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UK charity sending funds to the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers
Type Company limited by guarantee and registered charity
Logo UK AWIS logo - Screen Shot 2014-09-21 at 22.42.26.png
Founded 20 October 2000
Founder(s) Alice Krieger, at the instigation of Brig. Gen. Itzchaki Chen
Dissolved
Registration ID Company 04094203; charity 1084272
Status Active. Official Warning, 9 June 2025
Headquarters 1st Floor, Sackville House, 143-149 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 6BL
Location London, United Kingdom
Area served United Kingdom fundraising for the Israeli parent
Services Grants for leisure, education and welfare of serving and discharged Israeli soldiers
Registration England and Wales
Key people Miguel Gerardo Abadi, Richard Justin Kemp, Benny Shachor, Joshua Eric Swidler
Website ukawis.co.uk (offline)
Remarks Parent: Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers (LIBI). Trading arm UK AWIS Trading Limited dissolved. Former offices: 87A Bell Lane, Hendon; 235 Old Marylebone Road

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers (UK Friends of AWIS; charity 1084272; company 04094203) is the British friends body of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers (Aguda Lemaan HaChayal). The parent was established in 1942 by David Ben-Gurion. The British company was incorporated on 20 October 2000. The 2007 annual return gave the public address as 235 Old Marylebone Road, London NW1 5QT, telephone 020 7724 6060. An archived page from 2002 gave 87A Bell Lane, Hendon, NW4 2SA.[1][2]

Greer Fay Cashman, in the Jerusalem Post, wrote that the British friends were set up by Alice Krieger at the instigation of Brig. Gen. Itzchaki Chen, then defence attaché at the Israeli embassy, in the late 1990s.[3] The site, as archived, said the object was “to promote the wellbeing of Israel's sons and daughters in uniform.”[4] The Charity Commission describes the objects as support for serving and discharged Israeli soldiers through the advancement of education and the provision of leisure facilities.[5]

The 2025 trustees’ report says the company raises money “to donate to Israel through the connected charity The Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers in Israel and other approved organisations.”[6]

22 December 2023, one of the last screen captures before the site was shuttered.
24 March 2024 the website has been dark since around January. this is the first capture of the temporary holding page

What the money buys

The 2014 project pages, and the site as it stood before it was taken down, described gifts to serving units rather than to discharged students only.

  • Mobile synagogues for troops operating the Iron Dome in southern Israel, with an ark, reader’s platform and washbasin, called “a source of spiritual sustenance [for the soldiers] as they carry the weight of Israel's security on their shoulders.”[7]
  • An injured-soldiers fund, for gifts and recreational facilities.[8]
  • Spirit: five-day vacations for combat units.[9]
  • Refurbishment of rest and recreation clubs, mobile clubs, mobile gyms, and an upgraded rest and recreation club for frontline personnel.[10]
  • IMPACT scholarships for discharged combat soldiers from poor backgrounds.[11]
  • President’s scholarships: 120 a year, soldiers selected by the IDF, presented on Independence Day at the President’s residence, held until discharge and a place at a college.[12]
  • Jewish awareness, with the Military Rabbinate: Selichot tours for about 15,000 soldiers, costed at £52,500, and “In the Footsteps of the Maccabees” tours for about 15,000, costed at £104,500.[13]

Before the site went offline, Byline Times reported that it also invited donations for field-hospital equipment, for “adopting” an IDF combat regiment, and for army enlistment festivals.[14]

The Al Mayadeen account

David Miller, writing for Al Mayadeen stated that more than twenty British charities send money to UK Friends of AWIS and Beit Halochem UK, and asked how those gifts meet the public-benefit test while Gaza was under assault. The piece uses the pool, the Levy gifts and a 2020 dinner list as its evidence.[15]

The pool

Pool at a desert base. A woman in olive uniform films soldiers in the water. Frame at 0:38 of a 2:46 film carrying the UK Friends of AWIS material.
Synchronised swimming display in the same film. A man on the poolside is filming.

