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{{short description|'''Sussex Christian trust, founded by Julia Fisher, that supported Arab Christians and Messianic Jewish believers in Israel and the Palestinian areas and ran a radio project; it gave £59,392 to thirty unnamed charities in 2017/18 and was removed in 2024'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund
| type = Trust (removed)
| registration_id = Registered charity 1125706
| founded = 2008-09-03 (registered)
| dissolved = 2024-04-02 (removed from the register: Ceased to exist)
| headquarters = Billingshurst RH14 (PO box, 2018 Accounts)
| area_served = Israel, Jordan, Occupied Palestinian Territories
| revenue = £57,761 (year to 2023-03-31)
}}

'''[[Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund]]''' was established by a trust deed of 8 June 2008 and registered on 3 September 2008; it was removed from the register on 2 April 2024 as "Ceased to exist"; its 2024 accounts were not submitted.<ref name="FP_OLT">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4040029/full-print Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund (1125706): full print] ''Register of Charities'', retrieved 16 October 2026 ("03 September 2008: Standard registration 02 April 2024: Removed (Ceased to exist)"; annual return and accounts for 2024 not submitted).</ref> Its first object was "the advancement of the Christian faith between Arab Christians and Messianic Jewish believers living in Israel by identifying their needs and making these needs met to the church worlwide [sic]", and the register listed Israel, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as its areas of operation.<ref name="FP_OLT" /> The archived accounts for the year to 31 March 2018 name Mrs Julia Fisher, the founder, as director, and the trustees as Dr Norman Fisher (chair), Mrs Julia Fisher and Mrs Ann Pawson (treasurer), Mark Hollingdale having resigned in October 2018; its address was a PO box in Billingshurst RH14.<ref name="OLT_AC18">[[Charity Commission]], [https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106054533/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends06/0001125706_AC_20180331_E_C.PDF Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund: annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2018] ''UK Government Web Archive'', capture of 06/01/2020.</ref> That year donations were £128,757, of which £30,000 was for the Radio Project, with £12,283 of tax rebates and interest and £34,378 of tour receipts; the fund "donated £59,392 to thirty charities in Israel and the wider Middle East" and spent £43,105 on expenses, including £9,334 on travel to Israel and the Palestinian areas and £31,174 on radio.<ref name="OLT_AC18" /> In 2013/14 it had donated £75,503 to thirty-one charities in Israel and the Palestinian areas.<ref name="OLT_AC14">[[Charity Commission]], [https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106054216/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends06/0001125706_AC_20140331_E_C.PDF Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund: financial statements for the year to 31 March 2014] ''UK Government Web Archive'', capture of 06/01/2020. (scanned).</ref> An archived register entry of July 2021 lists Julia Fisher (trustee from 1 August 2008), Ann Pawson (from 12 July 2015) and Dr Norman Fisher, chair (from 8 October 2018).<ref name="OLT_FP21">[[Charity Commission]], [https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210703100119/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4040029/full-print Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund (1125706): full print] ''UK Government Web Archive'', capture of 03/07/2021.</ref>

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "THE TRUSTEES MUST APPLY THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN FURTHERING THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS ( THE OBJECTS )1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BETWEEN ARAB CHRISTIANS AND MESSIANIC JEWISH BELIEVERS LIVING IN ISRAEL BY IDENTIFYING THEIR NEEDS AND MAKING THESE NEEDS MET TO THE CHURCH WORLWIDE.2) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, OF PEOPLE LIVING IN ISRAEL BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES, OR FACILITIES.3) THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY;A) PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORT, IN A SPIRIT OF RECONCILIATION, BETWEEN BELIEVERS ( BOTH JEWISH AND ARAB ) IN THE HOLY LAND ( ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINE AREAS ) AND CHRISTIANS WORLWIDE.B) PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT OF THE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS FAITHS.S INCLUDINGTHOSE OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT GENERALLY.= THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.½ SUPPORT OF DEMOCRATIC AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE.O REFUSAL OF SUPPORT TO THOSE PROMOTING UNLAWFUL VIOLENCE."<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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.</ref>

