Oasis Family Church Witney

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Independent church in Witney running Ceewood Hall and the Oasis Centre, whose overseas giving was £360 in 2024/25

Oasis Family Church Witney

Logo Fettiplace Road Witney 2011.jpg
Fettiplace Road, Witney (2011); the church's register address is Ceewood Hall on this road
Type Other
Founded 2007-04-10 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1118723
Headquarters Ceewood Hall, Fettiplace Road, Witney OX28
Area served Oxfordshire, Canada, Israel, Kenya
Website www.oasisfamilychurch.co.uk


Oasis Family Church Witney is a charitable trust established by a declaration of trust of 30 September 2006 and registered on 10 April 2007; its register address is Ceewood Hall, Fettiplace Road, Witney OX28.[1][2] The accounts say "The Church is constituted as an independent church, and the governing document is a Trust Deed" and that the trustees govern "the activities taking place at Ceewood Hall"; its aim is "the advancement of the Christian faith", including "Supporting charitable social action at home and abroad".[3] An archived 2014 version of its website described it as an "independent church based in Witney, Oxfordshire".[4] The register lists Dr Ayo-Ola Yetunde Smith (from 27 October 2017), Akinola Smith (from 16 March 2024) and Hilary Ewing (from 31 August 2025) as trustees, and its areas of operation as Oxfordshire, Canada, Israel and Kenya.[2] In the year to 31 March 2025 receipts were £37,023 (tithes, offerings and donations £22,417 and hall hire and other charitable activities £14,606) and payments were £987 for generating funds and £50,660 (2024: £48,581) for charitable activities, including hall expenses of £26,778, wages of £7,310, "Giving Overseas" of £360 (2024: £2,109) and other giving of £1,128; cash fell from £58,167 to £43,543.[3] The accounts were examined by David Cooke FCA of David Cooke and Co, Banbury, on 14 April 2026.[3]

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 WITNEY OXFORDSHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME 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 TRUST; AND(B) 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 TIME TO TIME THINK FIT."[2]

The register describes its activities as: "Worship & prayerEvangelism & MissionExpressing God's love to the communityNurture & growth of Christian disciplesTraining and equipping the congregation for Christian servicePastoral careSecond Hand Shop and CafeSupporting charitable social actionWitney Day Centre for the Elderly"[2]

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[2]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Oxfordshire, Canada, Israel, Kenya.[2]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[2]

Trustees of Oasis Family Church Witney (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Ayo-Ola Yetunde Smith 2017-10-27 —
Akinola Smith 2024-03-16 —
Hilary Ewing 2025-08-31 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-06 Tamsin Dale (from 10 April 2012); Graeme Dale (chair) (from 10 April 2007) – also trustee of Witney Day Centre; Ayo-Ola Yetunde Smith (from 27 October 2017) [5]
2021-07-03 Tamsin Dale (from 10 April 2012); John Troughear (from 15 February 2021); Graeme Dale (chair) (from 10 April 2007) – also trustee of Witney Day Centre; Rosemarie Troughear (from 15 February 2021); Ayo-Ola Yetunde Smith (from 27 October 2017) [6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £82,201 £50,321
2022-03-31 £55,909 £47,106
2023-03-31 £35,293 £43,408
2024-03-31 £38,420 £48,682
2025-03-31 £37,023 £51,647

Source: register annual-return history.[2]

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

Funding in Israel

  • Year to 31 March 2025: "Giving Overseas" £360 (2024: £2,109); the countries are not named.[3]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named; the accounts do not mention Israel. The register lists Israel among four areas of operation.[3][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.[3] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]

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]
  • Unclear signatures and trustee dates. The signatures and dates on the trustees' report and statement of assets are illegible, and the trustee list contains a garbled appointment date.[3]

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.[22]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[2] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[23] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[24]

  • No property in the receipts and payments accounts; the register says the charity owns or leases land or property, and the accounts say the trustees govern the activities at Ceewood Hall – Accounts and register (source: [3])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Oasis Family Church Witney", "Oasis Family Church" returned 0 contributions in total.[25]

Web archive

  • oasisfamilychurch.co.uk: 18 yearly captures, first 2002-08-07, last 2026-06-16.[26]

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".[5]

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ Charity Commission, Oasis Family Church Witney (1118723): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 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 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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Charity Commission, Oasis Family Church Witney (1118723): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 (PDF pages 3 and 6 are scanned images read by OCR; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  4. ↑ Oasis Family Church, Home page oasisfamilychurch.co.uk, Internet Archive Wayback Machine capture of 18/11/2014, viewed 16 October 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1118723, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 1118723, full print (capture of 20210703) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Oasis Family Church Witney accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ Oasis Family Church Witney accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ Oasis Family Church Witney accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  10. ↑ Oasis Family Church Witney accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  11. ↑ Oasis Family Church Witney accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  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-24 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; only Dalaid (1064655) showed one.
  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-24 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-24 charity names returned zero results).
  20. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Oasis Family Church' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1118723 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-24 screening covered 264 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Foundation", "Company Limited" in the names of corporate formation agents) and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 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. ↑ 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 charitable companies in this batch and searched for distinctive charity-name keywords; no title registers were purchased.
  25. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Oasis Family Church" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  26. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for oasisfamilychurch.co.uk Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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