G and S Martin Charitable Trust Limited

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Charitable company registered in 2000 with Israel among its areas of operation; it was removed from the register in 2013 as having ceased to exist, after its 2012 annual return and accounts were not submitted

G and S Martin Charitable Trust Limited

Type Charitable company (removed)
Founded 2000-11-29 (registered)
Dissolved 2013-10-02 (removed from the register: Ceased to exist)
Registration ID Registered charity 1083870
Headquarters Not recorded on the register (removed)
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel


G and S Martin Charitable Trust Limited was a charitable company governed by a memorandum and articles of association of 17 March 2000, amended on 24 November 2000; it was registered on 29 November 2000 and removed on 2 October 2013 as having "Ceased to exist".[1][2] The register gives no company number.[1] Its areas of operation were England and Wales and Israel, its area of benefit "WORLDWIDE", and its activities are given only as "see trustees report".[1][2] The register holds no trustee records for it, and the archived register full print of 2021 lists none.[1][2] Its recorded income and spending were £60.00k and £36.17k (2007), £30.80k and £30.18k (2008), £11.30k and £12.27k (2009), £11.70k and £11.04k (2010), and £30,653 and £31,022 (2011).[1][2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT."[2]

The register describes its activities as: "see trustees report"[2]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport.[2]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[2]

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2009-12-31 £11,300 £12,268
2010-12-31 £11,700 £11,037
2011-12-31 £30,653 £31,022

Source: register annual-return history.[2]

Funding in Israel

Israeli partners

Not established.[3]

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
No place in Israel is named in the register entry, and no accounts are available.[1][3] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated in the register entry; no accounts are available.[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.[4][5][6][7][8] The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Ceased to exist".[1]
  • Late and missing filings. The register records the 2010 annual return as 107 days late and the 2012 annual return and accounts as not submitted.[1]

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).[9] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[10]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[11]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[12]

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.[13]

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.[14]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "G and S Martin Charitable Trust Limited", "G and S Martin Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[15]

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".[16]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Charity Commission, G and S Martin Charitable Trust Limited (1083870): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("29 November 2000: Standard registration 02 October 2013: Removed (Ceased to exist)").
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Charity Commission, G and S Martin Charitable Trust Limited (1083870): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities, viewed 16 October 2026 (removed charity; no accounts are available on the live register, and none were found in the UK Government Web Archive).
  4. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  5. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  7. ↑ 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).
  8. ↑ 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").
  9. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-26 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-26 charity names returned zero results).
  11. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'G and S Martin Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  12. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1083870 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  13. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-26 screening covered 224 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers, examiners and other people and organisations 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 in company names (such as "Company Directors Limited") and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  14. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  15. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "G and S Martin Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  16. ↑ Register entry 1083870, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
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