Boss of home improvements firm which made thousands of cold calls banned from being a director

Directorship ban until 2034 after failure to pay ICO fine

Home2Sense Limited, made 675,478 calls to numbers which had blocked cold callers  

The company then failed to pay a £200,000 fine imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office 

Director, Carl Tingley, has now been banned from running companies for eight years 

THE boss of a home improvements firm which made more than 600,000 calls to people who had blocked nuisance numbers then failed to pay a £200,000 fine, has been banned from being a director. 

Lampeter-based Home2Sense Limited, made 675,478 calls to numbers listed on the Telephone Preference Service between June 2020 and March 2021, with staff using false names or failing to identify where they were actually calling from. 

The Information Commissioner’s Office fined the company £200,000 in 2022 for the calls trying to sell loft insulation, but the fine was never paid and the company went into compulsory liquidation. 

Following an investigation by the Insolvency Service, the company’s sole director, Carl Tingley, 39, who is now of Benning Avenue, Dunstable, has been banned from being a director for eight years. 

Neil North, Chief Investigator at the Insolvency Service, said: “Carl Tingley failed to ensure that Home2Sense complied with regulations to protect members of the public from nuisance calls. 

As a result of deliberately undertaking such an extensive cold calling campaign, the company received a large fine which went unpaid and led to the failure of Home2Sense. 

Tingley’s actions caused distress to members of the public and ultimately caused his company to fail as a result, so it is right that he should be banned from controlling any more companies for the next eight years.

Andy Curry, Head of Investigations at the ICO, said: “We welcome the decision to disqualify Carl Tingley as a company director.