Israel Charity Bot: New profile: charity 1076084 - Charity Commission register, accounts, Companies House, Land Registry

2026-10-29T08:00:18Z

New profile: charity 1076084 - Charity Commission register, accounts, Companies House, Land Registry

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{{short description|'''Sevenoaks Christian charity registered in 1999; its accounts record £7,173 spent in the financial years ending 2019–2023 from a restricted fund headed "IDF", later renamed "Mentoring"'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Maoz UK
| type = Other
| registration_id = Registered charity 1076084
| founded = 1999-06-18 (registered)
| headquarters = Maoz UK, PO Box 700, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 9YZ
| area_served = Throughout England And Wales, India, Israel, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
| revenue = £388,045 (year to 2025-12-31)
| website = www.maozisrael.uk
}}

'''[[Maoz UK]]''' is a registered charity registered with the [[Charity Commission]] on 18 June 1999.<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 governing document is recorded as "DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 9TH DECEMBER 1997, AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTARY DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 19TH JANUARY 1999 AND SUPPLEMENTARY DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 24TH MAY 1999".<ref name="FP_1076084">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3947560/full-print Maoz Uk (1076084): full print] ''Register of Charities'', retrieved 29 October 2026.</ref> Its registered address is Maoz UK, PO Box 700, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 9YZ.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> The trustees on the register are [[Philip Jeremy Herklots (trustee, Maoz UK)|Philip Jeremy Herklots]], [[Brian George Greenaway (trustee, Maoz UK)|Brian George Greenaway]], [[Kobi Ferguson (trustee, Maoz UK)|Kobi Ferguson]], [[David Hoffbrand (trustee, Maoz UK)|David Hoffbrand]], [[Neil John Hobbs (trustee, Maoz UK)|Neil John Hobbs]], [[Aileen Ren Ningrui Hobbs (trustee, Maoz UK)|Aileen Ren Ningrui Hobbs]], [[Patrick Lineen (trustee, Maoz UK)|Patrick Lineen]] and [[Helen Lineen (trustee, Maoz UK)|Helen Lineen]].<ref name="EXTRACT" /> In the year to 31 December 2025 it reported income of £388,045 and expenditure of £469,611.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> Its accounts record spending from a restricted fund for young people preparing for military or national service in Israel: £7,173 spent from the fund, first headed "IDF" and later "Mentoring", (financial years ending 2019–2023)<ref name="G1076084_162">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3947560/accounts-and-annual-returns Maoz Uk: accounts y/e 31 December 2020 (prior-year funds table); 31 December 2019] ''Register of Charities''.</ref>.

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE GOSPEL OF YESHUA (JESUS) THE MESSIAH PRIMARILY AMONG JEWS BUT ALSO AMONG GENTILES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE, ISRAEL AND ELSEWHERE BY (1) PROMOTING THE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE BY TEACHING, PREACHING AND THE PROVISION OF LITERATURE (11) PROVIDING SERVICES FOR THE WORSHIP OF GOD (THE FATHER CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, HIS SON YESHUA (JESUS) THE MESSIAH AND THE HOLY SPIRIT) AND THE CELEBRATION OF THE BIBLICAL FESTIVALS AND FEASTS (111) PROMOTING THE KNOWLEDGE AMONGST CHRISTIANS OF THE TEACHING OF THE BIBLE CONCERNING THE PLACE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE PURPOSES OF GOD."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

The register describes its activities as: "We promote knowledge and understanding of the bible by provision of literature and by teaching. We provide funds to relieve persons who are in conditions of need or hardship."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, India, Israel, Ireland, 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 Maoz UK (register, October 2026)
! Trustee !! Appointed !! Chair !! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[Philip Jeremy Herklots (trustee, Maoz UK)|Philip Jeremy Herklots]] || 2017-06-27 || || [[Teach All Nations - Europe (trustee, Maoz UK)|Teach All Nations - Europe]] (1163588)
|-
| [[Brian George Greenaway (trustee, Maoz UK)|Brian George Greenaway]] || 2017-06-29 || || [[British Messianic Jewish Alliance (trustee, Maoz UK)|British Messianic Jewish Alliance]] (1088805); [[Teach All Nations - Europe (trustee, Maoz UK)|Teach All Nations - Europe]] (1163588)
|-
| [[Kobi Ferguson (trustee, Maoz UK)|Kobi Ferguson]] || 2020-06-24 || || —
|-
| [[David Hoffbrand (trustee, Maoz UK)|David Hoffbrand]] || 2020-10-19 || || [[The David House]] (1155973)
|-
| [[Neil John Hobbs (trustee, Maoz UK)|Neil John Hobbs]] || 2022-03-07 || || —
|-
| [[Aileen Ren Ningrui Hobbs (trustee, Maoz UK)|Aileen Ren Ningrui Hobbs]] || 2022-03-07 || || —
|-
| [[Patrick Lineen (trustee, Maoz UK)|Patrick Lineen]] || 2024-07-26 || || —
|-
| [[Helen Lineen (trustee, Maoz UK)|Helen Lineen]] || 2024-07-26 || || —
|}

