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Latest revision as of 13:05, 17 October 2026
Weinstock family trust that gave £1.28 million in 2025, mostly for hospital projects in Israel, including two related-party grants in 2024
| Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust
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| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 1997-07-23 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1063559 |
| Headquarters | Mill Hill, London NW7 |
| Area served | City Of London, Nottingham City, Israel, Scotland, Northern Ireland |
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).[1][2] Register areas are the City of London, Nottingham City, Israel, Scotland and Northern Ireland.[1] Its trustees are Peter Jonathan Swimer, Israel Weinstock (I C Weinstock) and 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).[1][2] 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).[1][2] 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).[2]
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."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Charity donates funds to worthy causes in the UK and Israel"[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: City Of London, Nottingham City, Israel, Scotland, Northern Ireland.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| 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)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-04 | David Krasner; Israel Weinstock; Peter Jonathan Swimer | [3] |
| 2021-01-11 | Peter Jonathan Swimer; David Krasner; Israel Weinstock – also trustee of The British Friends of Beth Lohamei Hagetaot | [4] |
Finances
| 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.[1]
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[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[10]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants £1,278,470 (2024: £354,450) (PDF p.5, 15):[2] Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations £350,000 for a new Oncology-Hematology Centre in the 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.[2]
- FY2024 grants included UK Toremet £75,000, Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief £50,000, JNF Charitable Trust £48,000, 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).[2]
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).[2][11]
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.
| 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).[2] | Medium |
| The Benji Hillman Foundation says its lone-soldier home and guidance centre are in Ra'anana.[11] | Medium |
| The other Israel-related grants go to UK charities and are not located in the accounts (PDF p.15).[2] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF funding by the trust is stated.[2] It gave £47,200 in 2025 to the Benji Hillman Foundation (PDF p.15),[2] 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".[11]
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;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
- 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).[2]
- 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).[2]
- Spending from capital. Grants were more than eleven times investment income, and funds fell by 29% in the year (PDF p.11).[2]
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]
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.[20]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]
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.[22]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[23]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Dyna and Fala Weinstock", "Weinstock Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]
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".[4]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 Charity Commission, 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).
- ↑ Register entry 1063559, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1063559, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Benji Hillman Foundation, 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").
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date).
- ↑ Charity Commission, 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, 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).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Weinstock Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1063559 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, 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 CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Weinstock Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).