Encompass – The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust

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Shoreham-by-Sea reconciliation charity, founded after the Bali bombings, that ran "Journey of Understanding" programmes for Israelis and Palestinians; it was removed in July 2026 as not operating

Encompass – The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust

Type Other (removed)
Founded 2003-02-25 (registered)
Dissolved 2026-07-04 (removed from the register: Does not operate)
Registration ID Registered charity 1096213
Headquarters Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 (2018 accounts)
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territories


Encompass – The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust (working names Encompass and Encompass Trust) was registered on 25 February 2003 and removed on 4 July 2026 as "Does not operate"; its areas were England and Wales, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.[1] Its last register figures, for 2024, were income of £64,010 and spending of £26,513.[1] The archived 2018 accounts describe objectives to "promote dialogue and understanding, build bridges between communities, and create networks of young people fighting for change", two "Journey of Understanding" programmes "taking Israelis and Palestinians to neutral ground in Cyprus", and a new programme, IntraPal, for Palestinians from refugee camps, cities under the Palestinian Authority and Arab citizens of Israel, with "coordinators in both Israel and Palestine"; they mark the "16th anniversary of the Bali bombings that were the starting point for Encompass".[2] The trustees then were A K Braden, Ms C R Mutimer, N Pressley, Ms H J Cross, Ms M Mosse and Ms A Carmouche, the principal office was in Shoreham-by-Sea BN43, and the chief executive, Eric Appleby, was a volunteer; principal donors included Bloomberg Philanthropies.[2]

Objects and activities

Church Street, Shoreham-by-Sea (2020); the charity's 2018 accounts give its principal office on this street

The charity's registered objects read: "THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS"): THE PROMOTION OF RACIAL HARMONY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH SEAMANSHIP AND OUTWARD BOUND ACTIVITIES."[3]

The register describes its activities as: "Encompass takes diverse groups of young people out of environments familiar to them and puts them in challenging new ones where they work together to achieve shared objectives and explore issues including stereotypes, identity and conflict. This gives young people the skills and self-belief that they can make positive changes to society and the confidence to get involved in local initiatves"[3]

Register classifications: Education/training.[3]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territories.[3]

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
2018-01-05 Alexander Keith Braden; Claire Ruth Mutimer; Neville Pressley; Hilary Janet Cross; Madeleine Mosse [4]
2021-01-12 Ayesha Carmouche (from 28 March 2019); Neville Pressley; Claire Ruth Mutimer; Alexander Keith Braden (chair) [5]
2021-07-02 Ayesha Carmouche (from 28 March 2019); Neville Pressley; Erika Moisl (from 10 January 2021); Claire Ruth Mutimer; Alexander Keith Braden (chair) [6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £65,651 £22,715
2021-12-31 £65,137 £32,912
2022-12-31 £22,301 £103,269
2023-12-31 £62,575 £63,149
2024-12-31 £64,010 £26,513

Source: register annual-return history.[3]

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[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[11]

Funding in Israel

  • 2018: charitable spending £62,377 (2017: £48,647) on the Journey of Understanding and IntraPal programmes, held in Cyprus and Jordan, and coordinators in Israel and Palestine.[2]

Israeli partners

The Encompass Palestine team led by Karen AbuZant, an Israeli coordinator, and alumni activities with Seeds of Peace and others; the chair and chief executive "visited Israel and the West Bank" in January 2019.[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
The 2018 accounts describe work with Palestinians in the West Bank and Arab citizens of Israel through dialogue programmes held in Cyprus and Jordan; this is reconciliation work, not settlement activity.[2] High

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

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 "Does not operate".[1]
  • Contradictory programme statement. The 2018 report refers to the trustees' "decision in 2016 to make their staff redundant and to cease its international programmes" while describing Journeys of Understanding run in 2018, and gives the prior-year surplus as "(2016: £35,790)".[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).[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

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2009-05-07 City Bridge Foundation 90,000 £90,000 over three years (3x£30,000) towards a social action programme for young Londoners.
2013-06-19 The Dulverton Trust 26,000 Youth Intercultural Understanding
2013-08-05 Woodward Charitable Trust 2,000 Towards an inclusion project to build trust and community cohesion across different cultures and backgrounds in the UK.
2016-02-24 Woodward Charitable Trust 1,000 Towards the Same Difference programme across England in areas of inter-community tension.

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[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. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[21]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[3] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[22]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Encompass - The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust", "Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust", "Encompass Trust" 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".[5]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Charity Commission, Encompass - The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust (1096213): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("25 February 2003: Standard registration 04 July 2026: Removed (Does not operate)").
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, Encompass – The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust: accounts for the year ended 31 December 2018 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 07/01/2020.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 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.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1096213, contact and trustees (capture of 20180105) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1096213, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 1096213, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Encompass – The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ Encompass – The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  9. ↑ Encompass – The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  10. ↑ Encompass – The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  11. ↑ Encompass – The Daniel Braden Reconciliation Trust accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  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-20 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (a name-only hit for "Sheila & Denis Cohen Charitable Trust" was not established to be connected with the Cohen Charitable Trust and is disregarded).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-20 charity names returned zero results).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Encompass Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1096213 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-20 screening covered 272 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 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 Weiss, Sara, Masri, Cohen) or generic words in organisation names (Limited, Company, Trust).
  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 "Encompass Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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