The Jewish Students Aid Trust

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1956 trust making educational grants to Jewish students, including in Israel

The Jewish Students Aid Trust

Logo The Jewish Students Aid Trust logo.png
Type Trust
Founded 22 September 1962 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 210022
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Throughout England And Wales, France, Israel, Scotland
Website www.jsat.org.uk


The Jewish Students Aid Trust (formerly The Jewish Widows and Students Aid Trust) was registered on 22 September 1962 under a trust deed of 16 August 1956; register areas are England and Wales, France, Israel and Scotland.[1][2] Its trustees are Alan Philipp, Joanna Claire Weitzman and Gabrielle Sasha Baigel (appointed 12 May 2026), with a principal office in London NW11 (PDF p.2).[1][2] It helps Jewish students aged 16–30 and schoolchildren aged 10 and over; "Only Jews in need of financial assistance are eligible", and "Recipients can be in the UK, Ireland, British Commonwealth as in 1956, Israel and France" (PDF p.3). In the year to 5 April 2026 it made grants of £90,000 to 40 students; funds were £991,812, mostly investments managed by Adam & Co (PDF p.3, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "CHARITABLE PAYMENTS TO JEWISH WIDOWS AND STUDENTS."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Primarily helping university students with financial assistance to cover fees etc."[1]

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

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, France, Israel, Scotland.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Jewish Students Aid Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Joanna Claire Weitzman not recorded —
Alan Philipp 1969-01-01 —
Gabrielle Sasha Baigel 2026-05-12 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-12 Alan Henry Philipp Elliot Philipp; Joanna Claire Philipp [3]
2010-07-16 Alan Henry Philipp Elliot Philipp; Joanna Claire Philipp [4]
2021-01-08 Joanna Claire Weitzman; Alan Philipp (from 01 January 1969) – also trustee of British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2022-04-05 £76,427 £73,249
2023-04-05 £70,964 £75,692
2024-04-05 £108,330 £65,121
2025-04-05 £81,743 £62,754
2026-04-05 £186,340 £109,515

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 05/04/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2019[10]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2026 grants £90,000 to 40 students, including five undergraduates through a fund set up by Tony Goschalk; recipients are not broken down by country (PDF p.3).[2]

Israeli partners

No organisations; grants go to individual students.[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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
  • Investment gains counted as income. Reported income of £186,340 includes "other income" of £140,398, of which £107,305 is realised and unrealised investment gains; donations were £45,942 (PDF p.7).[2]
  • Approval dates left blank. The approval dates on the trustees' report and balance sheet are blank in the filed copy (PDF p.4, 8).[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).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]

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.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]

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.[21]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[22]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Jewish Students Aid Trust", "Jewish Widows and Students Aid Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

Web archive

  • jsat.org.uk: no captures found.[24]

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".[5]

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, charity_other_names), 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 Jewish Students Aid Trust (210022): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 210022, contact and trustees (capture of 20100712) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 210022, contact and trustees (capture of 20100716) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 210022, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ The Jewish Students Aid Trust accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ The Jewish Students Aid Trust accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ The Jewish Students Aid Trust accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  9. ↑ The Jewish Students Aid Trust accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  10. ↑ The Jewish Students Aid Trust accounts, year ended 2019-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  11. ↑ 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-13 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The 22 registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd, Trumfold Limited and The Naaman Trust showed "Removed charity".
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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).
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-13 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-13 charity names returned zero results, except "J O Charitable", which returned only unrelated Northern Irish charities).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Jewish Students Aid Trust' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-210022 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-13 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the six charitable companies (including the removed Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd and Trumfold Limited), related companies named in the accounts (Cromwell Corporate Protector Limited, Salmino Limited, Bullion Properties Limited, Crewpride Limited, Wilkincroft Ltd and others), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts and fetched partner pages read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Ltd", "Foundation") and surname-only coincidences (Weiss, Friedman, Kish, Silver, James, Seal, Potash); lists downloaded October 2026.
  22. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Jewish Students Aid Trust" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  24. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for jsat.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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