The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust

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Golders Green poverty-relief trust with the same managing trustees as the Lowy-Denes foundation, whose 2024/25 accounts carry no independent examiner's report

The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust

Type Other
Founded 2003-08-18 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1099049
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Israel
Key people Mark Sassoon (chair)


The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust is a charitable trust established by a declaration of trust of 13 March 2003, rectified on 27 May 2003, and registered on 18 August 2003; its register address is in London NW11 and its only recorded area of operation is Israel.[1][2] The accounts spell its name "THE MINNER-SCHEIDERMANN CHARITABLE TRUST" throughout.[3] The trustees are Mark Sassoon (chair) and Joseph Pearlman, who are also trustees of The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation; day-to-day management is delegated to Mark Sassoon.[2][3] In the year to 31 March 2025 donations were £39,800 (2024: £19,942) and spending £20,051: charitable payments £18,755, loan interest £36, bank charges £60 and accountancy £1,200; funds rose from £90,095 to £109,844.[3] The balance sheet shows investment property of £70,000 on a "valuation carried out at 31 March 2020 by the trustees", other debtors of £45,000 (2024: £25,000), cash of £104 and bank loans of £1,098.[3] The accounts carry an accountants' report by Pasha & Co, London NW11, dated 3 February 2026, and were signed by Mark Sassoon.[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "MAKING GRANTS OR GIVING INTEREST FREE LOANS TO JEWISH PEOPLE FOR THE PURPOSE OF THEIR EDUCATION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY"[2]

The register describes its activities as: "relief of poverty"[2]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[2]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[2]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[2]

Trustees of The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Joseph Pearlman not recorded Entindale Limited (277052); Rabbi Leib Lopian Memorial Fund (279480); Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust (1069225); Rowanville Limited (267278); Sylvella Charity Limited (279710); The Annie Schiff Charitable Trust (265401); The Dombey-Pulgram Charitable Legacy (1147068); The Judah and Pearl Jakosky Memorial Fund (1151521); The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation (1078746); The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust (1116746)
Mark Sassoon not recorded Yes Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust (1069225); The Dombey-Pulgram Charitable Legacy (1147068); The Judah and Pearl Jakosky Memorial Fund (1151521); The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation (1078746); The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust (1116746)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-07 Joseph Pearlman; Mark Sassoon [4]
2012-01-21 Joseph Pearlman; Mark Sassoon [5]
2014-05-06 Joseph Pearlman; Mark Sassoon [6]
2018-01-04 Joseph Pearlman; Mark Sassoon [7]
2021-01-14 Joseph Pearlman – also trustee of The Orthodox Jewish Aid Society, The Rabbi Solomon D Sassoon Memorial Fund, The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust, The Dombey-Pulgram Charitable Legacy, The Else Meindl Memorial Trust Fund, The Annie Schiff Charitable Trust, The Judah and Pearl Jakosky Memorial Fund, Torah & Chesed Limited, Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust, Rabbi Leib Lopian Memorial Fund, Centre for Advanced Rabbinics, Entindale Limited, Rowanville Limited, Sylvella Charity Limited, The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation; Mark Sassoon (chair) – also trustee of The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust, The Dombey-Pulgram Charitable Legacy, The Judah and Pearl Jakosky Memorial Fund, Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust, The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation [8]

For the other trusteeships of Mark Sassoon and Joseph Pearlman, see The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation.[2]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £8,319 £23,094
2022-03-31 £20,750 £20,540
2023-03-31 £21,850 £21,651
2024-03-31 £19,942 £19,205
2025-03-31 £39,800 £20,051

Source: register annual-return history.[2]

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[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2007[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2008[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2011[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2012[14]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to 31 March 2025: charitable payments of £18,755; no recipients or places are named.[3]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named. The register lists Israel as the only area of operation.[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
No place in Israel is named.[3] Not established

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;[15] 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.[16][17][18][19] 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.[20]
  • No independent examination. The accounts contain an accountants' report but no independent examiner's report, and say the trust "is not required to obtain an independent examiner's report".[3]
  • Inconsistent figures and wording. The report gives a "surplus of £20,251", while the statement of financial activities shows £19,749; the list of objectives begins at item 3; the report says trustees are "appointed at a Annual General Meeting"; and other debtors of £45,000 are not explained.[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).[21] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[22]

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.[23]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[24]

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.[25]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[2] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[26] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[27]

  • Investment property of £70,000 on a "valuation carried out at 31 March 2020 by the trustees"; address not stated – Accounts (source: [3])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust", "The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[28]

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".[8]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ Charity Commission, The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust (1099049): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 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.
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Charity Commission, The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust (1099049): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  4. ↑ Register entry 1099049, contact and trustees (capture of 20100707) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1099049, contact and trustees (capture of 20120121) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 1099049, contact and trustees (capture of 20140506) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Register entry 1099049, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Register entry 1099049, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
  9. ↑ The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2006-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110912).
  10. ↑ The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2007-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110912).
  11. ↑ The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2008-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110912).
  12. ↑ The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140506).
  13. ↑ The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2011-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140506).
  14. ↑ The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2012-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140506).
  15. ↑ 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-24 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; only Dalaid (1064655) showed one.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  19. ↑ 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).
  20. ↑ 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").
  21. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-24 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  22. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-24 charity names returned zero results).
  23. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Minner-Scheidemann' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  24. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1099049 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  25. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-24 screening covered 264 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Foundation", "Company Limited" in the names of corporate formation agents) and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  26. ↑ 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.
  27. ↑ 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 the company numbers of the charitable companies in this batch and searched for distinctive charity-name keywords; no title registers were purchased.
  28. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Minner-Scheidemann" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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