John Hagee Ministries

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UK arm of the Texas-based John Hagee Ministries; it helped fund the launch of Christians United for Israel UK in 2015 and was wound down in 2022–2024

John Hagee Ministries

Type Charitable company (removed)
Founded 2007-12-07 (registered)
Dissolved 2024-05-01 (removed from the register: Does not operate)
Registration ID Registered charity 1121859
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel, United States

John Hagee Ministries is a Christian Zionist UK-based charity (no. 1121859) the UK-branch of the US John Hagee Ministries which supports settlement activity in the occupied West Bank. According to the charity's profile on the Charity Commission website the charity's activities comprise:

THE PROVISION FOR THE PROCLAMATION OF ALL THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO ALL THE WORLD AND TO ALL GENERATIONS.[1]

In 2013, John Hagee Ministries USA donated $50,000 to the Christian Friends of Israeli Communities which supports illegal settlements in the occupied territories.[2] The article says the CFOIC grant was "towards their initiative 'Heart of Benjamin' which supports children with autism and Downs Syndrome".[3] The organisation has also funded a sports complex in the settlement of Ariel.[4][5] [6]

History

The organisation became a registered charity in 2007.[1]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARTICLES OF FAITH SET OUT IN ARTICLE 35 BY SUCH MEANS AS THE DIRECTORS MAY DETERMINE."[7]

The register describes its activities as: "The provision for the proclamation of All the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to All the World and to All Generations."[7]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities.[7]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel, United States.[7]

Finances and Funding

Between 2010 and 2014 the charity spent £1,668,459.

Latest figures (Charity Commission register)

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £248,507 £221,718
2021-12-31 £94,860 £137,650
2022-12-31 £89,758 £108,788

Source: register annual-return history.[7]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2014[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[12]

People

Board of Directors circa July 2015

John Hagee | Diana Hagee | Desmond Robert Starritt | Gerrit Kotze | Samuel Cameron

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-06 Desmond Robert Starritt; John Charles Hagee; Diana Hagee; Samuel Cameron [13]

Former directors were Martin Stephen Berger (29 June 2007 to 8 December 2008) and Gerrit Kotze (29 June 2007 to 28 October 2016).[14]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 7 current and former officers of the charitable company (06297292), 0 of them active.[15] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Diana Hagee (United States, in office at dissolution); John Charles Hagee (United States, in office at dissolution).[15]

Funding in Israel

  • The 2014/15 and 2017 accounts describe a restricted fund, "Exodus II - Israel", as a "Fund to bless and support Jewish people, including those returning to Israel, with particular care for the poor and oppressed", and a Christians United for Israel fund "to develop a national association of pro-Israel churches to enable them to speak with one voice in support of Israel in relation to biblical issues"; the OCR of the fund tables is too poor to give reliable amounts.[16]
  • In 2022 the accounts record a £29,161 donation to John Hagee Ministries (USA) and £40,000 of "Donations to Other Charities" (2021: £40,000); no recipient of the £40,000 is named and no grant in Israel is identified (OCR).[17]

Israeli partners

John Hagee Ministries, San Antonio, Texas; Christians United for Israel UK.[16][17] No Israeli recipient is named in the accounts read.[17]

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
The accounts read name no place or recipient in Israel.[17][16] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is recorded in the accounts read.[17][16]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[18][19][20][21][22] The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Does not operate".[23]
  • Christians United for Israel. The 2014/15 accounts say restricted funds were reduced "due to a significant contribution to Christians United for Israel in the UK": "John Hagee Ministries provided initial funding to help establish 'Christians United for Israel', a national organisation with their first campaign 'Christians Against Anti-Semitism'", which held a launch event in London in June 2015 (OCR).[16]
  • Management company owned by a director. Day-to-day management was carried out by TLB Direct; the 2022 accounts say "The Company Secretary and Director, Des Starritt owns along with wife and sons, the business TLB Direct" (OCR).[17]
  • Payments to the US ministry. In 2022 the charity received donations of £55,587 and made a donation of £29,161 to John Hagee Ministries (USA); it also recorded £40,000 of "Donations to Other Charities" (2021: £40,000), with no recipient named (OCR).[17]

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).[24] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[25]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name found no insolvency or winding-up notice. Companies House records a first Gazette notice for voluntary strike-off on 6 February 2024 and "Final Gazette dissolved via voluntary strike-off" on 23 April 2024.[14][26]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[27]

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.[28]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[7] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[29]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "John Hagee Ministries" returned 0 contributions in total.[30]

Web archive

  • jhm.org: 30 yearly captures, first 1996-12-25, last 2026-01-01.[31]

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".[13]

Contact

Address circa July 2015:

Unit 2 Blackworth Court
Blackworth Industrial Estate
Highworth
Swindon
SN6 7NS
Phone: 01793 862146
Email: info@johnhageeministries.co.uk
Website: jhm.org

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charity Commission Website Charity Framework. Accessed 10 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Staff, 'Aliyah Tops List of $2.5 Million Gifted to Israeli Charities by John Hagee Ministries', Breaking Israel News, 28 October 2013, accessed 10 July 2015; archived 9 September 2015
  3. ↑ Breaking Israel News, 28 October 2013, Wayback Machine capture of 9 September 2015, viewed 20 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Eyes On Ariel Website Eyes on Ariel. Accessed 10 July 2015.
  5. ↑ Isabel Kershner, A West Bank Enclave Is on Edge The New York Times, 9 September 2010 (Ariel's sports and recreational complex has "its central John Hagee Building, named for the American preacher whose ministries donated $1.5 million toward the project").
  6. ↑ B'Tselem Website Settlements. Accessed 10 July 2015.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 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.
  8. ↑ John Hagee Ministries accounts, year ended 2014-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ John Hagee Ministries accounts, year ended 2015-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  10. ↑ John Hagee Ministries accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  11. ↑ John Hagee Ministries accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  12. ↑ John Hagee Ministries accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Register entry 1121859, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Companies House, JOHN HAGEE MINISTRIES (06297292): filing history Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026 (application for voluntary strike-off 30 January 2024; "Final Gazette dissolved via voluntary strike-off" 23 April 2024; last accounts for the year to 31 December 2022).
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Company 06297292: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 Charity Commission, John Hagee Ministries: accounts for the year ended 30 June 2015 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 06/01/2020. (scanned; read by OCR).
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 Companies House, John Hagee Ministries: report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022 filed 27 September 2023, viewed 16 October 2026 (the charity was removed in 2024 and no accounts are downloadable from the live register; independent examiner C. Vaughan FCA, Swindon, report dated 14 September 2023; scanned document read by OCR).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  21. ↑ 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).
  22. ↑ 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").
  23. ↑ Charity Commission, John Hagee Ministries (1121859): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("07 December 2007: Standard registration 01 May 2024: Removed (Does not operate)").
  24. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-18 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  25. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
  26. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'John Hagee Ministries' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  27. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1121859 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  28. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries and other people and bodies named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Weiss, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  29. ↑ 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.
  30. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "John Hagee Ministries" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  31. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for jhm.org Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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