Miller quoted AWIS on a pool opened in August 2021: “The combat soldiers who serve at this base work exceptionally hard in very difficult circumstances, and so the swimming pool is a perfect place for them to unwind, and it also upgrades the base to a new level. We are very proud of this.” The opening had a display by the Israeli national artistic swimming team, medal winners at the 2021 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest. The frames above, of soldiers in a base pool and of a synchronised team in red, are the images used with that passage.[15]

Julian and Sian Levy

Julian Levy, captioned on screen with the UK Friends of AWIS crest, beside a woman in a black t-shirt. Israeli broadcast, lower-third in Hebrew “שידור, בריטניה”.
The same broadcast. Subtitle: “board members of the AWIS.”
Subtitle: “among the most important supporters of UK Friends of AWIS.”

The February 2023 living-space plaque names Rachel Levy and Daniel Levy, for their bat and bar mitzvah, “in appreciation of the soldiers of the IDF.” Miller identified the adults in the ribbon-cutting frame as Julian Levy and Sian Levy of St John’s Wood, and called them major donors. The 2009 mobile-synagogue plaque names the same couple and four children: Avi, Jamie, Rachel and Daniel.

On an Israeli broadcast the lower-third calls Julian Levy a board member of UK Friends of AWIS, and a subtitle calls the couple “among the most important supporters.” Miller wrote that no such office appears on the charity’s website or in the accounts filed with the Commission and Companies House. The officer file read in October 2026 does not list either of them. He also reported that their son Avi, introduced on the same broadcast as a British recruit to the IDF, said: “It wasn’t like when I was 18 I decided I wanted to go to the army. From when I was very little — six years old — I said I want to go to the army… It was like fulfilling a dream of mine to come to Israel.”[15][16]

South Hampstead and Eli Kay

Plaque, March 2023, crests of UK Friends of AWIS and South Hampstead Synagogue: “This Synagogue is donated in memory of Eli Kay Z"L by families Bard, Benjamin, Bray, Cohen, Gordon, Jacobson, Kay, Taub and Traub of South Hampstead Shul, UK.”

The March 2023 synagogue plaque is in memory of Eli Kay, given by the Bard, Benjamin, Bray, Cohen, Gordon, Jacobson, Kay, Taub and Traub families of South Hampstead Synagogue. Miller described Kay as a South African who had served in the Israeli forces and was killed by Palestinian fighters in November 2021, and wrote that the Israeli authorities then sent about 150 personnel to demolish the family home of the man who killed him.[15]

Magen Avot and Nancy Reuben

Plaque, 2009: “This mobile synagogue is donated by Julian & Sian Levy and their children Avi, Jamie, Rachel and Daniel in appreciation of the soldiers of the IDF who protect the Jewish people. London, England – 2009.” Hebrew heading names the Association and the UK Friends.

Miller reported an appeal by Magen Avot for UK Friends of AWIS, in honour of Rabbi Joel Kenigsberg and Sarah Kenigsberg, who “returned to Israel in the summer of 2022.” He placed the synagogue in the hall of Nancy Reuben Primary School, 48 Finchley Lane, London NW4 1DJ, and wrote that it was initially set up with the support of Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the United Synagogue.

He cited a Times of Israel report that the school took part in a JNF UK programme. Head teacher Antony Wolfson told that paper his pupils had learned more about Israel through lessons from JNF UK’s Sari Rubin. The JNF, Miller wrote, had twinned the school with a school in the Naqab. The school’s 2020 accounts said it was a JNF partner school and that the JNF funded a teacher two days a week for Israel education and Ivrit. He also noted that the United Synagogue had called itself Zionist on a page taken down after 1 November 2023.[15]

Ribbon-cutting, February 2023. The plaque reads: “This living space is donated by Rachel and Daniel Levy together with their family on the occasion of their Bat and Bar Mitzvah in appreciation of the soldiers of the IDF who protect the Jewish People all round the world.” Crests of UK Friends of AWIS and the Israeli Association.

Grants to the Israeli Association, 2013–2023

The line is the donation to the Association, later styled LIBI Fund / the Association. The 2021 related-party note prints a comparative of £755,544. The expenditure note in the same set of accounts prints £155,544. The expenditure note is the figure used here.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]

