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'''Grants.''' The foundation gave £2,000 to [[UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers|UK Friends of AWIS]], whose registered objects are the relief of need and suffering of serving and discharged Israeli soldiers and their families, in 2012.<ref name="WFF_AC2012" />
 
'''Grants.''' The foundation gave £2,000 to [[UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers|UK Friends of AWIS]], whose registered objects are the relief of need and suffering of serving and discharged Israeli soldiers and their families, in 2012.<ref name="WFF_AC2012" />
  
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'''Prior scrutiny.''' In February 2024 [[David Miller]], writing for ''PressTV'' (critical), named the foundation among about twenty charities that had donated to UK Friends of AWIS, and it is listed on the Powerbase page [[UK AWIS - supporters]].<ref name="IDF_PRESSTV">[[David Miller]], [https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2024/02/01/719268/How-British-charities-aiding-Israeli-genocide-Gaza How British ‘charities’ are aiding Israeli genocide in Gaza] ''PressTV'', 1 February 2024 (critical).</ref> No Charity Commission inquiry or warning concerning the foundation was found.
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'''Prior scrutiny.''' In February 2024 [[David Miller (Powerbase)|David Miller]], writing for ''PressTV'' (critical), named the foundation among about twenty charities that had donated to UK Friends of AWIS, and it is listed on the Powerbase page [[UK AWIS - supporters]].<ref name="IDF_PRESSTV">[[David Miller (Powerbase)|David Miller]], [https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2024/02/01/719268/How-British-charities-aiding-Israeli-genocide-Gaza How British ‘charities’ are aiding Israeli genocide in Gaza] ''PressTV'', 1 February 2024 (critical).</ref> No Charity Commission inquiry or warning concerning the foundation was found.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 05:47, 21 October 2026

The Wigoder Family Foundation is a UK charity (1086806). Formerly known as the Charles Wigoder Foundation, it was formed via a Declaration of trust dated 24th July 2000 and registered on 30 May 2001.

Donations

In 2012 it donated money to a variety of pro-Israel and conservative causes including UK AWIS, the Community Security Trust, the Henry Jackson Society, UJIA as well as a variety of other health and non-political causes.[1]

In 2006, the Conservative Party reported that it had received a £100,000 loan from one of the foundation's trustees, Charles Wigoder.[2] Wigoder is a member of The Leader's Group, the premier Conservative Party supporter group.

