The Allbrook Education Trust (UK 1056053) is a Hampshire, UK Exclusive Brethren charitable trust, connected to the UK’s huge Exclusive Brethren Focus Learning Trust (UK 1099725).  Allbrook has had a difficult couple of years in finding suitable alternative accomodation for its growing educational needs.

Since the cult realized that its only future asset was their children in the 1980’s, the Exclusive Brethren have been implementing a home-school operation which evolved into an impressive world-wide chain of EB-only schools and educational trusts.

There is a component of desperation involved in the EB educational structure.  Their current worldwide leader, Australian Bruce Hales is quoted as admitting the Exclusive Brethren do not evangelize in order to recruit.  As far as they are concerned, growth will come from within – and that means the children must be protected from The Enemy.  By careful shifting of the limited genetic pool components, the EB have seemingly slowed a high tendency toward Downs Syndrome but still suffer from a very high incidence of Autism judging by their frequent Special Ed advertisements in various teaching journals.

The Enemy – is you!  If you are not part of the Exclusive Brethren (an extremist offshoot of the far wider and genuinely evangelical Plymouth Brethren) then you are doomed, bound for hell, a ‘worldly’ or, worst of all, an ‘Opposer’!  This of course explains the high fences, security cameras and ‘fortress-feel’ of their strange windowless Meeting Rooms – all of which have steel barred gates, heavy duty padlocks and a distinct lack of welcome at the door.

Perhaps it was some of these architectural similarities that attracted the EB to The Beatrice Royal Art Gallery in Eastleigh. Described as being in a dilapidated condition, the external views of the Art Gallery seem to have met with the Exclusive Brethren stamp of design approval and they requested use of the place as a temporary home for their school.

Beatrice Royal Art Gallery in Eastleigh, UK now being used as an Exclusive Brethren school

Beatrice Royal Art Gallery in Eastleigh, UK now being used as an Exclusive Brethren school

Approval was forthcoming from Eastleigh Borough Council and now the Exclusive Brethren have more space to continue their indoctrination of yet another generation of cult members.

Former art gallery to be temporary school

This is Hampshire

May 2009

A dilapidated former art gallery is going to be transformed into a makeshift school.

The Beatrice Royal Art Gallery will be a temporary school for 70 pupils and seven staff from Allbrook Scool after Eastleigh Borough Council’s local area committee approved the plan.

With 79 pupils, the privately-run secondary school has outgrown its current site on Pitmore Road and wants to introduce a new primary school.

It would be run by the community of Plymouth Brethren through the Allbrook Education Trust.

The art gallery site in Nightingale Avenue, Eastleigh, could be used for up to five years as the private school looks for a new home big enough for the two buildings.

The committee did, however, put restrictions on what kind of fence could be put around the school.

Source: Former Art Gallery to be a temporary school

It is difficult for members of the various planning committees and municipality authorities to understand the care with which the Exclusive Brethren present their requests and planning applications. The EB have historically and traditionally called their ‘churches’ Meeting Rooms. However, whenever they apply for planning permission, this term becomes transformed to ‘Gospel Hall’ and the charitable trust that partners each Meeting Room is often also renamed to include the same words.  This is intentional obfuscation.

The broader, wider and far more evangelical Plymouth Brethren have always called their halls and chapels ‘Gospel Halls’ and these are dotted around the UK countryside with their welcoming signboards and open doors.  The Plymouth Brethren rightly enjoy a tax-exempt status and are centers of goodwill in any community in which they are located. They tend to be ‘a bit old-fashioned’ and ‘almost genteel’ – accurately reflecting the origins of the early 19th century dissident movement.

Today’s Exclusive Brethren could not be further away from those gentle origins. Convinced that they are the only true church and are bound for a special place in heaven, they display very little of the characteristics of such a high calling.

The viciousness with which they discipline those who disagree with them is legendary and their willingness to use deceit, intentionally misleading labels, titles and definitions assists their ability to ‘fly beneath the radar’.

These techniques and tactics are slowly beginning to be recognized by the UK press, the general international media and more importantly, the municipalities and communities that are forced to deal with their ’smoke and mirrors’ planning applications.