David Salomon's Charity

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Trust founded in 1946 to run museums and art galleries "in Palestine", which supported an unnamed museum in Jerusalem, granting it £40,000 in 2009; removed from the register in 2015

David Salomon's Charity

Type Trust (removed)
Founded 1964-01-09 (registered)
Dissolved 2015-06-30 (removed from the register: Ceased to exist)
Registration ID Registered charity 313868
Headquarters Not recorded on the register (removed); the 2009 accounts give the address of its solicitors in London W1
Area served Israel


David Salomon's Charity was a charitable trust established by a trust deed of 23 November 1946 and registered on 9 January 1964; it was removed from the register on 30 June 2015 as "Ceased to exist".[1] Its objects were "TO ESTABLISH AND CARRY ON ONE OR MORE MUSEUMS, ART LIBRARIES OR PICTURE GALLERIES ... IN PALESTINE" and an educational institution "PRINCIPALLY FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF HEBREW CULTURE"; the register described its activities as "Fully supports a museum."[2] The archived accounts for 2009 name the trustees as D J Eldridge and Professor N D Khalili (archived register pages give David John Eldridge and Professor Nasser David Khalili), a connected organisation "Beth David Salomons Limited", and the charity's address as that of its solicitors, Howard Kennedy, London W1.[3] They say "The Charity continued to provide financial support to the Museum in Jerusalem": investment income was £34,255 and interest £158, a total of £34,413; spending of £52,756 included a grant of £40,000 to the "Museum Charity in Jerusalem" (2008: nil), and with investment gains of £167,012 funds rose from £879,556 to £1,028,225.[3] The accounts were audited by Horwath Clark Whitehill LLP, and the investments were managed by Brewin Dolphin.[3] The register's last figures are for 2013: income of £37,272 and spending of £12,261; the 2012 and 2013 accounts were received on 23 June 2015, and the charity was removed on 30 June 2015.[2][1]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "A) TO ESTABLISH AND CARRY ON ONE OR MORE MUSEUMS, ART LIBRARIES OR PICTURE GALLERIES OR COMBINATION OF THESE IN PALESTINE FOR THE EDUCATIONAL BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. B) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OR SEAT OF LEARNING PRINCIPALLY FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF HEBREW CULTURE."[2]

The register describes its activities as: "Fully supports a museum."[2]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science.[2]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[2]

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-21 David John Eldridge; Nasser David Khalili [4]
2011-09-27 David John Eldridge; Nasser David Khalili [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2011-12-31 £36,227 £20,779
2012-12-31 £36,758 £134,927
2013-12-31 £37,272 £12,261

Source: register annual-return history.[2]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2005[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2006[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2007[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2008[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2009[10]

Funding in Israel

  • 2009: grant of £40,000 to the "Museum Charity in Jerusalem" (2008: nil).[3]
  • 2012: register spending of £134,927; the archived accounts for that year were not found.[2]

Israeli partners

The accounts name only "the Museum in Jerusalem".[3] The Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem says it was "founded in the 1960s by Vera Bryce Salomons", whose great-uncle was Sir David Salomons; no source read for this profile links the charity to that museum.[11]

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
The accounts place the supported museum "in Jerusalem" without naming it or giving an address.[3] Medium (city named in the accounts; museum not named)

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated in the register entry or the archived 2009 accounts.[1][3]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[12][13][14][15][16] The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Ceased to exist".[1]
  • Unnamed museum. The accounts refer only to "the Museum in Jerusalem" and the "Museum Charity in Jerusalem".[3]

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).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]

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.[21]

Land and property

The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[2] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[22]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "David Salomon's Charity", "David Salomons Charity" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[24]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Charity Commission, David Salomon's Charity (313868): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("09 January 1964: Standard registration 30 June 2015: Removed (Ceased to exist)").
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Charity Commission, David Salomon's Charity: accounts for the year to 31 December 2009 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 27/09/2011.
  4. ↑ Register entry 313868, contact and trustees (capture of 20100721) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 313868, contact and trustees (capture of 20110927) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ David Salomon's Charity accounts, year ended 2005-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110927).
  7. ↑ David Salomon's Charity accounts, year ended 2006-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110927).
  8. ↑ David Salomon's Charity accounts, year ended 2007-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110927).
  9. ↑ David Salomon's Charity accounts, year ended 2008-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110927).
  10. ↑ David Salomon's Charity accounts, year ended 2009-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110927).
  11. ↑ Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Our story islamicart.co.il, viewed 16 October 2026.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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).
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-24 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-24 charity names returned zero results).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'David Salomon's Charity' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-313868 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-24 screening covered 264 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Foundation", "Company Limited" in the names of corporate formation agents) and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "David Salomon's Charity" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  24. ↑ Register entry 313868, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
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