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{{short description|'''London Muslim foundation providing food, winter and orphan support'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation
| type = Charitable company
| registration_id = Registered charity 1139176; company 07274585
| founded = 2010-11-23 (registered)
| headquarters = 968 North Circular Road, Second Floor, London, NW2 7UZ
| area_served = Israel
| revenue = £421,600 (year to 2025-06-30)
| website = www.bmfoundation.org.uk
| logo = [[File:Bayt_ul_Maqdis_Foundation_logo.png|200px]]
}}

'''[[Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation]]''' ('''BMF''') is a charitable company (07274585) founded in 2010 with its office at 968 North Circular Road, London NW2 7UZ; Israel is its only register area.<ref name="EXTRACT">[[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.</ref> Its trustees are Dr Adel Sabir and Rachid Aissou, and its website is bmfoundation.org.uk. In the year to 30 June 2025 donations were £421,600 and charitable expenditure £281,326; funds were £614,610 (PDF p.3, 13).<ref name="ACC">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4050910/accounts-and-annual-returns Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation (1139176): accounts and annual returns] ''Register of Charities''; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).</ref>

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS ARE THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATIONOF HEALTH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST THE ARAB POPULATION INISRAEL AND TO ADVANCE THE TENETS OF THE ABRAHARNIC FAITHS (ISLAM, CHRISTIANITYAND JUDAISM) IN ISRAEL"<ref name="EXTRACT" />

The register describes its activities as: "Activities         Aims     Providing a variety of services for the needy people in Al-Quds & its surrounding. Preserve the architectural heritage of Al-Quds VISSION      Leading institution in supporting the development of      Bayt UL Maqdis to become symbol of human civilization     Mission     Preserve the architectural features, cultural and heritage of Bayt UL Maqdis."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Trustees ==
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:<ref name="EXTRACT" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Trustees of Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation (register, October 2026)
! Trustee !! Appointed !! Chair !! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[Dr ADEL ABDUL-QADIR MOHAMED SABIR]] || not recorded ||  || [[Birmingham Arabic School]] (1166742)
|-
| [[Rachid Aissou]] || 2023-04-13 ||  || —
|}

=== Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees shown in archived register pages
! Capture date !! Trustees listed !! Source
|-
| 2021-01-08 || [[Dr ADEL ABDUL-QADIR MOHAMED SABIR]] – also trustee of [[Birmingham Arabic School]]; [[Ghassan Elkahlout]] (from 22 December 2016) || <ref name="ucc5b2212">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210108125720/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4050910/full-print Register entry 1139176, full print (capture of 20210108)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|}

=== Companies House officers ===
Companies House lists 7 current and former officers of the charitable company (07274585), 2 of them active.<ref name="u6ecaef98">[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/07274585/officers Company 07274585: officers] ''Companies House'', viewed 15 October 2026.</ref>
Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: [[Yousef Awawdi]] (Israel, resigned); [[Abd El Karim Hajajri]] (Israel, resigned).<ref name="u6ecaef98" />

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2021-06-30 || £307,457 || £195,041
|-
| 2022-06-30 || £332,087 || £277,944
|-
| 2023-06-30 || £332,482 || £330,113
|-
| 2024-06-30 || £443,217 || £350,411
|-
| 2025-06-30 || £421,600 || £356,560
|}
Source: register annual-return history.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

=== Archived accounts ===
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the [[UK Government Web Archive]]:
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2014<ref name="u28a11a9e">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200103161717/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends76/0001139176_AC_20140630_E_C.PDF Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200103).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015<ref name="ub8d0ee9a">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200103160914/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends76/0001139176_AC_20150630_E_C.PDF Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200103).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2016<ref name="u151f6f64">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200103161928/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends76/0001139176_AC_20160630_E_C.PDF Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200103).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017<ref name="u972d5edd">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200103162158/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends76/0001139176_AC_20170630_E_C.PDF Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200103).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018<ref name="u6257b770">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200103160649/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends76/0001139176_AC_20180630_E_C.PDF Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200103).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2019<ref name="uaaeeaa8a">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200703185027/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends76/0001139176_AC_20190630_E_C.PDF Bayt ul Maqdis Foundation accounts, year ended 2019-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200703).</ref>

