The Wellington (London) Trust

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Hackney property trust making large grants, including name-matches to inquiry charities

The Wellington (London) Trust

Type Other
Founded 1999-09-28 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1077574
Headquarters 162A Clapton Common, London, E5 9AG
Area served Hackney, Israel


The Wellington (London) Trust is an unincorporated charity controlled by a deed of trust; register areas are Hackney and Israel, and the register records that it owns or leases land.[1] In the year to 31 March 2025 it received rental income of £363,533 and a £114,689 gain on sale of a tangible fixed asset; it made grants to institutions of £763,550 and carried freehold property of £2,650,449 (PDF p.3, 6, 10, 14).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (C) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Promotion of Orthodox Jewish faith and relief of poverty"[1]

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

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Wellington (London) Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Isaac Glausius not recorded Big Ben Trust (1119232)
Hannah Ludmir not recorded —
Samuel Ludmir 1999-09-01 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-06 Hannah Ludmir; Isaac Glausius – also trustee of Big Ben Trust; Samuel Ludmir (from 01 September 1999) [3]
2021-07-05 Hannah Ludmir; Samuel Ludmir (from 01 September 1999); Isaac Glausius – also trustee of Big Ben Trust [4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £236,991 £128,757
2022-03-31 £283,838 £171,194
2023-03-31 £298,362 £189,510
2024-03-31 £329,850 £284,099
2025-03-31 £490,169 £1,002,146

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 31/03/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[10]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £763,550 include Eitz Chayim £295,300, Hanover Trust £220,000, Fundd £55,000, Yesamach Lev £35,000, Beis Rochel £21,420, Chesed Shel Emess £20,000, Bnos Yerushalim £20,000, CML £16,500, Bayit Lepletot £15,000, Achiezer £10,000, Ponovez £8,000 and others (PDF p.10).[2]

Israeli partners

Bayit Lepletot and Ponovez are Israel-associated names without verified locations in these accounts.[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 settlement or OPT place is named. 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;[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]
  • Grants with names matching inquiry charities. FY2025 grants include "Das Sholem Schotz" £5,000, "Bnos Yerushalim" £20,000, "uta" £5,000 and "Beis Aharon Trust" £750 (PDF p.10).[2] These resemble Friends of Yeshiva Daas Sholem Shotz (1070789), Bnois Jerusalem Schools (312568), United Talmudical Associates (291834) and Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited (1010420); no charity numbers are given, so the matches are by name only. Daas Sholem and Bnois Jerusalem were among the four charities whose investigations the Commission concluded on 9 September 2026.[12][13][15]

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).[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 returned no notices.[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.[21]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[22] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[23]

  • Freehold property with a net book value of £2,650,449 after additions of £633,993 and disposals of £950,000; addresses not stated – Accounts note 7 (PDF p.10); the trust is unincorporated, so no CCOD company match is possible (source: accounts)

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Wellington (London) Trust', 'Wellington London Trust' returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

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 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 Charity Commission, The Wellington (London) Trust (1077574): 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 1077574, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1077574, full print (capture of 20210705) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ The Wellington (London) Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  6. ↑ The Wellington (London) Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ The Wellington (London) Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ The Wellington (London) Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  9. ↑ The Wellington (London) Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  10. ↑ The Wellington (London) Trust accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  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 every charity in batches 1–8 (200 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102), The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust (299687) and Kollel Mishkon Yakov (1170620).
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 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. ↑ 15.0 15.1 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.
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the batch-7 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Lieutenancy of Scotland, is a separate Scottish body).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-7 charity name returned zero results).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Wellington London Trust' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1077574 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-7 screening covered 428 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, subsidiaries and related bodies named in the accounts read for this batch (including Ambertown International Ltd); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. The single forename-and-surname candidate (a former Wimbledon and District Synagogue director against a UK counter-terrorism designation) has different middle names and was not treated as a match; all other candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps; lists downloaded October 2026.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Wellington London Trust' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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