The Gertner Charitable Trust

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Gertner-family trust funded by connected companies and an interest-free loan from a Gibraltar company

The Gertner Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1987-03-12 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 327380
Headquarters Fordgate House, 1 Allsop Place, London, NW1 5LF
Area served Barnet, Hackney, Hammersmith And Fulham, Bury, Salford City, Israel


The Gertner Charitable Trust is a trust registered on 12 March 1987, with its address in London NW1. Register areas include Barnet, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Bury, Salford and Israel.[1] In the year ended 31 March 2025 it received £1,237,525 from Globaltime Ltd and £138,000 from Fordgate Romford Ltd, "of which the directors are close family members of some of the trustees". It made grants of £611,948, recorded a surplus of £929,527 and reduced its creditors by £932,391.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND THE INCOME THEREOF UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE WHOLE THEREOF TO OR TOWARDS FOR THE BENEFIT OR IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH JEWISH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "for the benefit or in furtherance of such Jewish charitable purposes charitable institutions or charitable foundations or individuals in the United Kingdom or elsewhere and for other general charitable purposes."[1]

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

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Hammersmith And Fulham, Bury, Salford City, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Gertner Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Mendi Gertner not recorded —
Simon Jacobs not recorded Kingsley Way Charitable Trust (1026916)
Moises Gertner 2022-04-01 Taharos Beiyun (1151822)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-21 Michael Wechsler; Michelle Gertner; Moises Gertner; Simon Jacobs; Mendi Gertner [3]
2011-09-20 Michael Wechsler; Michelle Gertner; Moises Gertner; Simon Jacobs; Mendi Gertner [4]
2021-01-14 Michael Wechsler – also trustee of Songbrook Limited, Friends of the Sick (Chevrat Bikkur Cholim), Menorah Foundation; Michelle Gertner; Simon Jacobs – also trustee of Songbrook Limited; Mendi Gertner [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £1,282,407 £283,307
2022-03-31 £790,060 £317,881
2023-03-31 £621,749 £421,635
2024-03-31 £493,345 £352,196
2025-03-31 £1,557,700 £628,173

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Mar 2005 4,140,504 5,620,612 [6]
31 Mar 2006 7,778,412 8,154,415 [6]
31 Mar 2009 5,040,433 4,127,535 [6]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2006[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[15]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 named grants: Chevras Mo'oz Ladol £106,900; Keren Habinyan Ltd £50,000; Kollel Beis Yechiel £50,000; Instituto Nacional £41,663; Achisomoch Aid Co £39,335; Mosdos Torat Emet £35,000; Beis Yaakov Primary School Foundation £32,320; Jewish Student Information Centers £28,000; Dover Sholem £25,000; Mercaz Chasidei Wiznitz £25,000; Keren Shabbos £20,000; other £88,428. Israel-based recipients are not identified as such.[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli organisation is identified as such in the accounts.[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.[2] Low

Support for the IDF: No IDF 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;[16] 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.[17][18][19][20] 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.[21]
  • Grant to a name in the cheque-cashing class inquiry. FY2025 grants include £25,000 to "Dover Sholem" (PDF p.17).[2] This resembles Dover Sholem Community Trust (1138710), which entered the class inquiry in September 2025;[18] no charity number is given, so the match is by name only.
  • Gibraltar loan and funds deficiency. At 31 March 2025 the trust owed £2,876,965 (2024: £3,794,106) to "Rackley Limited a company registered in Gibraltar and controlled by The Gertner No. 1 Settlement, connected with Michelle Gertner". This is a long-term, interest-free loan "received in 2010 in order to meet commitments for grants made in that year". The accounts show a deficiency of £3,012,766 on unrestricted funds; Rackley Limited and J & M Baumgarten "have confirmed that it will continue to provide support".[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).[22] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[23]

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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[24]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[25]

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.[26]

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.[27]

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'Gertner Charitable Trust' returned 0 contributions in total.[28]

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".[5]

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 Charity Commission, The Gertner Charitable Trust (327380): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 327380, contact and trustees (capture of 20100721) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 327380, contact and trustees (capture of 20110920) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 327380, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Register entry 327380, financial history (capture of 20100721) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ The Gertner Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2006-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110920).
  8. ↑ The Gertner Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110920).
  9. ↑ The Gertner Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110920).
  10. ↑ The Gertner Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  11. ↑ The Gertner Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  12. ↑ The Gertner Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  13. ↑ The Gertner Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  14. ↑ The Gertner Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  15. ↑ The Gertner Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  16. ↑ 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).
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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").
  22. ↑ 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-3 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  23. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-3 charity name returned zero results).
  24. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Gertner Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  25. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-327380 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  26. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-3 screening covered 409 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 12 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually; lists downloaded October 2026. (Corrected 14 October 2026: the first run omitted the 21 names found only on archived full-print pages; the re-screen found no match.)
  27. ↑ 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.
  28. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Gertner Charitable Trust' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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