Britefield Trust

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Grussgott family trust in north London granting £287,400 in 2024, well beyond its £117,000 of rents

Britefield Trust

Type Trust
Founded 2009-12-02 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1133072
Headquarters London N15
Area served Throughout London, Israel, United States
Key people Beatrix Grussgott (chair)


Britefield Trust was established by a trust deed of 16 November 2009 and registered on 2 December 2009; register areas are London, Israel and the United States.[1][2] Its trustees are Beatrix Grussgott (chair) and Robert Grussgott, with a principal address at a flat in London N15; the same address is given for the independent examiner, Stephen Sacks FCA, signing for Shears & Partners Limited (PDF p.3).[1][2] It makes grants, donations or loans, with the trustees meeting applicants face to face, and invests in freehold commercial property (PDF p.4–5). In 2024 rents were £117,000 (2023: £112,417) and grants £287,400 (2023: £190,500); total spending of £304,112 reduced funds to £1,040,443 (2023: £1,227,555). The freehold property is carried at £1,420,000 (cost £878,678 plus revaluation of £541,322), while creditors of £447,104 left net current liabilities of £379,557 (PDF p.8–9, 14).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION(III) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THEJEWISH FAITH AND(IV) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE CHARITABLEACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To advance the Orthodox Jewish faith, to advance Orthodox Jewish Education, to relieve sickness and infirmity amongst members of the Jewish faith and for such other purposes that are for the Public Benefit and are recognised as Charitable in accordance with English Law."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Other Charitable Purposes.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel, United States.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Britefield Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Beatrix Grussgott not recorded Yes The Eliezer Foundation (1126142)
Robert Grussgott not recorded A T.i.m.e. Limited (1128756); Agudas Israel Community Services (287367); Agudas Israel Organisation of Great Britain (290191); Bikur Cholim Limited (1085965); The Eliezer Foundation (1126142); The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (1158987); The Zeire Agudath Israel General Charitable Trust (280604); Uohc Properties Ltd (1164379)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-16 Robert Grussgott – also trustee of The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Agudas Israel Community Services, The Eliezer Foundation, Borbat Limited, Bikur Cholim Limited, The Zeire Agudath Israel General Charitable Trust, A T.i.m.e. Limited; Beatrix Grussgott (chair) – also trustee of The Eliezer Foundation [3]
2021-07-02 Beatrix Grussgott (chair) – also trustee of The Eliezer Foundation; Robert Grussgott – also trustee of The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Agudas Israel Community Services, The Eliezer Foundation, Borbat Limited, Bikur Cholim Limited, The Zeire Agudath Israel General Charitable Trust, A T.i.m.e. Limited [4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £101,775 £123,600
2021-12-31 £116,500 £345,226
2022-12-31 £280,927 £290,984
2023-12-31 £112,417 £202,288
2024-12-31 £117,000 £304,112

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2024 grants £287,400 in 50 payments: Yesamach Levav Trust £30,000 and Mifal Tzedoko V'Chesed Limited £30,000 (four payments each), and 42 smaller grants totalling £227,400; by type, religious £81,000, welfare £65,000, general £58,600, relief of poverty £57,000 and educational £25,800 (PDF p.12). 2023 grants named Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust £30,000, Rise & Shine £20,000 and Shir Chesed Beis £20,000 (PDF p.13). No grantee is identified as Israeli.[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named.[2]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place in Israel is named.[2] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[10] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[11][12][13][14] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[15]
  • Examiner at the trustees' address. The independent examiner's address is the same flat as the trustees' principal address (PDF p.3).[2]
  • Unexplained creditors. Other creditors rose to £410,188 (2023: £232,903) without explanation, and the accounts report no related-party transactions; outstanding charitable loans of £53,374 are shown as debtors (PDF p.14–15).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists naming similarly named companies; no notice naming the charity was found.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[20]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[21] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[22]

  • Freehold commercial property £1,420,000 (cost £878,678 plus revaluation £541,322), producing rents of £117,000; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.5, 9, 14) (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Britefield Trust", "Britefield" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, Britefield Trust (1133072): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1133072, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1133072, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Britefield Trust accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  6. ↑ Britefield Trust accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  7. ↑ Britefield Trust accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ Britefield Trust accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  9. ↑ Britefield Trust accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-16 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust showed "Removed charity".
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date).
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Britefield Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1133072 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  22. ↑ HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on the company numbers of the five charitable companies (01663511, 05791711, 08786769, 00803733, 07500030) and on the charities' registered and other names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Britefield Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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