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Former UK charity for Israeli victims of terrorism, wound up in 2020–21

One Family UK

Type Charitable company (removed)
Founded 2008-03-27 (registered)
Dissolved 2021-10-01 (removed: Ceased to exist)
Registration ID Registered charity 1123328
Area served Israel

One Family UK(Charity number: 1123328) was the London-based branch of One Family in Israel. It was registered as a charity on 27 March 2008; and removed from registration (ceased to exist) on 01 October 2021. 2011

One Family is an organisation in 'Israel' that works directly with the Israeli government to support Israeli victims of Palestinian ‘terror’. According to the One Family UK website, ‘Since 2001 One Family has distributed more than $12.2 million to over 2,200 victims and families of victims.’[1] The US branch contextualises ‘terror’ as a Palestinian activity against Israelis, including rock throwing and street violence, making no mention of acts of terror by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in Israel, commonly referred to as ‘Price Tag’ attacks.[2]

The website also noted: ‘One Family UK raises around £750,000 each year, it organises three respite trips a year for 60 young people that have been affected by terror attacks, and organises trips and missions to Israel for UK donors.’[3] One Family UK was also planning to arrange a trip for visitors to Israel in November 2014 under the name ‘One Family IDF Experience’, where participants would ‘see how the IDF operates close up’ by spending ‘24 hours on the Gaza border’ while being ‘part of the base, watching movements inside Gaza, waking up with soldiers’ and then, later on, learning ‘how to use live ammunition and how to take over a house without getting injured or killed.’[4]

One Family UK co-sponsored the event at the House of Commons on 19 November 2014 with the Henry Jackson Society featuring Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas leader who later became an Israeli spy.[5] Yousef caused controversy the following January for saying that ‘Islam is greatest threat to humanity’ during an interview with the HJS’s Executive Director Alan Mendoza.[6] According to The Telegraph, Yousef also denounces Palestinian state-building as nothing more than a ‘fantasy’.[7]

Funding sources

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "RELIEVE THE ADVERSE EFFECTS SUFFERED BY REASON OF TERRORIST ATTACKS IN ISRAEL ON INDIVIDUALS AND THE FAMILIES OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS (WHATEVER THEIR RELIGION OR ETHNICITY) BY PROVIDING SUCH FORMS OF RELIEF AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, MEDICAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL HELP TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND THEIR FAMILIES."[8]

The register describes its activities as: "TO RELIEVE THE ADVERSE EFFECTS SUFFERED BY REASON OF TERRORIST ATTACKS IN ISRAEL ON INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES (WHATEVER THEIR RELIGION OR ETHNICITY) BY PROVIDING FINANCE GRANTS AND ASSISTANCE, MEDICAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL HELP. ONE FAMILY IS NON-POLITICAL, ALL INCLUSIVE, IRRESPECTIVE OF RELIGION OR CREED. WE RUN CHARITY VOUCHER SYSTEM, RECLAIM GIFT AID FOR CLIENTS MAKE DONATIONS AT DONORS REQUESTS."[8]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives.[8]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[8]

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-17 Marion Sylvie Diner; Paul Simon (from 24 June 2019); Claire Randall (from 16 March 2018); Gary Laurence (from 01 March 2016) [9]

The archived 2018 accounts list the trustees as M S Diner, L Harris (resigned 12 March 2018), G Laurence and C Randall (appointed 19 March 2018; the register gives 16 March 2018) (PDF p.3).[10]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 11 current and former officers of the charitable company (06291420), 0 of them active.[11]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2014-09-30 £971.48k £1.16m
2015-09-30 £1.48m £1.49m
2016-12-31 £755.63k £749.21k
2017-12-31 £1.13m £731.74k
2018-12-31 £548.39k £735.32k

Source: register financial history page.[12]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2014[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2015[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[17]

Funding in Israel

  • The archived 2018 accounts record institutional grants of £394,598 and state: "All instritutional grants were made to the One Family charity based in Israel" (PDF p.19). Direct UK hospitality and support costs were £101,433, and total expenditure on "victims of terrorism in Israel" was £511,447 (PDF p.20).[10]

Israeli partners

The Israeli charity One Family (One Family Fund), named in the 2018 accounts as the recipient of all institutional grants.[10]

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 reference to the West Bank, settlements or East Jerusalem was found in the archived 2014–18 accounts; the accounts do not give locations of beneficiaries.[10] Low (gap)

