Wildbrook Charitable Trust
Stanmore trust whose grants, £20,164 in 2025/26, go to five UK charities, chiefly Magen David Adom UK; its statement of assets shows net liabilities because of a grant commitment to MDA UK
| Wildbrook Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2004-06-25 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1104567 |
| Headquarters | Stanmore HA7 |
| Area served | Throughout London, Israel |
| Key people | Jeremy Samuel Jacobs (chair) |
Wildbrook Charitable Trust is a charitable trust constituted by a trust deed of 10 May 2004 and registered on 25 June 2004; its address is in Stanmore HA7 and its areas of operation are London and Israel.[1][2][3] "The charity pursues its objects by making grants to UK registered charities, funded by donations and Gift Aid."[3] The trustees are Jeremy Samuel Jacobs (chair) and Karen Bernice Jacobs.[1][3] In the receipts and payments accounts for the year to 31 March 2026, donations were £20,310 (2025: £10,525), Gift Aid £6,440 and bank interest £11; grants to charities were £20,164 (2025: £11,680), and cash rose to £6,869 (2025: £272).[3] "During the year the charity made grants of £20,164 (2025: £11,680) to five registered charities, the principal recipient being Magen David Adom UK."[3] The accounts were examined by Stuart Davis ACCA of Expertax Limited and approved on 30 September 2026.[3]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO PROMOTE OR FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE: PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT NOTHING IN THIS DEED SHALL EITHER EXPRESSLY OR BY IMPLICATION, AUTHORISE THE APPLICATION OF THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF THE TRUST FUND OTHERWISE THAN FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "To utilise charitable funds to further the objectives of the Charitable Trust"[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Bernice Jacobs | not recorded | — | |
| Jeremy Samuel Jacobs | not recorded | Yes | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-06 | Jeremy Samuel Jacobs (chair); Karen Bernice Jacobs | [4] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £1 | £3,550 |
| 2023-03-31 | £3,987 | £8,000 |
| 2024-03-31 | £7,500 | £13,080 |
| 2025-03-31 | £11,794 | £11,680 |
| 2026-03-31 | £26,761 | £20,164 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- Year to 31 March 2026: grants of £20,164 to five registered charities, the principal recipient being Magen David Adom UK; the other four are not named.[3]
Israeli partners
Magen David Adom UK, a UK registered charity; the accounts do not describe its work in Israel.[3]
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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named; grants go to UK registered charities.[3] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]
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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
- Net liabilities. The statement of assets and liabilities records a "grant commitment to Magen David Adom UK" of £8,750 (2025: £26,250) and "Total assets less liabilities" of minus £1,881 (2025: minus £24,615).[3]
- Signing dates. The examiner's report and approval are dated 30 September 2026, but the appended e-signature log shows the document generated and signed on 1 October 2026; the log's personal data is not reproduced.[3]
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).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[13]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[14]
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.[15]
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.[16]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Wildbrook Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[17]
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".[4]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Wildbrook Charitable Trust (1104567): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Charity Commission, Wildbrook Charitable Trust (1104567): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1104567, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 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-26 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-26 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-26 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Wildbrook' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1104567 360Giving, queried 16 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-26 screening covered 224 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers, examiners and other people and organisations named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words in company names (such as "Company Directors Limited") and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Wildbrook" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).