The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust

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Mayfair grant-making trust funding capital projects in Israel, including at Shaare Zedek Hospital and the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens

The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 2014-04-29 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1156856
Headquarters 27 Berkeley Square, London, W1J 6EL
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel
Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem (2008). The trust paid £408,604 in FY2025 towards an outpatient clinic at Shaare Zedek Hospital

The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust is a UK-based grant-giving charity (charity no. 1156856), registered on 29 April 2014.[1] It is involved in channelling funds for ethnic cleansing in East Al-Quds/Jerusalem via the Jerusalem Foundation.

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE OR CARRY OUT SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.CHARITABLE PURPOSES ARE DEFINED IN THE TRUST DEED AS PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[2]

The register describes its activities as: "Not yet active"[2]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[2]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[2]

Trustees

Name Role Date Appointed
Marcus Margulies Trustee 05 November 2019
Martin Paisner Trustee 27 February 2014
Michael Sorkin Trustee 27 February 2014
Leslie Michaels Trustee 27 February 2014
Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships
Elliott Goldstein Trustee 01 February 2023 The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust
Anthony David Landes Trustee 01 February 2023 The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust | The Wiener Holocaust Library
Marcus Margulies Trustee 05 November 2019 None on record
Martin Paisner CBE MA LLM Trustee 27 February 2014 The Stuart Young Foundation | Morris Leigh Foundation | Trustees Of The London Clinic Limited | The Trust for The Study Of Social Trauma and The Care and Treatment Of Survivors | The British Library Trust | Friends Of The Israel Cancer Association | The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation | New Israel Fund | Ohel Sarah UK | The Lily and Marcus Sieff Charitable Trust | Teale Charitable Trust | The Weizmann Institute Foundation | Devonshire Street Charitable Foundation | The Peter Cruddas Foundation | The Denise Cohen Charitable Trust | The Sir Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation | The Shirley Young Charitable Trust | The Schmidt-Bodner Charitable Trust | Hadassah Medical Relief Association U.K. | The Ruth and Jack Lunzer Charitable Trust | The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust | The Sybil Shine Memorial Trust | Yoni Jesner Foundation | The Rosenblatt Family Charitable Trust | The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (UK ) Trust | Janet Wolfson De Botton Charitable Trust | The Cissie Rosefield Charitable Trust | The Bluston Charitable Settlement | The Potel Charitable Trust | The Barnett and Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust | The Adrienne and Leslie Sussman Charitable Trust | The Adler Trust | The Latchman Family Charitable Trust | The Paisner Charitable Trust | The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust | Shaare Zedek UK | Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust
Leslie Michaels Trustee 27 February 2014 The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust
Mr Michael Sorkin Trustee 27 February 2014 Shaare Zedek UK | The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust | The Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2014-05-06 Martin David Paisner; Michael Sorkin; Leslie David Michaels [3]
2018-01-03 Martin David Paisner; Michael Sorkin; Leslie David Michaels [4]
2021-01-12 Michael Sorkin (from 27 February 2014) – also trustee of The Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust, The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust, Shaare Zedek UK; Martin Paisner CBE MA LLM (from 27 February 2014) – also trustee of Hadassah Medical Relief Association U.K., Yoni Jesner Foundation, The Barnett and Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust, The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (UK ) Trust, The Adler Trust, Devonshire Street Charitable Foundation, The Stuart Young Foundation, The Potel Charitable Trust, The Sir Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation, The Bluston Charitable Settlement, The Sybil Shine Memorial Trust, The Rosenblatt Family Charitable Trust, The Shirley Young Charitable Trust, Janet Wolfson de Botton Charitable Trust, The Ruth and Jack Lunzer Charitable Trust, The Weizmann Institute Foundation, The Adrienne and Leslie Sussman Charitable Trust, The Cissie Rosefield Charitable Trust, The Peter Cruddas Foundation, The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, The Covenant and Conversation Trust, The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust, The Edith and Ferdinand Porjes Charitable Trust, Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust, The Denise Cohen Charitable Trust, The Schmidt-bodner Charitable Trust, Shaare Zedek UK, The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust, The Latchman Family Charitable Trust, The Paisner Charitable Trust; Leslie Michaels (from 27 February 2014) – also trustee of The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust; Marcus Margulies (from 05 November 2019) [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £66,867 £6,223,093
2022-04-05 £56,438 £56,263
2023-04-05 £72,587 £94,172
2024-04-05 £112,338 £865,448
2025-04-05 £893,398 £542,963

Source: register annual-return history.[2]

