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UK fundraising CIO for Keren Malki, the Jerusalem charity founded by Arnold Roth in memory of his daughter Malki, killed in the 2001 Sbarro bombing; it sent £10,000 to Israel in 2024/25 and spent £21,876 on fundraising

Malki Foundation UK

Type CIO
Founded 2015-12-10 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1164793
Headquarters London N20 (office of Green & Peter)
Area served Israel
Key people Geoffrey Dennis Hartnell (chair)
Website www.malkifoundation.org.uk


Malki Foundation UK is a charitable incorporated organisation (foundation model) registered on 10 December 2015; its register contact address is c/o Green & Peter, London N20.[1][2] Its objects are to support families of children with special needs in Israel to care for them at home, through specialist equipment and paramedical therapeutic care, "in particular ... by providing support and assistance to the Malki Foundation" (PDF p.4).[3] The trustees named in the accounts for the year to 28 February 2025 include G D Hartnell (who signed the report), A Roth, D Toft, R Eisner, J Kalms and G Lipman, with L Kay, J Burchell and R Green having resigned; the register also lists Gabrielle Lazarus and Edwin Kalish (PDF p.3).[3][1] The UK foundation's website says it supports Keren Malki, "an Israeli charity focused since 2001 on the needs of Israeli families", established in Jerusalem in 2001 by Arnold Roth with his wife and a small circle of friends after their daughter Malki was killed in the Sbarro restaurant bombing on 9 August 2001.[4] In 2024/25 income was £67,139 and spending £64,958; "£10000 of Grants and Donations" were "sent to Israel for Home Therapies" (PDF p.5, 7).[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1) TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO THE FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN ISRAEL TO ENABLE THEM TO CARE FOR THEIR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN AT HOME THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST EQUIPMENT AND PARAMEDICAL THERAPEUTIC CARE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE TO THE MALKI FOUNDATION.2) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity is established to provide support to the families of children with special needs in Israel, to enable them to care for their special needs children at home, through the provision of specialist equipment and paramedical therapeutic care."[1]

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Overseas Aid/famine Relief.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Malki Foundation UK (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Geoffrey Dennis Hartnell 2015-10-21 Yes The Alan Mattey Charitable Trust (1118132)
Arnold Roth 2015-10-21 —
Deborah Toft 2015-10-21 —
Robert Eisner 2019-06-05 —
Gary Lipman 2021-08-01 Friends of Leo Baeck Haifa (1141971); North Western Reform Synagogue (1186738)
Jonathan Paul Kalms 2023-10-16 —
Gabrielle Lazarus 2026-04-27 —
Edwin Kalish 2026-05-13 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2016-01-05 Geoffrey Dennis Hartnell; Arnold Roth; Deborah Toft; Jonathan Cohen; Robert Green [5]
2018-01-03 Joseph Burchell; Geoffrey Dennis Hartnell; Arnold Roth; Deborah Toft; Jonathan Cohen; Robert Green; Ben Lewis [6]
2021-01-16 Deborah Toft (from 21 October 2015); Robert Eisner (from 05 June 2019); Joseph Burchell (from 15 February 2017) – also trustee of Catford & Bromley Synagogue Trust; Phillip Masters (from 20 May 2019); Robert Green (from 21 October 2015); Laurie Kay (from 09 July 2019); Geoffrey Dennis Hartnell (chair) (from 21 October 2015) – also trustee of The Alan Mattey Charitable Trust; Arnold Roth (from 21 October 2015) [7]

Geoffrey Dennis Hartnell is also a register trustee of The Alan Mattey Charitable Trust (1118132), and Gary Lipman of Friends of Leo Baeck Haifa (1141971) and North Western Reform Synagogue (1186738).[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-02-28 £75,457 £61,581
2022-02-28 £70,135 £60,461
2023-02-28 £47,791 £48,485
2024-02-29 £70,462 £62,138
2025-02-28 £67,139 £64,958

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 28/02/2018[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2019[9]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to 28 February 2025: "£10000 of Grants and Donations sent to Israel for Home Therapies" (2024: £15,000) (PDF p.5, 11).[3]

Israeli partners

Memorial plaque to the victims of the 2001 Sbarro restaurant bombing in Jerusalem (2019); Keren Malki, which the charity supports, was founded in memory of Malki Roth, killed in the attack

Keren Malki ("Malki Foundation in Israel"), whose UK website describes an equipment-lending unit run "in partnership with one of Israel's major rehabilitation hospitals", Therapists at Home, and Therapists On Wheels for "Israel's peripheral communities".[4][3]

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
The UK website says Keren Malki was established in Jerusalem; it does not give the locations of the families it serves.[4] Medium (partner)

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]

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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
  • Related-party contradiction. The trustees' report says "In the current year no such related party transactions were reported", while note 18 says "£10,000 was donated to Malki Foundation in Israel, a charity with common Trustees" (PDF p.4, 14).[3]
  • Costs and errors. Grants of £10,000 compare with support costs of £33,083 and fundraising costs of £21,876 (2024: £3,462); staff costs (£25,563) and pension costs (£563) are identical to 2024; the balance sheet is headed "as at 29 February 2025", a date that did not exist, and was approved on 24 November 2025, before the trustees' report of 4 December 2025; 2024 charitable spending is £58,676 on the face of the accounts and £58,696 in the notes; note 1 calls the CIO "unincorporated" (PDF p.4, 7–13).[3]

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).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

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.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]

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.[20]

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.[21]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Malki Foundation UK", "Malki Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

Web archive

  • malkifoundation.org.uk: 4 yearly captures, first 2015-02-19, last 2025-02-03.[23]

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".[7]

External links

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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ Charity Commission, Malki Foundation UK (1164793): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Charity Commission, Malki Foundation UK (1164793): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Malki Foundation UK, Who we are malkifoundation.org.uk, viewed 16 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1164793, contact and trustees (capture of 20160105) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 1164793, contact and trustees (capture of 20180103) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Register entry 1164793, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ Malki Foundation UK accounts, year ended 2018-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  9. ↑ Malki Foundation UK accounts, year ended 2019-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  10. ↑ 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-20 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the other eight (Friends of Milbat, British Friends of Atid, River Progress Foundation, Morris Family Israel Trust, Afikim, the Cohen Charitable Trust, the Adrienne and Leslie Sussman Charitable Trust and Encompass) showed "Removed charity".
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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).
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-20 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (a name-only hit for "Sheila & Denis Cohen Charitable Trust" was not established to be connected with the Cohen Charitable Trust and is disregarded).
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-20 charity names returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Malki Foundation' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1164793 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-20 screening covered 272 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 and bodies 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 Weiss, Sara, Masri, Cohen) or generic words in organisation names (Limited, Company, Trust).
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Malki Foundation" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  23. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for malkifoundation.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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