The register
Valley Church, Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, holds a Home Office sponsor licence on the Religious Worker route, and has been on the register since at least 2026. Its rating on the register is Temporary Worker (A rating).
Companies House lists it as Valley Church, number 06271275, incorporated 2007: 19 years of filings behind the name. Registered office: Fourfields House Fourfields, Bamber Bridge, Preston, PR5 6GS, PR5 6GS. It has traded under other names before, including Ribble Valley Free Methodist Church.
Holding a licence is the expensive, slow part done. For Valley Church the question each time is only whether the role and the pay fit the current rules, and that is checked per vacancy.