--- title: "Gateway Church Swindon: UK sponsor licence status" canonical: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/gateway-church-swindon-swindon-774996 register_status: active register_as_of: 2026-10-30 publisher: Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk) source: UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors (Open Government Licence v3); Companies House --- # Gateway Church Swindon: UK sponsor licence status > As of 30 October 2026, Gateway Church Swindon (trading as SWINDON FAMILY CHURCH; Companies House 06541956; Swindon) holds an A-rated Temporary Worker sponsor licence covering the Charity Worker route and has appeared on the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors since at least 4 August 2013 (source: Borderless, from the GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors and Companies House). ## Key facts - Register status: Active: on the current register and licensed to sponsor workers - Licence type and rating: Temporary Worker (A rating) - Visa routes: Charity Worker - First seen on the register: 4 August 2013 or earlier - Trading as: SWINDON FAMILY CHURCH - Industry: Public Sector & Non-Profit - Town: Swindon - Registered address: Trinity Centre Stonehill Green, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 7AR - Companies House number: 06541956 (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06541956) - Website: https://gatewaychurchswindon.org.uk - Register data as of: 30 October 2026 (GOV.UK register of licensed sponsors, re-read daily) - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/gateway-church-swindon-swindon-774996 ## Where this sponsor sits - One of 330 licensed sponsors in Swindon: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/in/swindon - One of 4,061 in Public Sector & Non-Profit: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/industry/public-sector-non-profit - Among 1,531 Charity Worker sponsors: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/route/temporary-worker-charity ## Companies House changes since it joined the register 11 changes worth checking, checked 25 October 2026, newest first: - 18 Mar 2026: New secretary appointed: LYMPANY, Callum. Company secretary change recorded on 18 Mar 2026. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 9 Oct 2025: Director resigned: THORNTON, Colin Mark. Director change recorded on 9 Oct 2025. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 12 Feb 2024: New director appointed: THAHAL, Hyeladzira Paul. Director change recorded on 12 Feb 2024. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 23 Jan 2024: New director appointed: HALLIWELL, Thomas Edward. Director change recorded on 23 Jan 2024. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 4 Dec 2023: Director resigned: LOWE, Ian. Director change recorded on 4 Dec 2023. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 18 Mar 2020: Director resigned: BAKARE, Nicholas Andrew. Director change recorded on 18 Mar 2020. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 11 Dec 2019: New director appointed: EBENEZAR, Mallika. Director change recorded on 11 Dec 2019. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 11 Dec 2019: New director appointed: NEALE, Andrew Edward Colin. Director change recorded on 11 Dec 2019. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 10 Jul 2017: New director appointed: THORNTON, Colin Mark. Director change recorded on 10 Jul 2017. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 30 Nov 2016: Director resigned: THORNETT, Mark Stephen. Director change recorded on 30 Nov 2016. If this person was your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. - 10 Oct 2013: New director appointed: LOWE, Ian. Director change recorded on 10 Oct 2013. If this person is now your Authorising Officer, Key Contact or Level 1 user, the change must be reported in the SMS (the Home Office sponsor system) within 20 working days. Companies House cannot show who holds the licence roles or whether a change was reported to the Home Office, so these are prompts to check against your own records, not findings. ## Sponsored jobs No listings matched yet. Job listings are harvested daily from Reed, Adzuna, Jooble and Careerjet and matched back to the register by employer name. ## Common questions about Gateway Church Swindon ### Is Gateway Church Swindon a licensed UK visa sponsor? Yes. Gateway Church Swindon in Swindon is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and has been since at least 2013. It can sponsor workers from overseas, but not every job it advertises comes with sponsorship. ### What visa routes can Gateway Church Swindon sponsor? Gateway Church Swindon is licensed for Charity Worker. Its licence rating on the register is "Temporary Worker (A rating)". ### Where is Gateway Church Swindon based? The register lists Gateway Church Swindon at Trinity Centre Stonehill Green, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 7AR. This is usually the head office; the job itself may be somewhere else. ### How current is this information? This page uses the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors, as published on 30 October 2026, and Companies House records for company number 06541956. We update it daily. Always confirm a licence status on GOV.UK. ## About this data - Source register: UK Home Office, Register of Licensed Sponsors (Workers), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers (Open Government Licence v3). GOV.UK is authoritative; confirm there before relying on a licence status. - Company records: Companies House, https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/ - Published by Borderless (https://www.getborderless.co.uk), an OISC-regulated UK immigration provider. This is public register data, not legal advice. - "First seen on the register" is when this organisation first appeared in our data, not the official licence grant date. - Web page: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/gateway-church-swindon-swindon-774996 - This fact sheet: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/sponsors/gateway-church-swindon-swindon-774996.md - Site overview for AI agents: https://uk-sponsors.getborderless.co.uk/llms.txt - Something wrong? Request a correction from the web page and the Borderless team will check it.