Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust
Wohl family trust (1965–2008) with Israel as a register area, removed as having ceased to exist
| Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust | |
|---|---|
| Type | (removed) |
| Logo | |
| Founded | 1968-12-06 (registered) |
| Founder(s) | |
| Dissolved | 2008-05-03 (removed from the register: ceased to exist) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 244518 |
| Status | |
| Headquarters | |
| Location | |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
| Services | |
| Registration | |
| Key people | |
| Website | |
| Remarks | |
Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust (The Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust) was established by a settlement of 5 April 1965 and registered on 6 December 1968; register areas were England and Wales and Israel. It was removed from the register on 3 May 2008; an archived register page gives the reason as "ceased to exist".[1][2] Its last reported year, to 5 April 2006, shows income of £128,600 and spending of £45,203.[1] No accounts or trustee lists were found on the live register or in the web archive.
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR PURPOSES OR ANY CHARITABLE OBJECT OR PURPOSE."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.
Two charities with the Wohl name remain registered: The Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation (244519, registered 16 September 1965; latest income £1,117,099) and The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation (1177003, registered 5 February 2018; latest income £716,652). The link to this trust rests on the shared name.[1]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2004-04-05 | £96,550 | £92,651 |
| 2005-04-05 | £122,962 | £67,912 |
| 2006-04-05 | £128,600 | £45,203 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No accounts were found, so spending in Israel is not known; Israel was a register area of operation.[1]
Israeli partners
Not known.[1]
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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No accounts or partner information were found.[1] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is recorded; no accounts were found.[1]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[3][4][5][6][7] The live register shows it only as "Removed charity";[8] an archived register page gives the reason as "Ceased to exist".[2]
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).[9] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[10]
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.[11]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[12]
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.[13]
Land and property
The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[14]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[15]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[16]
See also
- Maurice Wohl
- Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation
- The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Charity Commission, Register entry 244518, overview UK Government Web Archive, capture of 07/01/2021. (registration history: "06 December 1968 : registered 03 May 2008 : removed (CEASED TO EXIST)").
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, overview pages for the removed charities 1184144 (organisation 5130289), 1001828, 326132 and 244518, retrieved 16 October 2026 (each marked "Removed charity"; no removal reason is shown).
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-15 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-15 charity names returned no matching charity; the only result, for "Donkey", was an unrelated Belfast organisation).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-244518 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-15 screening covered 227 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the three charitable companies and of J. E. Joseph Trustee Company Limited, directors of the dissolved Friends of Horim company (01966551), and trustees, executive-committee members, examiners and other people named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Hassan, Friedman, Cohen and Sabah) or the generic words "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
- ↑ Register entry 244518, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.