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Large UK grant-making trust of the Wolfson family funding medicine, education and welfare

The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1965-01-08 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 238043
Headquarters 4th Floor, Artillery House, Artillery Row, London, SW1P 1RT
Area served Israel, Throughout England And Wales
Key people Honourable Andrew Daniel Wolfson (chair)

The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust is a UK grant making charity controlled by one branch of the wealthy Wolfson family. The charity was created by a Trust Deed dated 14 July 1960 and was registered as a UK charity on 8 January 1965. [1] As at 8 July 2010 the trustees were Thatcher's former Chief of Staff David Wolfson, his two sons Simon and Andrew, and Sara Leven. [2] The Trust's original founder, Charles Wolfson, was David Wolfson's father [3] and the brother of Isaac Wolfson who was chairman of Great Universal Stores and co-founder of the separate Wolfson Foundation. [4]

Funding

The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust provided a total of £45,000 to Civitas between 2006 and 2008.[5]. The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust provided £75,000 to Policy Exchange in 2007[6] and £143,666 in 2008.[7] The accounts for the years to 5 April 2009–2013 do not name grant recipients and give only totals by category. Total grants were £4,273,085 (2009), £4,133,277 (2010), £6,959,887 (2011) and £6,808,521 (2012), and education grants by the trust itself were £409,745 (2009), £1,776,391 (2010), £1,673,135 (2011) and £1,553,586 (2012).[8][9][10][11] In the year to 5 April 2013 grants totalled £5,491,013, of which £1,557,000 was for education.[12] The related party notes record grants to Policy Exchange of £75,000 (2011) and £601,000 (2012), and a refund of £63,040 from Policy Exchange in 2013; Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise was a trustee of both charities.[11][12]

The Trust paid £75,000 to Policy Exchange in 2011 and £601,000 in 2012.[13] In 2013, Policy Exchange refunded £63,040. These payments were recorded as related party transactions because Lord Wolfson of Apsley Guise was a Policy Exchange trustee.[14]

The trust has funded other right-wing think-tanks including Civitas, the Social Affairs Unit, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Research Trust[15] and has also funded pro-Israel groups like the Israel-Diaspora Trust and the Anglo-Israel Association.[6]

In 2003 the Guardian newspaper reported:

