Don't Leave Me As I Am
Brown family trust in Hampstead with £2.3 million of investments, funding support for Jewish adults with learning difficulties
| Don't Leave Me As I Am
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2001-11-22 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1089437 |
| Headquarters | London NW3 |
| Area served | Throughout London, Israel |
| Key people | Brendan David Brown (chair) |
The Don't Leave Me As I Am Charity Fund is a trust created by a deed of 22 October 2001 and registered on 22 November 2001; register areas are London and Israel.[1] Its object is the relief of need of Jewish children and young people, particularly those with learning difficulties or renal illness.[1] The trustees are Dr Brendan David Brown (chair), Professor Edwina Anne Brown, Professor Morris Jonathan Brown and Neil Behrman, with an address in London NW3.[1] The 2025 report says the charity now focuses on adults with learning difficulties and autism living independently, paying for respite, therapy, teaching, counselling and similar services (PDF p.1).[2] In the year to 31 October 2025 receipts were £105,066 (investment income £53,737) and charitable disbursements £90,866; investments costing £620,204 had a market value of £2,339,304 (PDF p.2).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE RELIEF OF NEED OF JEWISH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR THOSE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES OR SUFFERING FROM RENAL ILLNESSES, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF, OR ASSISTANCE IN PROVISION OF, THERAPY, TEACHING, ADVICE AND ACTIVITIES IN A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The relief of need of Jewish children and young people, in particular those with learning difficulties or suffering from illness, through the provision or assistance in provision of, therapy, teaching, advice and activities in a supporting environment"[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neil Behrman | not recorded | — | |
| Edwina Anne Brown | not recorded | — | |
| Brendan David Brown | not recorded | Yes | — |
| Morris Jonathan Brown | not recorded | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-14 | Neil Behrman; Brendan David Brown (chair); Morris Jonathan Brown; Edwina Anne Brown – also trustee of West London Hospitals Holiday Dialysis Trust | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-31 | £105,054 | £104,269 |
| 2022-10-31 | £75,627 | £120,907 |
| 2023-10-31 | £92,228 | £88,936 |
| 2024-10-31 | £104,311 | £84,452 |
| 2025-10-31 | £105,066 | £95,398 |
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 31/10/2015[4]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/10/2016[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/10/2017[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/10/2018[7]
Funding in Israel
- No spending in Israel is reported; the FY2025 charitable disbursements of £90,866 are not itemised and the filing does not mention Israel, although Israel is a register area (PDF p.1–2).[2][1]
Israeli partners
No 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;[8] 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.[9][10][11][12] 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.[13]
- Examiner's qualification. The independent examiner, Jeremy Tarlow, gives his qualification as "Civil Servant" on the examiner's report form (PDF p.3).[2]
- Recipients not named. The four-page filing names no recipients of the £90,866 (PDF p.1–2).[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).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]
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.[16]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[17]
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.[18]
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.[19]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Don't Leave Me As I Am" returned 0 contributions in total.[20]
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
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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 Charity Commission, Don't Leave Me As I Am (1089437): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1089437, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Don't Leave Me As I Am accounts, year ended 2015-10-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ Don't Leave Me As I Am accounts, year ended 2016-10-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ Don't Leave Me As I Am accounts, year ended 2017-10-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ Don't Leave Me As I Am accounts, year ended 2018-10-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ 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-17 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Starscope Limited showed "up to date (23 days late)", UK Friends of Tzohar "up to date (18 days late)" and The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; BFON Trust showed no reporting-status line; Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Michoel, Friends of Reb Sender Dominitz, Emerald Benevolence Ltd and Academic Study Group 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-17 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-17 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Don't Leave Me As I Am' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1089437 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-17 screening covered 231 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people and bodies 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 Rotenberg, Weiss, Levy and Cohen) or generic words such as "Ltd", "International", "Group" and "Team"; 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 "Don't Leave Me As I Am" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).