Sheldonia Charitable Trust
Sheldon family trust funded by rents from Brighton property held in the trustees' names, giving only to UK charities
| Sheldonia Charitable Trust | |
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| Type | Trust |
| Logo | |
| Founded | 2018-10-24 (registered) |
| Founder(s) | |
| Dissolved | |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1180427 |
| Status | |
| Headquarters | London N3 |
| Location | |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
| Services | |
| Registration | |
| Key people | Paul Godfrey Sheldon (chair) |
| Website | |
| Remarks | |
Sheldonia Charitable Trust was established by a trust deed of 30 September 2014 and registered on 24 October 2018 to advance such charitable purposes as the trustees see fit; register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1] Its main assets were "originally received from the estate of Mr Harris Sheldon" (PDF p.4).[2] The trustees are Paul Godfrey Sheldon (chair), Neil Barry Harris and Jonathan Boyd, with an address in London N3; the investment manager is Cazenove and the examiner Pollock Accounting of Hendon (PDF p.3–4).[1][2] Its grant themes include poverty, medical research, education, Judaism and "Countering antisemitism in all its guises", and grants go only to registered or exempt charities; in the year to 30 September 2025 "All grants made were to registered or exempt charities in the United Kingdom", totalling £64,980 (PDF p.3–4).[2] Net rents of £65,812 came from "its portfolio of investment properties in Brighton", valued at £382,418; funds were £990,741 (PDF p.4, 7).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "General charity providing donations to other UK registered charities from own funds."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Other Charitable Purposes.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Godfrey Sheldon | 2014-09-30 | Yes | — |
| Neil Barry Harris | 2014-09-30 | — | |
| Jonathan Boyd | 2018-07-04 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-02 | Paul Godfrey Sheldon (chair) (from 30 September 2014); Neil Barry Harris (from 30 September 2014); Jonathan Boyd (from 04 July 2018) | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-30 | £51,332 | £86,230 |
| 2022-09-30 | £55,643 | £70,153 |
| 2023-09-30 | £57,889 | £70,110 |
| 2024-09-30 | £66,568 | £81,839 |
| 2025-09-30 | £96,611 | £77,537 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No spending in Israel: all FY2025 grants (£64,980) went to registered or exempt charities in the United Kingdom (PDF p.4).[2] Israel is a register area.[1]
Israeli partners
No Israeli partner is named; all grants went to UK charities.[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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No grants were made outside the UK.[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;[4] 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.[5][6][7][8] 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.[9]
- Property held in trustees' names. "The registered title to the properties held for rental income is in the joint names of the three trustees who hold the properties on trust for the benefit of the charity" (PDF p.5).[2]
- Balance sheet error. The balance sheet gives "Total net assets" as £176,076 – the net current assets alone – against total funds of £990,741, omitting the £814,665 of fixed-asset investments (PDF p.8, 11).[2]
- Register income differs. The register records income of £96,611; the accounts show investment income of £133,611, the £37,000 difference being market-value gains included in income (PDF p.7, 11).[1][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. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[14]
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.[15] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[16]
- Investment properties in Brighton valued at £382,418, held in the joint names of the three trustees on trust for the charity; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.4–5, 11) (source: [2])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Sheldonia Charitable Trust", "Sheldonia" returned 0 contributions in total.[17]
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 (on time)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]
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 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.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 Charity Commission, Sheldonia Charitable Trust (1180427): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1180427, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 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-17 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Starscope Limited showed "up to date (23 days late)", UK Friends of Tzohar "up to date (18 days late)" and The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; BFON Trust showed no reporting-status line; Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Michoel, Friends of Reb Sender Dominitz, Emerald Benevolence Ltd and Academic Study Group showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-17 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-17 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Sheldonia' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1180427 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-17 screening covered 231 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 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 Rotenberg, Weiss, Levy and Cohen) or generic words such as "Ltd", "International", "Group" and "Team"; lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 (01359053, 03753983, 14462057, 08290018, 08287696, 05628065, 05229139, 11091095) and on the charities' registered and other names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Sheldonia" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).