The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust made payments of £220,000 in 2000-01, and £230,000 the previous year, to a firm of solicitors of which trustee John Franks was a consultant. Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale, another trustee, said that Franks did not receive any remuneration for the work done on behalf of the charity and that the work of the law firm was costed against other firms. "We discussed this recently with the charity commission, as part of one of their random visits, and they were satisfied that this was an arm's-length transaction," said Wolfson.[16]
Grant recipients of the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust in £ sterling. Years are the trust's financial years ending 5 April (e.g. 2018 = 6 April 2017 – 5 April 2018).[17]
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023[18] 2024[19] 2025[20] Total (£)
Medical research & facilities
Action on Hearing Loss 57,732 57,732
Alzheimer's Society 60,677 60,677
Acquired Aphasia Trust 5,000 5,000
Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust 500,000 500,000
Anna Freud National Centre 250,000 250,000
Arthritis Research UK 50,400 50,400
Asthma UK 25,000 50,000 75,000
Barts and the London Charity 375,000 375,000 750,000
Barts Cancer Centre of Excellence 54,400 54,400
Bath Institute of Medical Engineering 25,000 25,000
Beds and Northants Multiple Sclerosis Centre 3,700 3,700
British Diabetic Association 500 500
British Dyslexics 1,000 5,000 6,000
British Friends of Arad Medical Centre 10,000 10,000
British Friends of the Hebrew University 50,000 50,000
British Heart Foundation 1,000 2,000 3,000
British Stammering Society 1,000 1,000
Cancer Research UK 200 500 700
Cardiac Risk in the Young 59,861 59,861
Chai Cancer Care 2,500 3,000 83,100 75,000 163,600
Connect (Aphasia) 50,000 50,000
CORE 60,001 60,001
Cornwall Air Ambulance 50,000 50,000
Cure Parkinsons Trust 100,000 100,000 200,000 400,000
Cystic Fibrosis Trust 1,000 1,000
Diabetes UK 1,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 301,000
DIPEx 5,000 5,000
Evalina Childrens Hospital 50,000 50,000
Fight for Sight 64,928 54,124 119,052
Follicular Lymphoma Foundation 125,000 125,000
Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths 5,000 5,000
Fund for Addenbrrokes 176,722 150,000 326,722
Hadassah UK 150,810 150,810
Heart Cells Foundation 300,000 300,000
Heartline Association 1,000 1,000 2,000
Hemi Help 2,000 2,000 2,000 6,000
High Blood Pressure Foundation 26,000 26,000
Hospital of St. John & St. Elizabeth 500 500
Imperial College London 250,000 250,000
Institute for Complementary Medicine 67,282 141,470 84,055 166,916 459,723
Institute of Orthopaedics 1,450 1,450
Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill 50,000 50,000
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 87,899 88,097 175,996
Kings College London 77,000 270,000 52,108 82,666 62,334 544,108
King Edward VII's Hospital 5,000 5,000
Lee Smith Research Foundation 5,000 22,500 27,500
Leukaemia Research Fund 10,000 10,000
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 125,000 125,000
Manchester Foundation Trust 150,000 150,000 300,000
Marie Curie Cancer Care 1,000 1,000
Maudsley Charity Fundraising 666,667 666,667
Meningitis UK 60,000 60,000 120,000
Meningitis Now Foundation 60,000 60,000
MERU 2,000 2,000
MIND 500 500
MS Society 204,024 204,024
Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre 2,000 2,000
Noahs Ark 7,500 7,500 5,000 150,000 170,000
Osteopathic Centre for Children 5,000 5,000
Oxford Foundation for Theoretical Neuro-Science 100,000 100,000
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Charitable Fund 5,000 5,000
Parkinsons Disease Society 50,000 50,000
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy 47,721 47,721