The register describes its activities as: "To advance the Christian faith between Arab Christians and Messianic Jewish believers living in Israel , the Palestinian Areas (PA) and the wider Middle East by identifying their needs and making these needs known to the church worldwide ,relief of poverty through donations from Christians and to build bridges within the community in Israel and the PA in a spirit of reconciliation."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Jordan, Occupied Palestinian Territories.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Trustees ==
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

=== Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees shown in archived register pages
! Capture date !! Trustees listed !! Source
|-
| 2021-01-12 || [[Julia Fisher (trustee, Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund)|Julia Fisher]] (from 01 August 2008); [[Ann Pawson (trustee, Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund)|Ann Pawson]] (from 12 July 2015); [[Norman Fisher (trustee, Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund)|Norman Fisher]] (chair) (from 08 October 2018) || <ref name="u93a917f2">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210112004240/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4040029/full-print Register entry 1125706, full print (capture of 20210112)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|}

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2020-03-31 || £112,000 || £125,011
|-
| 2021-03-31 || £96,263 || £91,161
|-
| 2022-03-31 || £74,525 || £69,427
|-
| 2023-03-31 || £57,761 || £74,525
|}
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 31/03/2014<ref name="u84ea6bd6">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106054216/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends06/0001125706_AC_20140331_E_C.PDF Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund accounts, year ended 2014-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015<ref name="uda4b32e9">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106054534/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends06/0001125706_AC_20150331_E_C.PDF Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund accounts, year ended 2015-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016<ref name="u824876dd">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106055657/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends06/0001125706_AC_20160331_E_C.PDF Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund accounts, year ended 2016-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017<ref name="u93b71134">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106055656/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends06/0001125706_AC_20170331_E_C.PDF Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund accounts, year ended 2017-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018<ref name="u31f9e263">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106054533/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends06/0001125706_AC_20180331_E_C.PDF Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund accounts, year ended 2018-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>

== Funding in Israel ==
* Year to 31 March 2018: £59,392 donated to thirty charities in Israel and the wider Middle East; travel to Israel and the Palestinian areas £9,334.<ref name="OLT_AC18" />
* Year to 31 March 2014: £75,503 donated to thirty-one charities in Israel and the Palestinian areas.<ref name="OLT_AC14" />

=== Israeli partners ===
No partner is named; the 2017/18 accounts describe recipients only in general terms.<ref name="OLT_AC18" />

== 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
|-
| The accounts name Israel, the Palestinian areas and the wider Middle East, but no town or project location.<ref name="OLT_AC18" /><ref name="OLT_AC14" /> || Not established
|}

'''Support for the IDF:''' No IDF or military funding is stated.<ref name="OLT_AC18" />

== Controversies and regulatory action ==
* No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.<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).</ref><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 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").</ref> The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Ceased to exist".<ref name="FP_OLT" />
* '''Recipients not named.''' Neither archived set of accounts names the charities that received the £59,392 (2017/18) or £75,503 (2013/14).<ref name="OLT_AC18" /><ref name="OLT_AC14" />
* '''Examiner's report errors.''' The 2017/18 independent examiner's report, by Michelle Djemil, refers to the year ended 31 March 2017, is undated and says the accounts were "audited by" the examiner; the 2017/18 deficit is printed as "£8.118", and in 2013/14 a surplus is labelled "Excess of Expenditure over income".<ref name="OLT_AC18" /><ref name="OLT_AC14" />

== 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 14 October 2026, 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'', export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-21 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.</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=Arachim&pageNumber=1 Register of charities search API] ''CCNI'', searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-21 charity names returned zero results).</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="u0020e790">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Olive%20Tree%20Reconciliation The Gazette: notices matching 'Olive Tree Reconciliation'] ''The Gazette'', searched 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== Grants recorded by 360Giving ===
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.<ref name="uc7e68060">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-1125706/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1125706] ''360Giving'', queried 16 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.<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-21 screening covered 246 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Levy, Cohen, Phillips, Smith) or generic words in organisation names (Limited, Trust, International).</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 exact-phrase searches for "Olive Tree Reconciliation Fund" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22Olive%20Tree%20Reconciliation%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Olive Tree Reconciliation"] ''Hansard'', queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).</ref>

== 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".<ref name="u93a917f2" />

== External links ==
* No current official website.

==Notes==
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[[Category:Christian Church]]
[[Category:Charities based in England]]
[[Category:Charities operating in Israel]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Defunct charities based in England]]
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