M.K. Rose Charitable Trust

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Stourbridge-based spend-down trust that gave £354,500 in 2025, including £174,000 to UJIA for Israel, and expects to have no funds left by the end of 2028

M.K. Rose Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1994-07-29 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1039857
Headquarters Hagley, Stourbridge DY9
Area served Birmingham City, Dudley, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Israel


M.K. Rose Charitable Trust is a charitable trust constituted by a trust deed of 3 June 1994, updated by a trustee resolution of 2 November 2018, and registered on 29 July 1994; its address is in Hagley, Stourbridge DY9, and its areas of operation are Birmingham, Dudley, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Israel.[1][2][3] "Preference is given to Jewish charities, including those in Israel, and selected charities in and around Birmingham", and "Mr Alan Freeman advises on charitable activities in Israel, and grants are made to UK-based charities with explicit permission to support charitable work in Israel."[2] The trustees are Sharon Gould and Alan Herbert Freeman.[1] The trustees intend to "continue to award grants until all funds of the charity are depleted. At the current level of grants, the charity will have no residual funds by 31 December 2028."[2] In 2025 income was £31,971 (2024: £52,808) and grants £354,500 (2024: £391,750); funds fell to £761,665 (2024: £1,036,216), investment disposals were £908,902, and cash was £498,646 (2024: £14,515).[2] The accounts were examined by Nicholas Webb FCA of Azets Audit Services.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "FOR SUCH CHARITY OR CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To support by distribution of income and the capital of the trust, if so desired, such charities and charitable causes as the trustees may decide. Preference is given to Jewish charities, including those in Israel and selected charities in and around Birmingham."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Economic/community Development/employment, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity, Other Charitable Purposes.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Birmingham City, Dudley, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of M.K. Rose Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Alan Herbert Freeman not recorded —
Sharon Gould not recorded —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-13 Alan Herbert Freeman; Sharon Gould [4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £93,415 £365,000
2022-12-31 £75,291 £334,385
2023-12-31 £73,711 £305,384
2024-12-31 £52,808 £404,758
2025-12-31 £31,971 £364,940

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 31/12/2016[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[7]

Funding in Israel

  • Grants marked as "Grants paid to UK based charities with explicit permission to support charity work in Israel", 2025 (2024): UJIA (Israel) £174,000 (£70,000); New Israel Fund nil (£40,000); Israel Special Kids Fund £10,000 (£10,000); Towards the Horizon nil (£100,000); Lifta School Jerusalem nil (£5,000); Innovation Africa (Israel) £15,000 (nil).[2]
  • Other grants include Save a Child £10,000 (£10,000), Gesher Trust £2,500 (£6,000) and Birmingham Jewish Community Care £5,000 (£5,000); whether "Gesher Trust" is connected with British Friends of Gesher (291846) is not established.[2]

Israeli partners

Grants are paid to UK-based charities for work in Israel; the Israeli projects are not described.[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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
The only Israeli place named is in a 2024 grantee's name ("Lifta School Jerusalem").[2] Not established (place in a grantee's name only)

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]

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.[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 "M.K. Rose Charitable Trust", "MK Rose Charitable Trust" 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".[4]

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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, M.K. Rose Charitable Trust (1039857): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Charity Commission, M.K. Rose Charitable Trust (1039857): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1039857, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ M.K. Rose Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  6. ↑ M.K. Rose Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  7. ↑ M.K. Rose Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  8. ↑ 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-25 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  12. ↑ 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).
  13. ↑ 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").
  14. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-25 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-25 charity names returned zero results).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'M.K. Rose' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1039857 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-25 screening covered 459 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers, examiners and other people and organisations named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, every person and organisation linked in the profiles, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of the related companies Renco Properties, Conlatuse and Landmead; the only hits were generic words (the word "QA" in the names of corporate formation agents) and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 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. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "M.K. Rose" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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