Prostate Cancer Research Centre 10,000 10,000
P.S.P. Association 47,000 47,000
Royal Botanical Gardens Kew 30,000 30,000
Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign 50,000 50,000
Royal Marsden Cancer Charity 875,000 875,000
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust 875,000 875,000 875,000 2,625,000
Samantha Dickson Research Trust 44,521 44,521
Sir George Pinker Appeal 30,000 30,000
Special Care Baby Unit Fund Raising Society 1,000 1,000
Speech Language & Hearing Centre 10,000 5,000 10,000 25,000
Spinal Research 50,000 50,000
St Andrew's Group of Hospitals 50,000 50,000
St Marks Hospital Foundation 500 157,500 158,000
Tavistock Trust for Aphasia 5,000 5,000 10,000
Tsad Kadima 5,000 5,000
University College London 58,234 176,726 100,000 71,588 51,957 458,505
University of Edinburgh 100,000 100,000 200,000
University of Exeter 60,000 201,685 261,685
University of Liverpool 156,000 156,000
University of Oxford - pharmacology 70,000 28,368 98,368
University of Oxford - (Prof. Aziz) 189,873 189,873
University of Oxford - surgery 71,846 87,196 159,042
Weizmann UK 171,666 171,666
William Harvey Research Foundation 500 500
Grants made between £10,000 and £49,999 148,200 117,000 265,200
Grants made between £5,000 and £9,999 10,000 10,000
Grants made of less than £5,000 2,000 2,000
Education
Angela Ruskin University 19,910 19,910
Anglia Polytechnic University 18,000 18,000
Avondale Extra 1,000 2,000 3,000
Backup Trust 48,814 48,814
BEFORE Trust 25,000 25,000
Brasenose College 35,000 35,000
British Council 133,333 133,333 266,666
British Friends of Bar Ilan University 75,000 8,000 83,000
British Friends of the Ariel Institute 35,000 61,794 96,794
Broughton Jewish Primary School 100,000 100,000
Camden Arts Centre 50,000 50,000
Central Synagogue 168,122 168,122
CER 10,000 10,000
Chicken Shed Theatre Trust 5,000 1,000 2,000 8,000
Chief Rabbinate Charitable Trust 280,000 140,000 420,000
Clifton College 2,000 2,000
Dyson Perrins Museum Trust 5,000 3,000 8,000
Ellen Tinkham PTFA 25,000 25,000
ETGAR - re: London School of Economics 50,000 50,000
Federation of Synagogues 750 3,750 2,000 6,500
FSET Politeia 10,000 10,000
Gesher Primary School Trust 500,000 500,000 1,000,000
Hasmonean Primary School 33,112 180,000[21] 80,000 293,112
Hertsmere Jewish High School Trust (renamed Yavneh College Trust in 2006; supports Yavneh College)[22] 1,000,000[23] 1,000,000
Highbury Grove School 47,419 65,395 112,814
Holocaust Educational Trust 25,000 25,000 50,000 100,000
Huntingdon Foundation 250,000 125,000 375,000
Immanuel College 1,000 10,000 11,000
Imperial College 250,000 250,000
Institute for Policy Research 30,000 5,000 75,000 110,000
Institute of Economic Affairs 50,000 50,000 50,000 150,000
Jewish Interactive 75,000 75,000 75,000 225,000
Jewish Learning Exchange 10,000 15,000 125,000 50,000 125,000 325,000
Jewish Music Institute 500 6,000 6,500
Jewish Community Secondary School 80,000 100,000 180,000
Jews Free School 2,750 2,000 262,000 262,000 250,000 778,750
Jewish Schools Network 50,000 50,000
JFS Charitable Trust 2,000 2,000
Kisharon 89,392 50,000 52,500 50,000 241,892
London Jewish Cultural Centre 15,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 60,000
London School of Hygiene & Trop 125,000 125,000
London School of Jewish Studies 100,000 100,000 100,000 50,000 350,000
Mandelbaum Trust 15,000 15,000
March of the Living 95,000 95,000
Music in Secondary Schools Trust 350,000 350,000 350,000 350,000 350,000 1,750,000
National Holocaust Centre 50,000 50,000
Noam Primary School 200,000 200,000
North West London Jewish Day School 5,000 5,000
Norwood 400,000 200,000 600,000
Oxford Centre for Hebrew Studies 1,000 1,000
Partnership for Jewish Schools 103,350 75,000 178,350
Plumpton College 10,000 10,000
Policy Exchange 385,454 500,000 885,454
