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London charitable company linked to the US Jerusalem Prayer Team, spending £18,377 on direct ministry and aid, mostly in Ukraine, against £186,209 of support costs

J P Team International

Type Charitable company
Founded 2014-11-20 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1159304; company 08290018
Headquarters 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London, W1W 7LT
Area served Throughout England, Israel, Netherlands, Ukraine
Website www.JerusalemPrayerTeam.co.uk


J P Team International, also known as Jerusalem Promise, is a charitable company (08290018) incorporated on 12 November 2012 and registered on 20 November 2014; register areas are England, Israel, the Netherlands and Ukraine.[1][2] Its object is to advance the Christian faith through the relief of financial need and "through communal prayer for the peace of Jerusalem and for the protection of the Jewish people and the Eretz Yisrael until the Redeemer comes to Zion".[1] Its website is JerusalemPrayerTeam.co.uk, and the Jerusalem Prayer Team in the United States gave it printing, postage and design services worth £10,000; Carolyn Evans and Michael David Evans II helped set up other JP Team International charities around the world (PDF p.12, 19).[1][3] Michael David Evans II is chief executive and a trustee; the other trustees are Viktor Matveyev and Douglas Bisel, and the examiner is Moore Kingston Smith (PDF p.3).[3] In the year to 30 November 2025 income was £107,900 and spending £274,348, of which £69,762 was fundraising and £204,586 charitable activities, and funds fell from £718,442 to £551,994 (PDF p.12).[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN FINANCIAL NEED AND THROUGH COMMUNAL PRAYER FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM AND FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE ERETZ YISRAEL UNTIL THE REDEEMER COMES TO ZION."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "JP Team International is a Christian-led prayer, teaching and response team. Our work is to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, stand against anti-semitism and bring relief in response to humanitarian crises from acts of terror and war. This is accomplished through relief efforts, education, public speaking, multimedia and training internationally."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England, Israel, Netherlands, Ukraine.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of J P Team International (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Michael David Evans II 2013-10-17 —
Viktor Matveyev 2025-01-10 —
Robert Thomas Gibbons 2025-01-10 —
Douglas Bisel 2025-12-18 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-14 Carolyn Sue Evans (from 17 October 2013); Michael David Evans II (from 17 October 2013); Timothy Malone (from 24 July 2019); Margaret Armstrong (from 24 July 2019); Randall Kenneth Barton (from 11 July 2014) [4]

Companies House lists Michael David Evans II (from 12 November 2012), Viktor Matveyev (from 10 January 2025) and Douglas Bisel (secretary from 18 December 2025, director from 2 September 2026) as current officers. Former directors include Michael David Evans (recorded as "Evans I"; 12 November 2012 to 1 March 2019), Carolyn Sue Evans (to 12 January 2025), Randall Kenneth Barton (31 July 2014 to 2 October 2025), Robert Thomas Gibbons (10 January 2025 to 1 September 2026), Margaret Freda Armstrong and Tim Malone (24 July 2019 to 1 January 2025) and Douglas Peter Preudhomme (to 1 September 2017).[2]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 13 current and former officers of the charitable company (08290018), 4 of them active.[5] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Douglas Bisel (United States, active); Michael David Evans II (United States, active); Margaret Freda Armstrong (United States, resigned); Randall Kenneth Barton (United States, resigned); Carolyn Sue Evans (United States, resigned); Michael David Evans (United States, resigned); Tim Malone (United States, resigned); Douglas Peter Preudhomme (United States, resigned).[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-11-30 £202,364 £237,661
2022-11-30 £260,098 £234,806
2023-11-30 £154,367 £158,677
2024-11-30 £178,312 £171,649
2025-11-30 £97,900 £166,454

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[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • No spending in Israel is shown for FY2025; direct ministry and aid was £18,377, including a £16,055 grant to the Project for the Poor in Ukraine (PDF p.7, 16).[3] Restricted funds for the Friends of the Zion Center (Building Project) (£595) and Orphans in Israel (£278) had no movement in the year (PDF p.18).[3]

Israeli partners

No Israeli organisation received funds in FY2025; the restricted fund names the Friends of the Zion Center building project (PDF p.18).[3]

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 for any spending.[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;[9] 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.[10][11][12][13] 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.[14]
  • Support costs dwarf aid. Of the £204,586 of charitable spending, £18,377 was direct ministry and aid and £186,209 allocated support costs; support costs of £233,466 in total included design and editing £58,538, payroll £42,820, partner services £31,200 Ukraine outreach support £20,669 and Ukraine travel and meetings £15,768 (PDF p.16–17).[3]
  • Paid employee became a trustee. The charity's one paid employee was appointed a trustee in January 2025; key management benefits were £42,820 (PDF p.17–18).[3]
  • Signing irregularities. The examiner's report is undated, the trustees' report signature has a blank date, and the balance-sheet approval line names "R. Barton, Trustee", although Randall Barton resigned on 2 October 2025 (PDF p.10, 11, 13).[3][2]
  • Accounts overdue at Companies House. Companies House shows the company's accounts as overdue: the accounts to 30 November 2025, due by 31 August 2026, had not been filed there, although the same accounts are on the Charity Commission register.[2][1]
  • Register discrepancies. The register still lists Robert Thomas Gibbons, who resigned on 1 September 2026, dates Douglas Bisel's appointment to 18 December 2025 (Companies House: secretary from that date, director from 2 September 2026), and dates the memorandum and articles to 12 November 2014, two years after incorporation.[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).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]

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.[17]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]

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.[19]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[20]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "J P Team International", "Jerusalem Prayer Team", "Jerusalem Promise" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

Web archive

  • jerusalemprayerteam.co.uk: 13 yearly captures, first 2013-04-21, last 2026-02-18.[22]

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 106 days late" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 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 Companies House, J P TEAM INTERNATIONAL (08290018) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026 (incorporated 12 November 2012; registered office 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London W1W; "Accounts overdue": accounts made up to 30 November 2025 were due by 31 August 2026, and the last accounts filed were made up to 30 November 2024).
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Charity Commission, J P Team International (1159304): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1159304, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Company 08290018: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  6. ↑ J P Team International accounts, year ended 2016-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  7. ↑ J P Team International accounts, year ended 2017-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ J P Team International accounts, year ended 2018-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  9. ↑ 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-17 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Starscope Limited showed "up to date (23 days late)", UK Friends of Tzohar "up to date (18 days late)" and The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; BFON Trust showed no reporting-status line; Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Michoel, Friends of Reb Sender Dominitz, Emerald Benevolence Ltd and Academic Study Group showed "Removed charity".
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ 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).
  14. ↑ 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").
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-17 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-17 charity names returned no matching charity).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'J P Team International' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1159304 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-17 screening covered 231 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people and bodies 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 Rotenberg, Weiss, Levy and Cohen) or generic words such as "Ltd", "International", "Group" and "Team"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "J P Team International" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  22. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for jerusalemprayerteam.co.uk Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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