Company status
Active private limited company incorporated on 20 December 2021.
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French Connections HCB
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Verified facts
Filed net assets
£250,408
Year ended 31 December 2024
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Origin of the service
The company says its founding expertise grew from helping with vehicle importation and French carte grise administration in Gascony before expanding into broader relocation coordination.
Relocation scope
The company describes its services as coordination across visas and immigration, property, healthcare registration, financial-planning introductions, legal support and vehicle administration.
Working approach
French Connections HCB says it begins with a consultation, maps the route and coordinates administration through a single team, with an emphasis on clear advice and realistic timelines.
Founder’s connection to France
The company’s family history states that founder Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis was born in Auch, grew up between French and British cultures and speaks English and French.
French Connections HCB Ltd
FRENCH CONNECTIONS HCB LTD is active private limited company number 15843577, incorporated on 17 July 2024. It is a separate legal entity from HCB Services Limited, company number 13809512, which publishes France Transition Review.
Source Founder directorship
Companies House records Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis as an active director and secretary of FRENCH CONNECTIONS HCB LTD, appointed on 17 July 2024.
Source Founder identity
The company identifies its founder formally as Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis and uses Richard Hammond as his professional name. Its biography says he was born in Auch in 1988 and has lived and worked across France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Founder languages
French Connections HCB describes Richard Hammond as fluent in French, English and Spanish, with conversational Italian.
Source Regulated-services boundary
The company profile describes French Connections HCB as coordinating support through appropriate specialist partners. It does not represent Richard Hammond as personally providing regulated legal, tax or financial advice.
HCB name origin
The company says the initials HCB derive from the founder’s full family surname, Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis. Family history is treated as identity context rather than evidence of professional status or inherited entitlement.
Milestones
20 December 2021
HCB Services Limited incorporated
The company was incorporated in England and Wales under company number 13809512.
14 May 2025
2024 micro-entity accounts filed
The filed balance sheet reported total net assets of £250,408 at 31 December 2024.
Family history
A connection to southwest France
The company’s origin story traces its relationship with France through founder Richard Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis’s grandmother, Bettine Marion Bulloch, and the family’s later move to southwest France.
Founding expertise
From vehicle administration to wider relocation support
The company says experience importing and registering vehicles in France became the operational foundation for a broader relocation and integration service.
People
Richard Hammond
Founder & CEO
Richard Pierre Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis, professionally known as Richard Hammond, is the Founder and CEO of French Connections HCB. The company says he was born in Auch in 1988, has lived and worked across France, the United Kingdom and the United States, and is fluent in French, English and Spanish with conversational Italian. Companies House separately verifies his active directorship of FRENCH CONNECTIONS HCB LTD. French Connections HCB coordinates specialist support and does not present Richard as personally providing regulated legal, tax or financial advice.