Midlands Gospel Mission (International)

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Malayalam-language Pentecostal church in Worcester that holds Bible study and periodic services in Tel Aviv

Midlands Gospel Mission (International)

Type Charitable company
Founded 2015-05-29 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1161906; company 08786769
Headquarters Worcester WR5
Area served Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, India, Walsall, Israel
Key people Pastor Santosh Kuriakose Manithottam (chair)
Website www.mgmglobal.org


Midlands Gospel Mission (International) (also Midlands Gospel Missions (International)) is a charitable company (08786769) incorporated on 22 November 2013 and registered on 29 May 2015; register areas are Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Walsall, India and Israel.[1][2] Its directors and trustees are Pastor Santosh Kuriakose Manithottam (chair), Denson Daniel, Thankachen Chakkittaparampil Philip, Reji Mathew and San Pichanattu Thomas, and its registered office is its church building in Worcester WR5, which the register calls MGM Philadelphia Christian Assembly (PDF p.3).[1][2] It describes itself as a Malayalam-language church that began as a house church in 2004 with three families and bought its church building in December 2013; it runs a Sunday School of more than 60 students, weekly Bible studies in Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford "as well as in Tel Aviv via video conferencing", "in-person services in Tel Aviv during periodic visits" and monthly Bible classes in Kidderminster, and it continued financial support for the Bihar Life Mission (PDF p.6).[2][3] In the year to 30 November 2025 income was £126,108 (2024: £125,012), mostly members' giving, and spending £77,847, including the pastor's salary and expenses of £21,279; funds were £262,270, of which £107,296 is the restricted church building (PDF p.5, 10, 15–16).[2] The independent examiner is D J Mant FCA of Abraham & Dobell, Southampton (PDF p.9).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "3. THE CHURCH'S OBJECTS ARE:- 3.1 FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARTICLE OF FAITH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS THE CHURCH ELDERS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "We are a Christian Church based on West Midlands. Our aim is to worship Lord Jesus Christ and spread the Gospel across United Kingdom and other Countries. We have regular Sunday services and variety of local church activities involving children, youth and adults. We also provide regular financial support to missionaries and donations to the people in need in UK and other parts of the world."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, India, Walsall, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Midlands Gospel Mission (International) (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Denson Daniel 2013-11-22 —
Thankachen Chakkittaparampil Philip 2013-11-22 —
Pastor Santosh Kuriakose Manithottam 2013-11-22 Yes —
San Pichanattu Thomas 2017-04-04 —
Reji Mathew 2022-05-01 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-15 Thankachen Chakkittaparampil Philip (from 22 November 2013); Sanju Thomas (from 22 November 2013); San Pichanattu Thomas (from 04 April 2017); Pastor Santosh Kuriakose Manithottam (chair) (from 22 November 2013); Denson Daniel (from 22 November 2013) [4]

Former directors at Companies House are Varghese Thomas Karinganamattam, Reji Matthew and Jaison Parakalayil Prakash (22 November 2013 to 4 April 2017) and Sanju Thomas (22 November 2013 to 28 December 2021); Companies House dates Reji Mathew's current appointment from 28 December 2021, the register from 1 May 2022.[5][1]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 9 current and former officers of the charitable company (08786769), 5 of them active.[6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-11-30 £56,247 £35,349
2022-11-30 £52,638 £56,766
2023-11-30 £74,938 £69,938
2024-11-30 £125,012 £84,876
2025-11-30 £126,108 £77,847

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 30/11/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • No spending in Israel is itemised; the charity's Israel activity is Bible study in Tel Aviv by video conference and in-person services there during periodic visits (PDF p.6, 15).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner organisation is named; the activity in Tel Aviv is the church's own (PDF p.6).[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
The accounts place the church's Israel activity in Tel Aviv; no activity beyond the Green Line is stated (PDF p.6).[2] Medium

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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
  • Israel activity not costed. The report describes Bible study and periodic services in Tel Aviv, but the accounts do not show what, if anything, was spent in Israel (PDF p.6, 15).[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).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

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.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]

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.[20]

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.[21] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[22]

  • Freehold land and buildings £107,296 (the church building in Worcester, bought in December 2013, not depreciated) – Accounts (PDF p.6, 16) (source: [2])
  • Freehold property, Worcester WR5 (title WR84152, freehold; proprietor added 10/01/2014) – CCOD match on the charity's exact name; the dataset records company number 8786796, which differs by two transposed digits from the charity's 08786769; probably the charity, but not verified against a title register (source: [22])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Midlands Gospel Mission" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

Web archive

  • mgmglobal.org: 5 yearly captures, first 2017-05-26, last 2026-01-13.[24]

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]

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 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. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Charity Commission, Midlands Gospel Mission (International) (1161906): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Midlands Gospel Mission, home page Wayback Machine, capture of 13 January 2026 ("Midlands Gospel Mission Pentecostal church Worcester"; 2 Norwich Road, Worcester).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1161906, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Companies House, MIDLANDS GOSPEL MISSION (INTERNATIONAL) (08786769): officers Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Company 08786769: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  7. ↑ Midlands Gospel Mission (International) accounts, year ended 2016-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ Midlands Gospel Mission (International) accounts, year ended 2017-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  9. ↑ Midlands Gospel Mission (International) accounts, year ended 2018-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  10. ↑ 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-16 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)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust showed "Removed charity".
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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).
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Midlands Gospel Mission' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1161906 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people 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 Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 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 the company numbers of the five charitable companies (01663511, 05791711, 08786769, 00803733, 07500030) and on the charities' registered and other names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Midlands Gospel Mission" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  24. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for mgmglobal.org Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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