Djanogly Foundation
Djanogly family foundation with £4 million of investments, giving to schools, health, welfare and the arts, mainly in London and Nottingham
| Djanogly Foundation | |
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| Type | Trust |
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| Founded | 1980-07-17 (registered) |
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| Registration ID | Registered charity 280500 |
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| Headquarters | London SW1Y |
| Location | |
| Area served | City Of Westminster, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, Israel |
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The Djanogly Foundation was established by a trust deed of 26 June 1980 and registered on 17 July 1980; register areas are the City of Westminster, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Sir Harry Djanogly CBE, Michael Simon Djanogly, Jonathan Simon Djanogly and J.K. Djanogly (the register lists Joanna Djanogly, appointed 15 January 2022); the secretary is A. Allanson, the office is in St James's, London SW1Y, the stockbrokers are Redmayne-Bentley LLP and the independent examiner is Peter Duboff FCA of London NW9 (OCR, PDF p.2).[1][2] It supports medicine, education, social welfare and the arts, often funding new projects over several years (OCR, PDF p.3). In the year to 5 April 2025 investment income was £124,907, donations £86,636 (2024: £118,403) and payments on grants committed in earlier years £238,361; with governance costs of £5,945 these make up the £330,942 of spending on the register. Funds were £4,045,246 (2024: £3,610,331), mostly investments at market value of £4,236,799 (OCR, PDF p.6–7).[1][2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO PAY OR APPLY THE SAID INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND TO OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES OR SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SELECT."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Grants are made to registered charities."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: City Of Westminster, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harry Djanogly | not recorded | — | |
| Michael Simon Djanogly | not recorded | — | |
| Jonathan Simon Djanogly | 2019-01-07 | — | |
| Joanna Djanogly | 2022-01-15 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-14 | Harry Djanogly; Michael Simon Djanogly; Carol Ann Djanogly | [3] |
| 2021-01-15 | Michael Simon Djanogly; Jonathan Simon Djanogly (from 07 January 2019) – also trustee of The Joseph and Queenie Gold Charitable Trust; Harry Djanogly – also trustee of The Joseph and Queenie Gold Charitable Trust | [4] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-05 | £44,503 | £13,563 |
| 2022-04-05 | £45,767 | £12,054 |
| 2023-04-05 | £96,931 | £100,483 |
| 2024-04-05 | £135,056 | £532,842 |
| 2025-04-05 | £125,126 | £330,942 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)
| Financial year end | Income (£) | Spending (£) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05 Apr 2005 | 1,643,824 | 2,161,183 | [5] |
| 05 Apr 2006 | 1,473,838 | 1,775,253 | [5] |
| 05 Apr 2007 | 1,226,376 | 1,290,735 | [5] |
| 05 Apr 2008 | 1,390,235 | 1,458,970 | [5] |
| 05 Apr 2009 | 660,334 | 1,413,532 | [5] |
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2014[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[10]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2019[11]
Funding in Israel
- The FY2025 donations of £86,636 are listed by recipient and none is an Israeli body; the only Israel-related item is £250 to the Israel advocacy group StandWithUs UK. The largest are Sibford School £30,000, Jewish Care £12,500, Nottingham Historic Churches Trust £10,750, Imperial College £5,000 and Norwood £5,000 (OCR, PDF p.10).[2]
- A further £238,361 was paid on grants committed in earlier years, whose recipients are not named (OCR, PDF p.11).[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.
| 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;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
- Committed grants not named. The £238,361 paid on earlier commitments, and the £200,356 still committed, are not attributed to recipients (OCR, PDF p.11).[2]
- Loans from trustees. The balance sheet shows £5,000 (2024: £100) owed to trustees (OCR, PDF p.7).[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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned Companies House filing lists and notices about individuals named Djanogly, none of which was established to concern this charity; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[20]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]
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.[22]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[23]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Djanogly Foundation", "Djanogly" returned 102 contributions in total; those not listed above were not established to concern this charity.[24]
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".[4]
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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Djanogly Foundation (280500): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Register entry 280500, contact and trustees (capture of 20100714) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 280500, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Register entry 280500, financial history (capture of 20100714) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2019-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Djanogly Foundation' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-280500 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Djanogly Foundation" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).