The Joshua Trust

From Powerbase
Revision as of 16:04, 15 October 2026 by Israel Charity Bot (talk | contribs) (Fix character encoding)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Grussgott-family property trust giving to about 100 Orthodox institutions, including several named in the cheque-cashing inquiry

The Joshua Trust

Type Other
Founded 1968-05-30 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 255922
Headquarters Flat 7, Craven Park Court, Craven Park Road, London, N15 6AA
Area served Throughout London, Israel
Key people Solomon Grusgott (chair)


The Joshua Trust was created by trust deed of 10 April 1968 and registered on 30 May 1968; its address is 7 Craven Park Court, Craven Park Road, London N15 6AA and register areas are London and Israel. Trustees include R, Mrs R, S and Mrs K Grussgott, C Landau and M Rubin.[1][2] It holds a commercial investment property portfolio through subsidiaries Addison Properties Limited and Pastbridge Limited. In the year ended 31 March 2025 investment income was £1,089,693, total income £1,165,166 and grants £896,300 (2024: £761,100) to 99 institutions; total funds were £12,225,919.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO PAY APPLY AND APPROPRIATE THE WHOLE OF THE TRUST FUND TO THOSE PURPOSES BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE BY ENGLISH LAW."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Support of religious organisations, institutions of higher and further education, and institutions caring for the poor and sick together with grants to individuals who qualify as Charitable beneficiaries in accordance with English Law."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Joshua Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Robert Grussgott not recorded —
Solomon Grusgott not recorded Yes —
Chaim Landau not recorded Ohel Torah Youth Organisation (1152134)
Moshe Rubin 2016-12-15 —
Kathrina Grussgott 2020-10-20 —
Rose Grussgott 2020-10-20 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-11 Moshe Rubin (from 15 December 2016); Chaim Landau – also trustee of Ohel Torah Youth Organisation; Robert Grussgott; Solomon Grusgott (chair) [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £1,155,997 £928,897
2022-03-31 £1,184,505 £1,067,062
2023-03-31 £1,066,827 £979,417
2024-03-31 £1,257,230 £979,417
2025-03-31 £1,165,166 £1,191,304

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

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[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[7]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 material grants: Kehal Yisroel D'Chasidei Gur £80,000; Yad Vochesed Association Ltd £60,000; One Heart £60,000; 84 other institutions £696,300. Programme-related investments (interest-free charitable loans) were £102,500.[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli recipient is named.[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
Not established – no Israeli recipient or place is named.[2] Low

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[8] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[9][10][11][12] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[13]
  • Grants to charities named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry. FY2025 material grants include £60,000 to One Heart and £60,000 to Yad Vochesed Association Ltd; FY2024 grants included Beis Aharon Trust Limited £75,000, Friends of Mercaz Hatorah Belz Macnivka £60,000 and Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh £65,000.[2] Charities named One Heart – Lev Echod (1167227), Yad Vochessed Association Limited (1112797), Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited (1010420), Friends of Mercaz Hatorah Belz Macnivka (1126075) and Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320) were placed under the Commission's class inquiry in May 2025.[9] The accounts give no charity numbers, so the matches are by name only; the release makes no finding about the Joshua Trust.
  • Shared address with auditor. The trust's address, 7 Craven Park Court, is also the address given for its auditor, Shears & Partners.[2]

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).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for "Joshua Trust" returned filing lists for The Bristol Joshua Trust (05614852), an unrelated company; no notice naming this charity was found.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[17]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers 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.[18]

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.[19] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[20]

  • Unit 1, The High Cross Centre, Fountayne Road, London N15 4QW (title AGL334382, freehold, 2015; also EGL167038, leasehold, 2008) – CCOD match on proprietor name 'ADDISON PROPERTIES LIMITED' (01153532) – the accounts name Addison Properties Limited as a subsidiary but give no company number (source: [20])
  • Waterloo Gardens, Milner Square, Islington, London N1 1TY (title NGL437752, freehold, 1989); parking spaces 4A and 4B, 44 Saffron Hill EC1N 8FH (NGL901436, NGL901437, leasehold, 2008) – CCOD match on proprietor name 'ADDISON PROPERTIES LIMITED' (01153532) (source: [20])
  • Land on the south side of Ashmount Road (title NGL348847, freehold, 2009) – CCOD match on proprietor name 'PASTBRIDGE LIMITED' (06834596) – named in the accounts as a subsidiary; company number not given there (source: [20])
  • Register records land ownership; investment income £1,089,693 from the commercial investment property portfolio held via the subsidiaries – Register + accounts (source: register + accounts)

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Joshua Trust' returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 4 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

See also

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, The Joshua Trust (255922): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 255922, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ The Joshua Trust accounts, year ended 2014-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  5. ↑ The Joshua Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  6. ↑ The Joshua Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ The Joshua Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for every charity in batches 1–7 (175 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  14. ↑ 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-4 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-4 charity name returned zero results).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Joshua Trust' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-255922 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-4 screening covered 354 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive) and Companies House officers of the 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 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.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Joshua Trust' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
Retrieved from "https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=The_Joshua_Trust&oldid=275525"