Women's International Zionist Organization UK

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UK federation of Women's International Zionist Organisation funding World WIZO projects in Israel

Women's International Zionist Organization UK

Logo WIZO-1920-British delegation.jpg
Type Charitable company
Founded 2008-07-16 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1125012; company 06634748
Headquarters 3 Penta Court, Station Road, Borehamwood, WD6 1SL
Area served Scotland, Throughout England, Israel
Website www.wizouk.org

Women's International Zionist Organization UK is a charitable company (06634748) and the UK federation of WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organisation), affiliated to World WIZO in Israel.[1] In 2023/24 it sent £1.632 million (2022/23 £1.472 million) to World WIZO towards about 100 projects, including operational support for 29 day-care centres accommodating almost 2,800 children; accounts (OCR of scanned PDF) describe bomb-shelter sensory-motor room renovations in day-care centres among project themes.[2] Website wizouk.org.[1]

WIZO UK is a member of the Women's Interational Zionist Organization which in turn is an affiliate of the World Zionist Organisation a formal part of the Zionist Movement. It is registered as a company and charity as WIZO.UK (Company number 06634748; Charity number: 1125012).

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1 TO BENEFIT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL BY SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE WORK OF WIZO IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF YOUNG PEOPLE, WOMEN AFFECTED BY VIOLENCE, FAMILIES IN NEED, IMMIGRANTS AND THE ELDERLY;2 TO ADVANCE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, EDUCATION (INCLUDING VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS) AMONGST ALL SECTIONS OF THE POPULATION IN ISRAEL;3 TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONGST ALL SECTIONS OF THE POPULATION IN ISRAEL;4 TO ADVANCE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, EDUCATION AMONGST ALL SECTIONS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To give assistance & relief to impoverished women and children in Israel.To help support and strengthen the family in Israel, to enable our charitable work to include citizens of all religious beliefs, race & creed and to further Jewish education in Israel, the UK and the Republic of Ireland.To sponsor all existing projects in Israel including day care centres, family centres & other projects."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Scotland, Throughout England, Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of WIZO.uk (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Stephen Jonathan Brower 2019-11-26 —
Danielle Shane 2021-09-14 —
Dr Kate Schnelling 2023-01-24 —
Francine Barsam 2024-09-17 —
Nicholas Berman 2025-03-18 —
Jeremy Wootliff 2025-03-18 —
Matthew Pearlman 2025-09-16 Project Impact (1192624)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-01-20 Myrna Young; Alan Philip Graham; Jill Henrietta Shaw; Johanna Seifert; Michele Vogel; Susan Ronson; Donna Seruya-sackman; Loraine Warren; Carol Holmes; Clifford Shanbury; Richard Harris; Andrea Epstein; Miriam Borchard [3]
2011-01-21 Myrna Young; Alan Philip Graham; Jill Henrietta Shaw; Johanna Seifert; Michele Vogel; Susan Ronson; Donna Seruya-sackman; Loraine Warren; Carol Holmes; Clifford Shanbury; Richard Harris; Andrea Epstein; Miriam Borchard [4]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 58 current and former officers of the charitable company (06634748), 7 of them active.[5]

Appointments of these officers to overseas companies registered in the UK (FC) or on the Register of Overseas Entities (OE):

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-09-30 £2,294,006 £2,573,725
2022-09-30 £1,391,853 £1,493,673
2023-09-30 £2,039,452 £2,112,664
2024-09-30 £2,136,036 £2,079,313

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
30 Sep 2009 2,897,461 3,435,605 [7]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2014[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2015[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2016[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2017[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2018[12]

Funding in Israel

  • 2023/24: £1.632m remitted to World WIZO for ~100 projects including 29 day-care centres.[2]

Israeli partners

World WIZO (Israel) is the stated remittance partner; WIZO.uk is part of the worldwide WIZO federation.[2]

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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
Accounts/OCR text mention day-care addresses including a line with "Ramot" among Israeli street listings; this is insufficient without a clear settlement grant line to grade as settlement funding. No Peace Now settlement was confirmed as a grant destination from the text available.[2] Low – ambiguous OCR address fragment
World WIZO, the stated remittance partner, lists WIZO day-care centres at 14 Shmuel Tamir Street, Pisgat Ze'ev, Jerusalem;[13] at HaEven 2, Nofei Sela–Shaham, Ma'ale Adumim;[14] and at 53 HaMaccabim Street, Giv'at Ze'ev.[15] Pisgat Ze'ev is an Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem on Peace Now's settlement list;[16] Ma'ale Adumim and Giv'at Ze'ev are West Bank settlements on the same list.[16] The accounts do not say which centres the UK remittances reached.[2] High (partner) – verified places

Support for the IDF: No IDF equipment funding is stated. Accounts describe World WIZO social-welfare and early-years projects in Israel, including bomb-shelter adaptations in day-care centres (civilian protective infrastructure).[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice was found.
  • Companies House. Claude Manuel Littner holds an overseas FC appointment (Amshold Limited FC016893) among officers associated with this company in the appointments scrape; this is recorded as an overseas company appointment, not a finding against the charity.

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]

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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name and the names of its current register trustees 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.[21]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[22] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[23]

  • Register records land ownership – Register land flag (source: register)

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'WIZO.uk' returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

Web archive

  • wizouk.org: 18 yearly captures, first 2005-01-26, last 2026-01-06.[25]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 4 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above).

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, WIZO.uk (1125012): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1125012, contact and trustees (capture of 20110120) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1125012, contact and trustees (capture of 20110121) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Company 06634748: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  6. ↑ LITTNER, Claude Manuel: appointments Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  7. ↑ Register entry 1125012, financial history (capture of 20110120) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ WIZO.uk accounts, year ended 2014-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  9. ↑ WIZO.uk accounts, year ended 2015-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  10. ↑ WIZO.uk accounts, year ended 2016-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  11. ↑ WIZO.uk accounts, year ended 2017-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  12. ↑ WIZO.uk accounts, year ended 2018-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  13. ↑ World WIZO, ירושלים, פ.זאב-תמיר wizo.org.il, viewed 20 October 2026 ("כתובת: פסגת זאב, רח' שמואל תמיר 14" – address: Pisgat Ze'ev, 14 Shmuel Tamir Street; day-care centre).
  14. ↑ World WIZO, מעלה אדומים, נופי סלע–שחם wizo.org.il, viewed 20 October 2026 ("כתובת: האבן 2" – address: HaEven 2; day-care centre).
  15. ↑ World WIZO, גבעת זאב wizo.org.il, viewed 20 October 2026 ("כתובת: רח' המכבים 53" – address: 53 HaMaccabim Street; day-care centre).
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Peace Now, Israeli settlements at the West Bank – the list peacenow.org.il, viewed 20 October 2026.
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-2 charities found no matching Scottish registration of the same organisations (unrelated name collisions such as Open Door Edinburgh SC007315 were disregarded).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-2 charity name returned zero results).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'WIZO.uk' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1125012 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Screening of the current register trustees of the 25 batch-2 charities and the charity names, carried out 14 October 2026; no matches. Companies House officers and archived trustees were not included in this batch's screen. Viatcheslav Kantor (RUS1127) remains on the UK Sanctions List as previously noted.
  22. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 14 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.
  23. ↑ HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'WIZO.uk' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
  25. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for wizouk.org Wayback Machine, queried 14 October 2026.
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