== Funding in Israel ==
* FY2025 charitable activities £281,326 (restricted £235,762); no institutional recipients are named in the pages reviewed (PDF p.13).<ref name="ACC" />

=== Israeli partners ===
Not named.<ref name="ACC" />

== 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.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
! Finding !! Confidence
|-
| Israel is the register area; no settlement or town is named in the accounts. || Not established
|}

'''Support for the IDF:''' No IDF or military funding is stated.<ref name="ACC" />

== 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;<ref name="ALERTS">[[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).</ref> 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.<ref name="CC_CHEQUE1">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/serious-concerns-over-use-of-22-million-triggers-investigation-by-charity-regulator Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator] ''GOV.UK'', 14 May 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE2">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-opens-next-phase-of-investigation-into-105-charities-connected-to-company-cashing-cheques Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques] ''GOV.UK'', 1 September 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE3">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-announces-next-charities-to-be-investigated-as-part-of-inquiry-connected-to-company-cashing-cheques Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques] ''GOV.UK'', 4 December 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE4">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-concludes-investigation-into-4-charities-as-class-inquiry-continues Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues] ''GOV.UK'', 9 September 2026, with [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-the-results-of-a-class-inquiry/statement-of-the-results-of-a-class-inquiry Statement of the results of a class inquiry] (same date), both retrieved 15 October 2026.</ref> 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.<ref name="CC_SETTLE">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/charity-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-charities-working-in-illegal-israeli-settlements 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").</ref>
* '''Area of operation.''' The register lists Israel as the area of operation; the accounts describe emergency food aid, seasonal relief and orphan support without naming towns (PDF p.5, 13).<ref name="ACC" /><ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Other registers and records ==
=== Scotland and Northern Ireland ===
No entry was found on the [[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator|Scottish Charity Register]] for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).<ref name="OSCR">[[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator]], [https://www.oscr.org.uk/download/charity-register 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).</ref> No entry was found on the [[Charity Commission for Northern Ireland]] register (API name searches returned zero results).<ref name="CCNI">[[Charity Commission for Northern Ireland]], [https://www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/api/charity-search/results?searchText=Yad%20Sarah&pageNumber=1 Register of charities search API] ''CCNI'', searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-7 charity name returned zero results).</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="uceec4049">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Bayt%20ul%20Maqdis The Gazette: notices matching 'Bayt ul Maqdis'] ''The Gazette'', searched 15 October 2026.</ref>

=== Grants recorded by 360Giving ===
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.<ref name="u58df2cc0">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-1139176/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1139176] ''360Giving'', queried 15 October 2026.</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="SANC">[[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.</ref>

=== Land and property ===
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> No title registers were purchased; the [[HM Land Registry]] interactive search blocked automated access.<ref name="HLRWEB">[[HM Land Registry]], [https://search-property-information.service.gov.uk/ 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 [[Corporate and Commercial Ownership Data|CCOD]] / [[Overseas Companies Ownership Data|OCOD]] datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.</ref>

=== Parliament ===
Hansard searches for 'Bayt ul Maqdis', 'Bayt Al Maqdis', 'BM Foundation' returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=Bayt%20ul%20Maqdis&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Bayt ul Maqdis'] ''Hansard'', queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).</ref>

== Web archive ==
* bmfoundation.org.uk: 13 yearly captures, first 2014-04-17, last 2026-01-24.<ref name="ud9ab5e18">[https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=bmfoundation.org.uk&output=json&fl=timestamp,original,statuscode&filter=statuscode:200&collapse=timestamp:4 Internet Archive CDX index for bmfoundation.org.uk] ''Wayback Machine'', queried 15 October 2026.</ref>

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".<ref name="ucc5b2212" />

== See also ==

== External links ==
* [https://www.bmfoundation.org.uk Official website]

==Notes==
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[[Category:Charities based in London]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Charities]]