Gladstone Charitable Trust
Gateshead family trust that holds property and names no grant recipients
| Gladstone Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2007-02-26 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1118111 |
| Headquarters | Gateshead NE8 |
| Area served | Gateshead, Israel |
Gladstone Charitable Trust was registered on 26 February 2007; register areas are Gateshead and Israel.[1] Its objects are relief of poverty in the Jewish community worldwide, Jewish education worldwide and funding organisations for children and teenagers with special educational and emotional needs (PDF p.3). Its "Management Committee" is Joseph Fordsham, Judith Fordsham and Philip Fordsham (appointed 10 July 2025), with a principal office in Gateshead NE8 (PDF p.2).[2][1] In the year to 30 November 2025 receipts were £200,661 (donations £174,501, rent £26,160), payments £110,763 (donations out £105,781) and funds £455,785 (PDF p.5).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY WORLDWIDE;2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ACCORDING TO THE BELIEFS AND VALUES OF THE JEWISH FAITH WORLDWIDE;3) ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Relief of Poverty locally and abroadEducation with special emphasis on Special Needs and specialist Literacy TrainingDevelopment of an interactive Literacy Programme for young people"[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Gateshead, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Fordsham | not recorded | — | |
| Judith Fordsham | not recorded | — | |
| Philip Fordsham | 2025-07-10 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-09 | Moishe Joseph Fordsham; Jeffrey Katz; Judith Fordsham | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-30 | £180,175 | £116,595 |
| 2022-11-30 | £257,905 | £91,284 |
| 2023-11-30 | £112,746 | £106,125 |
| 2024-11-30 | £84,163 | £79,476 |
| 2025-11-30 | £200,661 | £110,763 |
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 30/11/2014[4]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2016[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2017[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2018[7]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 donations out £105,781; the accounts name no recipients and the accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.5).[2] Israel appears only as a register area of operation.[1]
Israeli partners
Not 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 is named. | 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]
- Unsigned and inconsistent accounts. The approval signature lines are blank; the balance sheet shows net assets of £455,766, £19 less than the receipts-and-payments total; the report refers to the repealed Charities Act 1993 (PDF p.3, 5–6).[2]
- Register says no land. The register records that the charity does not own or lease land,[1] but the accounts show property at a market value of £342,950 producing rent (PDF p.5–6).[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] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[20]
- Property at market value £342,950 at 30 November 2025 (rent received £26,160); address not stated – Accounts (PDF p.5–6); the register records that the charity does not own or lease land, which conflicts with the accounts (source: [2][1])
- 5 Duchess Road, Crumpsall, Manchester (M8 5UP) (title GM334223, freehold; proprietor added 24/07/2019, price paid £89,950) – Name-only CCOD match: proprietor recorded as "GLADSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST" with no company number (an unincorporated trust has none); the properties are in Manchester while this trust is based in Gateshead, so the proprietor may be a different body – not verified against a title register (source: [20])
- 1 Foxbank Street, Manchester (M13 0DJ) (title MAN407973, freehold; proprietor added 16/09/2022, price paid £103,000) – Name-only CCOD match: proprietor recorded as "GLADSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST" with no company number (an unincorporated trust has none); the properties are in Manchester while this trust is based in Gateshead, so the proprietor may be a different body – not verified against a title register (source: [20])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Gladstone Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]
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 101 days late" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]
See also
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 1.11 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Gladstone Charitable Trust (1118111): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1118111, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Gladstone Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Gladstone Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Gladstone Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Gladstone Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
- ↑ 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-12 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status – "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" for 22 charities, "Removed charity" for Mifal Tzedukas and Keren Yaacov Limited, and "Charity reporting is up to date (256 days late)" for Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem.
- ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 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, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-12 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names: Madrasatul Imam Mohammad Zakariya and Harris Kaufman Trust).
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-12 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Gladstone Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1118111 360Giving, queried 15 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-12 screening covered 390 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived accounts (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the six charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (Millage Limited, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (United Kingdom) Limited and Ezer Bekovoid Limited), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Foundation", "Society", "International") and surname-only coincidences (Green, Anderson, Weiss, Frank, Grace, Friedman, Fox, Ward); 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.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 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 charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Gladstone Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).