Period Sent to the Association Income Note
Year to 31 December 2013 £549,909 £717,085 Note 6, “donations made”. The 2012 comparative on the same line is the £494,666 already identified as the Israel transfer
Year to 31 December 2014 £615,849 — “Donations made”. The 2016 note reprints this figure as “year to 31 December 2015”
1 January 2015 to 31 March 2016 £395,714 — Fifteen-month period. Year-end moves to 31 March
Year to 31 March 2017 £473,038 — Named as a donation to the Association in Israel
Year to 31 March 2018 £629,243 — Comparative in the 2019 accounts
Year to 31 March 2019 £535,821 — No terms and conditions
Year to 31 March 2020 £402,632 — Payee styled “LIBI Fund The Association for the Wellbeing of Israeli Soldiers”
Year to 31 March 2021 £155,544 — Expenditure note. Related-party note prints £755,544 for the same year
Year to 31 March 2022 £110,202 — LIBI Fund / the Association
Year to 31 March 2023 £274,670 — LIBI Fund / the Association. Comparative £110,202
Year to 31 March 2024 £468,625 £763,163 Already on the page
Year to 31 March 2025 £331,003 £374,934 Already on the page

Named transfers from the 2014 accounts through the 2023 accounts come to £3,742,772. Adding 2024 and 2025 takes the run from 2014 to £4,542,400. No separate 2015 calendar-year accounts are in the bundle. The fifteen-month period covers January 2015 to March 2016.

The trading subsidiary, UK AWIS Trading Limited, was described in the 2012 report as supporting fundraising through trading. The 2025 accounts say that company was dormant and had been dissolved. Share capital £2.[26][6]

The Commission case

The case was opened because of concerns that the charity was fundraising for military support for the IDF, which the Commission said would have been unlawful and outside the objects. A monitoring inspection found no evidence that funds had been misapplied outside the stated objects. During that engagement the Commission found a video on the website and the YouTube channel with a distressing scene, appearing to show a person being killed. The Commission later said the video did not in fact depict a killing, but was still distressing.[5]

Byline Times had reported in January 2024 that the video appeared to be thermal-imaging footage of Palestinians being killed, and that the site then went offline. The trustees told the paper that, on legal advice, they suspended transfers to Israel pending the inquiry, and that after an interim report in July 2024 the transfers resumed.[14]

The Official Warning is dated 9 June 2025 and was published on 22 July 2025. It says the trustees outsourced editorial control of the website to a former executive director, who still provided consultancy, and to a PR agency, and allowed the video to be posted without reviewing it or asking whether it furthered the objects. The Commission called that misconduct and mismanagement, and a failure to act in the charity’s best interests. By 9 December 2025 the trustees were to confirm a review of other media, adopt a social media policy, and show they had read the Commission’s social media guidance. The Commission said the case remained open. The warning does not stop the grants to the Israeli parent. It is about the video and the absence of a publications policy.[5][27]

That is a different outcome from the warning to Chabad Lubavitch Centres North East London and Essex Limited, where the Commission found a gift to a named soldier and the purchase of equipment were outside the objects. Here the Commission said it found no misapplied funds, and sanctioned the trustees for the video.[28]

People

The existing page lists Efi Hellerstein as honorary president, and Julian Levy and Sian Levy as board members and donors. The director table below is the filing captured on that page, not a fresh extract.

Name Role Date of birth Appointed Resigned Residence
Zeev Chaim Remez Secretary and director January 1956 20 October 2000 — United Kingdom
Peter Alexander Sussmann Director December 1934 20 October 2000 — England
Joshua Eric Swidler Director August 1972 14 December 2016 — United States
Richard Justin Kemp Director April 1959 — 9 January 2018 England
Julian Phillip Kemble Director January 1936 20 October 2000 14 December 2017 United Kingdom
David Charles Tucker Director July 1962 25 May 2011 11 January 2019 England
Anke Adler-Slottke Director January 1942 20 October 2000 14 June 2007 —
Andrew David Balcombe Director August 1942 25 September 2002 12 September 2006 —
Rachel Rogoff Director February 1958 4 September 2007 17 May 2011 United Kingdom

The 2005 accounts name as trustees Julian Kemble, Zeev Remez, Peter Sussmann and, from the later filing, David Tucker. Former trustees on that page: Anke Adler-Slottke and Andrew Balcombe.[29]

Officers, October 2026

Companies House 04094203, read 1 October 2026. Correspondence address for the current directors is 1st Floor, Sackville House, 143–149 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 6BL.[16]