Priors Court Foundation 10,000 10,000
Radley Foundation 50,000 50,000
Rosh Pinah Jewish Primary School 20,000 20,000
Roundhouse Trust 50,000 1,000 51,000
School Aid 15,000 15,000
Side by Side 50,000 250,000 200,000 500,000
Street Action 67,000 67,000
Tikun 150,000 15,000 225,000 75,000 150,000 615,000
United Synagogue 100,000 5,000 53,920 158,920
Whitefield School, Claremont Road, Barnet, London NW2 (a community secondary school, renamed Clarion in September 2025), a partner school of the Music in Secondary Schools Trust from 2017[24][25] 65,000 52,000 117,000
Wolfson Hillel Primary School 100,000 100,000
Yavneh College Trust 2,000,000[26][27] 207,000 2,207,000
Yeshuas Chaim Synagogue 50,000 50,000 100,000
Yesodey Hatorah Trust 100,000 100,000
Grants made between £10,000 and £49,999 297,000 439,560 736,560
Grants made between £5,000 and £9,999 0
Grants made of less than £5,000 25,745 4,144 29,889
Welfare
Abbeyfield 2,000 2,000
Action for Kids 5,000 5,000
Adam Smith Research Trust 12,000 12,000
Aguda Israel Organisation of GB 4,750 2,500 7,250
AISH Hatorah 150,000 150,000 150,000 75,000 525,000
Ajex Charitable Trust 500 500
Amber Foundation 1,000 1,000
Anglo-Israel Association 5,000 5,000
Aspire 500 2,500 3,000
Barnet Youth Zone 66,400 66,400
Beis Yisroel Organisation 1,000 1,000
Beit Halochem 101,000[28] 100,000 149,000 150,000 123,000[29] 122,500 745,500
Bowles Rocks Trust 2,000 2,000
Breakaway 7,500 7,500
British Council 133,334 133,334
British Friends of the Jaffa Institute 5,000 1,000 6,000
British WIZO 1,000 1,000
Brondesbury Park Synagogue 750,000 750,000 1,500,000
Broughton Jewish Opportunity Fund 90,000 90,000
Business Opprtunities 250 250
Camp Simcha 50,000 50,000
Central School of Ballet 500 500
Central Synagogue General Charities Fund 10,000 10,000 12,000 32,000
Centre for Jewish Christian Relations 5,000 5,000
Chai Cancer Care 77,500 75,000 75,000 227,500
Changing Faces 1,000 1,000 2,000
Chelsea Pensioners Appeal 500,000 500,000
Children's Charity 75,000 75,000
Chief Rabbinate Trust 140,000 140,000
Churchill Lines Foundation 100,000 100,000
Civitas 10,000 20,000 25,000 55,000
Colfe's Charitable Trust 2,000 2,000
Community Security Trust 50,000 60,000 60,000 70,000 100,000 200,000 200,000 100,000 840,000
Conference of European Rabbis 300 300
Cornwall Community Foundation 4,000 4,000
Council for a Beautiful Israel 5,000 5,000 10,000
Council for Christians and Jews 45,000 40,000 85,000
Cricket Foundation 1,000 1,000
Cued Speech Association UK 10,000 10,000
Dalaid 75,000 75,000 50,000 200,000
Dame Vera Lynn Trust 10,000 10,000
Dogs for the Disabled 500 500
Duke of York Sports Foundation 10,000 10,000
Dunkirk Little Ships Restoration Trust 1,000 1,000
Eastside Young Leaders Academy 5,000 5,000
Edward Elgar Foundation 2,000 2,000
Elephant Family 1,000 1,000
Emunah 500 500
Fair Havens Hospice 750 750
Falkand Islands Memorial Chapel 10,000 10,000
Family Links 1,000 1,000
Fenely Family 2,000 2,000 4,000
Finchley Synagogue 87,000 87,000
Foundation and Friends of Royal Botanic Garedens Kew 41,000 41,000 41,000 123,000
Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro 10,000 10,000 20,000
Friends of Bnei Akiva 5,000 25,000 30,000 60,000
Friends of General Orphans Home for Girls - Jerusalem 4,750 2,500 7,250
Gurkha Welfare Trust 2,000 2,000
Hampstead Theatre 5,000 5,000 10,000
Hannah Levy House 5,000 5,000
HCPT The Pilgrimage Trust 500 500
Headway 1,500 1,500
Hillel Foundation 2,000 2,000
Historic Royal Palaces 50,000 50,000
Home Farm Trust 2,000 4,000 2,000 8,000
Hospital Kosher Meals Service 1,000 500 1,000 2,500
Hunt & Almshouse Charity 45,000 45,000
I. Rescue 5,000 5,000 5,000 15,000
Impakt Aid 20,000 20,000
Imperial War Museum 100,000 100,000
Institute for Policy Research 50,000 50,000 100,000
Institute of Economic Affairs 10,000 10,000 20,000 40,000
