The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation
Golders Green trust, run day to day by Mark Sassoon, that made £540,445 of grants to individuals in 2023/24 without detail and holds property and investments financed partly by secured bank loans
| The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Other |
| Founded | 1999-12-24 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1078746 |
| Headquarters | London NW11 |
| Area served | Throughout London, Israel |
The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation is a charitable trust established by a declaration of trust of 23 April 1999 and registered on 24 December 1999; its register address is in London NW11.[1][2] The register lists four trustees – Mark Sassoon and Joseph Pearlman (from 13 September 2011), Stephen Goldberg and Benjamin Sassoon (from 1 April 2015) – and the accounts add Ezra Sassoon; "The days to days activities are delegated to Mr. Mark Sassoon".[2][3] In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £41,009 (2024: £106,892): donations £31,371 and investment income £9,638 (rent £8,404 and other £1,234). Spending was £13,598 (2024: £548,472): grants to individuals £3,715 (2024: £540,445) and investment costs £9,883, including loan interest of £6,794; funds rose from £562,645 to £590,056, after falling from £1,004,225 in 2023.[3] The balance sheet carries land and buildings of £300,050 at cost, investments of £504,711, bank loans of £86,509 "secured by fixed charges over the Charitys' assets" and other creditors due after more than a year of £153,950.[3] The accounts were examined by Syed Taufiq Pasha FCCA of Pasha & Co, London NW11, and signed by Mark Sassoon; neither the examiner's report nor the trustees' approval is dated.[3]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES"[2]
The register describes its activities as: "The advancement of education according to the tenets of the orthodos Jewish fathThe Alleviation of provertyThe relief and care of orphans, the elderly and infirmThe preservation and protection of mental and physical health"[2]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[2]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel.[2]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[2]
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
Mark Sassoon and Joseph Pearlman are also register trustees of the Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust (1069225), the Dombey-Pulgram Charitable Legacy (1147068), the Judah and Pearl Jakosky Memorial Fund (1151521), The Minner-Scheidemann Charitable Trust (1099049) and the Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust (1116746); Joseph Pearlman is also a trustee of Entindale (277052), the Rabbi Leib Lopian Memorial Fund (279480), Rowanville (267278), the Sylvella Charity (279710) and the Annie Schiff Charitable Trust (265401).[2]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £168,747 | £221,791 |
| 2022-03-31 | £240,793 | £492,606 |
| 2023-03-31 | £96,123 | £11,240 |
| 2024-03-31 | £106,892 | £546,168 |
| 2025-03-31 | £41,009 | £9,638 |
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 31/03/2012[11]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[12]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[13]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[14]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[15]
Funding in Israel
- Year to 31 March 2025: grants to individuals £3,715 (2024: £540,445); the accounts do not say where the recipients live.[3]
Israeli partners
No Israeli partner is named. The register lists Throughout London and Israel as the areas 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.
| 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;[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]
- Large undescribed grants to individuals. In 2023/24 the charity recorded grants to individuals of £540,445, with no detail of recipients or purpose.[3]
- Inconsistent figures. The report gives the 2023/24 deficit as £439,276 against £441,580 in the statement of financial activities; investments are £504,711 on the balance sheet and £503,477 in note 10; and the register records 2024/25 spending of £9,638 (accounts £13,598) and 2023/24 spending of £546,168 (accounts £548,472).[3][2]
- Company wording in a trust. The report says "All of the trustees are members of the company and guarantee to contribute £1", although the charity is a trust; note 5 carries the heading "#ac982", and the approvals are undated.[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).[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.[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, 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.[26]
Land and property
The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[2] No title registers were purchased.[27] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[28]
- Land and buildings of £300,050 at cost, unchanged, producing rent of £8,404; bank loans of £86,509 are "secured by fixed charges over the Charitys' assets"; address not stated – Accounts (source: [3])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation", "The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation", "Lowy Denes" returned 0 contributions in total.[29]
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
- ↑ Charity Commission, The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation (1078746): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 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.
- ↑ 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 Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation (1078746): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Register entry 1078746, contact and trustees (capture of 20120112) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 1078746, contact and trustees (capture of 20120114) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 1078746, contact and trustees (capture of 20130905) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 1078746, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Register entry 1078746, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2006-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120115).
- ↑ The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2007-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120112).
- ↑ The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2012-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130905).
- ↑ The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ The Lowy-Denes Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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-24 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-24 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Lowy-Denes' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1078746 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-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.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Lowy-Denes" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).