Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation

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Hampstead foundation of 1971, run by David and Jennifer Pears, with funds of £1,298,564; its 2024/25 grants were £14,789 for Kaye Academic College scholarships and £12,000 to Nightingale Hammerson

Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation

Type Trust
Founded 1971-06-29 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 262547
Headquarters London NW3
Area served Throughout London, Israel, Mexico


Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation is a charitable trust constituted by a trust deed of 7 May 1971 made by Geoffrey John Kaye and registered on 29 June 1971; its address is in London NW3, and its areas of operation are London, Israel and Mexico.[1][2][3] Its purposes are education and training, the benefit of the public and other exclusively charitable purposes.[3] The trustees are David Alan Pears (from 17 May 2019) and Jennifer Pears.[1][3] In the year to 5 April 2025 income was £26,949 (2024: £28,295), comprising investment income of £23,949 and £3,000 of examination services given in kind; grants were £26,789 (2024: £20,076); other costs, chiefly broker fees of £10,455 and the examiner's fee of £3,000, came to £13,500; after net gains of £5,534 funds stood at £1,298,564 (2024: £1,306,370), held as investments of £1,137,506 and cash of £159,253.[3] The reserves policy is to keep net assets above £1,000,000.[3] The accounts were examined by Sarah Wilson FCA of Gravita Audit II Ltd, who "were not remunerated", and signed by David Alan Pears on 27 January 2026.[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO PAY THE INCOME TO SUCH CHARITIES OR OTHERWISE TO APPLY SUCH INCOME FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "General charitable activities"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Animals.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel, Mexico.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Jennifer Pears not recorded —
David Alan Pears 2019-05-17 The Pears Family Charitable Foundation (1009195)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-11 David Alan Pears (from 17 May 2019) – also trustee of The Pears Family Charitable Foundation; Jennifer Pears [4]

David Alan Pears is also a register trustee of The Pears Family Charitable Foundation (1009195).[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £19,557 £41,500
2022-04-05 £18,000 £54,917
2023-04-05 £25,532 £36,939
2024-04-05 £112,746 £32,748
2025-04-05 £26,949 £40,289

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 05/04/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

Kaye Academic College of Education (2024). The foundation's accounts record £14,789 for "Kaye Academic College Scholarships" in 2024/25
  • Year to 5 April 2025: Kaye Academic College Scholarships £14,789 (2024: £14,076); Nightingale Hammerson £12,000 (2024: £6,000).[3]

Israeli partners

"Kaye Academic College"; the accounts give no location. The website of the Kaye Academic College of Education heads its English home page "Kaye Academic College of Education, Be'er Sheva"; the accounts do not describe the college, so the identification rests on the name.[3][10]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Kaye Academic College of Education (2022), which its website places in Be'er Sheva; the foundation funds scholarships at a college of that name

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
By name, the Kaye Academic College of Education, whose website places it in Be'er Sheva; neither the accounts nor the website refers to the 1949 line.[3][10] Low (identification by name; city from the college's website)

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]

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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
  • Income figures differ. The register records 2024 income of £112,746; the 2024 column of the accounts gives total income of £28,295 (with a separate 2024 reversal of a bad debt of £84,451 shown under other income).[1][3]
  • Land flag. The register records that the charity owns or leases land, but the accounts show no land or buildings.[1][3]
  • Withdrawn accounting framework. The examiner draws attention to the use of a withdrawn Statement of Recommended Practice.[3]

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 for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[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.[21]

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.[22] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[23]

  • No candidate address: the register records that the charity owns or leases land, but the accounts for the year to 5 April 2025 show listed investments, debtors and cash and no land or buildings; a CCOD/OCOD name search found nothing – Register and accounts (source: [1][3][23])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

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".[4]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 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. ↑ Charity Commission, Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation (262547): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 Charity Commission, Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation (262547): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 262547, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  6. ↑ Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  9. ↑ Geoffrey John Kaye Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Kaye Academic College of Education, Home page (English) kaye.ac.il, viewed 16 October 2026.
  11. ↑ 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-26 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.
  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-26 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  18. ↑ 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).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Geoffrey John Kaye' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-262547 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-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.
  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. ↑ 23.0 23.1 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on the company numbers of the charitable companies in this batch and of companies named in their accounts or register entries as trustees or related parties, and searched for distinctive charity-name keywords; no title registers were purchased.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Geoffrey John Kaye" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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