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{{short description|'''Stanmore charitable trust registered in 2006; its accounts record £14,795 in grants to the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization in the financial years ending 2023–2025'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation
| type = Trust
| registration_id = Registered charity 1114062
| founded = 2006-05-05 (registered)
| headquarters = 8 Oak Tree Close, Stanmore, HA7 2PX
| area_served = Harrow
| key_people = [[Anthony Lionel Angel (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Anthony Lionel Angel]] (chair)
| revenue = £145,138 (year to 2025-12-31)
| website = dba.foundation
}}

'''[[The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation]]''' is a charitable trust registered with the [[Charity Commission]] on 5 May 2006.<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 "TRUST DEED DATED 5 FEBRUARY 2006AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 11 JAN 2022AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 30 NOV 2023".<ref name="FP_1114062">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4023237/full-print The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation (1114062): full print] ''Register of Charities'', retrieved 29 October 2026.</ref> Its registered address is 8 Oak Tree Close, Stanmore, HA7 2PX.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> The trustees on the register are [[Anthony Lionel Angel (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Anthony Lionel Angel]], [[Jonathan Alec Angel (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Jonathan Alec Angel]], [[Louise Angel Szczerb (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Louise Angel Szczerb]], [[Ruth Frances Barbara Angel (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Ruth Frances Barbara Angel]], [[Elisa Natasha Claire Angel (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Elisa Natasha Claire Angel]] and [[Anthony Leon (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Anthony Leon]].<ref name="EXTRACT" /> In the year to 31 December 2025 it reported income of £145,138 and expenditure of £106,919.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> Its accounts record grants to bodies that support serving or former Israeli soldiers, or whose spending includes such projects: £14,795 to the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization (financial years ending 2023–2025)<ref name="G1114062_210">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4023237/accounts-and-annual-returns The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation: accounts y/e 31 December 2023] ''Register of Charities'', p. 11.</ref>.

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY IT IN SUCH MANNER AS THEY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT FOR OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

The register describes its activities as: "The Foundation was established in memory of Dr Benjamin Angel. It supports a range of educational, medical and other charitable causes of which the trustees believe Benjamin would have been proud, in particular in the Jewish community, in Israel and in the medical field. Its funds are substantially committed."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Harrow.<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 The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation (register, October 2026)
! Trustee !! Appointed !! Chair !! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[Anthony Lionel Angel (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Anthony Lionel Angel]] || not recorded || Yes || [[Jnetics]] (1134935)
|-
| [[Jonathan Alec Angel (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Jonathan Alec Angel]] || not recorded || || [[Jnetics]] (1134935)
|-
| [[Louise Angel Szczerb (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Louise Angel Szczerb]] || not recorded || || —
|-
| [[Ruth Frances Barbara Angel (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Ruth Frances Barbara Angel]] || not recorded || || —
|-
| [[Elisa Natasha Claire Angel (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Elisa Natasha Claire Angel]] || 2014-12-21 || || —
|-
| [[Anthony Leon (trustee, The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation)|Anthony Leon]] || 2015-08-05 || || [[Jnetics]] (1134935)
|}

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2021-12-31 || £55,422 || £99,965
|-
| 2022-12-31 || £131,522 || £134,806
|-
| 2023-12-31 || £141,406 || £135,939
|-
| 2024-12-31 || £146,448 || £101,196
|-
| 2025-12-31 || £145,138 || £106,919
|}
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 The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation
! Financial year (ending) !! Recipient !! Amount !! Route !! Source
|-
| 2023 || [[IDF Widows and Orphans Organization]] (listed as "IDF Widows and Orfans") || £10,162 || not stated (direct to Israel presumed) || accounts y/e 31 December 2023<ref name="G1114062_210" />
|-
| 2024 || [[IDF Widows and Orphans Organization]] (listed as "IDF Widows and Orfans") || £3,072 || not stated (direct to Israel presumed) || accounts y/e 31 December 2024<ref name="G1114062_211">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4023237/accounts-and-annual-returns The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation: accounts y/e 31 December 2024] ''Register of Charities'', p. 11.</ref>
|-
| 2025 || [[IDF Widows and Orphans Organization]] (listed as "IDF Widows and Orfans") || £1,561 || not stated (direct to Israel presumed) || accounts y/e 31 December 2025<ref name="G1114062_212">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4023237/accounts-and-annual-returns The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation: accounts y/e 31 December 2025] ''Register of Charities'', p. 11 (OCR).</ref>
|}

=== Israeli partners ===
[[IDF Widows and Orphans Organization]]<ref name="ACC">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4023237/accounts-and-annual-returns The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation (1114062): accounts and annual returns] ''Register of Charities''; latest accounts (year to 2025-12-31) downloaded 29 October 2026.</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
|-
| 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 £14,795 to the bodies listed under ''Funding in Israel''; the routes are given there as recorded.<ref name="G1114062_210" />

== 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'' notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no notice of any kind. No insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.<ref name="u32fefcc4">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=The%20Dr%20Benjamin%20Angel%20Foundation The Gazette: notices matching 'The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation'] ''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="u34208d86">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-1114062/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1114062] ''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 "The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation", "Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation", "Dr Benjamin Angel" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22The%20Dr%20Benjamin%20Angel%20Foundation%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "The Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation"] ''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://dba.foundation Official website]

==Notes==
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[[Category:Jewish charities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Charities based in England]]
[[Category:Israel]]
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 === 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>
+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 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>
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