Name Role Status Date of birth Appointed Resigned Nationality Residence
Miguel Gerardo Abadi Director Active March 1963 8 September 2025 — British England
Richard Justin Kemp Director Active April 1959 9 January 2018 — British England
Benny Shachor Director Active February 1993 8 September 2025 — Portuguese England
Joshua Eric Swidler Director Active August 1972 14 December 2016 — British United States
Zeev Remez Director Resigned January 1956 20 October 2000 8 December 2025 British United Kingdom
Zeev Remez Secretary Resigned — 20 October 2000 8 December 2025 British —
Peter Alexander Sussmann Director Resigned December 1934 20 October 2000 8 December 2025 British England
Julian Phillip Kemble Director Resigned January 1936 20 October 2000 14 December 2017 British United Kingdom
David Charles Tucker Director Resigned July 1962 25 May 2011 11 January 2019 British United Kingdom
Rachel Rogoff Director Resigned February 1958 4 September 2007 17 May 2011 British United Kingdom
Anke Adler-Slottke Director Resigned January 1942 20 October 2000 14 June 2007 British —
Andrew David Balcombe Director Resigned August 1942 25 September 2002 12 September 2006 British —

Earlier drafts put Kemp’s 9 January 2018 date in the resigned column. That is the appointment date. He is still on the file.

Donors

Known grants compiled from donor accounts and the AWIS filings, 2005–2013:

| The J Isaacs Charitable Trust                                                                                                          
Donors to the UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers in £ sterling [30]
Organisation 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total 2005-2013
A M Charitable Trust ? ? ? 2,000 0 0 0 2,000 ? 4,000
C H (1980) Charitable Trust ? ? ? 0 2,000 0 0 0 0 2,000
Family Foundations Trust 0 0 0 25,000 21,000 15,000 15,000 10,200 10,000 96,200
G R P Charitable Trust 0 0 0 0 0 2,000 2,000 0 2,000 6,000
The Peltz Trust 0 0 1,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,000
Phillips & Rubens Charitable Trust 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,500 2,500 0 5,000
The R and S Cohen Foundation 0 3,000 0 0 0 0 7,650 0 0 10,650
Stanley and Zea Lewis Family Foundation 0 0 0 0 0 200 0 0 0 200
The Wigoder Family Foundation[31] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,000 0 2,000
Specific known donations total 0 3,000 1,000 27,000 23,000 17,200 27,150 16,700 12,000 127,050
Total income declared by UK AWIS 54,693 455,667 540,990 713,655 648,966 544,965 532,129 649,859 ? -
Total income sent to the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers 74,000 455,118 434,242 518,995 547,059 408,629 410,229 494,666 ? 3,342,938

The known lines total £127,050, against declared income in the hundreds of thousands. The Wigoder Family Foundation accounts named the Israeli Association and listed the gift under UK grants. Len Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation appear on an archived Friends of the IDF page, not in this table.[32]

UK AWIS - supporters also names, as donors to this charity, the David and Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Denise Cohen Charitable Trust, Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation, Jack Goldhill Charitable Trust, Lawson Beckman Charitable Trust, Loftus Charitable Trust, Rosenblatt Family Charitable Trust, The J E Joseph Charitable Trust, The J Isaacs Charitable Trust, The Locker Foundation, The Maurice Hatter Foundation and The Phillips Family Charitable Trust. Several of those also give to Beit Halochem UK, the Jerusalem Foundation or the Jewish National Fund.[33]

Musry and the 2020 dinner

Clubhouse plaque, September 2022: “This clubhouse was donated by the Musry family in memory of Nissim Gourgi Musry. The soldiers of the IDF were always in his thoughts and prayers. They are our sons and daughters, brothers and sisters. A shield for all the Jewish people.”

The September 2022 clubhouse plaque is from the Musry family, in memory of Nissim Gourgi Musry: “The soldiers of the IDF were always in his thoughts and prayers.” Miller cited a 2008 Times report that the family, led by Nissim Musry and then valued at £45 million, owned about half of Wrengate, a Manchester textile importer founded in 1974, and that the family also gave to the United Jewish Israel Appeal.[15]

The 2020 UK Friends of AWIS dinner was sponsored by the Musry firm Oakbridge Financial Services Ltd. The brochure list was reproduced:

