The Galilee Foundation

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UK charity funding education for Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the OPT

The Galilee Foundation

Logo The Galilee Foundation logo.png
Type Charitable company
Founded 2007-04-26 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1118966; company 06037771
Headquarters I Gough Square, London, EC4A 3DE
Area served Throughout London, Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territories
Website www.galileefoundation.org.uk


The Galilee Foundation is a charitable company (06037771) registered in 2007. Objects focus on advancing education and relieving poverty of Palestinians in or living in Israel and the Palestinian territories; register areas include London, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.[1] In the year ended 31 August 2025 grants to institutions totalled $2,879,038 (accounts present figures in US dollars), including Arab Culture Association new building programme $1,389,000 and scholarship programme $506,259, Mada Al-Carmel core and project grants, Al-Quds University youth economic empowerment $183,741, Baladna $100,479, Adalah Legal Centre $40,000 and Hanoon Foundation (Gazan medical students) $32,358 (note 4).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS OF ARABS IN OR LIVING IN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, REGARDLESS OF GENDER OR FAITH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ORGANISING AND ENCOURAGING EDUCATION, CULTURE, HERITAGE, ART, SCIENCE AND RESEARCH INITIATIVES;(2) TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF ARABS IN OR LIVING IN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, REGARDLESS OF GENDER OR FAITH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, TRAINING AND SUPPORT."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To relieve poverty and advance the education of Palestinians living in Israel & the Palestinian Territories, regardless of gender or faith, in particular but not exclusively by promoting culture, heritage, art, science and research initiatives by the provision of training, advice and support."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Arts/culture/heritage/science.[1]

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

Trustees

Khalil Jahshan, a trustee, as shown on the foundation's website. Photo: Galilee Foundation website (galileefoundation.org.uk/about-us); not freely licensed, used under the user-approved headshot policy of 16 Oct 2026.

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

Trustees of The Galilee Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Dr MARWAN BISHARA not recorded —
Leila Garadaghi not recorded —
Sawsan Asfari not recorded The Asfari Foundation (1116751)
Yousef Salah Bazian 2012-12-07 —
Khalil Jahshan 2016-03-01 —
Dr Katherine Bucknell Maguire 2022-04-28 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-16 David Wolton; David Freeman; Sawsan Asfari [3]
2011-09-18 David Wolton; David Freeman; Sawsan Asfari; Marwan Bishara; Leila Garadaghi; Basel Ghattas [4]
2018-01-04 Sawsan Asfari; Marwan Bishara; Leila Garadaghi; Yousef Salah Bazian; Khalil Jahshan; Eyad Mahameed; Abdulrahman Elshayyal [5]
2021-01-09 Sawsan Asfari – also trustee of The Asfari Foundation; Leila Garadaghi; Khalil Jahshan (from 01 March 2016); Abdulrahman Elshayyal (from 01 March 2016); Eyad Mahameed (from 01 March 2016); Dr MARWAN BISHARA; Yousef Salah Bazian (from 07 December 2012) [6]
2021-07-05 Sawsan Asfari – also trustee of The Asfari Foundation; Leila Garadaghi; Khalil Jahshan (from 01 March 2016); Abdulrahman Elshayyal (from 01 March 2016); Eyad Mahameed (from 01 March 2016); Yousef Salah Bazian (from 07 December 2012); Dr MARWAN BISHARA [7]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 16 current and former officers of the charitable company (06037771), 6 of them active.[8] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Yousef Salah Bazian (United Arab Emirates, active); Marwan Bishara (United States, active); Khalil Elias Jahshan (United States, active); Dina Bseisu (Switzerland, resigned); Basel Ghattas (Israel, resigned); Eyad Mahameed (Israel, resigned).[8]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-08-31 £875,076 £995,005
2022-08-31 £623,232 £910,843
2023-08-31 £1,932,961 £1,352,791
2024-08-31 £3,009,983 £2,306,886
2025-08-31 £2,611,572 £2,607,477

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Dec 2012 282,655 356,290 [9]
31 Dec 2013 810,596 646,722 [9]
31 Dec 2014 833,262 726,449 [9]
31 Aug 2015 922,581 533,389 [9]
31 Aug 2016 763,250 1,245,986 [9]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2007[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2008[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2009[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2014[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2015[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2016[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2017[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2018[17]

Funding in Israel

The main campus of Al-Quds University in Abu Dis (2021). The foundation's grants include a youth economic empowerment grant of $183,741 to Al-Quds University
  • FY2025 grants $2,879,038 including ACA building and scholarships, Al-Quds University, Mada Al-Carmel, Adalah, Baladna, Hanoon (Gazan medical students).[2]

Israeli partners

Arab Culture Association (Haifa), Mada Al-Carmel, Al-Quds University, Adalah, Baladna, Ajyal Foundation, Yaffa Youth Movement Association and others named in note 4.[2][18]

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
Register lists Occupied Palestinian Territories; grants include Al-Quds University and Gaza-related medical-student support – Palestinian OPT/Gaza education and relief, not Israeli settlements.[2][1] High – OPT register area and named OPT/Gaza grantees

Support for the IDF: No IDF funding is stated. Grants support Palestinian education and civil-society organisations; accounts discuss consequences of the war on Gaza and settler attacks in the West Bank as context for the charity's work.[2][2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice was found.
  • Scholarship partner. The foundation's website states that the Arab Cultural Association in Haifa administers its scholarship programme for Arab citizens of Israel, and that it is partnered with Al-Quds University for scholarships in the occupied Palestinian territories.[18]

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 and the names of its current register trustees 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 does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[24]

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'Galilee Foundation' returned 0 contributions in total.[25]

Web archive

  • galileefoundation.org.uk: 14 yearly captures, first 2012-09-10, last 2026-01-01.[26]

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 reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[6]

See also

External links

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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, The Galilee Foundation (1118966): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1118966, contact and trustees (capture of 20100716) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1118966, contact and trustees (capture of 20110918) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1118966, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 1118966, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Register entry 1118966, full print (capture of 20210705) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Company 06037771: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Register entry 1118966, financial history (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  10. ↑ The Galilee Foundation accounts, year ended 2007-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110918).
  11. ↑ The Galilee Foundation accounts, year ended 2008-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110918).
  12. ↑ The Galilee Foundation accounts, year ended 2009-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110918).
  13. ↑ The Galilee Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  14. ↑ The Galilee Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  15. ↑ The Galilee Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  16. ↑ The Galilee Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  17. ↑ The Galilee Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 The Galilee Foundation, Information for Students galileefoundation.org.uk, retrieved 14 October 2026.
  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-2 charities found no matching Scottish registration of the same organisations (unrelated name collisions such as Open Door Edinburgh SC007315 were disregarded).
  20. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-2 charity name returned zero results).
  21. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Galilee Foundation' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1118966 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). Screening of the current register trustees of the 25 batch-2 charities and the charity names, carried out 14 October 2026; no matches. Companies House officers and archived trustees were not included in this batch's screen. Viatcheslav Kantor (RUS1127) remains on the UK Sanctions List as previously noted.
  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 'Galilee Foundation' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
  26. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for galileefoundation.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 14 October 2026.
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