J O Charitable Trust

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Gateshead Kaufman family property trust whose grantees include names linked to Charity Commission inquiries

J O Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1986-03-13 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 327059
Headquarters Gateshead NE8
Area served Gateshead, Israel


J O Charitable Trust was registered on 13 March 1986 under a trust deed of 20 November 1985; register areas are Gateshead and Israel.[1][2] Its trustees are Joseph Kaufman, Adina Kaufman, Moshe Kaufman and Jechiel Chaim Kaufman, with a principal office in Gateshead NE8 (PDF p.3).[1][2] It makes grants to charitable institutions and invests in property. In the year to 5 April 2025 income was £195,435 (investment income £156,585, donations £38,850), grants £152,083 and funds £3,143,114, almost all of it investment property; free reserves were £88 (PDF p.4, 7, 13).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES WITH APPLICATION OF CAPITAL SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS DURING FIRST 50 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THE DEED (SEE CLAUSES 3(1) AND (2) FOR DETAILS)."[1]

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

Trustees of J O Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Joseph Kaufman not recorded Myr Charitable Trust (1104406)
Adina Kaufman not recorded —
Moshe Kaufman 2020-11-15 —
Jechiel Chaim Kaufman 2022-04-22 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-11 Moshe Kaufman (from 15 November 2020); Adina Kaufman; Josef Kaufman [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £293,949 £217,331
2022-04-05 £930,022 £239,788
2023-04-05 £243,502 £250,427
2024-04-05 £206,795 £211,352
2025-04-05 £195,435 £198,272

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 05/04/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2019[9]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £152,083: Mogein Umoshia £22,600, Merkaz Hatorah Belz Machnovka £20,000, Amud Hatzdoko Trust £14,000, Tomchei Yotzei Angliya £12,900, Chasdei Dov £11,500, Wlodowa Charity & Rehabilitation Trust £10,000, Yetev Lev £10,000 and grants under £10,000 £51,083. No place in Israel is named (PDF p.12).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named.[2] "Tomchei Yotzei Angliya" matches the name (in a variant spelling) of Tomchei Yotzei Anglia, a UK charity that remits funds to its Israeli counterpart; identity not confirmed.

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.[2] 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]
  • Grantee names resembling inquiry charities. FY2025 grants include £20,000 to "Merkaz Hatorah Belz Machnovka", a name close to Friends of Mercaz Hatorah Belz Macnivka (1126075), one of the charities placed in the cheque-cashing class inquiry in May 2025 (PDF p.12).[2][11] The 2024 comparatives include £12,000 to "Gevurath Ari Academy Trust" and £10,000 to "Telz Academy Trust" – names close to The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102) and The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust (299687), both under statutory inquiry since July 2023 over pre-signed blank cheques and cash handling (PDF p.12).[2][16] The identity of the recipients was not confirmed, and no finding has been made against this charity.
  • Related-party donations. £14,200 of donations came from related parties (PDF p.14).[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).[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 notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[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. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[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]

  • Investment properties £3,143,026 at 5 April 2025 at the trustees' valuation (additions £8,956); addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.13) (source: [2])
  • 184 Market Street, Eastleigh (SO50 5PT) (title HP183469, freehold; proprietor added 28/09/2017, price paid £48,000) – Name-only CCOD match: proprietor recorded as "J O CHARITABLE TRUST" with no company number (an unincorporated trust has none); the property is in Eastleigh while this trust is based in Gateshead and holds investment property, so the proprietor may or may not be this trust – not verified against a title register (source: [23])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "J O Charitable Trust" 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".[3]

See also

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 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. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Charity Commission, J O Charitable Trust (327059): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 327059, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ J O Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  5. ↑ J O Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  6. ↑ J O Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ J O Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ J O Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  9. ↑ J O Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
  10. ↑ 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-13 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The 22 registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd, Trumfold Limited and The Naaman Trust showed "Removed charity".
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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).
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Charities investigated over poor financial management GOV.UK, 25 July 2023, retrieved 15 October 2026 (inquiries opened on 17 July 2023 into The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust).
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-13 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-13 charity names returned zero results, except "J O Charitable", which returned only unrelated Northern Irish charities).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'J O Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-327059 360Giving, queried 15 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-13 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the six charitable companies (including the removed Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd and Trumfold Limited), related companies named in the accounts (Cromwell Corporate Protector Limited, Salmino Limited, Bullion Properties Limited, Crewpride Limited, Wilkincroft Ltd and others), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts and fetched partner pages 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", "Ltd", "Foundation") and surname-only coincidences (Weiss, Friedman, Kish, Silver, James, Seal, Potash); lists downloaded 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 charitable company numbers, registered names and the names and numbers of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "J O Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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