International Tiger Moth Charitable Trust 1,000 1,000
Israel Diaspora Trust 2,000 2,000 4,000
Jerusalem Foundation 5,000 5,000
Jewish Agency for Israel 50,000 50,000
Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill 500 500
Jewish Blind Society 55,000 55,000
Jewish Book Council 1,000 1,000
Jewish Care 350,000 350,000 350,000 413,000 405,000 400,000 400,000 400,000 3,068,000
Jewish Child's Day 500 500
Jewish Leadership Council 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 200,000
Jewish Marriage Council 1,000 500 1,500
Jewish Museum 50,000 50,000
JFS 500,000 500,000
JNF Givol 25,000 25,000
Kisharon 50,000 50,000
Lanaido UK 10,000 10,000
Level 2 Youth Project 1,000 1,000 2,000
Lifeline for the Old 5,000 5,000
Listening Books 5,000 5,000 10,000
London Zoo 10,000 10,000
Lord Lieutenants Fund for Youth in Cornwall 1,000 1,000
Lords Taverners 500 500
Maccabi GB 1,000 1,500 2,500
Magen David Adom 2,000 2,000
Maggs Day Centre 1,000 1,000
Mentor 10,000 10,000
Mudchute 2,000 2,000
National Childrens Orchestra of GB 1,000 1,000
National Missing Persons Helpline 67,000 67,000
National Youth Theatre of GB 500 500
Natural History Museum 1,000 1,000
Next Charitable Trust 100,000 100,000
Nightingale House Home for Aged Jews 150,000 150,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 600,000
North London Hospice 5,000 5,000 7,500 7,000 24,500
Norwood 10,000 10,000 102,000 205,000 327,000
Ohel Sarah 2,500 2,500 2,500 7,500
Outside Foundation 150,000 150,000
Outward Bound Trust 250 250
Padstow Sea Cadets 2,000 2,000
Peace Insight 1,000 1,000
Perdiswell Young Peoples Leisure Clubs 3,000 3,000 6,000
Policy Exchange 75,000 143,666 75,000 601,000 -63,040 128,000 414,650 70,000 283,700 385,454 100000 100,000 2,313,430
Primary Club 500 500
Queen Alexandra Hospital Home 5,000 5,000
Racing Welfare 1,000 5,000 6,000
Rainbow Trust 5,000 5,000
Remap 2,000 2,000
Richard House Children's Hospice 250 250
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust 49,000 49,000
Royal College of Music 2,000 2,000
RNLI 250 250
Safe Hounds 5,000 5,000
Shabaton Choir 5,000 2,000 7,000
Social Affairs Unit 10,000 10,000 20,000
SSAFA Forces Help Central Office 250 1,000 1,000 2,250
St. Elizabeth's Centre 5,000 5,000
St. Raphael's 1,000 1,000
Street Action 75000 75,000 150,000
Tikun 75,000 75,000
3C's Charity 500 500
Trinity College Holiday Scheme 2,000 2,000
United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) 67,500 67,500
United Trusts 30,000 30,000 30,000 90,000
University Chaplaincy Board 1,000 1,000 2,000
Victory Services Club 10,000 10,000
Westminster Children's Society 10,000 10,000
Wheel Power 1,000 1,000
Wooden Spoon Society 500 500
World Jewish Relief 100,000 2,000 1,000 2,000 65,000 170,000
Yeshuas Chaim Synagogue 50000 50,000 100,000
Zoological Society of London 25,000 25,000
ZSV Trust 500 500 1,000
Grants made between £10,000 and £49,999 1,155,760 739,307 1,895,067
Grants made between £5,000 and £9,999 45,000 45,000
Grants made of less than £5,000 122,644 32,750 155,394
Other
Benevolent Aid Fund 250,750[30] 89,500[31] 340,250
Blond McIndoe Research 49,300 49,300
B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation (Bournemouth) 6,052 6,052
B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation (Leicester) 93,333 93,333
Charlie Waller Memorial Trust 50,000 50,000
Children's Trust 50,000 50,000
Jewish Educational Fund 304,000 304,000
Kings College Hospital 50,000 50,000
Child Bereavement Trust 21,125 21,460 21,984 24,125 88,694
Beth Jacobs School 25,000 25,000
Magen David Adom UK 100,000 100,000
Rentals foregone on charitably let properties
B'nai Brith Hillel 142,928 149,000 118,964 410,892
Family Welfare Association 18,750 21,000 22,000 22,000 83,750
Torah Temimah Primary School 17,500[23] 17,500
Yakar Education Foundation 10,068 10,068

