Samuel Dan Pearlman
UK charity trustee; Friends of Yad Sarah and the Sunderland Pearlman family trust
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Sam Pearlman (filed as S. D. Pearlman on some Charity Commission papers) is a United Kingdom charity trustee. He sits on Friends of Yad Sarah (294801), the English fundraising trust for the Israeli volunteer organisation Yad Sarah, and on the Sunderland family trust The Joseph and Sarah Pearlman Jewish Charitable Trust (232082).[1][2]
He is not the film producer Leo Pearlman (Fulwell 73), who spoke at a Friends of Yad Sarah panel in September 2025, and he is not the Golders Green property director David Pearlman. No Companies House officer file has been tied to this Sam Pearlman on the public record used here.
Friends of Yad Sarah
Pearlman was appointed a trustee of Friends of Yad Sarah on 16 February 2017. The other current trustees are S. D. Kibel, Adam Max Caplin (from 5 December 2019) and Alistair Jay Marks (from 31 March 2022).[1]
The trust (deed 6 November 1985; registered 16 July 1986) exists to raise funds for Yad Sarah in Israel. Yad Sarah’s own branch list has included equipment-lending points in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem as well as inside the Green Line.[3][4]
Friends of Yad Sarah income in the year to 30 June 2025 was £418,558; expenditure £404,486. Correspondence: Harcourt House, 341 Regents Park Road, London N3 1DP.[5]
The Joseph and Sarah Pearlman Jewish Charitable Trust
Pearlman is one of four trustees of The Joseph and Sarah Pearlman Jewish Charitable Trust (232082). Co-trustees: Harold Hersh Pearlman, Meyer Pearlman and Dr Harold Austin Davis. The Commission card lists Friends of Yad Sarah as Pearlman’s only other recorded trusteeship.[2]
The trust deed is dated 4 December 1957; the charity was registered on 20 August 1964. Objects: advancement of religion, education or learning of the Orthodox Jewish faith; relief of poverty among members of the faith; or for the benefit of poor relations of Joseph and Sarah Pearlman (trustees and their wives excluded). The Commission activity line adds “or for the support of authorised Israeli institutions.” Area of operation outside the UK: Israel.[2][6]
Contact on the Commission file: 10 Murton Street, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR1 2RB; telephone 07768 333141; email im@pearlmansfinance.co.uk. Find that Charity also records the domain pearlmansfinance.co.uk.[2][6]
Income and expenditure have been filed as £0 for every year from 2014/15 through 2024/25. Earlier years were small (for example £16,534 income in 2003/04; £2,304 in 2012/13). Annual returns for 2022–2024 were filed late, then brought up to date on 27 August 2025. Accounts are “not required” at that income level.[7][6]
Disambiguation
| This person | Do not merge with |
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| Sam / S. D. Pearlman, trustee 294801 (from Feb 2017) and 232082 | Leo Pearlman (Leo Daniel Pearlman, DOB June 1979), Fulwell 73 producer; speaker at the Friends of Yad Sarah London panel, 11 September 2025, with Natasha Hausdorff and Jonathan Sacerdoti.[8] |
| David Pearlman, Golders Green / Asmuns Hill property director (separate Companies House file) | |
| Sam Murray Pearman (note spelling), hospitality companies — different surname |
See also
- Friends of Yad Sarah
- The Joseph and Sarah Pearlman Jewish Charitable Trust
- Yad Sarah
- Alistair Jay Marks
External links
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Trustees, Friends of Yad Sarah, Charity Commission.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 THE JOSEPH AND SARAH PEARLMAN JEWISH CHARITABLE TRUST, Charity Commission, 232082.
- ↑ Friends of Yad Sarah
- ↑ ‘Branches’, Yad Sarah, Internet Archive, 25 August 2017.
- ↑ FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH, Charity Commission, 294801.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 The Joseph and Sarah Pearlman Jewish Charitable Trust, Find that Charity.
- ↑ Accounts and annual returns, 232082.
- ↑ Louisa Walters, Friends of Yad Sarah host landmark panel, Jewish News, 17 September 2025.