Support for the IDF: The archived 2014–18 accounts contain no reference to soldiers, the army or the IDF (text search of the five archived accounts).[10][12]

Support for the Israeli military

Borderline. In 2014 the charity planned a visitors' trip, the "One Family IDF Experience", including 24 hours at an army base on the Gaza border (see above). It supports families bereaved by war and terror. The archived 2014–18 accounts contain no reference to the Israel Defense Forces.[10]

Prior scrutiny. No Charity Commission inquiry or Official Warning, and no complaint or report by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, the Islamic Human Rights Commission or Declassified UK, concerning this charity's support for soldiers was found (checked October 2026).

Controversies and regulatory action

  • Liquidation. The London Gazette records the appointment of Adam Henry Stephens and Finbarr Thomas O'Connell of Smith & Williamson as joint liquidators on 18 May 2020 in a members' (solvent) liquidation, and a notice to creditors in September 2020.[18][19] The company was dissolved on 19 August 2021.[20] The archived January 2021 register entry showed "Charity is in administration".[21]
  • Audit opinion discrepancy. The archived register flagged the 2017 accounts as qualified, but the audit report in the archived 2017 accounts reads as an unmodified opinion; the discrepancy is unexplained.[21][22]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity.[23] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register.[24]

The Gazette

Liquidation notices for One Family (U.K.) are listed under Controversies.[25]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[26]

Sanctions screening

The names of current and archived trustees and Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match on full name was found; only coincidental surname matches. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[27]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[8] Title numbers were not obtained: the HM Land Registry search service blocked automated access and no title registers were purchased.[28] Candidate addresses for a title search:

  • 766b Finchley Road, London NW11 7TH – registered office until 2020 (source: Gazette 2020)

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
One Family Fund[29] 113585917 2023 6,784,719 5,815,006

These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'One Family Fund' returned 0 contributions in total. Written questions could not be searched (the API timed out).[30]

Web archive

  • onefamily.org.uk: 17 yearly captures, first 2002-11-24, last 2025-01-14.[31]
  • onefamilyuk.org: 11 yearly captures, first 2011-09-22, last 2025-03-07.[32]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 3 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity is in administration" and "Other regulators: No information available".[9]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 'One Family Israel’, One Family UK.
  2. ↑ ‘Facts about Terror’, One Family UK.
  3. ↑ 534
  4. ↑ 535
  5. ↑ 536
  6. ↑ 537
  7. ↑ 538
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 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.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Register entry 1123328, full print (capture of 20210117) UK Government Web Archive.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 One Family (U.K.), Report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2018 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 4 January 2020), PDF pp.19–20.
  11. ↑ Company 06291420: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Charity Commission, One Family UK (1123328): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities, viewed 14 October 2026 (no accounts available on the current register).
  13. ↑ One Family UK accounts, year ended 2014-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  14. ↑ One Family UK accounts, year ended 2015-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  15. ↑ One Family UK accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  16. ↑ One Family UK accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  17. ↑ One Family UK accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  18. ↑ The London Gazette, One Family (U.K.) – Appointment of Liquidators notice 3564982, 20 May 2020, issue 63003, p.9147.
  19. ↑ The London Gazette, One Family (U.K.) – Notices to Creditors notice 3626669, 8 September 2020, issue 63104, p.15235.
  20. ↑ Companies House, One Family (U.K.) (06291420): filing history Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Charity Commission, One Family UK – full print (capture of 17 January 2021) UK Government Web Archive.
  22. ↑ One Family (U.K.), Report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2017 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 4 January 2020).
  23. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Search the Scottish Charity Register OSCR, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches by charity name).
  24. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search results CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (searches for the charity names and for 'Israel', 'Jewish', 'Magen', 'Weizmann').
  25. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'One Family Fund' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  26. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1123328 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  27. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV, version of 12 October 2026); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv, last updated 3 June 2026). Screening of 602 names (current and archived trustees and Companies House officers of the 20 pilot charities) carried out 14 October 2026.
  28. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 14 October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased.
  29. ↑ One Family Fund – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 14 October 2026.
  30. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: spoken contributions matching 'One Family Fund' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026.
  31. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for onefamily.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 14 October 2026.
  32. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for onefamilyuk.org Wayback Machine, queried 14 October 2026.
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