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2021-12-31 || £391,367 || £384,814
|-
| 2022-12-31 || £293,600 || £316,771
|-
| 2023-12-31 || £397,528 || £349,941
|-
| 2024-12-31 || £432,337 || £413,316
|-
| 2025-12-31 || £388,045 || £469,611
|}
Source: register annual-return history.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Funding in Israel ==
* The table lists every grant in the financial years ending 2016–2025 to a body supporting serving or former Israeli soldiers that the charity's accounts record, with the route as the accounts give it. Grants paid to UK charities are not stated to be earmarked for a particular project unless the table says so.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Grants recorded in the accounts of Maoz UK
! Financial year (ending) !! Recipient !! Amount !! Route !! Source
|-
| 2019 || Restricted fund headed "IDF" (spending in the year) || £3,946 || direct to Israel (presumed) || accounts y/e 31 December 2020 (prior-year funds table); 31 December 2019<ref name="G1076084_162" />
|-
| 2020 || Restricted fund headed "IDF" (spending in the year) || £142 || direct to Israel (presumed) || accounts y/e 31 December 2020<ref name="G1076084_163">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3947560/accounts-and-annual-returns Maoz Uk: accounts y/e 31 December 2020] ''Register of Charities''.</ref>
|-
| 2022 || Restricted fund headed "IDF" (spending in the year) || £925 || direct to Israel (presumed) || accounts y/e 31 December 2022<ref name="G1076084_164">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3947560/accounts-and-annual-returns Maoz Uk: accounts y/e 31 December 2022] ''Register of Charities'', p. 15.</ref>
|-
| 2023 || Restricted fund headed "Mentoring", formerly the "IDF" fund (spending in the year) || £2,160 || direct to Israel (presumed) || accounts y/e 31 December 2023<ref name="G1076084_334">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3947560/accounts-and-annual-returns Maoz Uk: accounts y/e 31 December 2023] ''Register of Charities'', p. 17 (printed p.15; note 15, statement of funds).</ref>
|}

'''Recipients.''' The accounts describe the restricted fund headed "IDF" as funding "Netivah projects" that "help young believers prepare spiritually for National Service"; by 2023 it had been renamed "Mentoring – Netivah and Chetzim project to support young people before military service".<ref name="ACC">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3947560/accounts-and-annual-returns Maoz Uk (1076084): accounts and annual returns] ''Register of Charities''; latest accounts (year to 2025-12-31) downloaded 29 October 2026.</ref>

=== Israeli partners ===
Netivah and Chetzim, named in the restricted-fund note of the accounts.<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 grant to a place beyond the 1949 armistice line is identified in the accounts.<ref name="ACC" /> || Not established
|}

'''Support for the IDF:''' Yes. The accounts record grants totalling £7,173 to the bodies listed under ''Funding in Israel''; the routes are given there as recorded.<ref name="G1076084_162" />

== 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 32 charities in batches 28–29, all retrieved on 29 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.</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>

== 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 32 batch-28/29 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=Maoz%20UK&pageNumber=1 Register of charities search API] ''CCNI'', searched 29 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 32 charity names returned zero results).</ref>

=== The Gazette ===
Searches of ''The Gazette'' for the charity's name returned 24 notices, all Companies House filing-list supplements; the insolvency feed returned none. No insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.<ref name="u740a3dae">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Maoz%20UK The Gazette: notices matching 'Maoz UK'] ''The Gazette'', searched 29 October 2026.</ref>

=== Grants recorded by 360Giving ===
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.<ref name="uad160852">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-1076084/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1076084] ''360Giving'', queried 29 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). Screening for batches 28–29 covered 317 name strings: the 32 charity names, current register trustees and the Companies House officers of the six charitable companies; the only hits were surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched.</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 "Maoz UK" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22Maoz%20UK%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Maoz UK"] ''Hansard'', queried 29 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).</ref>

== Web archive ==

The [[UK Government Web Archive]] holds 0 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile; none were found for this charity number.

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

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

Maoz UK - Revision history

Israel Charity Bot: New profile: charity 1076084 - Charity Commission register, accounts, Companies House, Land Registry