Trustees link to £2 billion of Covid Contracts

Albacore Gospel Hall Trust

The Albacore Gospel Hall Trust is a registered charity 1159958. The trust is responsible for the Gospel Hall on Beckenham Hill Road in Beckenham.   The hall and site has parking for over 200 cars.

On the published accounts of the charity, the meeting room is recorded as an asset, with a value of over £1.6 million. In the financial year ending 5th April 2021, the trust recorded income of £187,000.. The current trustees of the Albacore Gospel Hall Trust are Bruce Hazell (Chair), Ray Hall, Garth Woodcock, Jonathan Woodcock & John Glass. These 5 trustees have links to Covid contracts won by 17 companies ran by members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church during the pandemic.

Garth Woodcock

Garth is listed as a director or ex director of 19 companies on Companies House. He is named as a current director of 2 companies that won covid contracts to supply PPE. He is also listed as the co-founder of Jemc Ltd incorporated in July 2011. The company changed name to Unispace Global Ltd a month later. Anthony Hazell was appointed as a director in 2013. Garth was listed as a director until 2016. Garth is linked directly or via family connections to 13 companies that won Covid contracts.

Direct Links

​Orcagel £416,000
Garth Woodcock is a director of Orcagel/Orca Hygiene
Oska Care £20,000,000
Garth Woodcock is a director of Oska Care
Unispace/Sante Global LLP/Sterilabs £940,248,856
Garth Woodcock was the co-founder of Unispace Global Ltd in the UK. Unispace is now Sante Global LLP who have been awarded a contract jointly with Sterilabs Services
Creative Activity Group Ltd £17,200,000
Garth Woodcock's Orcagel business has a Northern Ireland based Irish distributor which is Creative Activity Group.

Family Links

Ascot Signs    £2,790,000
Cyril Parsons founded Jemc/Unispace Global with Garth Woodcock in 2011. He is the brother in law of Garth Woodcock. Cyril's brother is Roger Parsons who is a director of Ascot Signs
Carlton Packaging £3,004,300
The Magee's at Carlton Packaging are the cousins of Roger & Cyril Parsons.
Medco Solutions £772,210,000
Myles Woodcock - Is one of Garth Woodcock son's, Myles is the Sales Director at Medco Solutions. Prior to that he worked for Anthony Hazell's father Jim Hazell at Ox Tools. Anthony Hazell's brother Lee is the commercial director for Medco Solutions.
General Design Concepts £1,716,650
Anthony Hazell is married to Beatrice (nee Glass) who is the one of many niece's of Garth Woodcock. Anthony Hazell was a director of Unispace Global/Sante Global LLP and is now a director of both General Design Concepts & CMT Equipment.
CMT Equipment    £912,767
Anthony Hazell is a director of CMT Equipment.
Agile Medical   £18,660,941
Chris Glass director of Agile Medical is the brother in law of Garth Woodcock.
Techniclean Supply £20,000,000
Charles Ker who found Techniclean is another brother in law of Garth Woodcock.
Kingsbury Press £12,870,000
Director Robert Layton is married to Sonia (nee Glass), Sonia is a niece of Garth Woodcock. Kingsbury Press has been sold since delivering their PPE contract.

Bruce Hazell

Bruce Hazell is listed as director or ex-director of 6 companies, Tilepal Ltd, Trimline Group, Warmfloors Group, OnemediUK are all current directorships with Research & Innovations Group & Leigh House solutions being ex directorships. Bruce Hazell is the brother of Jim Hazell & the uncle of Anthony Hazell. His other brother Peter is married to Lois (nee Reiner).

Bruce was heavily involved in the Charity Commission appeal back in 2013 and was seen as an active lobbyist in parliament for the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. His company Trimline Group have donated to the Conservative Party. His biggest claim to fame though is a mysterious $377,0000 donation to a secretive brethren group supporting George W Bush & a Florida senate candidate in the USA.

Family Links

​Bryson Products £3,940,000
Bruce is brother in law to one of the Reiner family who own Bryson Products.
Selkent Fastenings £610,540
Selkent fastenings ran by the Bushnell family, share premises with Bruce Hazell Trimline Group & Warmfloors Group.
Unispace/Sante Global LLP/Sterilabs £940,248,856
Bruce Hazel is the uncle of  Unispace Global Ltd  director, Anthony Hazell. Unispace is now Sante Global LLP who have been awarded a contract jointly with Sterilabs Services

Business Links

​Origin Packaging £121,072,000
Bruce is a director of OnemediUK alongside Tim Pocock, who is also a director of Origin Packaging.
Toffeln £4,989,970
Bruce is a director OnemediUK alongside Ben Turner, who is also a director of V12 footwear who formed a partnership with Toffeln Ltd.​

Ray Hall

Ray Hall is an area business manager for Pineapple Contracts. Pineapple contracts are better known as Pineapple Furniture, the company is owned by the Hathorn family. The Hathorn family directorships can see further links to Blueleaf, Ocura Healthcare & Arrow County Supplies.

Jonathan Woodcock

Jonathan is a brother of Garth Woodcock, Jonathan & Garth married two sisters Heather & Priscilla Glass. Therefore the family links for Garth & Jonathan are very similar. No listing were found showing Jonathan as a company director. ​

John Glass

John Glass is the brother in law of both Garth & Jonathan Woodcock. He is listed as a director of 2 companies Stirling Medical & Scientific & the now dissolved Stirling Trading co. Again due to the family connection many of the links from a family perspective are similar. ​

In summary from the trustees of one church hall in Beckenham, we find direct links via business or family to seventeen companies ran either by the trustees or by fellow Plymouth Brethren Christian Church members. Which equates to an astonishing £2 billion of  contracts won by these 17 companies.