The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust

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Trust of the arbitrator Julian Lew KC and Margot Lew that gave £17,265 in 2024/25 without naming recipients; its examiner shares the trustees' surname and its accounts misprint the charity number

The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1989-11-29 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 802467
Headquarters London N2
Area served Throughout London, Israel
Key people Julian David Mathew Lew QC (chair)


The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust is a charitable trust constituted by a trust deed of 13 November 1989 and registered on 29 November 1989; its address is in London N2 and its areas of operation are London and Israel.[1][2][3] Its six objectives cover poverty, education, health, relief, overseas aid and famine relief, and religious activities, for children, young people, elderly and disabled people.[2] The trustees are Julian David Mathew Lew (chair) and Margot Gillian Lew.[1][2] Twenty Essex chambers describes "Professor Julian DM Lew KC" as a full-time arbitrator, called to the Bar in 1970 and made a silk in 2003, and formerly head of international arbitration at Herbert Smith.[4] In the year to 5 April 2025 income was £29,210 (2024: £11,453): donations £20,820, grants £7,500 and bank interest £890; donations paid were £17,265 (2024: £26,164), and funds, all in cash, rose to £81,199 (2024: £69,254).[2] The accounts were examined by Jake Lew FCA of BKL Audit LLP and approved by both trustees on 8 January 2026.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR TOWARDS OR FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OR IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN SUCH MANNER AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "General Charitable Purposes"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel.[1]

Trustees

Julian Lew KC, chair of the trust's trustees, as shown on his Twenty Essex chambers profile

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

Trustees of The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Margot Gillian Lew not recorded —
Julian David Mathew Lew QC not recorded Yes —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-06 Julian David Mathew Lew QC (chair); Margot Gillian Lew [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £42,510 £29,520
2022-04-05 £33,824 £21,311
2023-04-05 £45,399 £20,150
2024-04-05 £11,453 £26,164
2025-04-05 £29,210 £17,265

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 05/04/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to 5 April 2025: donations paid of £17,265 (2024: £26,164); no recipient or place is named.[2]

Israeli partners

No recipient is 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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place in Israel is named.[2] 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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
  • Examiner shares the trustees' surname. The independent examiner is Jake Lew FCA; the accounts do not state whether he is related to the trustees.[2]
  • Withdrawn accounting framework. The examiner draws attention to the accounts being prepared under the 2005 Statement of Recommended Practice, "which is referred to in the extant regulations but has been withdrawn".[2]
  • Charity number misprinted. The cover and reference page give the charity number as "8002467"; the registered number is 802467.[2][1]
  • Personal data in the filing. The filed PDF includes an e-signature audit page with personal email addresses; it is not reproduced here.[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).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]

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.[20]

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.[21]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust", "Margot and Julian Lew 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".[5]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 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.
  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 2.12 Charity Commission, The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust (802467): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Charity Commission, The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust (802467): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Twenty Essex, Julian Lew KC twentyessex.com, viewed 16 October 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 802467, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  9. ↑ The Margot and Julian Lew Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  10. ↑ 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-26 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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).
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-26 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-26 charity names returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Margot and Julian Lew' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-802467 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-26 screening covered 224 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, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words in company names (such as "Company Directors Limited") and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Margot and Julian Lew" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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