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{{short description|'''Weinstock family trust that gave £1.28 million in 2025, mostly for hospital projects in Israel, including two related-party grants in 2024'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust
| type = Trust
| registration_id = Registered charity 1063559
| founded = 1997-07-23 (registered)
| headquarters = Mill Hill, London NW7
| area_served = City Of London, Nottingham City, Israel, Scotland, Northern Ireland
| revenue = £111,749 (year to 2025-03-31)
| logo = [[File:Hillel_Yaffe_Medical_Center_Hadera_2006.jpg|200px]]
}}

'''[[Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust|The Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust]]''' was established by a deed of variation of 4 June 1997 in the estate of the late Dyna Malka Mlynek-Wajnsztok, and registered on 23 July 1997; Fala Weinstock died on 1 August 2001 (PDF p.6).<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><ref name="ACC">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3940249/accounts-and-annual-returns Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust (1063559): accounts and annual returns] ''Register of Charities''; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).</ref> Register areas are the City of London, Nottingham City, Israel, Scotland and Northern Ireland.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> Its trustees are [[Peter Jonathan Swimer]], [[Israel Weinstock]] (I C Weinstock) and [[David Krasner|Dr David Krasner]], with a principal address at an office in Mill Hill, London NW7 (the register gives "C/0 Uromet Ltd"); its solicitors are [[Howard Kennedy]], its investment managers [[Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management]] and [[Julius Baer International]], and its auditor [[THP Limited]] of Wanstead (PDF p.3).<ref name="EXTRACT" /><ref name="ACC" /> Its objects are medical projects, principally blood clinics and the treatment of blood disorders, and it supports charities in the UK, Eastern Europe and Israel (PDF p.4).<ref name="EXTRACT" /><ref name="ACC" /> In the year to 31 March 2025 investment income was £111,749 while grants rose to £1,278,470 (2024: £354,450); total spending was £1,352,939 and, with investment losses of £86,930, funds fell from £4,629,144 to £3,301,024. The portfolio fell 8.7% to £3,843,061 (PDF p.5, 11, 15).<ref name="ACC" />

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "FOR MEDICAL PROJECTS PRINCIPALLY IN RELATION TO PROVIDING BLOOD CLINICS AND WORK TOWARDS THE ALLEVIATION OF SYMPTOMS OF BLOOD DISORDERS AND RESEARCH INTO AND DEVELOPMENT OF CURES AND TREATMENTS FOR SUFFERERS OF BLOOD DISORDERS."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

The register describes its activities as: "Charity donates funds to worthy causes in the UK and Israel"<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: City Of London, Nottingham City, Israel, Scotland, Northern Ireland.<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 Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
! Trustee !! Appointed !! Chair !! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[David Krasner]] || not recorded || || —
|-
| [[Peter Jonathan Swimer]] || not recorded || || —
|-
| [[Israel Weinstock]] || not recorded || || [[The British Friends of Beth Lohamei Hagetaot]] (327668)
|}

=== Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees shown in archived register pages
! Capture date !! Trustees listed !! Source
|-
| 2018-01-04 || [[David Krasner]]; [[Israel Weinstock]]; [[Peter Jonathan Swimer]] || <ref name="u4556c2a3">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20180104201647/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1063559&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 1063559, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 2021-01-11 || [[Peter Jonathan Swimer]]; [[David Krasner]]; [[Israel Weinstock]] – also trustee of [[The British Friends of Beth Lohamei Hagetaot]] || <ref name="u636891f3">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210111172029/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/3940249/full-print Register entry 1063559, full print (capture of 20210111)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|}

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2021-03-31 || £137,905 || £1,573,877
|-
| 2022-03-31 || £157,706 || £707,321
|-
| 2023-03-31 || £129,649 || £561,736
|-
| 2024-03-31 || £118,063 || £423,755
|-
| 2025-03-31 || £111,749 || £1,352,939
|}
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="uff85c797">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200107144013/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001063559_AC_20140331_E_C.PDF Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200107).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015<ref name="ued985bb6">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200107144700/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001063559_AC_20150331_E_C.PDF Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200107).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016<ref name="ucdf9a374">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200107144745/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001063559_AC_20160331_E_C.PDF Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200107).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017<ref name="uf2108f10">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200107144047/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001063559_AC_20170331_E_C.PDF Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200107).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018<ref name="ucd79df54">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200107144736/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001063559_AC_20180331_E_C.PDF Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200107).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019<ref name="u5cd0f7a3">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200703155407/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001063559_AC_20190331_E_C.PDF Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200703).</ref>

