Emmanuel and Edwina Grodzinski Charitable Trust
Grodzinski family trust that received £125,000 in 2026 and gave £27,163 to unnamed charities
| Emmanuel and Edwina Grodzinski Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 1995-05-02 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1046169 |
| Headquarters | London NW3 |
| Area served | Throughout London, Israel |
| Key people | Emmanuel Grodzinski (chair) |
Emmanuel and Edwina Grodzinski Charitable Trust (also Emmanuel Grodzinski Charitable Trust) was established by a trust deed of 1 March 1995, amended on 7 March 2007, and registered on 2 May 1995; register areas are London and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Emmanuel Grodzinski (chair), Edwina Grodzinski and Sam Grodzinski KC ("QC" on the register), with a principal office in London NW3; the independent examiner is Dr P P Smulovitch of Hallswelle House, London NW11 (PDF p.3).[1][2] Its objects are the Jewish faith, Jewish education and the relief of poverty and sickness among people of the Jewish faith, carried out entirely through donations to charities (PDF p.3). In the year to 31 March 2026 donations received were £125,000 (2025: £62,500), total income £126,489, spending £28,363 and donations paid £27,163 (2025: £8,100); funds rose to £263,435 (2025: £165,309), most of it cash (PDF p.7–8, 12).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE FURTHERANCE AND PURSUANCE OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER AND SUBJECT TO SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "General Charitable Donations"[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[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]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwina Grodzinski | not recorded | — | |
| Sam Grodzinski QC | not recorded | — | |
| Emmanuel Grodzinski | 2011-02-12 | Yes | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-04 | Emmanuel Grodzinski; Edwina Grodzinski; Sam Grodzinski | [3] |
| 2021-01-11 | Emmanuel Grodzinski (chair); Edwina Grodzinski; Sam Grodzinski QC – also trustee of University College School | [4] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £33,000 | £13,835 |
| 2023-03-31 | £22,000 | £2,150 |
| 2024-03-31 | £86,000 | £22,746 |
| 2025-03-31 | £63,564 | £9,300 |
| 2026-03-31 | £126,489 | £28,363 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- FY2026 donations paid £27,163 (2025: £8,100); the accounts name no recipients and do not mention Israel, although Israel is a register area (PDF p.12).[2][1]
Israeli partners
No partner 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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named.[2] | Not established |
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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
- Recipients not named; income accumulating. The donations paid are not broken down, and the trust spent less than a quarter of the year's income, adding about £98,000 to its funds (PDF p.7, 12).[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).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned Companies House filing lists and notices about unrelated companies and people named Grodzinski (including Grodzinski Investments Limited in the 1960s and M & D Grodzinski Limited in 2020), none of which was established to concern this charity; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[13]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[14]
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.[15]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[16]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Grodzinski Charitable Trust", "Grodzinski" returned 1 contribution in total; those not listed above were not established to concern this charity.[17]
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" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, Emmanuel and Edwina Grodzinski Charitable Trust (1046169): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Register entry 1046169, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1046169, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 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-16 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 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-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Grodzinski Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1046169 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-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, 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 Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "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 "Grodzinski Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).