en investigates: Is your church bank account at risk of closure?

Last summer the national media shone the spotlight on when and how banks may close customers’ accounts.

Evangelicals Now has been contacted by two evangelical churches in Essex, South Park Chapel, Ilford, and Becontree Church, in Barking and Dagenham, London, whose banking facilities were withdrawn recently by Barclays.

Having supplied en with a detailed timeline of how these closures took place, their spokesman, Jason Freeman, who is a trustee of both churches, claims: ‘It is at least possible that someone in Barclays has an agenda to close down church bank accounts.’