The Manackerman Charitable Trust
British charitable trust supporting Zionist causes in the settler colony
| Manackerman Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable trust |
| Founded | 7 July 1982 |
| Founder(s) | Jonathan Marks |
| Registration ID | Charity number: 326147 |
| Headquarters | Manchester, England |
| Location | David Samuels Management Ltd, Rico House, George Street, Prestwich, MANCHESTER, M25 9WS |
| Area served | Brent, Hackney, Bury, Salford City, Israel, Scotland |
| Key people | Aryeh Marks, Jonathan Marks, Vanessa Shane Marks |
Manackerman Charitable Trust is a British charitable trust registered on 7 July 1982 to benefit charitable purposes and institutions, with significant donations to organisations in the Zionist colony, often termed 'Israel'. Governed by a deed dated 11 May 1982, it operates from Manchester and focuses on grant-making in areas including education, health, poverty relief, and religious activities.[1] The trust's support for settler colony entities exemplifies Zionist sympathies, critiqued as complicity in colonial practices under anti-Zionism, a protected belief as per Miller vs University of Bristol (2024).[2]
With latest income of £153,245 and expenditure of £102,415 for the year ending 31 March 2025, the trust has provided grants to various causes, including those in the Zionist regime.[1]
History
Established by deed on 11 May 1982 and registered as charity 326147 on 7 July 1982, the trust has operated for over four decades, maintaining consistent grant-making activities.[1]
Activities
The trust makes grants to organisations for general charitable purposes, operating in Brent, Bury, Hackney, Salford City, Scotland, and the Zionist entity.[1]
Trustees
The trustees are:
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aryeh Marks | Trustee | 8 January 2014 | None on record | |
| Jonathan Marks | Trustee | None on record | ||
| Vanessa Shane Marks | Trustee | None on record |
No directors as it is a trust, not a company.
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-18 | Jonathan Marks; Michael Hammel Burger; Vanessa Shane Marks | [4] |
| 2021-01-06 | Jonathan Marks; Aryeh Marks (from 08 January 2014); Vanessa Shane Marks | [5] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £22,452 | £107,129 |
| 2022-03-31 | £75,345 | £81,369 |
| 2023-03-31 | £50,984 | £112,409 |
| 2024-03-31 | £23,970 | £94,212 |
| 2025-03-31 | £153,245 | £102,415 |
Source: register annual-return history.[6]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[10]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants: UK Toremet £25,000, Friends of Esra Israel £25,000, Seed UK £15,000, Emunah UK £15,000, Friends of Lubavitch Scotland £6,000, Friends of Alyn Orthopedic Hospital Jerusalem £5,000, Camp Simcha £5,000 and grants under £5,000 £5,075 (PDF p.11).[11]
Israeli partners
No Israeli organisation is paid directly; UK "Friends" bodies of Esra (Israel) and of Alyn Orthopedic Hospital, Jerusalem, and UK Toremet Limited and British Emunah Fund (both with their own profiles), received grants (PDF p.11).[11]
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 Israeli project location is stated beyond the name "Alyn Orthopedic Hospital Jerusalem".[11] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[11]
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;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
- Related-party donations and loan. Donations of £134,419 came from trustees and related parties, and Jonvan Properties, which has directors in common, lent the charity £15,000, outstanding at the year end (PDF p.13).[11]
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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]
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.[20]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]
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.[22]
Land and property
The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[6] No title registers were purchased.[23] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[24]
- Interests in joint property syndicates £128,842; "All the investments are in the United Kingdom"; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.4, 12) (source: [11])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Manackerman Charitable Trust", "Manackerman" returned 0 contributions in total.[25]
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".[5]
Support for Zionist causes
Manackerman Charitable Trust has demonstrated Zionist sympathies through donations to organisations in the settler colony, including Friends of Alyn Orthopaedic Hospital Jerusalem (£5,000), Laniado Hospital (in Netanya, 'Israel'), and Friends of Lubavitch Scotland (£6,000), which supports Chabad activities linked to Jewish supremacist/Zionist networks.[26] Such funding aids the Zionist entity's health and religious infrastructure, raising concerns about perpetuating settler-colonial oppression.