Grant recipients of the Wigoder Family Foundation in £ sterling
Organisation 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Total (£)
Action for Children in Conflict 100 100 200
Action for Kids 100 100
Action Medical Research 100 100
Africa Equipment for Schools 100 100 200
AIDIS 100 100
AIDS Trust 100 100
Aish Hatorah UK Limited 10,000 25,000 25,000 60,000
Alive and Kicking 2,500 2,500
Anglo Israel Association 10,000 10,000
Aplastic Anaemia Trust 100 100 200
ASBAH 100 100 200
Asthma Relief 100 100 200
AWIS 2,000 2,000
Back to Work 100 100 200
Barnstondale Centre 100 100 200
Battle of Britain Memorial 5,000 5,000
Bayis Sheli Building Committee 1,000 1,000
Bhopal Medical Appeal 100 100
BID 100 100 200
Botton Village (The CUT Appeals Fund) 100 100
Break 100 100 200
British Emunah 100 100 10,000 10,200
British Friends of Ohel Sarah 22,619 22,619
British Friends of Sheba 2,500 2,500
British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel 1,500 1,500
British Heart Foundation 100 100 200
Bush Theatre 2,500 2,500
CAFOD 100 100
Cambodia Trust 100 100 200
Camp Simcha 1,000 1,000 2,000 2,000 6,000 6,000 6,000 24,000
Cancer Resource Centre 100 100
Cedar Schoo 100 100
Centre for Entrepreneurs 10,000 10,000 20,000 40,000
Centre for Jewish Life 5,000 5,000 30,000 1,608 10,000 10,000 61,608
Centrepoint 100 100 200
Central London Mikvah 15,000 15,000
Chai Cancer Care 100 6,000 6,000 6,000 6,000 6,000 30,100
Chai Lifeline 100 100
Charity Friends of OS 5,112 5,112
Chevrat Bikkur Cholim 100 100
Chicken Soup Kitchen 80,000 80,000
Chicken Soup Shelter 17,500 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 77,500
Chicks 100 100 200
Children with Leukaemia 100 100 200
Children's Adventure Farm Trust 100 100 200
Community Security Trust (CST) 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 10,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 20,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 20,000 10,000 165,000
Computer Aid International 100 100
Contact a Family 100 100 200
CORDA 100 100
CRISIS 100 100 200
CRY 100 100 200
Deaf blind UK 100 100 200
Demand 100 100
Dementia Care Trust 100 100
Dogs for the Disabled 100 100
Du Boisson Dance Foundation 7,062 9,754 28,961 18,069 30,706 39,706 134,258
Dyslexic Computer Training Charity 100 100 200
Elimination of Leukaemia Fund 100 100 200
Elizabeth-Anne Charity 2,000 10,000 12,000
Elmhurst School of Dance 10,000 10,000
Emunah 1,000 2,000 2,000 5,000
English National Ballet 17,000 500,000 517,000
Ethiopiaid 100 100 100 300
Farm Africa 100 100 200
FHA 100 100 200
Forum for Jewish Leadership 7,000 7,000
Friends of the Hebrew University 100 100 200
Friends of the Sick 200 200
Friends of Unawatuna 5,000 5,000
Friends of West London Dance 5,000 42,500 5,000 52,500
Give It Forward 10,000 10,000
Great Ormond Street 100 100 200
Gurkha Welfare Trust 25,000 25,000
Hadassah UK 100 2,000 9,000 11,100
Happy Days 100 100 200
Help the Aged 100 100 200
Henry Jackson Society 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 90,000
Holocaust Education Trust 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 70,000
Hope and Homes of Children 100 100
Hospice of St Francis 100 100
IMPACT Foundation 200 200
Imperial War Museum 10,000 10,000
International Glaucoma Association 100 100
Jewish Care 10,000 10,000 12,500 12,500 12,500 12,500 12,500 17,500 13,500 13,500 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 25,000 212,000
Jewish Childs Day 250 250 1,000 500 2,000 2,000 6,000
Jewish Community Centre 5,000 5,000
Jewish Institute for the Blind (Jerusalem) 500 500 1,000
Jewish Learning Exchange 55,000 450,000 505,000
Jewish Marriage Council 100 100
Jewish National Fund 1,000 1,000
Jewish Religious Community Chabad Lubavitch 12,134 13,449 13,534 13,639 52,756
Jewish Learning Exchange (JLE) 50,000 75,000 275,000 150,000 30,000 580,000
JNF 100 1,000 1,100
Jumby Bay Island Fund 20,000 20,000
Kesher 25,000 5,000 6,000 7,500 10,000 12,000 12,000 15,000 30,250 17,000 17,000 22,000 178,750
Kids 100 100
Kisharon 1,000 1,000 2,000 10,000 140,000 5,200 10,000 10,000 15,000 194,200
Kith & Kids 1,700 1,700
Kitov 30,000 75,000 105,000
Leonard Cheshire Foundation 100 100 200
LEPRA 100 100 200
Levioh Trust (Orphans) 100 100 200
