The Mount Moriah Trust

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Christian trust supporting believers in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, including Gaza's church compounds

The Mount Moriah Trust

Type Other
Founded 2002-05-28 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1092230
Headquarters Sandhurst GU47
Area served Israel, Jordan, Occupied Palestinian Territories
Key people Tony Stewart (chair)
Website www.mountmoriah.org.uk


The Mount Moriah Trust was registered on 28 May 2002 under a declaration of trust of 3 May 2002; register areas are Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.[1] Its trustees are Tony Stewart (chair), Kathy Stewart, Sally Ann Williams, Stephen David Briggs, Richard Martin Teideman, Peter Dennis Lovegrove and Richard Michael Spooner; its address is in Sandhurst GU47 (OCR, PDF p.3).[1][2] It describes itself as "a Christian Charity providing relief from hardship and suffering for believers in Jesus Christ in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank", with administration costs "funded privately" (OCR, PDF p.3). In the year to 31 May 2025 receipts were £181,217 and donations paid £175,420 (OCR, PDF p.5).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE RELIEF OF HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING AMONGST THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The relief of hardship and suffering."[1]

Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Jordan, Occupied Palestinian Territories.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Mount Moriah Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Tony Stewart 2002-05-03 Yes —
Kathy Stewart 2002-05-03 —
Sally Ann Williams 2011-10-13 —
Stephen David Briggs 2018-09-21 —
Richard Martin Teideman 2022-07-20 —
Peter Dennis Lovegrove 2023-10-27 —
Richard Michael Spooner 2024-05-10 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-09 Kathy Stewart (from 03 May 2002); Stephen David Briggs (from 21 September 2018); Sally Williams (from 13 October 2011); Tony Stewart (chair) (from 03 May 2002); Mark Dunman (from 02 January 2014) [3]
2021-07-04 Kathy Stewart (from 03 May 2002); Stephen David Briggs (from 21 September 2018); Sally Ann Williams (from 13 October 2011); Tony Stewart (chair) (from 03 May 2002); Mark Dunman (from 02 January 2014) [4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-05-31 £172,557 £147,456
2022-05-31 £201,473 £213,187
2023-05-31 £171,573 £155,043
2024-05-31 £209,446 £221,459
2025-05-31 £181,217 £176,400

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 31/05/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 donations paid £175,420 ("gifting to the Land"), with 52% of income from outside the UK (OCR, PDF p.3, 5).[2]
  • "The Christians in Gaza have been sheltering in two church compounds but have managed to do extraordinary work to feed thousands of people each week. We have been privileged to provide funds to support them and their outreach." "Arab Christians in Judea and Samarea (the West Bank) have suffered through the withdrawal of permits to work inside Israel." (OCR, PDF p.3)[2] Its focus is the elderly, widows, the sick, single mothers, children, youth "and new immigrants" (OCR, PDF p.3).[2]

Israeli partners

About forty pastors, congregations and Christian organisations, none named (OCR, PDF p.3).[2] Its website describes the trust as "Helping Needy Believers in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank".[10]

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
Funds to Christians sheltering in two church compounds in Gaza – humanitarian support in the occupied Palestinian territories.[2] High
Support for Arab Christians in "Judea and Samarea (the West Bank)" is described, but no place or partner is named.[2] Medium

Support for the IDF: No IDF funding is stated. The report notes that the call-up of "thousands of reservists" for the war in Gaza "has had a severe impact on family life and has created financial hardship for many"; it does not say that funds went to soldiers (OCR, PDF p.3).[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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
  • Partners not named. The trust works through "partnerships with around forty Pastors, Congregations and Christian Organisations" but names none of them, and has no reserves policy (OCR, PDF p.3).[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).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]

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.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[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. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[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 "Mount Moriah Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

Web archive

  • mountmoriah.org.uk: 12 yearly captures, first 2013-04-23, last 2026-01-21.[24]

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

Notes

  1. ↑ 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, The Mount Moriah Trust (1092230): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1092230, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1092230, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ The Mount Moriah Trust accounts, year ended 2014-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  6. ↑ The Mount Moriah Trust accounts, year ended 2015-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ The Mount Moriah Trust accounts, year ended 2016-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ The Mount Moriah Trust accounts, year ended 2017-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  9. ↑ The Mount Moriah Trust accounts, year ended 2018-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  10. ↑ The Mount Moriah Trust, mountmoriah.org.uk home page Wayback Machine, capture of 21 January 2026 ("The Mount Moriah Trust Helping Needy Believers in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank"; "Supporting Jewish and Arab ...").
  11. ↑ 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-13 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The 22 registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd, Trumfold Limited and The Naaman Trust showed "Removed charity".
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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).
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-13 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-13 charity names returned zero results, except "J O Charitable", which returned only unrelated Northern Irish charities).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Mount Moriah Trust' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1092230 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-13 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the six charitable companies (including the removed Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd and Trumfold Limited), related companies named in the accounts (Cromwell Corporate Protector Limited, Salmino Limited, Bullion Properties Limited, Crewpride Limited, Wilkincroft Ltd and others), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts and fetched partner pages 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", "Ltd", "Foundation") and surname-only coincidences (Weiss, Friedman, Kish, Silver, James, Seal, Potash); lists downloaded October 2026.
  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 "Mount Moriah Trust" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  24. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for mountmoriah.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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