| Recipient | 2017 (£) | 2018 (£) | 2019 (£) | 2020 (£) | 2021 (£) | 2022 (£) | 2023 (£) | 2024 (£) | 2025 (£) | Total (£) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B J P S | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 |
| British Emunah Fund | 5,000 | 10,000 | 0 | 0 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 | 60,000 |
| British Friends of Hala | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 |
| British Friends of United Hatzolo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 |
| Broughton Jewish Opportunities Fund | 2,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,000 |
| Camp Simcha | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
| Chai Lifeline Cancer Care | 1,800 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,800 |
| Friends of Alyn Orthopaedic Hospital Jerusalem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 | 0 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 25,000 |
| Friends of Ezra Israel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 125,000 |
| Friends of Lubavitch Scotland | 5,000 | 5,000 | 0 | 6,000 | 0 | 6,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 | 40,000 |
| King David High School (Manchester) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10,000 |
| Laniado Hospital UK | 7,200 | 24,500 | 0 | 20,850 | 14,285 | 6,500 | 6,500 | 0 | 0 | 79,835 |
| League of Jewish Women | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 |
| Leket UK | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 |
| Lubavitch Ltd | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6,000 |
| Mavoi Satum | 5,000 | 10,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15,000 |
| Project S.E.E.D. Limited | 10,000 | 12,500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22,500 |
| Seed UK | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 15,360 | 15,000 | 75,360 |
| Shalom Foundation of The Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland | 5,000 | 18,000 | 0 | 25,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48,000 |
| Simcha L'Yeled UK | 0 | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 |
| TTT | 2,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,000 |
| The Gertner Charitable Trust | 1,800 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,800 |
| UK Toremet Limited | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 0 | 20,000 | 26,000 | 25,000 | 86,000 |
| Whitefield Community Kolel | 1,800 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,800 |
| Zichron Menachem | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,000 |
| Grants under £5,000 | 10,180 | 15,166 | 0 | 18,040 | 21,110 | 8,130 | 19,230 | 6,175 | 5,075 | 96,931 |
| Total grants | 66,780 | 100,166 | 0 | 99,890 | 106,395 | 80,630 | 111,730 | 93,535 | 101,075 | 666,666 |
Note: No grant data is available in the provided disclosures for the year 2019. The table reflects only the years with explicit grant schedules in the attached reports (2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025). Figures are as listed in the notes to the financial statements; "Grants under £5,000" includes multiple small grants not individually itemised.
See also
Friends of Lubavitch Scotland Zionism
External links
MANACKERMAN CHARITABLE TRUST on Charity Commission
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Charity Commission for England and Wales, MANACKERMAN CHARITABLE TRUST - Charity 326147 Charity Commission, accessed February 21, 2026.
- ↑ UK Employment Tribunal, Professor David Miller v University of Bristol Employment Tribunal, February 5, 2024.
- ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, MANACKERMAN CHARITABLE TRUST - Trustees Charity Commission, accessed February 21, 2026.
- ↑ Register entry 326147, contact and trustees (capture of 20100718) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 326147, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 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.
- ↑ The Manackerman Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ The Manackerman Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ The Manackerman Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ The Manackerman Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Charity Commission, The Manackerman Charitable Trust (326147): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 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-14 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Friends of the Israel Cancer Association showed "up to date (13 days late)" and The Bertie Black Foundation "up to date (82 days late)"; British Friends of Neve Shalom, Mesila UK, The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions and Etz Chaim Foundation showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ 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-14 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-14 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Manackerman' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-326147 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-14 screening covered 282 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, directors of the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation company and of Mesila UK Limited, related companies and charities named in the accounts (including Bestgreat Ltd, Jonvan Properties, One Shakespeare Limited, Beauland Limited, Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited and Torah Temimah Trust) and trustees, examiners and donors named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person or company was found; the only token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Cohen and Jones); 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 (including the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation, 04773267) and on the charities' registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Manackerman" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
- ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Manackerman Charitable Trust - Unaudited Financial Statements Charity Commission, March 31, 2023.