Missing data

In the following years the Trust did not give a breakdown of its grant funding: 2014, . The only data availabe on grants is dtaken from the 'related parties' section of the accounts.

Data Sources

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "FOR GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH, THE GENERAL ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL AND SURGICAL SCIENCE, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OR CHILD WELFARE, THE ADVANCEMENT OF ANY RELIGION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSES 3 AND 4 OF TRUST DEED)."[32]

The register describes its activities as: "Generating income from property and other investments in order to make grants to various registered charities including but not exclusively in the fields of medicine, education and welfare."[32]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[32]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Throughout England And Wales.[32]

People

Trustees

Current trustees (Charity Commission register, October 2026)

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[32]

Trustees of The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Dr SARA LEVENE not recorded —
The LORD SIMON ADAM WOLFSON not recorded —
The Lord Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn 2020-07-22 Follicular Lymphoma Foundation (1185091); Franks Family Foundation (1114574); Hofenung Foundation (1196403); The Mendelsohn Family Charity (1214428)
Deborah Sarah Edwards 2020-07-22 —
Honourable Andrew Daniel Wolfson 2020-10-14 Yes Beit Halochem UK (1146950); Benesco Charity Limited (269181); The Music in Secondary Schools Trust (1151662)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-07 The Lord Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn (from 22 July 2020) – also trustee of Franks Family Foundation Follicular Lymphoma Foundation, Barnet Youth Zone; Honourable Andrew Daniel Wolfson – also trustee of The Music in Secondary Schools Trust, Benesco Charity Limited, Beit Halochem UK; Dr SARA LEVENE; Lord David Wolfson; The LORD SIMON ADAM WOLFSON; Deborah Sarah Edwards (from 22 July 2020) [34]
2021-07-07 The Lord Jonathan Neil Mendelsohn (from 22 July 2020) – also trustee of Franks Family Foundation, Follicular Lymphoma Foundation, Barnet Youth Zone; Honourable Andrew Daniel Wolfson (chair) (from 14 October 2020) – also trustee of The Music in Secondary Schools Trust, Benesco Charity Limited, Beit Halochem UK; Dr SARA LEVENE; The LORD SIMON ADAM WOLFSON; Deborah Sarah Edwards (from 22 July 2020) [35]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £5,873,979 £5,435,774
2022-04-05 £23,680,785 £6,106,394
2023-04-05 £15,668,119 £5,528,342
2024-04-05 £5,475,058 £7,110,170
2025-04-05 £3,479,200 £6,052,522

Source: register annual-return history.[32]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2014[36]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015[37]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[38]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[39]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[40]

The accounts for the years to 5 April 2014–2017 use the exemption that allows a charity to withhold the names of grant recipients and the amounts of grants (2017 accounts, note 17), so no grants to individual schools can be shown for those years.[39] The related party notes name Policy Exchange (£70,000 in the year to 5 April 2016; £414,650 in 2015) and the Music in Secondary Schools Trust (£337,250 in 2016; £350,250 in 2017), of which Andrew Wolfson is also a trustee.[38][39]

The accounts for the years ended 5 April 2005–2013 are not online in the UK Government Web Archive or the Wayback Machine (searched 30 October 2026); the figures for those years on this page are taken from copies of the statements. A capture of the Charity Commission register page from 26 January 2009 gives income of £5,962,811 and spending of £5,821,057 for the year ended 5 April 2007.[41]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 group grants £6,028,915 by category (medicine/education/welfare); Israel is a register area of operation. The accounts name Beit Halochem UK, which funds the Beit Halochem centres in Israel for disabled veterans of the Israel Defense Forces, as a recipient: £110,000 in the year to 5 April 2025 (welfare grants list, PDF p.23) and £200,000 in the year to 5 April 2024 (note 17, PDF p.30).[17][32]
  • The welfare grants lists also include "Myisrael": £63,500 in the year to 5 April 2024 and £81,925 in the year to 5 April 2025 (PDF p.23 of each year's accounts); the accounts do not describe the grants.[42][17]

Support for the Israeli military

Grants. The trust's accounts record grants to Beit Halochem UK, which funds the Beit Halochem rehabilitation and sports centres in Israel for disabled veterans of the Israel Defense Forces and victims of terror.[43] Documented grants total £1,270,500 for the years to 5 April 2017–2025 (no figure for 2023 had been added before). The grant table above, compiled from the trust's accounts, records £101,000, £100,000, £149,000, £150,000, £123,000 and £122,500 for 2017 to 2022 (£745,500). The 2017 figure is the comparative in the related party note of the 2018 accounts. The 2021 figure is the comparative in note 16 of the 2022 accounts; the 2021 accounts list £100,000 to Beit Halochem among grants of £50,000 or more, and their related party note gives £123,000.[44][28][29] The accounts for the year to 5 April 2025 record £110,000 for that year (welfare grants list, PDF p.23) and £200,000 for the year to 5 April 2024 (note 17, PDF p.30).[17] For the year to 5 April 2023 the related party note records £215,000 to Beit Halochem UK (PDF p.30), while the welfare grants list gives £218,000 to "Beit Halochem" (PDF p.23); the accounts do not explain the £3,000 difference.[45]