Grant Recipients

The new National Library of Israel building, Jerusalem (2017). The trust granted £100,000 to the National Library of Israel in FY2024
Jerusalem Botanical Gardens (2008). The trust has committed two instalments of US$500,000, through the Jerusalem Foundation, for a pavilion at the gardens
Grant recipients of the Margulies Charitable Trust in £ sterling
Organisation 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total
Alma House / Alma College 18,000 72,000 90,000
Greenway Foundation 3,600 3,600 7,200
Imperial Health Charity 36,000 36,000
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation 14,337 18,000 32,337
Jerusalem Foundation 2,259,283 2,259,283
Kisharon 1,080 1,080
Leicester Hospitals Charity 36,000 36,000
Limmud 1,630 1,630
London School of Jewish Studies 1,800 1,800
National Library of Israel 1,200,000 1,200,000
Rabbi Rosenfield Testimonial Fund 1,000 1,000
Royal Free Charity 36,000 17,655 53,655
Royal Marsden Cancer Charity 100 100
Shaare Zedek UK 2,517,725 1,440 2,519,165
Western Marble Arch 1,360 1,260 2,620
Youth Aliyah Child Rescue 1,440 1,440

Grant data sources: 2020 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023

Israeli partners

Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem; the Jerusalem Foundation (Jerusalem Botanical Gardens); Alma College; the National Library of Israel.[6]

Grants in the filed accounts, 2019–20 to 2022–23

The trustees named in the accounts are Marcus Jonathan Margulies, Leslie David Michaels, Martin David Paisner CBE and Alexander Michael Sorkin. The accounts state that "the general policy is to make the bulk of grants to charities in Israel".[7][8]

Grants to Israel-related recipients (£)
Recipient Period to 5 Apr 2020 Year to 5 Apr 2021 Year to 5 Apr 2022 Year to 5 Apr 2023
The Jerusalem Foundation (pavilion at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens) – 2,259,283 – 381,196 (US$500,000, paid under the earlier commitment)
Shaare Zedek UK (outpatients clinic, Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem) – 2,517,725 – 1,440; plus 413,367 (US$500,000) paid under the earlier commitment
National Library of Israel – 1,200,000 – 300,000 (paid under the earlier commitment)
Alma College, Tel Aviv 18,000 72,000 – 18,000 (paid under the earlier commitment)
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation – 14,337 – 18,000
Youth Aliyah Child Rescue 1,440 – – –
Total grants (all recipients) 19,440 6,174,505 7,040 42,325 new grants, plus 1,112,563 paid under earlier commitments

Sources: the accounts for each period (the 2021 accounts give the 2020 comparatives).[9][7][8][10] The 2020 report describes commitments of US$3,500,000 over seven years for a pavilion at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, £2,500,000 over five years for an outpatients clinic at Shaare Zedek Hospital, and £1,200,000 over four years to the National Library of Israel.[9] All the named projects are in Jerusalem west of the 1949 line or in Tel Aviv, so no activity beyond the Green Line is established from these accounts (grade: Not established). Accounts for 2011–2015 have not been obtained.

A separate charity, the J & R Margulies Charitable Trust (1042717; trustees Mr J Margulies, Mr M Margulies and Mrs R Margulies; objects include advancing Orthodox Jewish education), gave £149,940–£157,611 a year in 2018–2022 in "General grants". Its accounts do not name any grantee ("A full list of the material grants ... is available on application"), so no Israel or OPT grant is established. The accounts give only an initial, so they do not show whether "Mr M Margulies" is Marcus Margulies.[11][12]


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 Israeli recipients named are in Jerusalem; the accounts do not give site addresses, so which side of the 1949 line the funded projects lie is not established.[6] Not established – Jerusalem, site not stated

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[6]

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;[13] 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.[14][15][16][17] 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.[18]
  • Grants to bodies linked to trustees. The trust gave £324,000 to the Rabbi Sacks Legacy Trust, of which trustee Elliott Goldstein is Director and Chair, and £25,000 to the Wiener Holocaust Library, of which trustee Anthony Landes is a trustee; it paid £5,408 to Payne Hicks Beach, in which trustee M D Paisner has an interest.[6]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[19] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[20]

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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[21]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[22]

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.[23]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[2] No title registers were purchased.[24]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Marcus Margulies' 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".[5]

Contact Info

Address:27 Berkeley Square, London W1J 6EL Phone: 07710576063

Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ Governance, Margulies Charitable Trust, Charity Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  3. ↑ Register entry 1156856, contact and trustees (capture of 20140506) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1156856, contact and trustees (capture of 20180103) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1156856, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Charity Commission, The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust (1156856): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 (the PDF is a scan and was read by OCR, with key figures checked against the page images; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Charity Commission, The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust (1156856): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2021, filed with the Commission (register).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Charity Commission, The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust (1156856): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2022, filed with the Commission.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Charity Commission, The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust (1156856): report and financial statements for the period ended 5 April 2020, filed with the Commission.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust (1156856): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2023, filed with the Commission.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, J & R Margulies Charitable Trust (1042717): financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2018, filed with the Commission.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, J & R Margulies Charitable Trust (1042717): financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2022, filed with the Commission.
  13. ↑ 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 every charity in batches 1–7 (175 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  17. ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  19. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-5 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-5 charity name returned zero results).
  21. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Marcus Margulies' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1156856 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  23. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-5 screening covered 345 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers and related persons named in the accounts read for this batch (including archived accounts) and on the Companies House pages for Brightness Ltd; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  24. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 14 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.
  25. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Marcus Margulies' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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