The Good Deeds Foundation (in memory of Maher Farid Irsheid)

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Family legacy CIO whose objects cover Palestinians, Jordan and Israel but whose recorded spending is in Jordan

The Good Deeds Foundation (in memory of Maher Farid Irsheid)

Type CIO
Founded 2016-03-07 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1165908
Headquarters C/o Carter Lemon Camerons Llp, 3rd Floor, 20 King Street, London, EC2V 8EG
Area served Israel, Jordan, Occupied Palestinian Territories


The Good Deeds Foundation (in memory of Maher Farid Irsheid) is a CIO registered on 7 March 2016, with its principal office c/o Carter Lemon Camerons LLP, 20 King Street, London EC2V 8EG; register areas are Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.[1][2] Its principal object is "to provide assistance to the people of the East and West Bank of the River Jordan including the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Israel". Maher Farid Irsheid "resided in Jordan and most of his charity work was in Jordan and the Middle East". In 2024 it received £995,720 in donations from trustees and spent £962,358.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLES ON THE EAST AND WEST BANK OF THE RIVER JORDAN INCLUDING THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, JORDAN AND ISRAEL."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The object of the charity is to advance such charitable purposes (according to the law of England and Wales) as the trustees see fit from time to time, in particular, but not limited to, the public benefit of the peoples on the east and west bank of the River Jordan including the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Israel."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity, Other Charitable Purposes.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Good Deeds Foundation (in memory of Maher Farid Irsheid) (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Edouard de Langlade 2016-03-07 —
Jannik Wenger 2016-03-07 —
Aamir Ahmed Mir 2026-01-22 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-13 Edouard de Langlade (from 07 March 2016); Jannik Wenger (from 07 March 2016); Farideh Maher Farid Irshaid (from 07 March 2016) [3]

The FY2024 accounts name Edourd De Langlade, Farideh Irshaid and Jannik Wenger as trustees.[2] The October 2026 register extract also lists Aamir Ahmed Mir.[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £847,749 £981,644
2021-12-31 £938,121 £899,842
2022-12-31 £973,836 £698,830
2023-12-31 £992,700 £838,809
2024-12-31 £995,720 £962,358

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 31/12/2016[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2019[7]

Funding in Israel

  • 2024 direct spending of £937,987: cultural donations £377,549; Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs £278,552; Ramadan/Eid £137,927; local communities £88,887; rent for charity offices £57,394; scholarships £10,389. Donations went to Tadamon ("the crowd funding charity platform in Jordan") and Tkiyyet Um Ali ("a food charity for the poor in Jordan").[2]

Israeli partners

Jordanian bodies: the Ministry of Awqaf, Tadamon and Tkiyyet Um Ali. No Israeli or Palestinian 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 project in the West Bank, Gaza or East Jerusalem is identified in the 2024 accounts, although the objects cover the Palestinian territories.[2] Low

Support for the IDF: No IDF funding; spending described is in Jordan.[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;[8] 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.[9][10][11][12] 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.[13]
  • Trustee funding. The charity is funded privately by its trustees, and an interest-free loan from trustee F Irshaid stood at £246,000.[2]
  • Governing document. The trustees' report refers to a trust deed while note 1 describes the charity as a CIO; the register records it as a CIO.[2][1]

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).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]

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.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[17]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found.[18]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[19]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Good Deeds Foundation', 'Maher Farid Irshaid' returned 0 contributions in total.[20]

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".[3]

See also

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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, The Good Deeds Foundation (1165908): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 (parts of the PDF are scanned and were read by OCR; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1165908, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ The Good Deeds Foundation (in memory of Maher Farid Irsheid) accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  5. ↑ The Good Deeds Foundation (in memory of Maher Farid Irsheid) accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  6. ↑ The Good Deeds Foundation (in memory of Maher Farid Irsheid) accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  7. ↑ The Good Deeds Foundation (in memory of Maher Farid Irsheid) accounts, year ended 2019-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  8. ↑ 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).
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  10. ↑ 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).
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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").
  14. ↑ 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-4 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-4 charity name returned zero results).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Good Deeds Foundation' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1165908 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-4 screening covered 354 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) and Companies House officers of the 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Good Deeds Foundation' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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