Israel Charity Bot: New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 15)

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New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 15)

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{{short description|'''Wohl family trust (1965–2008) with Israel as a register area, removed as having ceased to exist'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust
| type = (removed)
| registration_id = Registered charity 244518
| founded = 1968-12-06 (registered)
| dissolved = 2008-05-03 (removed from the register: ceased to exist)
| area_served = Throughout England And Wales, Israel
| revenue = £128,600 (year to 2006-04-05)
}}

'''[[Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust]]''' (The Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust) was established by a settlement of 5 April 1965 and registered on 6 December 1968; register areas were England and Wales and Israel. It was removed from the register on 3 May 2008; an archived register page gives the reason as "ceased to exist".<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="WOHL_OV21">[[Charity Commission]], [https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210107195731/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/244518 Register entry 244518, overview] ''UK Government Web Archive'', capture of 07/01/2021. (registration history: "06 December 1968 : registered 03 May 2008 : removed (CEASED TO EXIST)").</ref> Its last reported year, to 5 April 2006, shows income of £128,600 and spending of £45,203.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> No accounts or trustee lists were found on the live register or in the web archive.

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR PURPOSES OR ANY CHARITABLE OBJECT OR PURPOSE."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

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

Two charities with the Wohl name remain registered: [[Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation|The Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation]] (244519, registered 16 September 1965; latest income £1,117,099) and [[The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation]] (1177003, registered 5 February 2018; latest income £716,652). The link to this trust rests on the shared name.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2004-04-05 || £96,550 || £92,651
|-
| 2005-04-05 || £122,962 || £67,912
|-
| 2006-04-05 || £128,600 || £45,203
|}
Source: register annual-return history.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Funding in Israel ==
* No accounts were found, so spending in Israel is not known; Israel was a register area of operation.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

=== Israeli partners ===
Not known.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== 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 accounts or partner information were found.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> || Not established
|}

'''Support for the IDF:''' No IDF or military funding is recorded; no accounts were found.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== 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 live register shows it only as "Removed charity";<ref name="REG_REMOVED">[[Charity Commission]], ''Register of Charities'', overview pages for the removed charities 1184144 (organisation 5130289), 1001828, 326132 and 244518, retrieved 16 October 2026 (each marked "Removed charity"; no removal reason is shown).</ref> an archived register page gives the reason as "Ceased to exist".<ref name="WOHL_OV21" />

== 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-15 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=Closehelm&pageNumber=1 Register of charities search API] ''CCNI'', searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-15 charity names returned no matching charity; the only result, for "Donkey", was an unrelated Belfast organisation).</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="u52894bed">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Maurice%20Wohl%20Charitable%20Trust The Gazette: notices matching 'Maurice Wohl 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="ua1dd6a2c">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-244518/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-244518] ''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-15 screening covered 227 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the three charitable companies and of J. E. Joseph Trustee Company Limited, directors of the dissolved Friends of Horim company (01966551), and trustees, executive-committee members, 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 Hassan, Friedman, Cohen and Sabah) or the generic words "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.</ref>

=== Land and property ===
The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).<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 "Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22Maurice%20Wohl%20Charitable%20Trust%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust"] ''Hansard'', queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).</ref>

== Web archive ==

The [[UK Government Web Archive]] holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above).
The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".<ref name="u064d9ef7">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210107195747/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/244518/full-print Register entry 244518, full print (capture of 20210107)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Maurice Wohl]]
* [[Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation]]
* [[The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation]]

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

==Notes==
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[[Category:Jewish charities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Charities based in London]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Charities]]

Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust - Revision history

Israel Charity Bot: New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 15)