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Norfolk Christian charity whose grants mainly pay the salaries of Messianic and Arab Christian workers in Israel, led by the Dugit centre in Tel Aviv

Your People My People

Type Trust
Founded 2011-03-08 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1140739
Headquarters Your People My People, PO Box 66, Swaffham, PE37 9AW
Area served Norfolk, Israel
Key people Karen Sara Gower (chair)
Website www.yourpeoplemypeople.org


Your People My People is a Christian charitable trust established by a declaration of trust of 31 December 2010 and registered on 8 March 2011; its correspondence address is a PO box in Swaffham, Norfolk, and its register areas are Norfolk and Israel (PDF p.2).[1][2] Its objectives are to share the Gospel, to relieve hardship in Israel, the UK and elsewhere, and to educate the Church about its Jewish roots; it makes grants to "trusted organisations in Israel who are sharing the Christian message", ministries run by "Jewish and Arab followers of Jesus", mostly towards Christian workers' salaries (PDF p.3–4).[2] The trustees are Karen Gower (chair), Amanda Harris (secretary), David Adeola, Alison Cracknell, Michael Norman and Helen Scothern (PDF p.2).[1][2] In 2025 receipts were £96,283 and payments £134,127, leaving balances of £24,839, of which £18,777 was restricted (PDF p.5).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "4. THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE: 4.1 TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN ISRAEL AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF 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 TRUST4.2 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE ISRAEL OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT4.3 TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE BELIEFS OF JUDAISM INCLUDING AN AWARENESS OF THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF ISRAEL AND THE COMMON GROUND OF JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY TO PROMOTE GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF EACH FAITH"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "YPMP raises awareness and support for indigenous ministries and individuals in Israel that help to relieve poverty and suffering, and actively share their faith in Jesus/Yeshua through teaching and practical works. We promote identification with the Jewish roots of the Christian faith through teaching, social media, and publications in the UK and around the world."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Norfolk, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Your People My People (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
David Adeola not recorded The Builders House (1146333); The Father's Blessing (1117395)
Karen Sara Gower not recorded Yes —
Amanda Jane Harris not recorded Dersingham Parochial Church Council (250450)
Michael Norman not recorded —
Alison Margaret Cracknell 2023-09-04 —
Helen Elizabeth Scothern 2023-09-04 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-13 Karen Sara Gower (chair); Michael Norman; Amanda Jane Harris; David Adeola – also trustee of The Father's Blessing; Catherine Harrison [3]

The accounts list the same six trustees as the register; trustee David Adeola is also on the register as a trustee of The Builders House and The Father's Blessing.[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £130,005 £112,263
2022-12-31 £99,599 £109,243
2023-12-31 £109,603 £108,612
2024-12-31 £157,215 £153,101
2025-12-31 £96,283 £134,127

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[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • 2025 grants £72,885 (2024: £89,947): Dugit Messianic Outreach Centre, Tel Aviv £46,500 (2024: £53,600); Helping Hand Coalition, Caesarea £6,000; Amutat Agape, Tel Aviv £4,850; Dor Haba, Jerusalem £4,800; Lech L'cha, Petach Tikva £4,800; House of Prayer and Exploits, Nazareth £4,735 (2024: £14,847); Wycliffe UK £1,200 (PDF p.10).[2] Direct charitable payments were a further £61,242 (PDF p.8).[2]

Israeli partners

Dugit Messianic Outreach Centre (Tel Aviv); Amutat Agape, a local congregation in Tel Aviv; House of Prayer and Exploits (HOPE), Nazareth, which works on Arab-Jewish relations; Helping Hand Coalition, Caesarea, which helps Holocaust survivors; Dor Haba, run by Nations Standing with Israel, Jerusalem, which holds youth camps for "Jewish, Arab and Palestinian youth" "around the country"; Lech L'cha (given as Petach Tikva in note 3 and as "a charity in Ramat Gan" in note 5) (PDF p.4, 10–11).[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
Each grantee is given a town (Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Caesarea, Jerusalem, Petach Tikva or Ramat Gan); none is said to work beyond the Green Line, and the places of Dor Haba's camps "around the country" are not given (PDF p.10–11).[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;[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]
  • Trustees paid as employees. Two trustees, Amanda Harris and Karen Gower, were each paid £24,255 (2024: £23,100) as employees plus £1,940 pension contributions; the accounts say this is permitted by the governing document. Employment costs were £52,067 (PDF p.10).[2]
  • Charges to the main grantee. The restricted Dugit fund received £49,151 and paid out £46,851, and a further £30,235 was transferred out "in respect of agreed charges made by the charity to Dugit for administering aspects of their support services" (PDF p.11).[2]
  • Reserve and approval gaps. The report says "The designated £10,000 Dugit reserve was successfully maintained throughout the year", but the receipts and payments account and statement of assets show no designated funds; the dates of trustee approval and of the independent examiner's report (Sarah Crispin ACA, Stewardship) are blank. The report also refers to a "submission error in the 2024 Annual Accounts" that was reported to the Commission (PDF p.5–9).[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 notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[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 "Your People My People" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

Web archive

  • yourpeoplemypeople.org: 16 yearly captures, first 2011-02-14, last 2026-01-05.[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 up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

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. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 Charity Commission, Your People My People (1140739): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1140739, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Your People My People accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  5. ↑ Your People My People accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  6. ↑ Your People My People accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ Your People My People accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ Your People My People accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  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-18 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Sixteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the Porter Foundation showed "up to date (1 day late)", The Persian Hebrew Community "up to date (48 days late)", Bernard Kahn Charitable Trust "up to date (33 days late)" and the Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; Jassiane Limited showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 623 days"; The Friends of Birzeit University, The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls and John Hagee Ministries 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-18 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-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Your People My People' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1140739 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-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries 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 Weiss, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; 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 "Your People My People" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  22. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for yourpeoplemypeople.org Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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