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The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust provided a total of £45,000 to [[Civitas]] between 2006 and 2008.<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2006. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2007. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2008</ref>. The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust provided £75,000 to [[Policy Exchange]] in 2007<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, p.23.</ref> and £143,666 in 2008.<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2008, p.23.</ref> The Trust’s donations are not declared in its 2009 or 2010 accounts but
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The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust provided a total of £45,000 to [[Civitas]] between 2006 and 2008.<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2006. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2007. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2008</ref>. The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust provided £75,000 to [[Policy Exchange]] in 2007<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, p.23.</ref> and £143,666 in 2008.<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2008, p.23.</ref> The Trust’s donations are not declared in its 2009 or 2010 accounts.
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it is possible that it has since provided further donations. The trust has funded other right-wing think-tanks including [[Civitas]], the [[Social Affairs Unit]], the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] and the [[Adam Smith Research Trust]]<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, p.23-4. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statesments 5 April 2008, p.23.</ref> and has also funded pro-Israel groups like the [[Israel-Diaspora Trust]] and the [[Anglo-Israel Association]].<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April  
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The Trust paid £75,000 to Policy Exchange in 2011 and £601,000 in 2012.<ref>[http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends43/0000238043_AC_20120405_E_C.pdf Financial Statements], Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, 5 April 2012, p.20.</ref> In 2013, Policy Exchange refunded £63,040. These payments were recorded as related party transactions because Lord Wolfson of Apsley Guise was a Policy Exchange trustee.<ref>[http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends43/0000238043_AC_20130405_E_C.pdf  Financial Statements], The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, 5 April 2013, p.20.</ref>
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The trust has funded other right-wing think-tanks including [[Civitas]], the [[Social Affairs Unit]], the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] and the [[Adam Smith Research Trust]]<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, p.23-4. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statesments 5 April 2008, p.23.</ref> and has also funded pro-Israel groups like the [[Israel-Diaspora Trust]] and the [[Anglo-Israel Association]].<ref>Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April  
 
2007, p.23.</ref>
 
2007, p.23.</ref>
  

Revision as of 00:16, 11 March 2014

The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust is a UK grant making charity controlled by one branch of the wealthy Wolfson family. The charity was created by a Trust Deed dated 14 July 1960 and was registered as a UK charity on 8 January 1965. [1] As at 8 July 2010 the trustees were Thatcher's former Chief of Staff David Wolfson, his two sons Simon and Andrew, and Sara Leven. [2] The Trust's original founder, Charles Wolfson, was David Wolfson's father [3] and the son of Isaac Wolfson who was chairman of Great Universal Stores and established the Wolfson Foundation. [4]

Funding

The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust provided a total of £45,000 to Civitas between 2006 and 2008.[5]. The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust provided £75,000 to Policy Exchange in 2007[6] and £143,666 in 2008.[7] The Trust’s donations are not declared in its 2009 or 2010 accounts.

The Trust paid £75,000 to Policy Exchange in 2011 and £601,000 in 2012.[8] In 2013, Policy Exchange refunded £63,040. These payments were recorded as related party transactions because Lord Wolfson of Apsley Guise was a Policy Exchange trustee.[9]

The trust has funded other right-wing think-tanks including Civitas, the Social Affairs Unit, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Research Trust[10] and has also funded pro-Israel groups like the Israel-Diaspora Trust and the Anglo-Israel Association.[11]

People

Trustees

Staff

  • Paul Ramsbottom - Chief Executive
  • Sue Hall - PA to the Chief Executive
  • Simon Fourmy - Director of Grants
  • Caitlin Foley - Programme Manager (Science and Medicine)
  • James Randall - Programme Manager (Arts and Humanities)
  • Natasha Wright - Grants and Finance Administrator
  • Sophie Gibbon- Grants Assistant
  • Geoff Hunt - Finance Director
  • Emma Coyle - Office Manager[12]

Contact

The Wolfson Foundation
8 Queen Anne Street
London
W1G 9LD
Tel: 020 7323 5730 (with voicemail message system)
Media/Press enquiries: 020 7323 3124 (voicemail not available)

Notes

  1. ↑ Screengrab of Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust > Charity framework, created 8 July 2010
  2. ↑ Screengrab of Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust > Contact & trustees, created 8 July 2010
  3. ↑ ‘WOLFSON OF SUNNINGDALE’, Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 2009, accessed 8 July 2010
  4. ↑ ‘WOLFSON, Sir Isaac’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 8 July 2010
  5. ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2006. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2007. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2008
  6. ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, p.23.
  7. ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2008, p.23.
  8. ↑ Financial Statements, Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, 5 April 2012, p.20.
  9. ↑ Financial Statements, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, 5 April 2013, p.20.
  10. ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, p.23-4. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statesments 5 April 2008, p.23.
  11. ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, p.23.
  12. ↑ People, Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust website.
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