Lithuania Jewish Youth Camp 12,000 10,000 12,527 34,527
London Carlebeck Synagogue 10,000 10,000
London Jewish Family Centre 100 100
London String Quartet 500 1,500 2,000
Lord Mayor's Appeal 35,000 35,000
Lupus UK 100 100
Magen David Adom 100 1,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 50,000 10,000 10,000 15,000 15,000 121,100
Mail Force Charity 250,000 250,000
Marie Curie Cancer Care 100 100
Martletts Hospice 100 100
Mean Trust 100 100
Miracles 100 100
MND Association 100 100 200
Motability 200 300 500
Movement Foundation 100 100
Noah's Ark - The Children's Hospice 5,000 5,000
National Library of Israel 17,500 17,500
National Missing Persons Helpline 100 100
National Deaf Children's Society 100 100 100 300
New Entrepreneurs Foundation 10,000 10,000 20,000
Nightingale Hammerson 250 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 1,000,000 1,080,250
North London Colleglate School 60,000 20,000 90,000 170,000
Norwood 7,500 10,000 10,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,400 25,000 26,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 50,000 25,000 288,900
Ohel Sarah 100 100 200
One Family UK 100 100 10,000 10,000 50,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 195,200
One to One Children's Fund 3,500 6,400 8,900 10,000 28,800
Oneg Shabbos Youth Club 100 100 200
Opera for Young People 3,000 1,000 4,000
ORBIS 500 250 750
PACE Centre 100 100
Plan UK 100 100 200
Princes Teaching Institute 35,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 210,000
Princes Trust Fellowship Fund 75,000 25,000 100,000
Prince's Trust Institute 1,025,000 25,000 1,050,000
Prisoners Abroad 250 250
Pump Aid 2,300 2,300
Rainbow Centre 100 100 200
Rainbow Trust 100 100 200
Refuge 7,500 7,500
Relief Foundation 100 100
Respite Foundation 100 100
RNIB 100 100 200
RNLI (Lifeboats) 100 100 200
Royal British Legion 200 3,200 3,400
Royal Hospital for Neurological Disability 2,000 2,000
Royal London Society for the Blind 100 100
Royal Opera House Foundation 3,420 3,420
Royal School for the Blind 100 100 200
Royal Star and Garter Home 100 100 200
SAIL 100 100
Sargent Cancer Care for Children 100 100 100 300
Save the Children 100 100
Scope 100 100
Seeing is Believing 1,000 1,000
Send a Cow 100 100 200
Sense 100 100 200
Sheba Medical Centre 1,000 1,000
Sightsavers 100 100 200
Snowdon Award Scheme 100 100 100 300
South Hampstead Synagogue 1,000 250,000 -180,000 50,000 121,000
St Andrews Children's Home 100 100 200
St Dunstans 100 100 200
St Johns Wood Eruv Committee 10,000 10,000
St Johns Wood Synagogue 265,000 265,000
St Mungo's 100 100 100,000 100,200
St Paul's Girls School 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 200,000
St Stephens Charitable Trust 40,000 40,000
Starlight Childrens Foundation 100 100 100 300
Step by Step 100 100
Summer Dreams 100 100 200
Suzy Lamphugh Trust 100 100 200
Table Tennis for Kids 5,000 5,000
Tall Ships Youth Trust 100 100 200
Tuberous Sclerosis Association 100 100 200
UNICEF UK 100 100
United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) 30,000 25,000 25,000 30,000 27,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 387,000
United Synagogue 1,500 30,300 80,300 112,100
University of Kent 87,681 15,000 102,681
University of Stirling 15,000 15,000
Variety Club 1,000 1,000
Vitalise 100 100
VSI Menachemo Gimnazjia 13,630 12,900 12,800 39,330
Wandle Valley School 250 250
WaterAid 1,000 1,000
Wellbeing for Women 10,000 2,200 5,000 2,000 19,200
Westminster Challenge 1,000 1,000
Westminster's School Bursary Appeal 57,602 57,982 50,000 17,409 46,500 10,000 239,493
Winged Fellowship Trust 100 100 200
WIZO 100 100
Women at Risk 100 100 200
World Jewish Relief 250 250 5,000 5,000 5,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 150,500
Youth Action Wiltshire 100 100
Youth Aliya 2,000 2,000 4,000
Young Dancers Charitable Academy 12,285 18,890 24,582 55,757
Other donations of £5,000 or less 89,783 67,160 79,151 65,338 84,793 54,364 38,897 479,486
Other donations of £2,000 or less 16,565 38,350 29,385 84,300
Other donations of £1,000 or less 4,900 17,105 22,005
Prior year donation written off -2,500 -2,500
Total: 155,102 200,982 83,400 121,820 247,809 167,005 257,465 337,350 301,312 1,626,945 948,499 2,450,021 431,108 490,492 532,270 1,202,322

