Josh Charitable Trust
Cope family trust in Prestwich giving about £125,000 a year to unnamed individuals and organisations
| Josh Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2004-11-30 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1107060 |
| Headquarters | Prestwich M25 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
| Key people | Joel Cope (chair) |
The Josh Charitable Trust (formerly The J & S Foundation) was established by a deed of settlement of 16 June 2004, amended on 18 August 2004, and registered on 30 November 2004; register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1] The register lists Joel Cope (chair) and Jeffrey Cope (from 1 May 2024) as trustees, while the accounts name "Trustee and Chairman: Mr J Cope" and "Trustee: Mrs S Cope"; the settlor may appoint and remove trustees during his lifetime (OCR, PDF p.3).[1][2] The registered office is in Prestwich M25, the bankers are Wise Payments Ltd and Virgin Money, and the independent examiner is GA Harris & Co Ltd of Middleton, Manchester (OCR, PDF p.4).[2] In the year to 5 April 2025 income was £124,426 (2024: £179,980), including donations of £119,666 and Gift Aid of £4,716; charitable expenditure was £125,473 (2024: £169,264) and funds £20,523 (OCR, PDF p.6, 8).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH QUALIFYING CHARITY OR SUCH QUALIFYING CHARITIES.(QUALIFYING CHARITY SHALL MEAN ANY PURPOSE PERSON BODY GROUP ORGANISATION OR OBJECT IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHICH UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES SHALL BE RECOGNISED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE)"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Receives and makes donations to individuals and organisations in England and Israel."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Cope | not recorded | Yes | — |
| Jeffrey Cope | 2024-05-01 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-08 | Joel Cope (chair); Shoshana Raizelle Cope | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-05 | £67,299 | £66,854 |
| 2022-04-05 | £159,339 | £152,696 |
| 2023-04-05 | £123,246 | £132,751 |
| 2024-04-05 | £179,980 | £171,200 |
| 2025-04-05 | £124,426 | £126,822 |
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 05/04/2016[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[7]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 charitable expenditure £125,473; the accounts name no recipients and do not mention Israel; the register describes donations "to individuals and organisations in England and Israel" (OCR, PDF p.8).[2][1]
Israeli partners
No partner is 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 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;[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]
- Late filing; trustee and date discrepancies. The register shows the accounts as received 140 days late.[8] The accounts name a Mrs S Cope who is not on the register and omit the register's Jeffrey Cope, and the balance sheet gives an approval date of 04/02/2026 although the report and examiner's report are dated 7 June 2026 (OCR, PDF p.3–4, 7).[2][1]
- Recipients not named. The £125,473 of charitable expenditure is not broken down (OCR, PDF p.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).[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 for the charity's former name, The J & S Foundation, returned only Companies House filing lists and an unrelated 1939 notice; no notice naming the charity was found.[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]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Josh Charitable Trust", "J & S Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[20]
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]
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 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 Charity Commission, Josh Charitable Trust (1107060): 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 1107060, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Josh Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ Josh Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ Josh Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ Josh Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 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-16 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust 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-16 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-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Josh Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1107060 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-16 screening covered 247 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 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 Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; 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 "Josh Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).