== Funding in Israel ==
* FY2025 grants £1,278,470 (2024: £354,450) (PDF p.5, 15):<ref name="ACC" /> [[Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations]] £350,000 for a new Oncology-Hematology Centre in the [[Hillel Yaffe Medical Center|Hillel Yaffe Medical Centre]], Hadera; [[Shaare Zedek UK]] £271,470 towards an angiography treatment room; Laniado Hospital UK £200,000 for a peritoneal treatment unit in its new dialysis department; Hadassah Medical Relief Association UK £150,000; Bar Ilan University £50,000; [[Benji Hillman Foundation]] £47,200; [[Camp Simcha]] £40,000; [[National Holocaust Centre]] (Beth Shalom) £25,000; [[Work Avenue]] £25,000; [[Yad Sarah]] £20,000; and other donations £99,800.<ref name="ACC" />
* FY2024 grants included UK Toremet £75,000, [[World Jewish Relief|Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief]] £50,000, [[JNF Charitable Trust]] £48,000, [[British Emunah|British Emunah Fund]] £40,000, Yesodeh Hatorah Primary Girls School Trust £30,000, British Friend of Shuvu £25,000 and [[Magen David Adom UK]] £20,000 (PDF p.15).<ref name="ACC" />

=== Israeli partners ===
Israeli hospitals and institutions funded mostly through UK friends charities: the Hillel Yaffe Medical Centre in Hadera (through the Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations), Shaare Zedek, Laniado and Hadassah hospitals (through their UK charities), Bar Ilan University, Yad Sarah and the Benji Hillman Foundation (PDF p.5, 15).<ref name="ACC" /><ref name="BHF_ABOUT">Benji Hillman Foundation, [https://benjihillman.org/about-us/ About Us] ''benjihillman.org'', retrieved 16 October 2026 ("Our vision is that all lone soldiers will have a real home to call their own for the duration of their army service"; the Foundation established "HaBayit shel Benji (Benji's Home), a purpose-built home for lone soldiers" and a Guidance Center, "Both projects are in Benji's home town in Ra'anana").</ref>

== 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 £350,000 grant is for a centre at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Centre in Hadera, named in the accounts; no activity beyond the Green Line is stated (PDF p.5).<ref name="ACC" /> || Medium
|-
| The Benji Hillman Foundation says its lone-soldier home and guidance centre are in Ra'anana.<ref name="BHF_ABOUT" /> || Medium
|-
| The other Israel-related grants go to UK charities and are not located in the accounts (PDF p.15).<ref name="ACC" /> || Not established
|}

'''Support for the IDF:''' No IDF funding by the trust is stated.<ref name="ACC" /> It gave £47,200 in 2025 to the Benji Hillman Foundation (PDF p.15),<ref name="ACC" /> whose website says it runs "HaBayit shel Benji (Benji's Home), a purpose-built home for lone soldiers" and a guidance centre in Ra'anana, so that lone soldiers "will have a real home to call their own for the duration of their army service".<ref name="BHF_ABOUT" />

== 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>
* '''Related-party grants.''' In 2024 the trust gave £70,000 to The British Friends of Beth Lohamei Hagetaot, of which Israel Chaim Weinstock is a trustee, and £50,000 to World Jewish Relief, of which Peter Swimer's daughter is a director (PDF p.19).<ref name="ACC" />
* '''Related-party grant missing from the grants list.''' The £70,000 to The British Friends of Beth Lohamei Hagetaot does not appear in the 2024 column of the grants list, whose named grants and other donations total £354,450 (PDF p.15, 19).<ref name="ACC" />
* '''Spending from capital.''' Grants were more than eleven times investment income, and funds fell by 29% in the year (PDF p.11).<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'' notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.<ref name="ud6089f9f">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Weinstock%20Charitable%20Trust The Gazette: notices matching 'Weinstock Charitable Trust'] ''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="u0bd37b89">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-1063559/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1063559] ''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 "Dyna and Fala Weinstock", "Weinstock Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22Weinstock%20Charitable%20Trust%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Weinstock Charitable Trust"] ''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="u636891f3" />

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

==Notes==
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