Name on the brochure What the registers show Not found
Oakbridge Financial Services Ltd (sponsor) Company 05274204, incorporated 1 November 2004, active. Mortgage finance. Office: 10 Riverview, The Embankment, Vale Road, Heaton Mersey, SK4 3GN. Nissim Gourgi Musry was a director until 25 March 2018, so he had already left the board by the 2020 dinner. The Times in 2008 valued the family at £45 million and said it owned about half of Wrengate, a Manchester textile firm founded in 1974
Susan Gradel and David Gradel, Leon and Bertha Gradel Trust Charity 263745, registered 20 March 1972. Trust deed 31 March 1970. Objects: grants to religious, educational and social institutions, mainly in the UK and Israel. Address: Unit 5, Dancastle Court, 14 Arcadia Avenue, Finchley N3 2JU. David Gradel is named president and Susan Janet Gradel trustee. Reporting overdue. Income £16,500 in the year to 31 December 2020
Corob Group Corob Holdings Limited, 00749041. Directors have included Sidney Corob (May 1923; resigned 22 April 2004) and Elizabeth Corob (August 1928; resigned 14 November 2016). Alison Lavinia Corob (April 1959) remains. The Sidney and Elizabeth Corob Charitable Trust was charity 266606. A 2024 LEI record marks that trust inactive from 29 November 2023 Which trading company the brochure meant by “Corob Group” is not separately numbered here
Hassans International Law Firm Limited Gibraltar firm. Companies House Gibraltar number 115509. Madison Building, Midtown, Queensway, Gibraltar GX11 1AA. LEI 254900702S2SZO1PUM67, active No UK company number
Regatta, Dare 2B, Craghoppers, Hawkshead, Black family Outdoor-clothing group. Jewish News, 12 January 2022: Keith Black, chief executive, elected chair of the Jewish Leadership Council, succeeding Jonathan Goldstein. Manchester-born. Joined the family firm in 1981 after a law degree at Southampton. Moved to north London in 2009. Had been the Community Security Trust representative on the JLC council. Miller also ties him to UJIA, the Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation and the Institute for National Security Studies
A R and V Group, Jeffrey Azouz and Edward Azouz A.R. & V. Investments Limited, 00632484, incorporated 10 July 1959, active. Buying and selling its own real estate. Office: 68 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DS. Jeffrey Azouz, chartered surveyor, and Edward Azouz, chartered accountant, appointed May 1992. Edward Azouz correspondence address 30 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead NW3 7PH
Yamen Edward Nissim Foundation Charity 1176117, registered 19 June 2017. Grants in England and Wales, especially London, for poverty, health and wellbeing, including charities focused on people of the Jewish faith. Also operates in Israel. Year to 31 July 2025: income £87,475, expenditure £92,354. Trustees: David Yamin-Joseph (chair), Veerasingham Ganeshan Jeyabavan, Yael Rebecca Salem. The same three sit on Friends of Ohr Aaron and the David Cardozo Academy No Nissim family trustee on the current register
Noé Group and Capreon Same UK company, and one family. Capreon (UK) Limited, 10469164, incorporated 8 November 2016 as NFO UK Real Estate Limited, renamed Noe Group UK Real Estate Limited on 3 January 2017, renamed Capreon (UK) Limited on 3 August 2017. Office: 2nd Floor, The Hide, 3 Kingly Court, London W1B 5PW. The Times, 22 November 2017: Leo Noé set up the Noé Group as parent of Capreon, run by his sons Zvi Noé and Raphael Noé, and of Goldacre Ventures, founded by his son-in-law David Bloom. The main figures behind the Noé Group and its real estate arm, Capreon, are members of the British property tycoon Noé family, alongside their executive leadership:
  • Leo Noé: The founder and Executive Chairman of the Noé Group. He is a prominent British property entrepreneur and philanthropist who established the family office in 2017.
  • Raphael Noé: Leo’s son, who serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Capreon. He leads Capreon's real estate investment strategies and operations across the UK and Europe.
  • Zvi Noé: Leo’s son and a Founding Partner of the Noé Group. He has heavy oversight of the ongoing asset management and property investments within the Capreon portfolio.
  • David Bloom: Leo's son-in-law and a founding partner within the group. While he specifically heads Goldacre (the digital infrastructure and proptech arm of the Noé Group), he works closely with the family on broader group operations. ||
