The Charity Commission has appointed interim managers to run unregistered charity London Spiritual Mission.

The move has been made amid the regulator’s ongoing probe into the charity and a connected charity, called Trust Property Held In Connection With the London Spiritual Mission.

The probe into the Trust Property charity launched three years ago and was broadened to include the unregistered charity in February last year.

Concerns focus on the purported dissolution of the London Spiritual Mission and transfer of its assets, including legacy funds to a Trust that is a company limited by guarantee and is the sole trustee.

The interim managers Liz Brownsell and Jennifer Marley of Birketts LLP will investigate the membership of London Spiritual Mission, which is based in Kensington, London, and offers spiritual healing sessions and private readings with its mediums.

Its legal and governance structures will also be looked at and they will also ensure that any of its assets are transferred to the charity or “an appropriate charitable structure”.

Links between the Mission and the Trust Property charity will also be looked at and the interim managers will oversee and organise any recruitment of trustees to manage the charity or successor charity in the future.

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