Veteran Games. The related party notes also record £20,000 in the year to 5 April 2024 and £30,000 in the year to 5 April 2025 to "Veteran Games and Conference", of which Andrew Wolfson is also a trustee.[42][17] Beit Halochem UK's reports describe the Veteran Games and Conference as an event it helped create, held at the Beit Halochem centres in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, bringing wounded UK military veterans together with wounded Israeli veterans for five days of sport."[46]

Trustee link. The accounts disclose the Beit Halochem UK donations as related party transactions, because Andrew Wolfson, a trustee of the trust, is also a trustee of Beit Halochem UK.[17][28] The Charity Commission register lists him as a trustee of both charities.[32]

Prior scrutiny. In February 2024 David Miller, writing for PressTV, reported that the trust had given over £600,000 to Beit Halochem since 2018.[47] 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 the trust's support for soldiers was found (checked October 2026). The trust is not listed on the Powerbase page UK AWIS - supporters.

Activity beyond the Green Line

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
Grants to the British Friends of the Ariel Institute: £35,000 in the year to 5 April 2007 and £61,794 in the year to 5 April 2008. The Ariel institution is in the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, which the United Nations and the European Union treat as occupied territory.[48][26] High
Beit Halochem UK funds centres in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Beer Sheva; the accounts show no activity by it beyond the line.[17][43] Low
Partner: support for disabled veterans of the Israel Defense Forces through grants to Beit Halochem UK, named in the accounts: £110,000 (year to 5 April 2025) and £200,000 (year to 5 April 2024).[17] High

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice was found. The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this trust is among them.[49]
  • US filing. ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer lists "Charles Wolfson Charitable Tr" EIN 98-6093148 with city United Kingdom and income amount $2,484,679 on the filed return – consistent with a US reporting presence for the UK trust rather than a separate operating sister charity.[50]

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).[51] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[52]

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.[53]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[54]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name and the names of its current register trustees 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.[55]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[32] No title registers were purchased.[56]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
Charles Wolfson Charitable Tr[50] 986093148 2024-12-01 2,484,679 0

These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust' returned 0 contributions in total.[57]

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".[34]

Contact

Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust
8/10 Hallam Street
London, W1W 6NS

