The inquiry closed with the publication of this report. Issues under investigationĭue to the charity’s repeated failure to submit accounting information on time and concerns arising from the information submitted, the inquiry was opened to examine the charity’s wider governance and administration.
While included in the class inquiry the charity also failed to file its accounting information for FYE 31 December 2016. The charity was included in the class inquiry on 15 February 2017, for failing to file accounting information for the financial year ending (‘FYE’) 31 December 20. The class inquiry examines charities that repeatedly default on their statutory obligation to file annual accounts and returns (‘accounting information’) with the Commission. Before the opening of the inquiry the Commission engaged with the charity in the Double Defaulter Class Inquiry (‘the class inquiry’). On 2 July 2018, the Commission opened a statutory inquiry (‘the inquiry’) into the charity under section 46 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). The charity’s founder who was a trustee of the charity from 21 April 2017 to 10 January 2019 will be referred to as ‘Trustee A’. The trustees that were appointed after the opening of the inquiry but have since resigned will be referred to as the ‘interim trustees’. The trustees at the inquiry opening will be referred to as the ‘initial trustees’. The charity now has three trustees which will be referred to in this report as the ‘current trustees’. The charity’s trustees have changed a number of times since the opening of the inquiry. The objects of the charity are the promotion of the Christian faith and to relieve persons who are in need or hardship or who are sick in particular but not exclusively as a result of substance abuse.įurther details about the charity can be found on the register of charities. If you are interested in reading more about the details of this story you can order Adam’s book Two Fish through Amazon by clicking here.Livingstone House Mother of the Harvest Ministries (‘the charity’) is governed by a Declaration of Trust dated 4 February 2004 (’the governing document’) and was registered with the Commission on 24 February 2004. Since that beginning, House of the Harvest has been open every Saturday to serve breakfast and groceries to anywhere between 150-225+ families. Adam and Jennifer paid $1 for the location where House of the Harvest currently sits in the Harvest community. House of the Harvest ceased to be a delivery service and became an actual physical location on November 1, 2015. Shortly after this, the Harvest Volunteer Fire Department would donate their old facility on Wall Triana to the Walker family and their mission. The group did this for about five months. The church would meet at SMS every Wednesday night, pack food boxes, split up and deliver the boxes to the front door of the students houses. Soon phone calls were coming from all the Sparkman family schools with families of students in desperate need.Īll of this led to a delivery service ran by the Light church, where Adam and Jennifer attend. It wasn’t long before that little cabinet was tapped out, creating opportunities for the teachers of SMS, local churches in the community, and other organizations (namely the Manna House in Huntsville) to get involved. All of this led to a large number of students leaning on the support of the tiny cabinet in the corner of Jennifer’s classroom. The exceedingly low temperatures and ice forced school systems to close for multiple days at a time.
The winter of 2015 was extremely cold by Alabama standards. It was a need at the school, although nobody knew exactly how big. The project began as an opportunity for the students of Sparkman Middle to serve their own. Her husband, Adam, was a PE teacher and basketball coach at the school as well. Jennifer Walker was a seventh grade science teacher and sponsor of the Student Council. House of the Harvest began in August of 2015 as a school food pantry, ran by the Student Council at Sparkman Middle.
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