Nigel Gee Foundation

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Charitable company of Nigel Gee that owns £1.9m of residential property valued by him and gave £44,093 in 2024/25 to Jewish community bodies; investment management cost £32,257 in 2024/25

Nigel Gee Foundation

Type Charitable company
Founded 2013-04-30 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1151843; company 08463157
Headquarters London SW1X
Area served Throughout London, Israel


The Nigel Gee Foundation is a charitable company (08463157) registered on 30 April 2013; its principal office is a residential address in London SW1X.[1][2] Its objects are education (especially technical and vocational), health, the arts (especially choral music in the UK) and the relief of age and ill-health (PDF p.6).[2] The trustees are Nigel Gee, Raymond Esdaile and Zach Esdaile; the independent examiner is Stephen Braham FCA of RFM Associates, Watford (PDF p.3).[2] In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £81,558 (rents £77,398, bank interest £4,160); investment management cost £32,257 (2024: £10,395) and grants £44,093 (2024: £67,730), to recipients including Jewish Care £15,000, Friends of Pilzno £10,000, Chai Cancer Care £5,000 and the United Synagogue £5,793 (PDF p.9, 13–14).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE NIGEL GEE FOUNDATION (THE "CHARITY") IS ESTABLISHED FOR:(A)THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND RETRAINING FOR ADULTS;(B)THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH;(C)THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE OR SCIENCE, IN PARTICULAR THE PROMOTION OF CHORAL MUSIC IN THE UNITED KINGDOM;(D)THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BECAUSE OF AGE OR ILL-HEALTH; AND(E)SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC AND WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS STATED ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The Charity's objectives are (1) the advancement of education, in particular technical & vocational training for young people (2) the advancement of health (3) the advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science (4) the relief of those in need because of age or ill-health and (5) such other charitable purposes consistent with the objects stated above."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Nigel Gee Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Raymond Harris Esdaile 2013-04-12 —
Zach Edward Esdaile 2021-12-06 —
Nigel David Gee 2023-01-01 Devonshire Street Charitable Foundation (1123295); Friends of Pilzno (1166119); Lodge of Israel Benevolent Fund (214214); The Lodge of Israel No 205 Bicentennial Charity Fund (801958)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2018-01-04 Nigel Gee; Raymond Esdaile; Anthony Bunker [3]
2021-01-08 Nigel David Gee (chair) (from 12 April 2013) – also trustee of Devonshire Street Charitable Foundation, Friends of Pilzno, The Lodge of Israel No 205 Bicentennial Charity Fund, Lodge of Israel Benevolent Fund, The Cecil Gee Charitable Trust; Raymond Harris Esdaile (from 12 April 2013) – also trustee of Resources for Autism; Anthony George Bunker optional (from 12 April 2013) – also trustee of Opera Rara [4]

At Companies House the three register trustees are the active directors. Nigel Gee is also a register trustee of Friends of Pilzno (1166119).[5][1]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 4 current and former officers of the charitable company (08463157), 3 of them active.[6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £65,481 £62,055
2022-03-31 £70,859 £71,578
2023-03-31 £161,570 £83,225
2024-03-31 £82,693 £83,105
2025-03-31 £81,558 £81,510

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 31/03/2014[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[12]

Funding in Israel

New flats on Beverley Gardens, Golders Green (2021), which the photographer describes as Jewish Care sheltered housing; Jewish Care was the foundation's largest grantee in 2024/25
  • No 2024/25 grant went to an Israeli body. In 2023/24 the foundation gave £7,500 to Magen David Adom UK and £6,000 to Friends of Yad Sarah, UK charities that support Israeli organisations (PDF p.14).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli 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.

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;[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]
  • Property valued by the founder. The investment properties, £1,948,050 of residential property (historic cost £1,570,000), have had "no valuation ... by an independent valuer"; their fair value was assessed by the trustee N D Gee (PDF p.16).[2]
  • Grant to a connected charity. The charity gave £10,000 (2024: £12,500) to Friends of Pilzno, a charity with a common trustee, and owes £8,532 to a trustee (PDF p.17).[2][1]
  • Investment management costs. Costs of raising funds, all described as "Investment management", rose from £10,395 to £32,257 while rents fell from £79,963 to £77,398 (PDF p.13).[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).[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 for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[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. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[23]

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.[24] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[25]

  • Residential investment properties £1,948,050 at the trustee's valuation (historic cost £1,570,000), producing rents of £77,398; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.13, 16) (source: [2])
  • Leasehold flat, Kepler Road, London SW4 (title TGL377775, leasehold; proprietor added 19/04/2013) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 08463157; the accounts show residential investment properties of £1,948,050 (source: [25])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Nigel Gee Foundation", "Nigel Gee" returned 0 contributions in total.[26]

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 1.9 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 2.11 Charity Commission, Nigel Gee Foundation (1151843): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1151843, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1151843, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Companies House, THE NIGEL GEE FOUNDATION (08463157) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Company 08463157: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  7. ↑ Nigel Gee Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ Nigel Gee Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  9. ↑ Nigel Gee Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  10. ↑ Nigel Gee Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  11. ↑ Nigel Gee Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  12. ↑ Nigel Gee Foundation accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  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 each of the 25 batch-19 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Twenty-two registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 1691 days"; Leibovici Charitable Trust and Friends of Bereaved Families Forum (1118221) showed "Removed charity".
  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.
  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).
  18. ↑ 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").
  19. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-19 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-19 charity names returned zero results).
  21. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Nigel Gee Foundation' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1151843 360Giving, queried 16 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-19 screening covered 358 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees and other people and bodies 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, Gold) or generic words in organisation names (Trust, Ltd, Limited).
  24. ↑ 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.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 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 the company numbers of the eight charitable companies in this batch (06615331, 03328487, 02311243, 08463157, 04417664, 07804771, 08738056, 10117583) and on the charities' registered names and named related companies; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  26. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Nigel Gee Foundation" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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