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Screengrab of Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust > Charity framework, created 8 July 2010
  2. ↑ Screengrab of Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust > Contact & trustees, created 8 July 2010
  3. ↑ ‘WOLFSON OF SUNNINGDALE’, Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 2009, accessed 8 July 2010
  4. ↑ ‘WOLFSON, Sir Isaac’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 8 July 2010
  5. ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2006. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2007. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust Financial Statements 5 April 2008
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, p.23.
  7. ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2008, p.23.
  8. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2009, donations note; not available online.
  9. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2010, donations note; not available online.
  10. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2011, trustees' report (PDF p.5) and donations note (PDF p.22); not available online.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2012, trustees' report (PDF p.5), note 16 related party transactions (PDF p.21) and note 19 donations (PDF p.22); not available online.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2013, donations and related party notes; not available online.
  13. ↑ Financial Statements, Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, 5 April 2012, p.20 (no longer online; not archived).
  14. ↑ Financial Statements, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, 5 April 2013, p.20 (no longer online; not archived).
  15. ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, p.23-4. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statesments 5 April 2008, p.23.
  16. ↑ Patrick McCurry, 'Matter of trust', The Guardian, 19 February 2003.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust (238043): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  18. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2023 Register of Charities, Charity Commission, grants and donations note, education grants of £50,000 or more (PDF p.23), accessed 1 November 2026.
  19. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2024 Register of Charities, Charity Commission, grants and donations note, education grants of £50,000 or more (PDF p.23), accessed 1 November 2026.
  20. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2025 Register of Charities, Charity Commission, grants and donations note, education grants of £50,000 or more (PDF p.23), accessed 1 November 2026.
  21. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2020 Register of Charities, Charity Commission, grants and donations note, education grants of £50,000 or more (PDF p.28); recipient shown as "Hasmonean" in the accounts, accessed 1 November 2026.
  22. ↑ Charity Commission, Yavneh Foundation Trust (1095796), register entry (previous names: Hertsmere Jewish High School Trust; Yavneh College Trust), accessed 2 November 2026.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2005, note 20 (donations), PDF pp.25–28; not available online.
  24. ↑ Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, MiSST appoints Rachel Landon as Chief Executive press release, 24 September 2018, accessed 1 November 2026.
  25. ↑ Clarion, Welcome to Clarion school website ("Formerly Whitefield School, in September 2025 we launched as Clarion"; Claremont Road, Brent Cross, Barnet, London NW2 1TR), accessed 1 November 2026.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2008, trustees' report (PDF p.4) and donations note (PDF pp.23–25); not available online.
  27. ↑ £500,000 was paid in the year and £1,500,000 was provided for as a committed future grant; the trustees' report for the year to 5 April 2008 states: "Major projects included grants to Yavneh College Trust (£2,000,000)".
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust: report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2018 Register of Charities; welfare grants list (Beit Halochem £100,000) and related party transactions note (£100,000 to Beit Halochem UK; 2017 comparative £101,000).
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust: report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2022 Register of Charities (Wayback Machine capture of 26 September 2023); welfare grants list (Beit Halochem £122,500) and note 16, related party transactions (£122,500 to Beit Halochem UK; 2021 comparative £123,000).
  30. ↑ The 2005 Benevolent Aid Fund grants include Hasmonean Primary School £5,000, the JFS General Charitable Fund £2,500 and North West London Jewish Day School £5,000, as well as Council for a Beautiful Israel £5,000, Friends of Bar Ilan University £5,000 and Friends of General Israel Orphanage £4,500. The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 5 April 2005, note 20 (donations), PDF pp.25–28; not available online.
  31. ↑ The 2006 Benevolent Aid Fund grants include Council for a Beautiful Israel £5,000, Friends of Israel Sports Centre for the Disabled £5,000 and Israel Diaspora Trust £2,000. The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2006, donations note, PDF pp.26–29; not available online.
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 32.5 32.6 32.7 32.8 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.
  33. ↑ Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Open Charities. Accessed 27 March 2014.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Register entry 238043, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.
  35. ↑ Register entry 238043, full print (capture of 20210707) UK Government Web Archive.
  36. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  37. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  40. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  41. ↑ Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust (238043), register entry UK Government Web Archive (capture of 26 January 2009), accessed 1 November 2026.
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2024, welfare grants list (PDF p.23) and note 17, related party transactions (PDF p.30), from accounts and annual returns Register of Charities.
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 Charity Commission, Beit Halochem UK (1146950): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026.
  44. ↑ Charity Commission, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust: report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2021 Register of Charities; welfare grants list (Beit Halochem £100,000) and related party transactions note (£123,000 to Beit Halochem UK).
  45. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2023, welfare grants list (PDF p.23, "Beit Halochem 218,000") and note 16, related party transactions (PDF p.30, "£215,000 (2022 - £122,500) to Beit Halochem UK"), from accounts and annual returns Register of Charities.
  46. ↑ Beit Halochem UK, trustees' reports for the years ended 28 February 2022 and 2023 (Veteran Games and Conference), from accounts and annual returns Register of Charities.
  47. ↑ David Miller, How British ‘charities’ are aiding Israeli genocide in Gaza PressTV, 1 February 2024.
  48. ↑ The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, Financial statements 5 April 2007, donations note, PDF pp.23–25; not available online.
  49. ↑ 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").
  50. ↑ 50.0 50.1 ProPublica, Charles Wolfson Charitable Tr Nonprofit Explorer EIN 98-6093148 (United Kingdom; NTEE T22 Private Independent Foundations; income amount $2,484,679 in the filed return).
  51. ↑ 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-2 charities found no matching Scottish registration of the same organisations (unrelated name collisions such as Open Door Edinburgh SC007315 were disregarded).
  52. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-2 charity name returned zero results).
  53. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  54. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-238043 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  55. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Screening of the current register trustees of the 25 batch-2 charities and the charity names, carried out 14 October 2026; no matches. Companies House officers and archived trustees were not included in this batch's screen. Viatcheslav Kantor (RUS1127) remains on the UK Sanctions List as previously noted.
  56. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  57. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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