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Devon-based Christian charity supporting families of people with intellectual disabilities, formerly from a Bethlehem centre and now from Mafraq, Jordan

Love Into Action

Type Trust
Founded 2012-08-17 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1148630
Headquarters Ivybridge PL21
Area served Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel, Jordan
Key people Sara Wadsworth (chair)
Website www.loveintoaction.org


Love Into Action (LIA) is a charitable trust (trust deed of 15 August 2012, amended 25 August 2021) registered on 17 August 2012; register areas are the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel and Jordan.[1] Its trustees are Sara Wadsworth (chair and safeguarding lead), Daniel Villars (treasurer), Janet Villars, Sharon Garnett and Laurence Garnett, with a principal address in Ivybridge PL21 (PDF p.3).[1][2] It supports families caring for people with profound intellectual disabilities. Its 2024 report describes a centre in Mafraq, Jordan, serving Syrian refugee families and Bedouin communities, written "Five years on from the difficult decision to close our Bethlehem centre"; it remains in touch "where possible, with families in Bethlehem and the wider region" (PDF p.2). Receipts in 2024 were £137,834 (donations £134,632; olive-wood sales £3,177) and payments £142,238, including grants of £11,585 and an exchange loss of £2,196 (PDF p.7).[2] Its website says its "work is rooted in Christian faith".[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE and to advance such other charitable purposes which may be charitable according to the law of England and Wale) as the trustees see fit from time to time."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Love Into Action provides support to families in the Middle East affected by intellectual disabilities through providing respite care; community outreach; training & support; and through sharing learning & best practice in these areas; plus supporting the leadership of other small charities. LIA also provides support to other people and communities, where it operates, as the opportunity arises."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Disability.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Love Into Action (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Laurence Garnett 2012-04-07 —
Sharon Garnett Baqts Hons 2012-04-07 —
Dan Villars 2012-07-17 —
Janet Villars 2014-09-24 —
Sara Wadsworth 2020-08-25 Yes —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-13 Dan Villars (from 17 July 2012); Sharon Garnett Baqts Hons (from 07 April 2012); Phil Lawson (from 01 January 2017); Laurence Garnett (chair) (from 07 April 2012); Janet Villars (from 24 September 2014) [4]
2021-07-03 Dan Villars (from 17 July 2012); Sharon Garnett Baqts Hons (from 07 April 2012); Laurence Garnett (chair) (from 07 April 2012); Phil Lawson (from 01 January 2017); Janet Villars (from 24 September 2014) [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £62,849 £61,208
2021-12-31 £47,212 £62,109
2022-12-31 £89,743 £76,259
2023-12-31 £121,396 £130,656
2024-12-31 £137,834 £144,434

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 31/12/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

  • 2024 grants £11,585 "to support partner organisations in Jordan and Palestine"; restricted funds included £10,000 spent on "Relocating equipment from Palestine", and the charity's accounts are also audited "in the Palestinian Territories and Jordan" (PDF p.8).[2] No spending in Israel is described.

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named; partners in Jordan and Palestine are not named (PDF p.8).[2] Archived pages of the charity's website (January 2020) describe Beit Yusef (Joseph's House), a respite house opened in 2014 on a long-term lease, community support that "takes place throughout the Palestinian areas of the West Bank" and an Olive Wood Project "based at our centre in the Shepherds Fields of Bethlehem".[11][12]

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
Until about 2019 the charity ran a centre in the Shepherds' Fields, Bethlehem, and its 2020 website described support "throughout the Palestinian areas of the West Bank"; this was work with Palestinian families, not with settlements. The exact address of the centre is not given.[11][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;[13] 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.[14][15][16][17] 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.[18]
  • Land not explained. The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property, but the 2024 receipts-and-payments accounts do not describe any (PDF p.7–8).[1][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).[19] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[20]

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.[21]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[22]

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.[23]

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.[24]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Love Into Action" returned 0 contributions in total.[25]

Web archive

  • loveintoaction.org: 13 yearly captures, first 2013-09-28, last 2026-01-19.[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".[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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, Love Into Action (1148630): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Love Into Action, home page Wayback Machine, capture of 19 January 2026 ("a UK charity making a difference for families struggling with severe disabilities in the Middle East"; home visits in "small towns, villages, and Bedouin communities"; "Our work is rooted in Christian faith").
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1148630, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1148630, full print (capture of 20210703) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Love Into Action accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ Love Into Action accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ Love Into Action accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  9. ↑ Love Into Action accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  10. ↑ Love Into Action accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Love Into Action, Our projects Wayback Machine, capture of 26 January 2020 (Beit Yusef community support and respite care "takes place throughout the Palestinian areas of the West Bank"; the Olive Wood Project "is based at our centre in the Shepherds Fields of Bethlehem").
  12. ↑ Love Into Action, Beit Yusef (Joseph's House) Wayback Machine, capture of 26 January 2020 (opened to its first respite guest on 1 January 2014 on a long-term lease; respite care "currently ... suspended due to staff shortages and reduced funding").
  13. ↑ 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-15 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)"; The Kolel Limited showed "up to date (85 days late)" and Practical Compassion for Destitute Children "up to date (2 days late)"; Lionel Black Charitable Trust, Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad, Prayer for Israel (326132) and The Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust showed "Removed charity".
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  17. ↑ 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).
  18. ↑ 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").
  19. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-15 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-15 charity names returned no matching charity; the only result, for "Donkey", was an unrelated Belfast organisation).
  21. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Love Into Action' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1148630 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  23. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-15 screening covered 227 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the three charitable companies and of J. E. Joseph Trustee Company Limited, directors of the dissolved Friends of Horim company (01966551), and trustees, executive-committee members, 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 Hassan, Friedman, Cohen and Sabah) or the generic words "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  24. ↑ 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.
  25. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Love Into Action" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  26. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for loveintoaction.org Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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