Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust

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Gloucester charismatic church, part of the Catch the Fire family, with a small restricted fund for ministry trips to Israel

Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust

Type Other
Founded 2002-06-07 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1092358
Headquarters The Firehouse (Chapel), Newton Avenue, Coney Hill, Gloucester, GL4 4NS
Area served Gloucestershire, Israel, Kenya, Uganda
Website www.goldenvalleychurch.net


Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust was registered on 7 June 2002; register areas are Gloucestershire, Israel, Kenya and Uganda.[1] It meets at The Firehouse (Chapel), Newton Avenue, Coney Hill, Gloucester; trustees in the accounts are I Bull (chairman), C Boucker, Mrs R Wright, A C Clennett, D N Edgar and C O'Toole (PDF p.3).[1][2] Its objects are the advancement of the Christian faith, the relief of need and education; it supports projects in Uganda and Kenya and partner churches in Ukraine and Bulgaria, and is part of a "global family of churches based at 'Catch the Fire', Toronto, Canada" (PDF p.3–4);[2] its website says it "began life out of the Holy Spirit outpouring of the 1990's, sometimes referred to as the 'Toronto Blessing'".[3] In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £166,255, mostly donations, and funds £121,617 (PDF p.6).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE TRUSTB) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TO TIME THINK FITC) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION PARTICULARLY IN THE AREAS OF PERSONAL MORALITY, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PERSONAL HEALTH IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT PARTICULARLY AMONGST CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Regular church meetings, conferences, international ministry."[1]

Register classifications: Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Gloucestershire, Israel, Kenya, Uganda.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Colin Arthur Boucker not recorded —
Ian Bull not recorded —
R A Wright 2012-11-29 —
Alexander Charles Clennett 2019-07-27 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-13 R A Wright (from 29 November 2012); Alexander Charles Clennett (from 27 July 2019); David Nigel Edgar (from 10 October 2020); Colin Arthur Boucker; Ian Bull; Colin O'Toole (from 10 October 2020) [4]
2021-07-04 R A Wright (from 29 November 2012); David Nigel Edgar (from 10 October 2020); Alexander Charles Clennett (from 27 July 2019); Colin Arthur Boucker; Ian Bull; Colin O'Toole (from 10 October 2020) [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £79,497 £64,218
2022-03-31 £72,708 £75,444
2023-03-31 £83,118 £101,936
2024-03-31 £113,412 £101,282
2025-03-31 £166,255 £96,539

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 31/03/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[11]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 restricted "Israel Ministry" fund: income £710, spending £1,102 – "Funds to send ministry teams to Israel and hosting visiting ministry from Israel here in the UK. Also, on occasion providing financial support via our trusted partners to individuals and projects for purposes of relieving hardship" (PDF p.12).[2]

Israeli partners

Not named; the accounts refer only to "our trusted partners" (PDF p.12).[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 place in Israel is named.[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;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
  • Payments to a trustee's wife. Mrs C R Boucker, wife of trustee C Boucker, was paid for self-employed ministry work; trustees donated £15,558 (PDF p.11).[2]

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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[20]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]

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.[22]

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.[23]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Golden Valley Church" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

Web archive

  • goldenvalleychurch.net: 6 yearly captures, first 2021-08-04, last 2026-02-16.[25]

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: No information available".[4]

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust (1092358): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Golden Valley Church, goldenvalleychurch.net home page Wayback Machine, capture of 4 August 2021 ("A CATCH THE FIRE CHURCH"; the church "began life out of the Holy Spirit outpouring of the 1990's, sometimes referred to as the 'Toronto Blessing'").
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1092358, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1092358, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  9. ↑ Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  10. ↑ Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  11. ↑ Golden Valley Church Gloucester Trust accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  12. ↑ 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-14 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Friends of the Israel Cancer Association showed "up to date (13 days late)" and The Bertie Black Foundation "up to date (82 days late)"; British Friends of Neve Shalom, Mesila UK, The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions and Etz Chaim Foundation showed "Removed charity".
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  16. ↑ 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).
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  18. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-14 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-14 charity names returned zero results).
  20. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Golden Valley Church' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1092358 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-14 screening covered 282 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, directors of the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation company and of Mesila UK Limited, related companies and charities named in the accounts (including Bestgreat Ltd, Jonvan Properties, One Shakespeare Limited, Beauland Limited, Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited and Torah Temimah Trust) and trustees, examiners and donors named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person or company was found; the only token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Cohen and Jones); lists downloaded October 2026.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Golden Valley Church" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  25. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for goldenvalleychurch.net Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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