The Mutley Foundation

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Marks family foundation funding UK Jewish causes and Israeli projects through UK charities

The Mutley Foundation

Type Trust
Founded 1983-02-16 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 326303
Headquarters Mutley Properties- Churchill House, Churchill House, 137-139 Brent St, London, NW4 4DJ
Area served Israel, Throughout England


The Mutley Foundation (also The Ann and David Marks Foundation) is a trust (deed of 25 January 1983, amended 31 January 2018) registered on 16 February 1983; register areas are Israel and England.[1] Its trustees are David Leonard Marks, Ann Marilyn Marks, Dr Gillian Elaine Marks, Ashley Hardy Marks and Marcelle Palmer, with a principal office at Churchill House, 137–139 Brent Street, London NW4 ("Mutley Properties").[1][2] It gives mainly to UK charities and funds overseas projects through UK charities: "The majority of such projects are based in Israel where the trustees have regularly visied over many years" (PDF p.4). In 2024 income was £243,993 (donations £156,250), charitable spending £69,122 and funds £2,556,842, of which restricted £2,391,685 (PDF p.9).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IN SUCH PROPORTION AND IN SUCH MANNER AND SUBJECT TO SUCH TERMS AS THE SETTLOR MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity's activities are to promote and support health, education and welfare of communities. It also supports humanitarian aid when required. The trustees of the Foundation envisage continuing to support Charities known to them, and as this will absorb its available funds for the forseeable future, the Trustees do not welcome unsolicited applications."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Mutley Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
David Leonard Marks not recorded —
Ashley Hardy MARKS not recorded —
Ann Marilyn MARKS not recorded —
Marcelle Palmer not recorded —
Dr GILLIAN ELAINE MARKS not recorded Finchley Jewish Primary School Trust (1121959)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-02 Ashley Hardy MARKS; David Leonard Marks; Marcelle Palmer; G E Marks; Ann Marilyn MARKS [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £96,386 £118,358
2021-12-31 £133,621 £114,020
2022-12-31 £108,536 £102,640
2023-12-31 £114,699 £158,319
2024-12-31 £243,993 £81,124

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 31/12/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • 2024 grants £64,455 (2023: £115,079): British Friends of Midreshet Harova £9,000, the CST £5,400, Hasmonean High School £5,400 and Chai Cancer Care £5,400; 2023 grants included Finchley Jewish Primary School Trust £32,000, JFS Charitable Trust £10,080, Shaare Zedek £9,990, University Jewish Chaplaincy £8,550, Laniado UK £6,804 and Bar Ilan University £6,500 (PDF p.14).[2] Shaare Zedek UK, Laniado Hospital UK and The British Friends of the Bar-Ilan University have Powerbase profiles (batches 3, 5 and 7); their identity with the recipients rests on the names.

Israeli partners

Midreshet Harova, a women's seminary whose offices are at 50 Chabad Street in the Old City of Jerusalem, funded through its British friends' charity.[2][9]

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
British Friends of Midreshet Harova (£9,000) supports a seminary located in the Old City of Jerusalem,[9] which UNESCO's World Heritage Committee treats as occupied territory.[10] Partner finding; use of the funds was not traced.[2] High – Old City of Jerusalem

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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
  • Settlors' discretion and connected grant. The report states that "grants may be made by the Settlors without reference to the other trustees"; donations came from the trustees and "a company controlled by them" (PDF p.5–6).[2] In 2023 the foundation gave £32,000 to the Finchley Jewish Primary School Trust (PDF p.14),[2] of which trustee Dr Gillian Marks is a register trustee (1121959).[1]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 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.[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, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile 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.[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]

  • Investment property £131,847 at 31 December 2024, at historical cost (rent £10,196); address not stated – Accounts (PDF p.9–10, 16); the trust is unincorporated, so no CCOD company match is possible (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Mutley Foundation", "Ann and David Marks Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 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 (on time)" 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 1.8 1.9 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 2.8 Charity Commission, The Mutley Foundation (326303): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 326303, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ The Mutley Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  5. ↑ The Mutley Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  6. ↑ The Mutley Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ The Mutley Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ The Mutley Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Midreshet Harova, Contact Us en.harova.org, viewed 14 October 2026 ("The Midrasha administrative offices and primary learning spaces are located at 50 Chabad Street"; postal address "Old City, Jerusalem").
  10. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Committee, Decision 48 COM 7A.4: Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls UNESCO World Heritage Centre, 2026, viewed 14 October 2026 (refers to "Israel, the occupying Power" and to works "in East Jerusalem, particularly in and around the Old City of Jerusalem").
  11. ↑ 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 each of the 25 batch-11 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status (for example "Charity reporting is up to date (39 days late)" for British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre, "(4 days late)" for British Friends of Aleh and "(11 days late)" for Urgent Projects).
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-11 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names such as J R Gibb Charitable Trust and Boleskine Community Care).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-11 charity names returned zero results).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Mutley Foundation' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-326303 360Giving, queried 15 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). Batch-11 screening covered 386 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (GS Property Management Services, Igerville, Housefresh, Vitalina, Rochester Developments and Delapage), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Fund", "Israel", "Republic") and surname-only coincidences (Cohen, Levy, Friedman, Green, Said); lists downloaded October 2026.
  22. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in 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) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Mutley Foundation" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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