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The Phillips & Rubens Charitable Trust is a grant-making foundation which donated £5,000 to the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2008/9 having donated £10,000 to Civitas in the previous year. In the two years up to April 2009 it also donated a total of £106,750 to the United Jewish Israel Appeal.^[1]

The Trust was originally set up in 1969 by the London accountant Michael Phillips and his wife Ruth. He was at that time a partner in the accountancy firm Hacker, Rubens, Phillips & Young, which he ran with the late Stuart Young.^[2] Stuart Young, who would later be appointed chairman of the BBC by Margaret Thatcher, was the brother of David (now Lord) Young who chairs the board of trustees of The Peter Cruddas Foundation, which has funded Policy Exchange. Lord Young and Michael Phillips are also both trustees of the Stuart Young Foundation along with the solicitor Martin Paisner, who is also a trustee of The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust, The Peter Cruddas Foundation, the Phillips & Rubens Charitable Trust and a number of other conservative foundations.^[3]

Trustees

Name	Role	Other Trusteeships
Martin Paisner CBE MA LLM	Trustee	Devonshire Street Charitable Foundation \| The Peter Cruddas Foundation \| The Denise Cohen Charitable Trust \| The Sir Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation \| The Shirley Young Charitable Trust \| The Schmidt-Bodner Charitable Trust \| Hadassah Medical Relief Association U.K. \| The Ruth and Jack Lunzer Charitable Trust \| The Stella and Alexander Margulies Charitable Trust \| The Sybil Shine Memorial Trustless \| Yoni Jesner Foundation \| The Rosenblatt Family Charitable Trust \| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (UK) Trust \| Janet Wolfson De Botton Charitable Trust \| The Cissie Rosefield Charitable Trust \| The Bluston Charitable Settlement \| The Potel Charitable Trust \| The Barnett and Sylvia Shine No 2 Charitable Trust \| The Adrienne and Leslie Sussman Charitable Trust \| The Adler Trust \| The Latchman Family Charitable Trust \| The Paisner Charitable Trust \| The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust \| Shaare Zedek Uk \| Worcester College Oxford Endowment Trust \| The Marcus Margulies Charitable Trust \| The Stuart Young Foundation
Gary Mark Phillips	Trustee	The Maccabi Foundation
Carolyn Louise Mishon	Trustee	None On Record
Paul Simon Phillips	Trustee	None On Record

Activities

Grants have been awarded by the foundation to the following organisations:

Funds Dispersed in £ sterling ^[4]
Organisation	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	Total 2004-2013
Aleh Charitable Foundation	0	0	3,470	3,201	0	0	0	0	0	0	6,671
Alliance Francaise	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
Association of Research into Stammering in Childhood	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
Bar Ilan University	0	0	2,500	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,500
B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
Board of Deputies Charitable Trust	0	0	0	0	0	2,500	0	0	0	0	2,500
British Friends of Haifa University	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
British Friends of the Jaffa Institute	0	1,000	0	0	7,000	1,000	7,000	0	0	0	16,000
British Friends of Jerusalem Foundation	0	0	2,252	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,252
British ORT	5,000	7,600	7,600	7,700	7,500	7,500	7,700	7,600	5,000	5,000	68,200
British Technion Society	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
Cancerkin	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
The Centre for Social Cohesion	0	0	0	0	0	5,000	0	5,000	0	0	10,000
Chai Cancer Care	0	0	0	1,000	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	2,000
Charities Aid Foundation	0	0	25,000	25,000	25,000	40,000	5,000	25,000	25,000	15,000	185,000
Chief Rabbinate Charitable Trust	0	10,000	0	10,000	10,000	5,000	0	0	0	0	35,000
Child Resettlement Fund	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
City of London School	0	0	0	0	1,000	1,000	0	0	0	0	2,000
Civitas	0	0	0	0	10,000	0	0	0	0	0	10,000
Clore Tikva Parent Staff Association	0	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	1,000
Community Security Trust	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	0	10,000	25,000	10,000	5,000	5,000	95,000
The Churchill Centre United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5,000	0	5,000
The Federation of London Youth Clubs	0	0	0	1,500	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,500
Friends of Bar Ilan University	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
Friends of Hazon Yeshaya	0	0	0	0	0	2,000	0	0	0	0	2,000
Friends of Ohel Torah	0	0	1,250	2,000	1,250	1,000	0	0	0	0	5,500
The Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity	0	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	1,000
GRET	10,000	10,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20,000
Guys & St. Thomas' Charitable Foundation	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
The Head and Neck Cancer Research Trust	0	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	1,000
The Henry Jackson Society	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5,000	0	5,000
Holocaust Educational Trust	5,000	0	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	0	20,000	7,500	7,500	80,000
ICAEW	0	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	1,000
Institute for Jewish Policy	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
The Jaffa Institute	1,000	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,000
The Jerusalem Foundation	2,500	0	8,935	23,053	10,636	0	0	0	0	0	45,124
The Jewish Leadership Council	0	0	0	0	0	5,000	0	9,500	5,000	0	19,500
Jewish Care	13,450	10,600	12,600	10,850	12,850	12,500	6,350	12,600	7,600	6,000	105,400
Jewish Community Secondary School (JCoSS)	0	0	0	0	25,000	12,700	21,000	0	20,000	0	78,700
Jewish Learning Exchange (JLE)	0	0	0	0	10,000	0	0	0	0	0	10,000
Jewish Preparatory School	5,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5,000
Kisharon	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
Limmud	0	0	0	0	1,000	1,000	0	0	0	0	2,000
London Jewish Cultural Centre	0	2,500	8,000	3,250	1,000	1,000	3,500	0	0	0	19,250
Lubavitch Foundation	6,000	5,000	8,000	10,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	29,000
Maccabi GB	0	5,000	0	5,000	2,500	0	0	0	0	5,000	17,500
The Maccabiah Football Bursaries	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
Magen David Adom UK	0	5,000	0	2,000	1,000	1,000	0	3,100	0	0	12,100
The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,500	0	0	0	2,500
Nightingale House	1,000	0	0	1,600	5,000	0	5,000	0	2,500	0	15,100
Naima JPS	0	5,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5,000
National Autistic Society	0	2,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,000
National Yad Vashem Charitable Trust	0	0	0	0	0	5,000	0	0	0	0	5,000
Norwood Child Care	0	7,500	0	0	10,000	0	0	0	0	0	17,500
Norwood Children & Families First	7,500	0	0	15,000	0	10,000	10,100	10,000	5,000	5,000	62,600
Nantyglo Comprehensive School	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
Ohel Torah	1,000	1,000	1,250	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3,250
Our Children Foundation UK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,500	0	0	2,500
The Phillips Family Charitable Trust	0	0	65,000	80,000	110,000	90,000	80,000	80,000	80,000	80,000	665,000
Pierre Gildesgame Charitable Settlement	0	0	0	0	5,000	0	0	0	0	0	5,000
The Roundhouse Trust	0	0	0	0	0	1,500	0	0	0	0	1,500
Royal National Theatre	0	2,350	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,350
Royal Opera House Benevolent Fund	3,900	7,995	4,100	4,200	0	0	0	0	0	0	20,195
Royal Opera House Foundation	0	0	0	0	11,350	16,677	12,200	0	0	0	40,227
Shaare Zedek UK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,500	2,500
Simon Wiesenthal Centre	0	3,461	6,988	0	12,857	8,589	16,331	7,978	15,934	0	72,138
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation	0	5,250	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5,250
Taunton School Foundation	1,000	1,000	1,000	6,250	0	0	0	0	0	0	9,250
UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers	0	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	2,500	2,500	0	6,000
UK Friends for Further Education in Israel	5,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5,000
United Jewish Israel Appeal	16,500	14,050	78,750	64,000	41,000	65,750	52,500	83,000	42,000	52,550	510,100
University College London	0	2,000	0	2,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	4,000
University of Cambridge Genizah Project	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	1,000
United Synagogue	1,000	2,000	0	1,000	500	0	0	0	5,050	0	9,550
Weizmann Institute	2,400	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7,000	0	9,400
Welfare Works Charitable Trust	2,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,000
Western Marble Arch Synagogue	3,371	3,491	3,635	3,585	1,950	5,336	2,975	3,205	3,701	6,856	38,105
WIZO Charitable Foundation	0	0	0	0	2,000	0	0	0	0	0	2,000
World Jewish Relief	1,000	3,000	1,000	1,000	0	2,500	3,000	0	0	0	11,500
Yad Vashem UK Foundation	0	1,000	2,880	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3,880
Yad Sarah	0	0	0	0	1,016	0	0	0	0	0	1,016
Yesodey Hatorah Grammar School	0	0	10,100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10,100
Youth Aliyah - Child Rescue	0	0	0	0	0	1,000	0	0	0	0	1,000
Unnamed Grants of lesser amounts	10,730	8,375	33,200	7,750	5,913	7,897	19,937	11,965	17,072	15,099	137,938
Total Dispersed Funds											2,610,146

Support for the Israeli military

Grants. The trust gave £2,500–£2,600 a year in 2010–11 to 2012–13, and £13,750 in 2014–15, to UK Friends of AWIS, whose registered objects are the relief of need and suffering of serving and discharged Israeli soldiers and their families.^[5]^[6]

Prior scrutiny. In February 2024 David Miller, writing for PressTV (critical), named the trust among about twenty charities that had donated to UK Friends of AWIS, and it is listed on the Powerbase page UK AWIS - supporters.^[7] No Charity Commission inquiry or warning concerning the trust was found.

Contact

Michael Phillips

The Phillips & Rubens Charitable Trust

67-69 George Street

London

W1U 8LT

Phone: 0207 487 5757

Filed accounts 2010–11 to 2014–15: trustees, Israel-related grants and findings

The trustees named in the accounts for the years to 5 April 2011, 2012 and 2013 are Michael L. Phillips, Mrs Ruth Phillips, Martin D. Paisner, Paul Phillips and Gary Phillips. The accounts state that the trust "is connected through common trustees to The Phillips Family Charitable Trust", to which it gave £80,000 in each of 2010–11, 2011–12 and 2012–13.^[8]^[5]^[9] The 2005 accounts record that the trust took its present name under "a deed of amendment dated 25 February 2005".^[10] It is not connected, on any document read, with The Morris and Sally Phillips Charitable Trust, a Banbridge (Northern Ireland) Christian trust.

