Dewsbury Gospel Church

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Evangelical church and Christian school in Dewsbury whose accounts do not mention Israel

Dewsbury Gospel Church

Logo Dewsbury Gospel Church West Park Street.jpg
Type Charitable company
Founded 2008-04-16 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1123715; company 06402268
Headquarters Dewsbury Gospel Church, West Park street, Dewsbury, WF13 4LA
Area served Kirklees, Israel
Website www.dewsburygospelchurch.org.uk


Dewsbury Gospel Church is a charitable company (06402268) registered on 16 April 2008; register areas are Kirklees and Israel.[1] It has two divisions, the church and Branch Christian School (17 pupils), operates from the Revival Centre, West Park Street, Dewsbury WF13 since 31 May 2023, and supervises the community radio station Branch FM (PDF p.3–4, 11).[2] Its trustees are Ian Michael Grace, Stephen Paul Hodgson, Jeremy Childs, Jonathan Holt (also secretary), Michael David Firth and Adebowale Adekunle.[1] In 2025 income was £223,219 and funds £319,874; it had six employees (PDF p.4, 13).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARTICLES OF FAITH SET OUT IN ARTICLE 34 OF THE ARTICLES INCLUDING, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, BY THE PREACHING AND PROCLAMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL, THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND PRINCIPLES, PASTORAL CARE, THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE BIBLE AND OTHER CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND BY ALL FORMS OF BROADCASTING MEDIA;2 THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO AE AGED OR SICK;3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ON THE BASIS OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES; AND4 THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE BOARD SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The advancement of the Christian faith by preaching, teaching and proclaiming the Christian Gospel and pastoral care. The distribution of the Bible & other Christian literature, and by all forms of broadcasting media. The advancement of education on the basis of Christian principles. Also the relief of persons in conditions of need, hardship or distress, or who are aged or sick."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Kirklees, Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Dewsbury Gospel Church (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Ian Michael Grace not recorded —
Stephen Paul Hodgson not recorded Branch Fm (1120585); Open Arms Homes for Women (1198379)
Jeremy Childs 2018-02-16 —
Jonathan Holt 2018-05-13 —
Michael David Firth 2019-09-26 —
Adebowale Adekunle 2025-04-29 Open Arms Homes for Women (1198379)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-20 Brian Victor Taylor; Robert Ward; Steven Barrie Thomas; Terry Firth; Stephen Paul Hodgson; Lesley Cox; Michael David Farrant; Ian Michael Grace; James George Stickland; Alan Whitworth [3]
2012-01-30 Brian Victor Taylor; Robert Ward; Steven Barrie Thomas; Terry Firth; Stephen Paul Hodgson; Lesley Cox; Michael David Farrant; Ian Michael Grace; Alan Whitworth [4]
2021-01-16 Jeremy Childs (from 16 February 2018) – also trustee of Temperance Hall; Ian Michael Grace; Jonathan Holt (from 13 May 2018); Michael David Farrant – also trustee of Temperance Hall; Stephen Paul Hodgson – also trustee of Branch Fm; Michael David Firth (from 26 September 2019); Lesley Cox; Terry Firth – also trustee of Temperance Hall [5]

Stephen Paul Hodgson is also a register trustee of Branch FM (1120585) and Open Arms Homes for Women (1198379); Adebowale Adekunle of Open Arms Homes for Women.[1]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 17 current and former officers of the charitable company (06402268), 7 of them active.[6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £147,936 £150,151
2022-12-31 £190,854 £137,970
2023-12-31 £223,322 £156,607
2024-12-31 £208,297 £196,896
2025-12-31 £223,219 £227,343

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2008[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2009[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2010[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2014[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[13]

Funding in Israel

  • No Israel spending identified: the accounts do not mention Israel or Jewish causes; activities are local church, school, radio and community work in Dewsbury, plus hosting meetings for "Voice of Persecuted Christians" (PDF p.3–4).[2] Israel appears only as a register area of operation.[1]

Israeli partners

No partner is named.[2]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No activity in Israel or the occupied territories is reported.[2] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[14] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[15][16][17][18] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[19]
  • Related-party salary. Mrs J E Holt, the school's headteacher and wife of trustee Jonathan Holt, was paid £19,415 (2024: £15,321) (PDF p.15).[2]
  • Expenditure figures disagree. The trustees' report and the register give 2025 expenditure of £227,343, while the statement of financial activities gives £238,780 (charitable £236,270, other £2,510); the stated deficit of £15,561 matches the latter (PDF p.4, 8).[2][1]
  • Resignation dates differ. The accounts record that Michael David Farrant resigned on 28 February 2025; (PDF p.4–5);[2] Companies House records his resignation as a director on 24 June 2025 and as secretary on 11 February 2025 (see Companies House officers below).

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[20] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[21]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[22]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[23]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[24]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[25] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[26]

  • Freehold property, net book value £250,140 at 31 December 2025; the church has operated from the Revival Centre, West Park Street, Dewsbury since 31 May 2023 – Accounts (PDF p.3, 11, 13) (source: [2])
  • Former Church of St Mark, Halifax Road, Dewsbury, (WF13 4LA) (title WYK687537, freehold; proprietor added 29/01/2009) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 06402268 (proprietor DEWSBURY GOSPEL CHURCH) (source: [26])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Dewsbury Gospel Church", "Branch Christian School" returned 0 contributions in total.[27]

Web archive

  • dewsburygospelchurch.org.uk: 10 yearly captures, first 2013-09-04, last 2026-07-16.[28]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)".[5]

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, Dewsbury Gospel Church (1123715): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1123715, contact and trustees (capture of 20100720) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1123715, contact and trustees (capture of 20120130) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1123715, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Company 06402268: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  7. ↑ Dewsbury Gospel Church accounts, year ended 2008-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110915).
  8. ↑ Dewsbury Gospel Church accounts, year ended 2009-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110915).
  9. ↑ Dewsbury Gospel Church accounts, year ended 2010-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120130).
  10. ↑ Dewsbury Gospel Church accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  11. ↑ Dewsbury Gospel Church accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  12. ↑ Dewsbury Gospel Church accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  13. ↑ Dewsbury Gospel Church accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-12 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status – "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" for 22 charities, "Removed charity" for Mifal Tzedukas and Keren Yaacov Limited, and "Charity reporting is up to date (256 days late)" for Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  20. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-12 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names: Madrasatul Imam Mohammad Zakariya and Harris Kaufman Trust).
  21. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-12 charity names returned zero results).
  22. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Dewsbury Gospel Church' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  23. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1123715 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  24. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-12 screening covered 390 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived accounts (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the six charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (Millage Limited, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (United Kingdom) Limited and Ezer Bekovoid Limited), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Foundation", "Society", "International") and surname-only coincidences (Green, Anderson, Weiss, Frank, Grace, Friedman, Fox, Ward); lists downloaded October 2026.
  25. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  27. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Dewsbury Gospel Church" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  28. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for dewsburygospelchurch.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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