Data sources: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022

People

The charity has three trustees (in 2015): Martin Rose | Charles Wigoder | Elizabeth Wigoder

Israel-related grants and findings (filed accounts)

The foundation's filed accounts were read for the years to 30 November 2005–2012 and 2014–2022. The 2008 and 2010 copies are scans, read by OCR. Accounts for the year to 30 November 2013 have not been obtained.[3][4] Most of its income came as gifts of Telecom Plus plc shares from the trustee the Hon. Charles Wigoder ("the Honourable Charles Wigoder, a Trustee"), which were treated as donations: for example £1,945,000 in 2011 and £1,557,000 in 2012.[5][3]

Israel-related grants, years to 30 November (£), as itemised in the accounts
Recipient 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) 1,000 (Kol Nidre appeal) 1,000 (Kol Nidre appeal) 25,000 30,000 27,000 25,000 50,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 25,000
Magen David Adom (UK) 100 1,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 10,000 50,000 10,000 10,000 15,000 15,000
Emunah / British Emunah Fund 100 100 1,000 2,000 2,000 10,000
UK Friends of AWIS 2,000
Hadassah UK 100 100 2,000 9,000
National Library of Israel 17,500
Anglo Israel Association 10,000

Sources: the accounts for each year. Single-column OCR figures are attributed to the year of the accounts. Blank cells mean no grant is itemised in the accounts read, not that there was no grant.[6][5][3][7][8][9][4]

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No itemised grant in the accounts read is to a recipient located beyond the Green Line. Not established

Support for the IDF: £2,000 to AWIS in 2012.[3] UK Friends of AWIS (1084272) has the registered objects "THE RELIEF OF NEED AND SUFFERING OF SERVING AND DISCHARGED ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES".[10] Grade: High for the recipient's purpose.


Support for the Israeli military

Grants. The foundation gave £2,000 to UK Friends of AWIS, whose registered objects are the relief of need and suffering of serving and discharged Israeli soldiers and their families, in 2012.[3]

Prior scrutiny. In February 2024 David Miller, writing for PressTV (critical), named the foundation among about twenty charities that had donated to UK Friends of AWIS, and it is listed on the Powerbase page UK AWIS - supporters.[11] No Charity Commission inquiry or warning concerning the foundation was found.

Contact

  • THE HON CHARLES FRANCIS WIGODER
  • 9 HYDE PARK GARDENS
  • LONDON
  • W2 2LT

Notes

  1. ↑ The Wigoder Family foundation. Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Conservative lenders unveiled, BBC News, 31 March 2006.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Charity Commission, The Wigoder Family Foundation (1086806): trustees' report and financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2012, filed with the Commission (register).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Charity Commission, The Wigoder Family Foundation (1086806): trustees' report and financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2022, filed with the Commission.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Charity Commission, The Wigoder Family Foundation (1086806): financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2011, filed with the Commission.
  6. ↑ Charity Commission, The Wigoder Family Foundation (1086806): financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2005, filed with the Commission.
  7. ↑ Charity Commission, The Wigoder Family Foundation (1086806): financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2014, filed with the Commission.
  8. ↑ Charity Commission, The Wigoder Family Foundation (1086806): financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2017, filed with the Commission.
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, The Wigoder Family Foundation (1086806): financial statements for the year ended 30 November 2021, filed with the Commission.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract, rows for charity 1084272, governing document table dated 14 October 2026.
  11. ↑ David Miller, How British ‘charities’ are aiding Israeli genocide in Gaza PressTV, 1 February 2024 (critical).
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