David Tannen Charitable Trust
Property-income grant-maker of the Tannen family, linked to D T F Limited
| David Tannen Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 1981-03-08 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 280392 |
| Headquarters | C/o Sutherland House, 70-78 West Hendon Broadway, London, NW9 7BT |
| Area served | Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Israel |
David Tannen Charitable Trust (settled 28 March 1974; registered 1981) is an unincorporated trust. Register areas include Barnet, Hackney, Haringey and Israel.[1] In the year ended 30 June 2025 group grants payable were £451,300; material named grants include Achisomoch Aid Co Ltd £56,200, Chana Charity Ltd £35,000, WST Charity Ltd £25,000, United Synagogue £22,500, Hasmonean High School Charitable Trust £20,000 and Hatzola Northwest Trust £20,000 (note 6).[2] Trustees overlap with D T F Limited (279476).[1]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO PAY OR APPLY THE CAPITAL OR INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND TO SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "TO PROMOTE JEWISH RELIGION AND EDUCATION BY PROVIDING GRANTS OR DIRECT FUNDING TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND SUPPORT JEWISH EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Tannen | 1974-03-28 | D T F Limited (279476) | |
| Martin Irving Tannen | 2021-02-16 | D T F Limited (279476) | |
| Daniel Asher Tannen | 2021-02-16 | D T F Limited (279476) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-11 | David Tannen (from 28 March 1974) – also trustee of D T F Limited; Jonathan Mark Miller (from 03 February 1994) – also trustee of D T F Limited | [3] |
| 2021-07-03 | Martin Irving Tannen (from 16 February 2021) – also trustee of D T F Limited; David Tannen (from 28 March 1974) – also trustee of D T F Limited; Jonathan Mark Miller (from 03 February 1994) – also trustee of D T F Limited; Daniel Asher Tannen (from 16 February 2021) – also trustee of D T F Limited | [4] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-30 | £3,085,499 | £2,250,075 |
| 2022-06-30 | £2,629,876 | £2,442,434 |
| 2023-06-30 | £2,745,405 | £2,070,139 |
| 2024-06-30 | £2,999,475 | £2,846,525 |
| 2025-06-30 | £3,480,130 | £3,055,020 |
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 30/06/2014[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2016[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2019[10]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants £451,300; register lists Israel as an area of operation but the named material grants in the accounts are UK institutions.[2][1]
Israeli partners
No Israeli partner organisation is named in the FY2025 material grant list.[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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Not established from the FY2025 named grant list.[2] | Low |
Support for the IDF: No IDF funding is stated. Named grants are to UK Jewish educational, welfare and medical charities.[2][2]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this trust was found. Accounts PDFs required OCR for text extraction.
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]
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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[13]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[14]
Sanctions screening
The charity's name and the names of its current register trustees 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.[15]
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.[16] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[17]
- Register records land ownership; group investment-property portfolio generates rental income used for grants (related to D T F Limited 279476) – Register + accounts (source: register + accounts)
Parliament
A search of Hansard for 'David Tannen Charitable Trust' returned 0 contributions in total.[18]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 3 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]
See also
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, David Tannen Charitable Trust (280392): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 280392, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 280392, full print (capture of 20210703) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ David Tannen Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ David Tannen Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
- ↑ David Tannen Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
- ↑ David Tannen Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
- ↑ David Tannen Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
- ↑ David Tannen Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-2 charities found no matching Scottish registration of the same organisations (unrelated name collisions such as Open Door Edinburgh SC007315 were disregarded).
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-2 charity name returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'David Tannen Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-280392 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Screening of the current register trustees of the 25 batch-2 charities and the charity names, carried out 14 October 2026; no matches. Companies House officers and archived trustees were not included in this batch's screen. Viatcheslav Kantor (RUS1127) remains on the UK Sanctions List as previously noted.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 14 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.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'David Tannen Charitable Trust' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).