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New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 16)

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{{short description|'''Djanogly family foundation with £4 million of investments, giving to schools, health, welfare and the arts, mainly in London and Nottingham'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Djanogly Foundation
| type = Trust
| registration_id = Registered charity 280500
| founded = 1980-07-17 (registered)
| headquarters = London SW1Y
| area_served = City Of Westminster, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, Israel
| revenue = £125,126 (year to 2025-04-05)
}}

'''[[Djanogly Foundation|The Djanogly Foundation]]''' was established by a trust deed of 26 June 1980 and registered on 17 July 1980; register areas are the City of Westminster, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire and Israel.<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> Its trustees are [[Harry Djanogly|Sir Harry Djanogly]] CBE, [[Michael Simon Djanogly]], [[Jonathan Simon Djanogly]] and J.K. Djanogly (the register lists [[Joanna Djanogly]], appointed 15 January 2022); the secretary is A. Allanson, the office is in St James's, London SW1Y, the stockbrokers are [[Redmayne-Bentley]] LLP and the independent examiner is Peter Duboff FCA of London NW9 (OCR, PDF p.2).<ref name="EXTRACT" /><ref name="ACC">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/280500/accounts-and-annual-returns Djanogly Foundation (280500): accounts and annual returns] ''Register of Charities''; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).</ref> It supports medicine, education, social welfare and the arts, often funding new projects over several years (OCR, PDF p.3). In the year to 5 April 2025 investment income was £124,907, donations £86,636 (2024: £118,403) and payments on grants committed in earlier years £238,361; with governance costs of £5,945 these make up the £330,942 of spending on the register. Funds were £4,045,246 (2024: £3,610,331), mostly investments at market value of £4,236,799 (OCR, PDF p.6–7).<ref name="EXTRACT" /><ref name="ACC" />

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "TO PAY OR APPLY THE SAID INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND TO OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES OR SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SELECT."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

The register describes its activities as: "Grants are made to registered charities."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: City Of Westminster, Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, 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 Djanogly Foundation (register, October 2026)
! Trustee !! Appointed !! Chair !! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[Harry Djanogly]] || not recorded || || —
|-
| [[Michael Simon Djanogly]] || not recorded || || —
|-
| [[Jonathan Simon Djanogly]] || 2019-01-07 || || —
|-
| [[Joanna Djanogly]] || 2022-01-15 || || —
|}

=== Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees shown in archived register pages
! Capture date !! Trustees listed !! Source
|-
| 2010-07-14 || [[Harry Djanogly]]; [[Michael Simon Djanogly]]; [[Carol Ann Djanogly]] || <ref name="ub4486743">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100714140327/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/SHOWCHARITY/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=280500&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 280500, contact and trustees (capture of 20100714)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 2021-01-15 || [[Michael Simon Djanogly]]; [[Jonathan Simon Djanogly]] (from 07 January 2019) – also trustee of [[The Joseph and Queenie Gold Charitable Trust]]; [[Harry Djanogly]] – also trustee of [[The Joseph and Queenie Gold Charitable Trust]] || <ref name="u1233ad5d">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210115100927/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/280500/full-print Register entry 280500, full print (capture of 20210115)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|}

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2021-04-05 || £44,503 || £13,563
|-
| 2022-04-05 || £45,767 || £12,054
|-
| 2023-04-05 || £96,931 || £100,483
|-
| 2024-04-05 || £135,056 || £532,842
|-
| 2025-04-05 || £125,126 || £330,942
|}
Source: register annual-return history.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

=== Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Income and spending shown on archived register pages
! Financial year end !! Income (£) !! Spending (£) !! Source
|-
| 05 Apr 2005 || 1,643,824 || 2,161,183 || <ref name="u522d8072">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100714140343/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/SHOWCHARITY/RegisterOfCharities/FinancialHistory.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=280500&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 280500, financial history (capture of 20100714)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 05 Apr 2006 || 1,473,838 || 1,775,253 || <ref name="u522d8072" />
|-
| 05 Apr 2007 || 1,226,376 || 1,290,735 || <ref name="u522d8072" />
|-
| 05 Apr 2008 || 1,390,235 || 1,458,970 || <ref name="u522d8072" />
|-
| 05 Apr 2009 || 660,334 || 1,413,532 || <ref name="u522d8072" />
|}

=== Archived accounts ===
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the [[UK Government Web Archive]]:
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2014<ref name="uca3d1e88">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106064821/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends00/0000280500_AC_20140405_E_C.PDF Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015<ref name="u9e903875">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106064816/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends00/0000280500_AC_20150405_E_C.PDF Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016<ref name="ubca32b80">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106064815/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends00/0000280500_AC_20160405_E_C.PDF Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017<ref name="u98d73446">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106065014/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends00/0000280500_AC_20170405_E_C.PDF Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018<ref name="ufc809aea">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200106064819/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends00/0000280500_AC_20180405_E_C.PDF Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200106).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2019<ref name="ua12f0cf6">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200704054836/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends00/0000280500_AC_20190405_E_C.PDF Djanogly Foundation accounts, year ended 2019-04-05] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200704).</ref>

== Funding in Israel ==
* The FY2025 donations of £86,636 are listed by recipient and none is an Israeli body; the only Israel-related item is £250 to the Israel advocacy group [[StandWithUs UK]]. The largest are [[Sibford School]] £30,000, [[Jewish Care]] £12,500, Nottingham Historic Churches Trust £10,750, [[Imperial College London|Imperial College]] £5,000 and [[Norwood]] £5,000 (OCR, PDF p.10).<ref name="ACC" />
* A further £238,361 was paid on grants committed in earlier years, whose recipients are not named (OCR, PDF p.11).<ref name="ACC" />

=== Israeli partners ===
No Israeli partner is 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
|-
| No place in Israel is named.<ref name="ACC" /> || 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 each of the 25 batch-16 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust showed "Removed charity".</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).</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 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").</ref>
* '''Committed grants not named.''' The £238,361 paid on earlier commitments, and the £200,356 still committed, are not attributed to recipients (OCR, PDF p.11).<ref name="ACC" />
* '''Loans from trustees.''' The balance sheet shows £5,000 (2024: £100) owed to trustees (OCR, PDF p.7).<ref name="ACC" />

== 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-16 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=Mayanot&pageNumber=1 Register of charities search API] ''CCNI'', searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-16 charity names returned no matching charity).</ref>

=== The Gazette ===
Searches of ''The Gazette'' for the charity's name returned Companies House filing lists and notices about individuals named Djanogly, none of which was established to concern this charity; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.<ref name="u6cac1bd0">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Djanogly%20Foundation The Gazette: notices matching 'Djanogly Foundation'] ''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="uc24f2ed9">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-280500/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-280500] ''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. [[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-16 screening covered 247 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 Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; 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 exact-phrase searches for "Djanogly Foundation", "Djanogly" returned 102 contributions in total; those not listed above were not established to concern this charity.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22Djanogly%20Foundation%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Djanogly Foundation"] ''Hansard'', queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).</ref>

== Web archive ==

The [[UK Government Web Archive]] holds 3 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="u1233ad5d" />

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

==Notes==
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[[Category:Charities based in London]]
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[[Category:Philanthropic foundations]]
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