Income was £290,997 (2010–11), £304,828 (2011–12) and £338,360 (2012–13), mostly investment and rental income; donations were £293,947, £270,857 and £223,005.^[8]^[5]^[9]

Israel-related donations of £2,500 or more, years to 5 April (£)
Recipient	2011	2012	2013
United Jewish Israel Appeal	83,000	42,000	52,550
UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers	2,500	2,600	2,500 (column not certain in the scanned copy)
Weizmann Institute Foundation		7,000
Magen David Adom UK		3,100 (single figure; year column not certain)
British Friends of the Jaffa Institute			6,000
Shaare Zedek UK			2,500

Sources: the 2012 and 2013 accounts (2011 figures are comparatives in the 2012 accounts).^[5]^[9] Donations under £2,500 are given only as a total.

2013–14 and 2014–15

The accounts for the years ended 2014-04-05 and 2015-04-05 were read from copies of the Charity Commission files held by the UK Government Web Archive.^[11]^[6] The trustees in both years were Michael L. Phillips, Ruth Phillips, Martin D. Paisner, Paul Phillips, Gary Phillips and Carolyn Mishon. Total incoming resources were £419,908 (2013–14) and £400,436 (2014–15). The trust gave £80,000 (2013–14) and £95,000 (2014–15) to The Phillips Family Charitable Trust, "connected through common trustees".^[11]^[6]

Israel-related donations of £2,500 or more, years to 5 April (£)
Recipient	2014	2015
United Jewish Israel Appeal	28,000	25,000
UK Friends of AWIS		13,750
Jerusalem Foundation	36,000
British Friends of the Jaffa Institute	6,000	6,500
Weizmann UK		5,000
British Friends of Haifa University		3,000
Shaare Zedek UK	2,500

Sources: the notes on material donations in the 2014 and 2015 accounts.^[11]^[6]

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding	Confidence
£36,000 in 2013–14 to the Jerusalem Foundation, whose UK accounts list projects in occupied East Jerusalem (graded on its page).^[11]	Low – via a UK intermediary
No other itemised donation in the 2011–2015 accounts is to a recipient located beyond the Green Line.^[5]^[9]^[6]	Not established

Support for the IDF: Donations of £2,500–£2,600 a year in 2010–11 to 2012–13, and £13,750 in 2014–15,^[6] to UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers (registered charity 1084272), whose registered objects are "THE RELIEF OF NEED AND SUFFERING OF SERVING AND DISCHARGED ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES".^[5]^[12] Grade: High for the recipient's purpose.

Notes

↑ The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust, Financial Statements 5 April 2009.
↑ UHY Hacker Young, About > A short history of UHY Hacker Young. Accessed 22 October 2014.
↑ The Peter Cruddas Foundation, The Trustees > Martin Paisner Esq. CBE. .Accessed 22 October 2014
↑ Data compiled from filings at the Charity Commission.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 ^5.5 Charity Commission, The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust (260378): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2012, filed with the Commission.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20160701).
↑ David Miller, How British ‘charities’ are aiding Israeli genocide in Gaza PressTV, 1 February 2024 (critical).
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Charity Commission, The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust (260378): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2011, filed with the Commission (register).
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 ^9.3 Charity Commission, The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust (260378): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2013, filed with the Commission.
↑ Charity Commission, The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust (260378): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2005, filed with the Commission.
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 ^11.3 The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20160105).
↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract, rows for charity 1084272, governing document table dated 14 October 2026.

[1] The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust, Financial Statements 5 April 2009.

[2] UHY Hacker Young, About > A short history of UHY Hacker Young. Accessed 22 October 2014.

[3] The Peter Cruddas Foundation, The Trustees > Martin Paisner Esq. CBE. .Accessed 22 October 2014

[4] Data compiled from filings at the Charity Commission.

[PR_AC2012-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 ^5.5 Charity Commission, The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust (260378): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2012, filed with the Commission.

[UG_260378_20150405-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 ^6.4 ^6.5 The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20160701).

[IDF_PRESSTV-7] David Miller, How British ‘charities’ are aiding Israeli genocide in Gaza PressTV, 1 February 2024 (critical).

[PR_AC2011-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Charity Commission, The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust (260378): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2011, filed with the Commission (register).

[PR_AC2013-9] 9.0 ^9.1 ^9.2 ^9.3 Charity Commission, The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust (260378): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2013, filed with the Commission.

[PR_AC2005-10] Charity Commission, The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust (260378): report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2005, filed with the Commission.

[UG_260378_20140405-11] 11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 ^11.3 The Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20160105).

[PR_AWIS-12] Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract, rows for charity 1084272, governing document table dated 14 October 2026.

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