The Manson Family Charitable Trust

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Whitefield family trust endowed with shares worth £1,938,262 by Jonathan Manson, whose grants include £25,500 to a charity he also chairs and, in 2024, £26,000 to the Jerusalem Foundation and £2,500 a year to Beit Halochem

The Manson Family Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 2016-08-24 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1168888
Headquarters 4 Parklands, Whitefield, Manchester M45 7WY
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel
Key people Jonathan Laurence Manson (chair)


The Manson Family Charitable Trust is a charitable trust established by a trust deed of 1 September 2015 and registered on 24 August 2016; its register address is 4 Parklands, Whitefield, Manchester M45 7WY.[1][2] The trustees, all from 1 September 2015, are Jonathan Laurence Manson (chair), Avril Abigail Manson, Lauren Charlotte Ornstein, Edward David Manson and Hannah Rachel Peters.[2][3] The report says Jonathan Manson "created this charity" and "provided initial funding of £1,938,262 in 2017 via gift of shares", and that "75% of grants are expected to be made with regard to UK causes".[3] In the year to 31 December 2025 income was £38,431 (bank interest £23,099 and dividends £15,332), with no donations; spending was £149,795, of which charitable donations were £132,830 (including half the governance costs) and administration £16,965; after investment gains of £127,745 funds rose from £1,864,352 to £1,880,733, held mainly in investments of £1,842,154.[3] The report gives grants of £130,250 (2024: £156,896).[3] The accounts were examined by Fisher Phillips LLP, London NW3, with no individual named, and approved by J L Manson on 24 February 2026.[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE."[2]

The register describes its activities as: "Charitable support to religious, educational and social well being organisations."[2]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[2]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[2]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[2]

Trustees of The Manson Family Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Jonathan Laurence Manson 2015-09-01 Yes Focus Housing NW (1197063); The Focus Foundation (1196884)
Avril Abigail Manson 2015-09-01 —
Lauren Charlotte Ornstein 2015-09-01 —
Edward David Manson 2015-09-01 —
Hannah Rachel Peters 2015-09-01 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2018-01-05 Jonathan Laurence Manson; Avril Abigail Manson; Edward David Manson; Hannah Rachel Peters; Lauren Charlotte Ornstein [4]
2021-01-11 Jonathan Laurence Manson (chair) (from 01 September 2015) – also trustee of The Israel Children's Centers; Edward David Manson (from 01 September 2015); Avril Abigail Manson (from 01 September 2015); Lauren Charlotte Ornstein (from 01 September 2015); Hannah Rachel Peters (from 01 September 2015) [5]

Jonathan Laurence Manson is also a register trustee of Focus Housing NW (1197063) and The Focus Foundation (1196884).[2]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £20,976 £118,193
2022-12-31 £26,686 £100,114
2023-12-31 £31,582 £310,263
2024-12-31 £40,724 £175,664
2025-12-31 £38,431 £149,795

Source: register annual-return history.[2]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[7]

Funding in Israel

Israeli partners

The report describes the Jerusalem Foundation as "a community foundation dedicated to preserving an open, equitable and modern society in Jerusalem"; the other grantees are named without description.[3]

Support for the Israeli military

Grants. In the financial years 2016 to 2025 the accounts record three grants, totalling £9,500, to recipients that support disabled veterans of the Israel Defense Forces:

Grants to IDF-linked recipients, financial years 2016–2025
Year Recipient (as named in the accounts) Amount Source
2018 "British Friends of Israel War Disabled" (The British Friends of the Israeli War Disabled Trust) £4,500 accounts for the year to 31 December 2018, PDF p.14[7]
2024 "Beit Halochem" (Beit Halochem UK) £2,500 accounts for the year to 31 December 2025, note 4, PDF p.14 (prior-year figure)[3]
2025 "Beit Halochem" (Beit Halochem UK) £2,500 accounts for the year to 31 December 2025, note 4, PDF p.14[3]

The Beit Halochem grants are matched by name only: Beit Halochem UK says it supports "the four Beit Halochem rehabilitation centres in Israel" for "Israel's 70,000 wounded veterans and victims of terror". The accounts do not describe the grants.[3][8]

Prior scrutiny. No Charity Commission inquiry or Official Warning, and no complaint or report by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, the Islamic Human Rights Commission or Declassified UK, concerning this charity's support for soldiers was found (checked October 2026).

Activity beyond the Green Line

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
The 2024 grant of £26,000 to the Jerusalem Foundation is described as supporting society "in Jerusalem"; no project or site is named. The other Israel-related grants give no place.[3] Medium (city named in the description of a 2024 grantee; no project or site named)

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]
  • Grants to a charity chaired by a trustee. The trust gave £25,500 (2024: £13,797) to The Focus Foundation, "a charity of which Jonathan Manson is a Trustee".[3][2]
  • Wrong charity numbers. The report gives the registered number as "116888" and the balance sheet footer gives "Charity number: 1156054"; the charity's number is 1168888.[3][2]
  • Unexplained creditors. The balance sheet records amounts owed to Avjon 3 Ltd (£10,000) and Avjon Ltd (£300), without explanation.[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).[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.[2] No title registers were purchased.[20]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Manson Family Charitable Trust", "The Manson Family Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

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]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ Charity Commission, The Manson Family Charitable Trust (1168888): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 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.
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 Charity Commission, The Manson Family Charitable Trust (1168888): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file). Latest accounts on the register (year to 31 December 2025): archived copy, Wayback Machine, 24 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1168888, contact and trustees (capture of 20180105) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1168888, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ The Manson Family Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Manson Family Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ Beit Halochem UK, Home page bhuk.org, viewed 16 October 2026.
  9. ↑ 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-24 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; only Dalaid (1064655) showed one.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ 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).
  14. ↑ 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").
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-24 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-24 charity names returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Manson Family Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1168888 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-24 screening covered 264 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Foundation", "Company Limited" in the names of corporate formation agents) and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Manson Family Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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