Goldacre The digital-infrastructure arm, not 02890608 or 12781352. goldacre.com people: David Bloom, founding partner; Eddie Abrams, managing partner; Elliot Glausiusz, senior adviser; Andrew Feldman, senior adviser. The Noé Group page styles him Lord Andrew Feldman. The Times identifies Bloom as Leo Noé’s son-in-law and Goldacre as part of the group Company number of this Goldacre not on the site
Rachel Charitable Trust Charity 276441, registered 14 September 1978. Grants for the sick and needy, schools and other institutions. Year to 30 June 2025: income £5,357,838, expenditure £5,033,534. Received the funds of Gableholt Limited, charity 276250, in May 2020. Robert Chalk is named for this trust on the Noé Group people page
Broome and Wellington Manchester firm on the Yell listing. Broome & Wellington, LP002040, incorporated 24 June 1969, active, 3rd Floor, Barlow House, 4 Minshull Street, Manchester M1 3DZ. Broome & Wellington (International) Limited, 01930174, incorporated 11 July 1985, same address. Joshua Rowe (1948) is director and person with significant control; one filing gives residence as Israel, another as England. Michelle Berenice Rowe is a director. Phone on a directory: 0161 236 2317 Trade not on the Companies House overview
Atlanticomnium UK, Sabine Smouha and Jeremy Smouha Atlanticomnium (UK) Limited, 07884729, incorporated 16 December 2011, active. Office: Windsor House, Station Court, Station Road, Great Shelford, Cambridge CB22 5NE. Jeremy Alan Smouha (April 1959, British and French, lives in England) is a director and a person with significant control. Anthony Jack Smouha (May 1956, British and Swiss, lives in Switzerland) is the other controller Sabine Smouha is not on the officer overview
Tuckers Solicitors, in honour of Harold Tucker Tuckers Solicitors LLP, OC382272, incorporated 7 February 2013, active. Office: 39 Warren Street, London W1T 6AF Harold Tucker’s dates and the family link are only the brochure line
Cara, Leon, Jonathan, Tali and David Blitz One family. Leon Saul Blitz (May 1964) married Cara L Shapiro, Camden, 1995 Q2. Births with mother’s maiden name Shapiro, Westminster: Jonathan Ilan Blitz 1998, Tali Lior Blitz 2000, David Gadi Blitz 2004. Blitz Associates Limited, 07143112, dissolved. Leon Saul Blitz and Cara Blitz (September 1970) appointed directors 2 February 2010; Leon also secretary. Address 8-12 York Gate, 100 Marylebone Road, NW1 4QG. His file also has Jnetics (07087270) and a resigned post at UK Israel Business (00488496). A published profile calls him co-founder of Grovepoint and a former Investec executive The Chigwell David Blitz of ET Clay Products is not this David.
Wilder Coe Ltd Company 10201730, incorporated 26 May 2016, active. Accountants. Office: 1st Floor, Sackville House, 143–149 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 6BL. That is the correspondence address of the current UK Friends of AWIS directors
Roses Drapery Stores Ltd Company 00914518, incorporated 4 September 1967, active. Development of building projects. Office: 843 Finchley Road, London NW11 8NA Family behind it not on the overview
Tina Cole and Michael Cole Trustees of the removed MTC Charitable Trust (charity 1111044; previous name The Tina and Michael Cole Charitable Trust; trust deed 25 July 2005; registered 25 August 2005; removed 30 August 2024, “does not operate”).[34] Year to 31 March 2020: trustees Tina Cole, Michael Cole and Joshua Cole; office 64 Marlborough Place, London NW8 0PL (printed “Malborough” on the administrative page). Donations in £35,851 (2019: £1,000). Note 5 grants to institutions £16,380 (2019: £1,305 “Other”); the trustees’ narrative states grants of £34,928. Named 2020 grants: StandWithUs UK £300; Women’s Jewish Aid £2,000; Jewish Care £5,000; United Hatzalah of Israel £1,800; Holocaust Educational Trust £2,500; St John's Wood Synagogue £2,580; Magen David Adom UK £1,800; “Association of Well being of Israeli Soldiers” £400. No trustee remuneration. Year-end cash £18,548, held by a trustee. Accounts signed by Michael Cole, 22 June 2021; examiner Muneeza Baig, HW Fisher LLP.[22] Objects include relief of poverty, education, and advancement of Orthodox Judaism “in accordance with the doctrines and principles laid down by the Office of the Chief Rabbi.” External applications not considered.[34][22] Michael Cole married Tina E Rogers, Dudley registration district, Staffordshire, April–June 1979, volume 33, page 0545.[35] Tina E Rogers, birth registered Q1 1959, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, mother’s maiden name Rogers, volume 9B, page 1092.[36] Jewish Care’s annual review 2020–21 lists “Tina & Michael Cole” among Friends (list correct as of January 2021), not among Patrons. The same review’s Bridge Queens committee includes a “Tina Cole”; that is a name-only match and is not confirmed as the same person.[37]

