom to supply — the long view Where the group is going, over what timeframe, and what has to be true for it to happen. Keep planned businesses clearly separated from operating ones, here and on the map.