George Balint Charitable Trust
Balint family investment trust giving about £45,000 a year to unnamed charities; its 2025 report was dated before the year ended
| George Balint Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 1961-01-01 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 267482 |
| Headquarters | Edgware HA8 (office of the charity's accountants) |
| Area served | Hungary, Israel |
The George Balint Charitable Trust is a trust established by a deed of 1 January 1961; its objects are donations to charitable bodies, the education of individuals' children and the relief of individuals in poverty, and its register areas are Hungary and Israel (PDF p.4–5).[1][2] The trustees are Dr Andrew Balint, Dr Marc Gary Balint and Paul Ashley Balint, who was appointed on 18 December 2024 when George Rothschild retired. It operates from the same premises as, and is jointly administered with, the Andrew Balint Charitable Trust, though the two are "independent of each other" (PDF p.5).[1][2] In the year to 5 April 2025 income was £91,311 (investment income £80,317 and interest £10,993) and donations £45,100 (2024: £50,000); funds, held mainly in listed investments of £1,755,995, were £2,069,312 (PDF p.4, 8, 13).[2] The accountant and examiner is Stephen Chevern FCA of Passer Chevern & Co., Edgware.[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "ALL CHARITABL OBJECTS WITHIN THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE SETTLOR SHALL DIRECT OR IN DEFAULT THEREOF AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The principal objects of the trust are to provide charitable donations to any body of persons established for charitable purposes, to individuals to assist them in the meeting of expenses of their own or their children's education and to individuals whose circumstances are so straightened as to come within the legal definition of povety."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Overseas Aid/famine Relief.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Hungary, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Balint | not recorded | — | |
| Marc Gary Balint | 2013-06-17 | — | |
| Paul Ashley Balint | 2024-12-18 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-04 | Marc Gary Balint (from 17 June 2013); George Rothschild; Andrew Balint – also trustee of Charitable Trust for Former Employees of Balint Companies | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-05 | £41,215 | £68,188 |
| 2022-04-05 | £55,673 | £53,558 |
| 2023-04-05 | £60,420 | £41,883 |
| 2024-04-05 | £71,671 | £84,996 |
| 2025-04-05 | £91,311 | £63,348 |
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[4]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2019[8]
Funding in Israel
- 2024/25 donations £45,100, recipients not named (PDF p.8).[2]
- Archived accounts for 2014/15 itemise small grants, including British Friends of Boy's Town Jerusalem £250, Rabbinical College Kol Torah Jerusalem £250 and Shaare Zedek Medical Centre Jerusalem £300 (prior year £250).[9]
Israeli partners
No partner is named in the 2025 accounts; earlier accounts name Jerusalem bodies including Shaare Zedek Medical Centre and the Kol Torah rabbinical college.[2][9]
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 grantee is placed beyond the Green Line.[2][9] | 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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
- Report dated before the year end. The trustees' report and the independent examiner's report for the year ended 5 April 2025 are both "Dated: 08 January 2025", three months before the year ended; note 3 heads its columns 2024 and 2023 although the figures are for 2025 and 2024 (PDF p.5, 7, 12).[2]
- Recipients not named. The £45,100 of donations is not itemised (PDF p.4, 8).[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).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]
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.[18]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]
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.[20]
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.[21]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "George Balint Charitable Trust", "George Balint" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]
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 (94 days late)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]
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 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 2.9 Charity Commission, George Balint Charitable Trust (267482): 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 267482, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ George Balint Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ George Balint Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ George Balint Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ George Balint Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ George Balint Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Charity Commission, The George Balint Charitable Trust: accounts for the year ended 5 April 2015 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 08/01/2020.
- ↑ 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-18 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Sixteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the Porter Foundation showed "up to date (1 day late)", The Persian Hebrew Community "up to date (48 days late)", Bernard Kahn Charitable Trust "up to date (33 days late)" and the Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; Jassiane Limited showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 623 days"; The Friends of Birzeit University, The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls and John Hagee Ministries 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-18 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-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'George Balint' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-267482 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-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries 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, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; 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 "George Balint" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).