Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust

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The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust (Reg no 1125035) was founded in 2008, and is controlled by the hugely wealthy Lewis family, best known as the owners of the River Island clothing stores. The family’s assets are held by the Lewis Trust Group, which is controlled by an offshore company registered in the Cayman Islands.

The Group also owns the investment company Cavendish Asset Management and has property holdings worth over £1 billion[1] including 13 hotels in Israel and three in the United States.[2]

Donations

Conservative Party

Recorded by the Electoral Commission:

Date Name of donor Amount Donated to Subsidiary (parties only)
11/03/2008 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd £2,000.00 Conservative Party Hove
31/03/2008 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House £5,500.00 Conservative Party Central Party
30/03/2008 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House £2,000.00 Conservative Party Burton
27/03/2008 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd £2,000.00 Conservative Party Stroud
27/03/2008 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House £2,000.00 Conservative Party Cheltenham
06/03/2008 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House £2,000.00 Conservative Party Brighton Kemptown
03/03/2008 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd £3,500.00 Conservative Party South Basildon and East Thurrock
20/04/2008 Lewis trust Group Ltd, Chelsea Houser £2,000.00 Conservative Party Stourbridge
05/04/2008 Lewis trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd £2,000.00 Conservative Party West Worcestershire
10/04/2008 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House £2,000.00 Conservative Party Burton
09/04/2008 Lewis trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd £2,000.00 Conservative Party Staffordshire Moorlands
23/09/2008 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House £2,000.00 Conservative Party Northampton North
19/01/2010 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd £2,000.00 Conservative Party Watford
31/03/2010 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House £19,000.00 Conservative Party Central Party
26/01/2010 Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd £2,000.00 Conservative Party Northampton North

[3]

Bernard Lewis has personally donated £40,000, Lewis chairs the Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, which according to its latest accounts controls funds just short of £5 million.

Think tanks

The Trust donated £25,000 to the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2009 as well as donating £15,000 to Policy Exchange.[4]

Other

An affiliated family trust, the Catherine Lewis Foundation, which has funded Civitas, also donated £25,000 to the Traditional Alternatives Foundation in 2008/9.[5]

