The Mutual Trust Group

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Golders Green trust funding grants from a sub-let commercial lease

The Mutual Trust Group

Type Trust
Founded 1994-07-08 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1039300
Headquarters 12 Dunstan Road, London, NW11 8AA
Area served Israel, United States


The Mutual Trust Group is an unincorporated charity established by declaration of trust and registered in 1994; register areas are Israel and the United States.[1] Its principal address is 12 Dunstan Road, London NW11 8AA, and its trustees are Benzion Weitz (chairman), Adrian Weisz and Michael Weitz. In the year to 31 December 2025 income was £393,182, of which rent and leasing income £354,916 (2024: £161,079), and donations made were £359,765; net funds were £330,325 (PDF p.1–3, 10–11).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "SUCH CHARITIES CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AN THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity raises funds by renting out commercial property and by receiving charitable donations."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, United States.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Mutual Trust Group (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Rabbi Benzion Weitz not recorded Children's Town Charity (326234); Friends of Yad Idud ( Helping Hands Projects) (1075758); The Friends of the Yeshivat Shaar Hashamayim (286143)
Adrian Weisz not recorded —
Michael Weitz not recorded —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-11 Rabbi Benzion Weitz – also trustee of The Friends of the Yeshivat Shaar Hashamayim, Friends of Yad Idud ( Helping Hands Projects); Adrian Weisz; Michael Weitz [3]

Trustee Benzion Weitz is recorded on the register as a trustee of The Friends of the Yeshivat Shaar Hashamayim (286143); the charity's largest FY2025 grant after The ABC Trust went to Yeshivas Shaar Hashamayim (£57,000). The accounts state that there were no related party transactions (PDF p.11–12).[1][2]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £195,340 £129,666
2022-12-31 £211,760 £241,787
2023-12-31 £309,497 £225,143
2024-12-31 £195,351 £204,533
2025-12-31 £393,182 £371,558

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 31/12/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £359,765: The ABC Trust £258,000, Yeshivas Shaar Hashamayim £57,000, Ner Gavriel £23,885, Moisdos Olshin £16,000 and others under £5,000 £4,880 (PDF p.11).[2] The ABC Trust (1126661) was profiled in an earlier batch.[1]

Israeli partners

Yeshivas Shaar Hashamayim, Ner Gavriel and Moisdos Olshin are named without locations.[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 is named for any recipient. 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;[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]
  • Rent from a rent-free lease. The accounts say the charity derives its income "from letting out a property which it holds on a short-term lease" and that "No rent was payable" by the charity for the property; the property is not identified (PDF p.12).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and 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. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[19]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[20] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[21]

  • Commercial property held on a short-term lease, let out for rent of £354,916 in 2025; address not stated – Accounts note 10 (PDF p.12); the register records that the charity owns and/or leases land; the trust is unincorporated, so no CCOD company match is possible (source: accounts)

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Mutual Trust Group" 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".[3]

See also

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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, The Mutual Trust Group (1039300): 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 1039300, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ The Mutual Trust Group accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  5. ↑ The Mutual Trust Group accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  6. ↑ The Mutual Trust Group accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ The Mutual Trust Group accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ The Mutual Trust Group accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  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-9 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none of the 25 pages showed an alert.
  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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 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, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-9 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-9 charity name returned zero results; a control search returned results normally).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Mutual Trust Group' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1039300 360Giving, queried 15 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-9 screening covered 296 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers, lenders, donor companies, subsidiaries and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch (including Bextor Estates Ltd, Newmarston Ltd, PWorld.UK Ltd and Gateway Sight Ltd and their directors); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname candidate arose; all candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps (for example "Trust" or "Israel"); lists downloaded October 2026.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Mutual Trust Group" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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