The Lewis Family Charitable Trust

Lewis family grant-making trust founded in 1971, giving small grants to arts, medical, Jewish and Israeli causes

The Lewis Family Charitable Trust
Type	Charitable trust
Founded	29 July 1971 (trust deed); registered 2 September 1971
Registration ID	Registered charity 262872
Headquarters	11 Hawtrey Road, London NW3 3SS

Not to be confused with the Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, the David and Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust or the Stanley and Zea Lewis Family Foundation

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Lewis Family Charitable Trust (Charity number: 262872, created 02 September 1971) is a foundation based in the UK that gives to Zionist causes amongst others.

Trustees

• Deborah Henny Ann Sobel | Vivien Ruth Elizabeth Lucienne Lewis

Former Trustees

• Roger Kingston Lewis, Circa 2014.

Donations

• New Israel Fund (2020)

Grant Recipients

Grant recipients of the Lewis Family Charitable Trust in £ sterling
Organisation	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	Total (£)
Akiva School							1,600	1,650	3,250
Anthony Nolan							100		100
Balliol College							5,000		5,000
Bath Mozart Festival							200		200
Belsize Square Synagogues							2,463	3,387	5,850
BLESMA								100	100
Brain Tumour Research							100		100
Brent Centre for Young People							5,000		5,000
Cancer Research							100		100
Cardiac Risk in the Young							100		100
Chai Cancer Care							150	500	650
Corinne Burton Memorial Trust								100	100
Demand							250		250
Donmar Warehouse Project Liniited	100	110							210
English National Opera	100	180							280
Garsington Opera	955	435						195	1,585
GDST							600		600
GIFT							150		150
Hampstead Arts Festival	50								50
Hampstead Theatre							325	825	1,150
Jewish Blind & Disabled							500	250	750
Jewish Care							350	200	550
Jewish Cultural Centre		100							100
Jonathan Levene Music School								75	75
Kenwood Diary Restoration	50								50
Langdon Foundation							1,750	2,200	3,950
London Cello Society		100							100
Maggies							1,070	1,000	2,070
Marie Curie							250	100	350
New Israel Fund								500	500
Noah's Ark Children's Hospice							100		100
Norwood								100	100
Opera Holland Park Fnends		190							190
Orchestra of Agc of Enlightenment	100	50							150
Printline							120		120
Prism - Alexanderhaus							1,000	2,000	3,000
Royal Institution		30					75		105
Royal Marsden							100		100
Royal National Theatre	500	1,500							2,000
Royal Opera House Foundation	147	150							297
Royal Philharmontc Orchestra	60								60
Sarcoma UK								100	100
Teddy's Wish								1,000	1,000
Tncycle Theatre Company	850								850
Trust Children								100	100
UK Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro								500	500
Wiener Library		500							500
Wellbeing of Women							250		250
World Jewish Relief								1,000	1,000
Youth Aliyah - Child Rescue							5,000	5,500	10,500
Other							500		500
Total:	2,912	3,345	0	0	0	0	27,203	21,382

Data sources: 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023

Finances

Income and expenditure (register)

Year ending	Income	Expenditure
2021-04-05	£13,554	£12,357
2022-04-05	£13,346	£16,264
2023-04-05	£14,022	£9,748
2024-04-05	£14,717	£15,245
2025-04-05	£14,325	£13,404

Source: register annual-return history.

With income below £25,000 a year, the trust is not required to file accounts, and no accounts for 2021 to 2025 are on the register; the grants table above therefore ends in 2020. The register describes its activities as: "The Charity is a grant-making trust applying funds to charitable causes at the Trustees' discretion. The Trustees do not accept unsolicited applications."

Support for the Israeli military

Grants. The accounts for the year to 5 April 2014 record, for the previous year (to 5 April 2013), £50 to UK Friends of AWIS, whose registered objects are the relief of need and suffering of serving and discharged Israeli soldiers and their families.

Prior scrutiny. No Charity Commission inquiry or Official Warning, and no complaint or report by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, the Islamic Human Rights Commission or Declassified UK, concerning this charity's support for soldiers was found (checked October 2026). The trust is not listed on the Powerbase page UK AWIS - supporters; the David and Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust listed there is a different charity.

Activity beyond the Green Line

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line

Finding	Confidence
No grant in the 2013–2020 lists is to an organisation located beyond the Green Line.	Not established

See also

• Jewish Schools in the UK
• Charitable spending of the largest 100 UK family foundations