Grosvenor Foundation

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North-west London charitable company, whose trustees include Joseph and Leah Ost, that holds £2,875,000 of shares in its property subsidiary and gave £74,570 in 2024/25; a £17,000 grant went to Ezer Bekovoid, a charity of which trustee Joseph Ost is also a trustee

Grosvenor Foundation

Type Charitable company
Founded 2004-04-28 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1103485; company 05021088
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Barnet, Hackney, Salford City, Gateshead, Israel


The Grosvenor Foundation Limited is a charitable company (05021088) incorporated on 20 January 2004 and registered on 28 April 2004; its principal address is in London NW11 (PDF p.3).[1][2][3] Its objects are education, the relief of poverty and sickness and the Jewish religion, and it is "approached for donations by a wide variety of charitable institutions operating all over England" (PDF p.4).[3] The trustees are Mrs M Arran, Mr J A Ost and Mrs L Ost; the Osts are also directors of its wholly owned subsidiary, Edan Properties Limited (00679455) (PDF p.3).[3] In the year to 31 March 2025 donations were £66,875, including £57,500 from the subsidiary and £7,500 from a related company, and grants £74,570: Achisomoch Aid Company Limited £25,000, Ezer Bekovoid Limited £17,000, Lehachazikom UK £10,000, Mifal Tzedoko V'Chesed Limited £10,000 and others under £7,500 £12,570 (PDF p.7, 11–12).[3] The independent examiner is Asher Sternlicht FCA of Cohen Arnold (PDF p.5).[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS WORLDWIDE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE RELIEF OF INDIVIDUAL PERSONS COMING WITHIN THIS OBJECT B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH.C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS JEWISH EDUCATION AND EDUCATION GENERALLY.D) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE AS THE COMPANY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME AUTHORISE."[2]

The register describes its activities as: "Supporting institutions supporting the objects of the charity"[2]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[2]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Salford City, Gateshead, Israel.[2]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[2]

Trustees of Grosvenor Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Leah Ost not recorded Goodheights Limited (802589)
Joseph Arnold Ost not recorded Ezer Bekovoid Limited (1138167); Goodheights Limited (802589); Woodlands Green Ltd (277299)
Michelle Arran 2022-11-14 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-12 J A Ost; Leah Ost – also trustee of Childbirth Support NW, Goodheights Limited; Johnathan Jacobson [4]

Joseph Arnold Ost is also a register trustee of Goodheights Limited (802589) and Woodlands Green Ltd (277299), and Leah Ost of Goodheights Limited. The register gives a contact address in NW11 9QS, the accounts NW11 0RA.[2][3]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 7 current and former officers of the charitable company (05021088), 4 of them active.[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-09-30 £18,500 £47,255
2021-09-30 £58,250 £90,275
2023-03-31 £155,057 £149,403
2024-03-31 £18,250 £30,001
2025-03-31 £66,964 £77,310

Source: register annual-return history.[2]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

  • No spending in Israel is identified; the accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.4, 12).[3]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named.[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.[3] Not established

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]
  • Undisclosed connection with a grantee. Joseph Arnold Ost is a register trustee of Ezer Bekovoid Limited (1138167) and has been an active director of the company since 7 January 2015, but the related-party note lists only the subsidiary and a £1,696 creditor (PDF p.12, 15).[3][2][17]
  • Subsidiary valuation. The shares in Edan Properties are carried at £2,875,000 (2024: £2,900,000; historical cost £217,171), with fair value "determined using the net assets of the subsidiary undertaking", but the subsidiary's capital and reserves at 31 March 2024 are given as £1,377,582, and no 2025 figures for the subsidiary are shown (PDF p.13–14).[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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]

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.[20]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

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

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.[22]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[2] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[23] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[24]

  • Shares in the property subsidiary Edan Properties Limited carried at £2,875,000; the subsidiary's fixed assets at 31 March 2024 were £1,078,239; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.13–14) (source: [3])
  • Freehold property, Chiswick High Road, London W4 (title NGL171912, freehold; proprietor added 19/07/1971) – registered to Edan Properties Limited, the charity's wholly owned subsidiary (00679455, the number recorded on one of these titles); subsidiary property, not the charity's own (source: [24])
  • Freehold property, Russell Lane, East Barnet N20 (title NGL239169, freehold; proprietor added 29/03/1976) – registered to Edan Properties Limited, the charity's wholly owned subsidiary (00679455, the number recorded on one of these titles); subsidiary property, not the charity's own (source: [24])
  • Freehold property, High Street, Acton, London W3 (title NGL277794, freehold; proprietor added 26/02/1976) – registered to Edan Properties Limited, the charity's wholly owned subsidiary (00679455, the number recorded on one of these titles); subsidiary property, not the charity's own (source: [24])
  • Freehold properties, Chessington Road, Ewell (title SY32664, freehold; proprietor added 09/06/1976) – registered to Edan Properties Limited, the charity's wholly owned subsidiary (00679455, the number recorded on one of these titles); subsidiary property, not the charity's own (source: [24])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Grosvenor Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[25]

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. ↑ Companies House, THE GROSVENOR FOUNDATION LIMITED (05021088) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
  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. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Charity Commission, Grosvenor Foundation (1103485): 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 1103485, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Company 05021088: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Grosvenor Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  7. ↑ Grosvenor Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ Grosvenor Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  9. ↑ Grosvenor Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  10. ↑ Grosvenor Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  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-20 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the other eight (Friends of Milbat, British Friends of Atid, River Progress Foundation, Morris Family Israel Trust, Afikim, the Cohen Charitable Trust, the Adrienne and Leslie Sussman Charitable Trust and Encompass) showed "Removed charity".
  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. ↑ Companies House, EZER BEKOVOID LIMITED (07330341): officers Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026 (Joseph Arnold Ost, director, appointed 7 January 2015, active).
  18. ↑ 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).
  19. ↑ 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).
  20. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Grosvenor Foundation' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1103485 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 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).
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 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 five charitable companies in this batch (07727158, 00846151, 00976427, 05021088, 02595407) and on the charities' registered names and named subsidiaries; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  25. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Grosvenor Foundation" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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