The Kaufman Charitable Trust
Golders Green family trust that has lent about £2 million to two of its trustees
| The Kaufman Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2010-07-21 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1136996 |
| Headquarters | London NW11 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
The Kaufman Charitable Trust was established by trust deed of 1 February 2010 and registered on 21 July 2010; register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1] Its trustees are L I Kaufman, Pauline Kaufman and Stephen Samuel Kaufman, with a principal address in London NW11 (PDF p.2).[2] Its objects include publishing religious literature, education grants "worldwide" and relief of poverty "anywhere in the world by providing grants or loans to individuals" (PDF p.4). In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £205,072 (donations £80,000, interest and investment income £125,072), expenditure £420,827 and funds £1,939,748 (PDF p.7).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT .2) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The charity activities are to publish religious literature and learned works of all kinds in furtherance of the objects of the charity as set out above, to establish and support or aid in the establishment and support of any Charitable association or Institution, Trust or Fund, and to subscribe or guarantee money for any charitable purpose which the Charity shall consider calculated to promote its"[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pauline Kaufman | not recorded | — | |
| L I Kaufman | not recorded | — | |
| Stephen Samuel Kaufman | 2018-02-21 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-08 | Pauline Kaufman; L I Kaufman – also trustee of R & E Kaufman Charitable Trust; Stephen Samuel Kaufman (from 21 February 2018) | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £122,617 | £220,098 |
| 2022-03-31 | £70,410 | £335,708 |
| 2023-03-31 | £187,399 | £507,931 |
| 2024-03-31 | £220,201 | £431,657 |
| 2025-03-31 | £205,072 | £420,827 |
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 31/03/2014[4]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[8]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 charitable payments £419,087; the accounts name no recipients and the accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.4, 11).[2] Israel appears only as a register area of operation.[1]
Israeli partners
Not 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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place is named. | 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;[9] 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.[10][11][12][13] 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.[14]
- Loan to trustees. "Loan interest of £120,080 (2024: £126,869) was received from Mr. L.I and Mrs. P Kaufman in respect of loan outstanding £1,990,420 as at 31 March 2025 (2024: £2,000,738)" – a loan from the charity to two of its trustees, equal to almost all its funds; note 8 nonetheless states that trustees received no "remuneration or benefits". Debtors are shown as £1,936,240, less than the stated loan balance (PDF p.11–12).[2]
- Deficit figures disagree. The trustees' report gives a deficit of £35,575; the statement of financial activities gives £215,755 (PDF p.4, 7).[2]
- Recipients not named. Charitable payments of £419,087 are not broken down by recipient; the report refers only to grants "to various charities in United Kingdom" (PDF p.4, 11).[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).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]
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.[17]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]
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.[19]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[20] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[21]
- No land or property appears in the accounts; the main asset is a loan of £1,990,420 to two trustees – Accounts (PDF p.11–12) (source: [2])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Kaufman Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]
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
- ↑ 1.0 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, The Kaufman Charitable Trust (1136996): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1136996, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ The Kaufman Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ The Kaufman Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ The Kaufman Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ The Kaufman Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ The Kaufman Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ 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-12 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status – "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" for 22 charities, "Removed charity" for Mifal Tzedukas and Keren Yaacov Limited, and "Charity reporting is up to date (256 days late)" for Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem.
- ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-12 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names: Madrasatul Imam Mohammad Zakariya and Harris Kaufman Trust).
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-12 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Kaufman Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1136996 360Giving, queried 15 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-12 screening covered 390 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived accounts (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the six charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (Millage Limited, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (United Kingdom) Limited and Ezer Bekovoid Limited), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts 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", "Foundation", "Society", "International") and surname-only coincidences (Green, Anderson, Weiss, Frank, Grace, Friedman, Fox, Ward); lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Kaufman Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).