The Julius Silman Charitable Trust
Wiltshire endowed trust, with investments of £1,176,973, that gave £19,550 to unnamed causes in 2024/25 and paid one trustee £4,000 while stating there were no related-party transactions
| The Julius Silman Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 1972-05-24 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 263830 |
| Headquarters | Steeple Ashton, Trowbridge BA14 |
| Area served | Israel, Throughout England |
The Julius Silman Charitable Trust is a charitable trust constituted by a settlement of 21 December 1971 and registered on 24 May 1972, for charitable purposes "WHETHER WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM ... OR ELSEWHERE"; its address is in Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14, and its areas of operation are Israel and England.[1][2] The trustees are Stephen Silman, Rachel Jane Dickson and Christine Smith.[1] In the year to 5 April 2025 investment income was £32,488 (2024: £29,096); charitable donations were £19,550 (2024: £18,850), with no recipient named; other costs were £17,718, including salaries £4,000, investment management fees £9,759 and examination fees £3,909; and funds were £1,245,717 (2024: £1,301,675), mostly investments of £1,176,973 managed by J. M. Finn & Co. Ltd.[3] The accounts were signed by Mr S Silman and Mrs C Smith on 16 September 2025 and examined by Adam Shelley FCCA of Sobell Rhodes LLP.[3]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHETHER WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "To make donations to charitable causes as set out in the Charity's governing document."[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, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Throughout England.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Jane Dickson | not recorded | — | |
| Stephen Silman | not recorded | — | |
| Christine Smith | not recorded | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-14 | Stephen Silman; Christine Smith; Rachel Jane Dickson | [4] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-05 | £17,363 | £53,895 |
| 2022-04-05 | £14,256 | £39,982 |
| 2023-04-05 | £27,004 | £32,994 |
| 2024-04-05 | £29,096 | £36,065 |
| 2025-04-05 | £32,488 | £37,268 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- Year to 5 April 2025: charitable donations of £19,550 (2024: £18,850); no recipient or place is named.[3]
Israeli partners
No recipient is named. The register lists Israel among the charity's areas of operation.[1]
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 place in Israel is named.[3] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: Not established.[3]
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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
- Trustee pay and related-party statement. Note 5 says "C Smith received remuneration of £4,000 (2024: £3,000) during the year", while note 11 says "There were no disclosable related party transactions during the year (2024 - none)." The accounts do not say what the payment was for or cite the authority for paying a trustee.[3]
- No recipients named. Donations of £19,550 are not broken down.[3]
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).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]
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.[13]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[14]
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.[15]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[16]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Julius Silman Charitable Trust", "The Julius Silman Charitable Trust" 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" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ Charity Commission, The Julius Silman Charitable Trust (263830): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Charity Commission, The Julius Silman Charitable Trust (263830): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 263830, full print (capture of 20210114) 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-25 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.
- ↑ 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-25 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-25 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Julius Silman' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-263830 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-25 screening covered 459 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers, examiners and other people and organisations named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, every person and organisation linked in the profiles, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of the related companies Renco Properties, Conlatuse and Landmead; the only hits were generic words (the word "QA" in the names of corporate formation agents) and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Julius Silman" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).