UK Gives Ltd
UK giving platform funding a wide range of Israeli causes, chiefly through the IsraelGives Foundation
| UK Gives Ltd
| |
|---|---|
| Logo |  Soroka Medical Center, Beersheba. The charity's 2024/25 grants include £69,021 to Friends of Soroka Medical Center |
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2015-04-21 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1161366; company 09136891 |
| Headquarters | 483 Green Lanes, London, N13 4BS |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
| Key people | Jonathan Bonder Llb (chair) |
| Website | www.ukgives.org.uk |
UK Gives Ltd is a charitable company (09136891) registered on 21 April 2015, with its address at 483 Green Lanes, London N13 4BS. Register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1] In the year ended 31 July 2025 income was £1,452,076 and grants £1,525,213 (2024: £2,060,384), "distributed to institutions working across humanitarian relief, medical care, education, bereavement and hostage-family support, civil society, arts and culture, social welfare and elder care".[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "To promote, encourage, and facilitate charitable giving and philanthropy in the United Kingdom."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Overseas Aid/famine Relief.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Bonder Llb | 2014-07-17 | Yes | — |
| Ronen Mendel | 2020-07-20 | — | |
| Dana Maimon | 2025-03-06 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-16 | Jonathan Bonder Llb (chair) (from 17 July 2014); Ronen Mendel (from 20 July 2020); Noelle Smith (from 17 July 2014) | [3] |
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 6 current and former officers of the charitable company (09136891), 3 of them active.[4] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Jonathan Bonder (Israel, active); Dana Rahel Maimon (Israel, active); Ronen Mendel (Israel, active); Tal Moche Wolgroch (Israel, resigned).[4]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-31 | £583,575 | £574,785 |
| 2022-07-31 | £482,192 | £467,132 |
| 2023-07-31 | £472,695 | £461,447 |
| 2024-07-31 | £2,340,955 | £2,100,883 |
| 2025-07-31 | £1,452,076 | £1,574,496 |
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 31/07/2016[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/07/2017[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/07/2018[7]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants to Israeli institutions, including: The IsraelGives Foundation £562,377 (note 6); Standing Together £135,012; Yad Ezra V'Shulamit £73,155; IDF Widows & Orphans Organization £69,461; Friends of Soroka Medical Center £69,021; Hostages and Missing Families Forum £66,652; Israel Rugby Union £57,632; Tenufa Bakehila £40,354; LATET £34,305; Hut HaMeshulash £28,429; Bezalel Academy £26,499; NGO Monitor £26,313; Keren Or Caesarea £25,162; Brothers and sisters in arms – for the democracy £23,628; South African Zionist Federation Israel £21,176; Physicians for Human Rights Israel £13,439; Druze Youth Movement Association in Israel £10,500; Keren Hayesod – United Israel Appeal £9,267.[2]
Israeli partners
The IsraelGives Foundation (Israeli charity; common trustee J Bonder) and Israel Toremet Limited (Israeli company owned by J Bonder).[2]
Support for the Israeli military
Grants. Grants to the IDF Widows & Orphans Organization, a welfare body for bereaved families of the Israel Defense Forces, were £69,461 in 2025 (2024: £67,594) (PDF p.19).[2] No funding of military equipment or operations is stated.[2] Earlier accounts record £7,609 to the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization in 2021/22 (PDF p.13)[8] and grants to the Lone Soldier Center in memory of Michael Levin of £6,367 in 2020/21 and £6,405 in 2019/20 (2020/21 accounts, PDF p.13).[9]
Lone Soldier Center donation route. The donation page of the Lone Soldier Center in memory of Michael Levin, an Israeli organisation that supports lone soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces (enlisting, active and discharged), tells UK donors that a "GBP Tax Deductible Donation" can be made by cheque payable to "UK Gives", with the memo line "580520104", mailed to UK Gives, 483 Green Lanes, London N13 4BS. On the same page the number is described as "the LSC's Israeli tax ID".[10] The amounts passed on this way were not identified in the accounts used for this profile.
Prior scrutiny. In June 2024 the Islamic Human Rights Commission published Enabling Genocide Fundraising in the UK: Questions for the Charity Commission, with a section on UK Gives and its Israeli partner IsraelGives.[11]
Activity beyond the Green Line
Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Not established. Recipients are named without locations, and none is a settlement council or settlement-based body by name.[2] | Low |
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;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
- Related parties. The charity "partners with Israel Toremet Limited, a company incorporated in Israel" (Israel Toremet Limited), which handles administration and due diligence and is "owned by a trustee, Mr J Bonder"; it is unpaid, and £5,093 was owed to it at the year end. The charity paid the IsraelGives Foundation, "a registered charity in Israel of which Mr Bonder is a common trustee", £554,999 according to the trustees' report, but note 6 lists £562,377. The accounts do not explain the £7,378 difference.[2]
- Not to be confused with UK Toremet. UK Toremet Limited (07278312), a separate company that received £750,000 from the Coren foundation, lists officers at Companies House that do not include any UK Gives trustee. No link between it and Israel Toremet Limited was established.[18]
- Breadth of recipients. The same grant list includes Standing Together (£135,012), Physicians for Human Rights Israel (£13,439) and The Parents Circle Families Forum (£11,266), alongside NGO Monitor (£26,313), Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center (£5,550), StandWithUs (£65,737 in 2024) and the Hostages and Missing Families Forum (£66,652).[2]
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[19] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[20]
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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[21]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[22]
Sanctions screening
The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found.[23]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[24]
Parliament
A search of Hansard for 'UK Gives' returned 0 contributions in total.[25]
Web archive
- ukgives.org.uk: 3 yearly captures, first 2022-07-17, last 2024-04-24.[26]
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
- ↑ 1.0 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, UK Gives Ltd (1161366): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file). Latest accounts on the register (year to 31 July 2025): archived copy, Wayback Machine, 24 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1161366, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Company 09136891: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
- ↑ UK Gives Ltd accounts, year ended 2016-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ UK Gives Ltd accounts, year ended 2017-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ UK Gives Ltd accounts, year ended 2018-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ Charity Commission, UK Gives Limited: annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2022 Register of Charities ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Charity Commission, UK Gives Limited: annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2021 Register of Charities ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Lone Soldier Center in memory of Michael Levin, Donate, viewed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ Islamic Human Rights Commission, Enabling Genocide Fundraising in the UK: Questions for the Charity Commission (PDF), June 2024, section "UKGives Ltd (1161366)".
- ↑ 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 1–7 (175 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 – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Companies House, UK Toremet Limited (07278312): officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-3 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-3 charity name returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'UK Gives' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1161366 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-3 screening covered 409 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive) and Companies House officers of the 12 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually; lists downloaded October 2026. (Corrected 14 October 2026: the first run omitted the 21 names found only on archived full-print pages; the re-screen found no match.)
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 14 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'UK Gives' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
- ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for ukgives.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 14 October 2026.