The Church of God (Hitchin Hertfordshire) Trust
Removed 2018 Hitchin Christian trust with historic Israel area
| The Church of God (Hitchin Hertfordshire) Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Other (removed) |
| Founded | 1991-10-24 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2018-02-14 (removed: DOES NOT OPERATE) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1005126 |
| Area served | Hertfordshire, Bedford, Israel, Moldova, Portugal |
The Church of God (Hitchin Hertfordshire) Trust (also Hitchin Christian Centre) was removed from the register on 14 February 2018 as "DOES NOT OPERATE"; register areas included Hertfordshire, Bedford, Israel, Moldova and Portugal.[1] The extract holds no trustee records for removed charities, and no accounts were available on the live register for this profile.
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH OF GOD."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "We are a christian church. Our mission statement reads "to reach all people with the truth and love of God". Our activities centre around demonstrating God's love and care, mainly to the people of Hitchin and surrounding area, but also to the wider World. This is done through the more conventional church work but also through a variety of community initiatives."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Hertfordshire, Bedford, Israel, Moldova, Portugal.[1]
Trustees
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-30 | £336,659 | £337,704 |
| 2015-06-30 | £339,409 | £352,344 |
| 2016-06-30 | £423,907 | £391,934 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No accounts are available.[1]
Israeli partners
Not documented.
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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No accounts are available. | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No accounts are available, so it is not known whether any IDF or military funding was made.[2]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found in the 2025–2026 class-inquiry announcements; it was removed before those inquiries.[3][4][5][6][7]
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).[8] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[9]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name returned no notices.[10]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[11]
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.[12]
Land and property
The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[13]
Parliament
Hansard searches for 'Church of God (Hitchin', 'Hitchin Christian Centre', 'Hitchin Church of God' returned 0 contributions in total.[14]
Web archive
- hitchinchristiancentre.org.uk: no captures found.[15]
The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[16]
See also
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Charity Commission, The Church of God (Hitchin Hertfordshire) Trust (1005126): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities, viewed 15 October 2026 (no current accounts on the live register; archived accounts cited where available – see Archived accounts).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Hitchin Christian Centre' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1005126 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Hitchin Christian Centre' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
- ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for hitchinchristiancentre.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Register entry 1005126, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.