Miller’s count of “almost thirty” charities is the supporters list already on UK AWIS - supporters, plus Beit Halochem UK as the second recipient. The named dinner sponsors above are not on that charity table.[15][33]

Contact

235 Old Marylebone Road
London NW1 5QT
020 3210 3060
ukawis@ukawis.net
ukawis.co.uk, archived at the Internet Archive

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers, annual return for the year ended 31 December 2007, Charity Commission.
  2. ↑ About, UK Friends of AWIS, Internet Archive, 20 October 2002.
  3. ↑ Greer Fay Cashman, “Friday Grapevine”, Jerusalem Post, 18 August 2006.
  4. ↑ About, UK Friends of AWIS, accessed 24 August 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Regulator issues Official Warning to charity over video containing distressing content, Charity Commission, 22 July 2025.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers, trustees’ report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025, pp. 4, 24, 29.
  7. ↑ Oliver Wainwright, Russian army introduces the flying Orthodox church-in-a-box, Guardian, 2 April 2013.
  8. ↑ Injured Soldiers Fund, UKAWIS, accessed 1 October 2014.
  9. ↑ Spirit, UKAWIS, accessed 1 October 2014.
  10. ↑ Project pages, UKAWIS, accessed 1 October 2014: rest and recreation clubs; mobile club; mobile gym; rest and recreation club.
  11. ↑ IMPACT, UKAWIS, accessed 1 October 2014.
  12. ↑ President's Scholarships, UKAWIS, captured 6 June 2016.
  13. ↑ Jewish Awareness, UKAWIS, accessed 1 October 2014.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Charity Commission still hasn’t concluded investigation, Byline Times, 5 February 2025.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 David Miller, Al Mayadeen, “British charities and companies funding the genocidal occupation”, text supplied for this page; also circulated as the Al Mayadeen analysis.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers officers, Companies House 04094203.
  17. ↑ UK Friends of AWIS, accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013, note 6.
  18. ↑ UK Friends of AWIS, accounts for the year ended 31 December 2014, donations made.
  19. ↑ UK Friends of AWIS, accounts for the period ended 31 March 2016, related-party note.
  20. ↑ UK Friends of AWIS, accounts for the year ended 31 March 2017.
  21. ↑ UK Friends of AWIS, accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019, note: £535,821 (2018: £629,243).
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 UK Friends of AWIS, accounts for the year ended 31 March 2020: £402,632 to LIBI Fund / the Association. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "AR2020" defined multiple times with different content
  23. ↑ UK Friends of AWIS, accounts for the year ended 31 March 2021, expenditure note £155,544.
  24. ↑ UK Friends of AWIS, accounts for the year ended 31 March 2022: £110,202.
  25. ↑ UK Friends of AWIS, accounts for the year ended 31 March 2023: £274,670.
  26. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named AR2012
  27. ↑ Official Warning under section 75A, UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers (1084272), 9 June 2025, Charity Commission.
  28. ↑ Charity issued with Official Warning over support for foreign military, Charity Commission, 9 January 2025.
  29. ↑ UK Friends of AWIS, trustees’ report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2005.
  30. ↑ Data compiled from filings at the Charity Commission and UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers Trustees' Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2005 - 2012.
  31. ↑ According to the annual report of the foundation the donation was made to the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers rather than to UK AWIS. However, the donation is included under 'UK Grants' so it is assumed that the donation is to UK AWIS rather than to the Israeli parent organisation.
  32. ↑ Friends of the IDF, Internet Archive, 26 September 2011.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 UK AWIS - supporters, Powerbase.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Charity Commission, MTC CHARITABLE TRUST - 1111044.
  35. ↑ England & Wales marriages 1837–2005, Michael Cole and Tina E Rogers, Q2 1979, Dudley, vol. 33, p. 0545. Index: FreeBMD search.
  36. ↑ England & Wales births 1837–2006, Tina E Rogers, Q1 1959, Wednesbury, vol. 9B, p. 1092. Index: GRO indexes.
  37. ↑ Jewish Care, Annual Review 2020–2021, Friends list and Bridge Queens.
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