Pilgrimage People

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Christian pilgrimage company supporting the Latin Patriarchate and Anglican diocese in Jerusalem

Pilgrimage People

Logo Pilgrimage People logo.png
Type Charitable company
Founded 2012-02-09 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1145830; company 07180904
Headquarters Salisbury House, 2- 3 Salisbury Villas, Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2LA
Area served Israel, Jordan, Occupied Palestinian Territories
Website www.pilgrimagepeople.org


Pilgrimage People (also registered as Palestine Pilgrimage) is a charitable company (07180904) whose objects are "to support, principally through the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, primarily but not exclusively, the Christian community of the Holy Land"; register areas are Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.[1][2] Its trustees include R Hayes, J Goring, Rev D Longe, Bishop J Curry and A Steel, and its registered office is Salisbury House, Station Road, Cambridge. In the year to 30 September 2025 pilgrimage income was £444,014 and total income £446,438; funds were £21,530 (PDF p.2, 3, 8).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE TO SUPPORT, PRINCIPALLY THROUGH THE LATIN PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM, PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF THE HOLY LAND IN SUCH WAYS THAT ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE AFOREGOING WORDING) IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Support for the Christian Church in the Holy Land"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Jordan, Occupied Palestinian Territories.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Pilgrimage People (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Roland Edward Hayes 2017-07-07 Gnb Charitable Foundation Known As 'The Humanity Fund' (1145253)
Jane Goring 2017-09-01 —
Rev David John Hastings Longe 2019-05-14 —
Bishop James Paul Curry 2020-04-27 Seids (1189641)
Arthur Steel 2021-07-01 —
Fr Simon Peter John Clark 2026-05-15 All Hallows Parish Trust (1085568); All Saints Church Lands (214713); Christ Church Exhibition Fund (325124); St Nicholas With St Leonard Educational Charity (311642); The Charity of Thomas Beames (245822)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-16 Graham Snudden (from 09 February 2012); Jane Goring (from 01 September 2017); Roland Edward Hayes (from 07 July 2017) – also trustee of The St Barnabas Society, The Woolmen's Company Charitable Trust, The Converts' Aid Society, Gnb Charitable Foundation Known As 'The Humanity Fund' [3]
2021-07-02 Rev David John Hastings Longe (from 14 May 2019); Arthur Steel (from 01 July 2021) – also trustee of The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Christ Church Down Street; Jane Goring (from 01 September 2017); Monsignor James Paul Curry (from 27 April 2020); Roland Edward Hayes (from 07 July 2017) – also trustee of The St Barnabas Society, The Woolmen's Company Charitable Trust, The Converts' Aid Society, Gnb Charitable Foundation Known As 'The Humanity Fund' [4]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 14 current and former officers of the charitable company (07180904), 7 of them active.[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-09-30 £38,068 £80,949
2022-09-30 £193,918 £213,021
2023-09-30 £363,616 £373,042
2024-09-30 £262,728 £284,934
2025-09-30 £446,438 £452,453

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 31/05/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants and donations £1,500: Latin Patriarchate £750 and Episcopal Church of Jerusalem £750; direct costs of pilgrimages £356,305 (PDF p.12).[2]

Israeli partners

Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem; Episcopal Church of Jerusalem.[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
Activity with the Christian community of the Holy Land, including the Occupied Palestinian Territories (register area). Grants go to the Latin Patriarchate and the Anglican Episcopal diocese in Jerusalem. This is Christian community support, not Israeli settlement support. High – Holy Land / OPT Christian communities (not settlement support)

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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]

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.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]

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.[21]

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.[22] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[23]

  • Register records land or property; accounts describe pilgrimage operations and do not list a UK freehold address – Register extract; accounts (PDF p.8–12) (source: accounts)

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Pilgrimage People', 'Palestine Pilgrimage' returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

Web archive

  • pilgrimagepeople.org: 11 yearly captures, first 2014-05-16, last 2026-01-20.[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".[3]

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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 Charity Commission, Pilgrimage People Ltd (1145830): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file; text recovered by OCR from scanned pages).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1145830, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1145830, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Company 07180904: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Pilgrimage People accounts, year ended 2014-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ Pilgrimage People accounts, year ended 2015-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ Pilgrimage People accounts, year ended 2016-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ Pilgrimage People accounts, year ended 2017-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  10. ↑ Pilgrimage People accounts, year ended 2018-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  11. ↑ 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 every charity in batches 1–8 (200 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102), The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust (299687) and Kollel Mishkon Yakov (1170620).
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the batch-7 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Lieutenancy of Scotland, is a separate Scottish body).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-7 charity name returned zero results).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Pilgrimage People' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1145830 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-7 screening covered 428 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers, lenders, subsidiaries and related bodies named in the accounts read for this batch (including Ambertown International Ltd); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. The single forename-and-surname candidate (a former Wimbledon and District Synagogue director against a UK counter-terrorism designation) has different middle names and was not treated as a match; all other candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps; lists downloaded October 2026.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Pilgrimage People' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
  25. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for pilgrimagepeople.org Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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