The Living Word Ministry
Charity 1136663
www.thelivingwordministry.co.uk
Overview
Summary
The Living Word Ministry appears to be a faith-led charity with a deliberately broad mandate spanning Christian ministry, hardship relief and education. Its public identity is currently centred on spreading a Christian message rather than on describing specific services, programmes or communities reached. This suggests an organisation whose formal scope allows multiple forms of charitable work, but whose visible operating model and local relationships remain difficult to assess from the available evidence.
Operational geography
Coverage: International
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- No current source identifies a Birmingham venue, programme location, service timetable, beneficiary catchment or partnership through which The Living Word Ministry delivers activity.
- The current Companies House registered office is in Birmingham, but the organisation has moved its registered office repeatedly between Birmingham and Congleton since November 2024. This supports treating the address as an administrative address rather than evidence of a service site.
- The charity's stated purposes permit activity across the United Kingdom and world, and its website describes a mission directed towards 'all peoples'; these statements indicate international ambition or permitted scope, but do not establish the locations of current delivery.
- A Weoley Hill United Reformed Church links page describes the organisation as serving an Arabic community, but does not demonstrate that it currently delivers services from that church or elsewhere in Birmingham.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, trustees' report or Charity Commission activity return specifying where services, worship, education or hardship-relief activity were delivered.
- Current official programme, event or contact information identifying any Birmingham worship or service venue.
- Confirmation from the organisation of whether its Birmingham registered office is an operational site, and if so what activity is delivered there.
- Official evidence of active delivery partnerships and the locations at which those partnerships operate.
Areas of work
- Religious Activities
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A broad charitable mandate, with a narrower visible identity
The charity’s governing objects permit religious, relief and educational work, but its recorded activity type and website messaging place Christian ministry at the centre of its currently visible identity.
Why it matters
This distinction helps separate what the organisation is authorised to do from what it presently appears to foreground. Potential partners should not assume that relief or education are established service areas without further evidence.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include advancing the Christian faith, relieving need or hardship, and advancing education in accordance with Christian principles.”
Source:Charity Commission“What the charity does: Religious Activities.”
Source:Charity Commission“We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ.”
Source:Organisation
Potentially wide geographic reach, but no evidenced local footprint
The organisation is constituted to work in London, elsewhere in the United Kingdom and internationally, yet the available material does not identify a neighbourhood, congregation, delivery site or partner network.
Why it matters
Its potential role in a place cannot yet be located. The absence of a stated footprint may indicate an early-stage public presence, a dispersed model, or simply limited published information.
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“The charity may work in London and in other parts of the United Kingdom or the world.”
Source:Charity Commission“Website under construction.”
Source:Organisation
Public benefit is stated broadly rather than through defined groups
The organisation reports helping the general public and providing services, while its objects also refer to people in hardship, older people and people who are sick. This may indicate an inclusive ministry model, but the intended balance between general outreach and targeted support is unclear.
Why it matters
Understanding whether support is universal, faith-community-based or targeted to particular needs is important for identifying complementary organisations and unmet local needs.
Show evidence
“Who the charity helps: The General Public/mankind.”
Source:Charity Commission“How the charity helps: Provides Services.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity's objects include relieving persons in need, hardship, old age or sickness.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Which services, if any, are currently delivered beyond religious activity.
- Where the organisation operates and which communities it reaches.
- Whether it has active relationships with other charities, churches, schools or support services.
Remaining uncertainties
- Details of current programmes, service locations, participation and beneficiary groups.
- Annual reports, financial information and evidence of partnerships or referrals.
- A completed website or other public material describing delivery activity and leadership.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT (B) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; (C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES
Charity objects
(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN LONDON AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREIN CALLED "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 CHARITY; (B) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; (C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY CONSIDER APPROPRIATE INCLUDING BY MEANS OF ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING ANY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OR ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.