Lionel Black Charitable Trust
Short-lived Black family trust (2019–2021), with Israel as a register area, whose funds were transferred to the Benson and Lionel Black Charitable Trust
| Lionel Black Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust (removed) |
| Founded | 2019-06-28 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2021-05-19 (removed from the register: transfer of funds to 1061764) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1184144 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
Lionel Black Charitable Trust (previously The Lionel Black Foundation) was registered on 28 June 2019 and removed from the register on 19 May 2021, when its funds were transferred to The Benson and Lionel Black Charitable Trust (1061764); register areas were England and Wales and Israel.[1][2] It was governed by a trust deed dated 16 July 2018, amended on 21 September 2020, with objects of any purposes charitable in England and Wales; the register describes its activity as "To distribute funds for general charitable purposes".[1] An archived register page of January 2021 lists Keith Joseph Black (chair), Hilary Hannah Black and Joanne Black as trustees, all from 16 July 2018, and records the charity's reporting as 77 days late. Its only reported year, to 31 December 2019, shows income of £150,000 and spending of £104,455.[1] No accounts were found on the live register or in the web archive.
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO PROMOTE ANY PURPOSES THAT ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "To distribute funds for general charitable purposes"[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Disability, Arts/culture/heritage/science.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-16 | Keith Joseph Black (chair) (from 16 July 2018) – also trustee of Jewish Continuity, The Regatta Foundation, The JEM Charitable Trust, The Benson Black Memorial Charitable Trust, South Manchester Jewish Student Trust Limited, Barnet Youth Zone; Hilary Hannah Black (from 16 July 2018); Joanne Black (from 16 July 2018) – also trustee of The Regatta Foundation, The Benson Black Memorial Charitable Trust | [3] |
The Benson and Lionel Black Charitable Trust (1061764), registered on 10 April 1997, remains on the register, with latest income of £833,552.[1]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-31 | £150,000 | £104,455 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No accounts were found, so spending in Israel is not known; Israel was a register area of operation.[1]
Israeli partners
Not known.[1]
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 accounts or partner information were found.[1] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is recorded; no accounts were found.[1]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[4][5][6][7][8] The live register shows it only as "Removed charity";[9] an archived register page gives the reason as "Transfer of funds", to 1061764 The Benson and Lionel Black Charitable Trust.[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).[10] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[11]
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.[12]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[13]
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.[14]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[15]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Lionel Black Charitable Trust", "Lionel Black Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[16]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is 77 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 1.12 1.13 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 Charity Commission, Register entry 1184144 (Lionel Black Charitable Trust), full print UK Government Web Archive, capture of 19/07/2026. (registration history: "28 June 2019: Standard registration 19 May 2021: Removed (Transfer of funds) 19 May 2021: Funds transferred to 1061764 THE BENSON AND LIONEL BLACK CHARITABLE TRUST").
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1184144, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, overview pages for the removed charities 1184144 (organisation 5130289), 1001828, 326132 and 244518, retrieved 16 October 2026 (each marked "Removed charity"; no removal reason is shown).
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-15 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-15 charity names returned no matching charity; the only result, for "Donkey", was an unrelated Belfast organisation).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Lionel Black Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1184144 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-15 screening covered 227 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the three charitable companies and of J. E. Joseph Trustee Company Limited, directors of the dissolved Friends of Horim company (01966551), and trustees, executive-committee members, 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 Hassan, Friedman, Cohen and Sabah) or the generic words "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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 "Lionel Black Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).