The M J Samuel Charitable Trust

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Frome charitable trust registered in 1986; its accounts record £40,000 in grants to Beit Halochem in the financial years ending 2018–2024

The M J Samuel Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1986-03-21 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 327013
Headquarters The M J Samuel Charitable Trust, Mells Park, Mells, Frome, BA11 3QB
Area served Throughout England And Wales


The M J Samuel Charitable Trust is a charitable trust registered with the Charity Commission on 21 March 1986.[1] Its governing document is recorded as "DEED OF SETTLEMENT DATED 2 DECEMBER 1985".[2] Its registered address is The M J Samuel Charitable Trust, Mells Park, Mells, Frome, BA11 3QB.[1] The trustees on the register are Julia Aline Samuel, Bearsted and Michael John Samuel.[1] In the year to 5 April 2025 it reported income of £228,173 and expenditure of £370,380.[1] Its accounts record grants to bodies that support serving or former Israeli soldiers, or whose spending includes such projects: £40,000 to Beit Halochem (financial years ending 2018–2024)[3].

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO OR FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANISATIONS OR FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The Trustees can benefit such charitable bodies associations and organisations as see they see fit."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The M J Samuel Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
The Hon Mrs Julia Aline Samuel not recorded The Hon a G Samuel Charitable Trust (1090481)
Bearsted not recorded The Hon a G Samuel Charitable Trust (1090481)
The Hon Michael John Samuel not recorded Col Wilfred Horatio Micholls Deceased Charitable Trust Fund (267472); Peter Samuel Charitable Trust (269065); The Hon a G Samuel Charitable Trust (1090481); The Peter Samuel Royal Free Fund (200049)

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £65,568 £156,966
2022-04-05 £65,568 £175,997
2023-04-05 £50,169 £1,182,452
2024-04-05 £32,117 £794,002
2025-04-05 £228,173 £370,380

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Funding in Israel

  • The table lists every grant in the financial years ending 2016–2025 to a body supporting serving or former Israeli soldiers that the charity's accounts record, with the route as the accounts give it. Grants paid to UK charities are not stated to be earmarked for a particular project unless the table says so.
Grants recorded in the accounts of The M J Samuel Charitable Trust
Financial year (ending) Recipient Amount Route Source
2018 Beit Halochem UK £15,000 through a UK charity accounts y/e 05 April 2018[3]
2019 Beit Halochem UK £5,000 through a UK charity accounts y/e 05 April 2019[4]
2022 Beit Halochem (payee not stated: Beit Halochem UK or the Israeli centres) £10,000 not stated accounts y/e 05 April 2022[5]
2024 Beit Halochem (payee not stated: Beit Halochem UK or the Israeli centres) £10,000 not stated accounts y/e 05 April 2024[6]

Recipients. Beit Halochem UK (charity 1146950) describes itself on the register as "a charity devoted to raising money for the Beit Halochem Rehabilitation Centres in Israel that provide facilities and lifelong support to disabled veterans and victims of terror".[1]

Israeli partners

Beit Halochem UK; Beit Halochem[7]

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 grant to a place beyond the 1949 armistice line is identified in the accounts.[7] Not established

Support for the IDF: Yes. The accounts record grants totalling £40,000 to the bodies listed under Funding in Israel; the routes are given there as recorded.[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;[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]

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).[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 notice of any kind. Insolvency notices returned by searches for shorter forms of the name concern other people or companies; none names the charity. No insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2019-10-16 Garfield Weston Foundation 250,000 Civic - Future Libraries Initiative

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[17] The Garfield Weston Foundation's 360Giving data lists a grant of £250,000 dated 16 October 2019, titled "Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award", to a recipient named "CIVIC" under charity number 327013, with the description "Civic - Future Libraries Initiative".[18] The trust's accounts for the year to 5 April 2021, which give comparative figures for the year to 5 April 2020, report total income of £96,267 for that year, all of it from investments, and record no grant from the Garfield Weston Foundation.[19] The trust's accounts for the year to 5 April 2022 record donations by the trust to Civic Ltd of £550,000 (2021: £50,000) and state that trustee the Hon. Michael J. Samuel is one of three directors of Civic Ltd.[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; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[22]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "The M J Samuel Charitable Trust", "M J Samuel Charitable Trust", "M J Samuel" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 0 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile; none were found for this charity number.

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 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. ↑ Charity Commission, The M J Samuel Charitable Trust (327013): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 29 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Charity Commission, The M J Samuel Charitable Trust: accounts y/e 05 April 2018 Register of Charities, p. 11 (printed p.10; read from page image).
  4. ↑ Charity Commission, The M J Samuel Charitable Trust: accounts y/e 05 April 2019 Register of Charities, p. 11 (printed p.10; read from page image).
  5. ↑ Charity Commission, The M J Samuel Charitable Trust: accounts y/e 05 April 2022 Register of Charities, p. 12.
  6. ↑ Charity Commission, The M J Samuel Charitable Trust: accounts y/e 05 April 2024 Register of Charities, p. 12 (OCR).
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Charity Commission, The M J Samuel Charitable Trust (327013): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts (year to 2025-04-05) downloaded 29 October 2026.
  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 each of the 32 charities in batches 28–29, all retrieved on 29 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.
  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.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  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).
  13. ↑ 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").
  14. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 32 batch-28/29 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 29 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 32 charity names returned zero results).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'The M J Samuel Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 29 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-327013 360Giving, queried 29 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Grant 360G-GWF-89538: Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award 360Giving GrantNav (publisher: Garfield Weston Foundation), viewed 29 October 2026; also returned by the 360Giving API for GB-CHC-327013.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, The M J Samuel Charitable Trust: accounts y/e 05 April 2021 Register of Charities, statement of financial activities, p. 6 (OCR), with comparative figures for the year to 5 April 2020.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, The M J Samuel Charitable Trust: accounts y/e 05 April 2022 Register of Charities, note 15 (related party transactions).
  21. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Screening for batches 28–29 covered 317 name strings: the 32 charity names, current register trustees and the Companies House officers of the six charitable companies; the only hits were surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "The M J Samuel Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 29 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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