Grants paid

Grant recipients of the Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust in £ sterling
Organisation 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
2Simple Trust 1,000
Accord 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 35,000 20,000 20,000 20,000
Anxiety UK 1,300
Archer School for Girls 13,032
Art Room 100,000
Auditory Verbal UK 2,000
BAC-IN 30,000
Barbadian Synagogue 20,407
Bath Institute of Medical Engineering 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000
Bowel & Cancer Research 3,000
Brain & Spine Foundation 5,000 5,000
Brain Circle 700
Brain Research 5,000
Brainwave 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000
Bristol Sarcoma Ball 1,500
British Red Cross 100,000 100,000 50,000 150,000
Buckingham Trust 1,000
Camp Simcha
Care 4 Calais 16,000 3,002 2,514
Centre for Social Cohesion 25,000 25,000
Centre for Social Justice 50,000 50,000 50,000
Cerebra 5,000 5,000
Chickenshed Theatre Trust 50,000
Children Heard & Seen 5,856 90,000 6,075
Children's Hospice UK 5,000
Chris Toon 5,000
Clarence Adoo Trust 15,000 1,000
Coexistence Trust 10,000 10,000 10,000
Community Security Trust (CST) 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 25,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000
Compassion in Dying 55,000 100,000 115,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 250,000
Counselling & Psychotherapy Training Academy 2,300
Demand 5,000 5,000
Demos 23,500 56,656 3,700
Designability 5,000 25,000
Dignity in Dying 25,000
Disability Centre 5,000
Disability Foundation 5,000 5,000 5,000 5,000
Dog Trust 2,000
Donate4Refugees 15,000
Drugfam 3,000
E Labaan 1,027 1,062 2,881 853
Epilepsy Enterprises
Epilepsy Society 1,500 1,800 22,500
European Lawyers 15,000
Fight for Life 10,377
Foundation for Change 9,168
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity 1,000,000 500,000 52,000 205,408 30,000 10,000
Greenaway Foundation 25,000
Harrington Scheme 55,000
Headway 25,000 100,000 50,000 50,000
Healing Justice London 20,000
Help Refugees 45,000
Henry Jackson Society 35,000 25,000 25,000 25,000 85,789 65,455
ICAAD 2,400
Impact Foundation (India) 55,045
Imperial Health Charity 3,000
J.W. Philanthropy - Mission Motorsport 46,784 2,880
James Lewis Foundation 100,000
Jewish Blind & Disabled 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000
Jewish Care 53,000 53,000 33,000 33,000 53,900 53,120 50,000 50,000 50,000
Jewish Deaf Association 10,000
Jewish Heritage 2,500
Jewish Leadership Council 25,000 27,500 30,000 30,000 30,000 75,000 25,000
Just for Kids Law 30,000
JustDifferent 3,000 10,000
Kidstime Foundation 60,000
Kings College
Loldia School Fund 5,000
London Jewish Forum 5,000
London Prisons Mission 28,800
Magen David Adom UK 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000
Magic Bus 5,500 64,849 20,500 307,500 11,500 6,150 350,000 18,000
Maidenhead Synagogue Building Project 16,888
Maidenhead Synagogue Homeless Appeal 2,000
May Edwards 1,500
Meath Epilepsy 110,000
Medecins sans Frontieres UK 20,000
Miles Frost Fund - British Heart Foundation 6,000
MIND 10,000 10,000 10,000
More Smiles Appeal 25,000
Movement for Non-Mobile Children 150,000 24,600
MQ Mental Health 694,100
Multiple Sclerosis Society 2,000
Myasthenia Gravis Association / Myaware (MGA) 1,000 1,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 10,000 5,000
NAPICU 200,000 35,024
Narok University College 707
Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children 100,050 101,468 250,000 250,000 300,000 300,000 406,995
Nicholas Mills Foundation 5,000 10,000 10,000 10,500 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000
Norwood 28,500 25,000 25,000 25,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000
Off Ploy 30,000
One North East London 10,000 10,000
Open Charity t/a Foodshare Maidenhead 20,000
Our Children Foundation UK 25,000
Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies 5,000 10,000 25,000 5,000 5,000 5,000
PACE Centre 25,000 25,000 25,000 20,000
Pain Relief Foundation 105,000 20,000
Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-Semitism 20,000 20,000
Phyllis Akuru 1,486 3,109
Pimlico Opera 5,000
Place2Be 677,500 900,000
Policy Exchange 15,000
Pratham UK 33,500
Professional Teaching Institute 30,000
Project 57 103,732
Rainbow Trust 10,000 1,500
Ramadhan Kara Makarasa 1,138 538
Rehab UK 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000
Resolution Property 1,000
Shalom Foundation of the Zionist Federation 10,000 10,000
Shelter 5,000 15,000 5,000
Sightsavers 220,000 205,833 50,283 40,000 50,000
Smart Works 15,000
Social Investment Consultancy 19,600
Soham for Kids 10,000
South Bucks Hospice 5,000 5,000 10,000
Spark Inside 71,348 98,375
Speakability 5,000 10,000
St Pancras Amateur Boxing Club 1,500
Step2Recovery 20,009 1,400
Sudbury Neighbourhood Centre 1,000
Sue Ryder 10,000
Switch Back 105,000 5,000
UKCP 3,000
United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) 50,000 50,000 25,000
University of Bedfordshire 100,000
Vallabhadas Dagra Indian Society for Mentally Retarded 25,000
Variety Club 5,000
Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust 50,000
We Belong 10,000
Well Child Trust 10,000
Westminster Synagogue 2,500 11,000 18,000 5,000 6,000 3,000 3,300
Wilderness Foundation UK 50,000 30,000
Will Houghton Foundation 5,000 5,250
William Wates Memorial Trust 5,000
Working Chance 15,000
Young Epilepsy 1,500 225,000
Zionist Federation 10,000

Trustees

See also

Contact

Clive Lewis
River island Clothing Co
Chelsea House
West Gate
London
W5 1DR
Tel: 020 8991 4500

Notes

  1. ↑ Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Annual Report and Financial Statements made up to 31 December 2009, p.27.
  2. ↑ Lewis Trust Group Ltd... up to 31 December 2009, pp.3-4.
  3. ↑ Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 2 March 2015
  4. ↑ Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Financial Statements 31 December 2009, p.9.
  5. ↑ Catherine Lewis Foundation Company Limited by Guarantee, Financial Statements 31 March 2009.
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