Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust
Not to be confused with the Lewis Family Charitable Trust
The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust (Reg no 1125035) was founded in 2008, and is controlled by the hugely wealthy Lewis family, best known as the owners of the River Island clothing stores. The family’s assets are held by the Lewis Trust Group, which is controlled by an offshore company registered in the Cayman Islands.
The Group also owns the investment company Cavendish Asset Management and has property holdings worth over £1 billion[1] including 13 hotels in Israel and three in the United States.[2]
Contents
Donations
Conservative Party
Recorded by the Electoral Commission:
| Date | Name of donor | Amount | Donated to | Subsidiary (parties only) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/03/2008 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Hove |
| 31/03/2008 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House | £5,500.00 | Conservative Party | Central Party |
| 30/03/2008 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Burton |
| 27/03/2008 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Stroud |
| 27/03/2008 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Cheltenham |
| 06/03/2008 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Brighton Kemptown |
| 03/03/2008 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd | £3,500.00 | Conservative Party | South Basildon and East Thurrock |
| 20/04/2008 | Lewis trust Group Ltd, Chelsea Houser | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Stourbridge |
| 05/04/2008 | Lewis trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | West Worcestershire |
| 10/04/2008 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Burton |
| 09/04/2008 | Lewis trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Staffordshire Moorlands |
| 23/09/2008 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Northampton North |
| 19/01/2010 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Watford |
| 31/03/2010 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Chelsea House | £19,000.00 | Conservative Party | Central Party |
| 26/01/2010 | Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Lewis Trust Group Ltd | £2,000.00 | Conservative Party | Northampton North |
Bernard Lewis has personally donated £40,000, Lewis chairs the Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, which according to its latest accounts controls funds just short of £5 million.
Think tanks
The Trust donated £25,000 to the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2009 as well as donating £15,000 to Policy Exchange.[4]
Grants paid
| Grant recipients of the Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust in £ sterling | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Total (£) | |
| 2Simple Trust | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||||||||||||
| Accord | 15,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 35,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 155,000 | ||||||
| Anxiety UK | 1,300 | 1,300 | |||||||||||||
| Archer School for Girls | 13,032 | 13,032 | |||||||||||||
| Art Room | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||||||||||
| Auditory Verbal UK | 2,000 | 2,000 | |||||||||||||
| BAC-IN | 30,000 | 30,000 | |||||||||||||
| Barbadian Synagogue | 20,407 | 20,407 | |||||||||||||
| Bath Institute of Medical Engineering | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 20,000 | ||||||||||
| Bowel & Cancer Research | 3,000 | 3,000 | |||||||||||||
| Brain & Spine Foundation | 5,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||
| Brain Circle | 700 | 700 | |||||||||||||
| Brain Research | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||||||
| Brainwave | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 40,000 | ||||||||||
| Bristol Sarcoma Ball | 1,500 | 1,500 | |||||||||||||
| British Red Cross | 100,000 | 100,000 | 50,000 | 150,000 | 400,000 | ||||||||||
| Buckingham Trust | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||||||||||||
| Camp Simcha | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Care 4 Calais | 16,000 | 3,002 | 2,514 | 21,516 | |||||||||||
| Centre for Social Cohesion | 25,000 | 25,000 | 50,000 | ||||||||||||
| Centre for Social Justice | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 150,000 | |||||||||||
| Cerebra | 5,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||
| Chickenshed Theatre Trust | 50,000 | 50,000 | |||||||||||||
| Children Heard & Seen | 5,856 | 90,000 | 6,075 | 101,931 | |||||||||||
| Children's Hospice UK | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||||||
| Chris Toon | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||||||
| Clarence Adoo Trust | 15,000 | 1,000 | 16,000 | ||||||||||||
| Coexistence Trust | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 30,000 | |||||||||||
| Community Security Trust (CST) | 15,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 285,000 | |||||
| Compassion in Dying | 55,000 | 100,000 | 115,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 250,000 | 970,000 | |||||||
| Counselling & Psychotherapy Training Academy | 2,300 | 2,300 | |||||||||||||
| Demand | 5,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||
| Demos | 23,500 | 56,656 | 3,700 | 83,856 | |||||||||||
| Designability | 5,000 | 25,000 | 30,000 | ||||||||||||
| Dignity in Dying | 25,000 | 25,000 | |||||||||||||
| Disability Centre | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||||||
| Disability Foundation | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 20,000 | ||||||||||
| Dog Trust | 2,000 | 2,000 | |||||||||||||
| Donate4Refugees | 15,000 | 15,000 | |||||||||||||
| Drugfam | 3,000 | 3,000 | |||||||||||||
| E Labaan | 1,027 | 1,062 | 2,881 | 853 | 5,823 | ||||||||||
| Epilepsy Enterprises | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Epilepsy Society | 1,500 | 1,800 | 22,500 | 25,800 | |||||||||||
| European Lawyers | 15,000 | 15,000 | |||||||||||||
| Fight for Life | 10,377 | 10,377 | |||||||||||||
| Foundation for Change | 9,168 | 9,168 | |||||||||||||
| Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | 52,000 | 205,408 | 30,000 | 10,000 | 1,797,408 | ||||||||
| Greenaway Foundation | 25,000 | 25,000 | |||||||||||||
| Harrington Scheme | 55,000 | 55,000 | |||||||||||||
| Headway | 25,000 | 100,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 225,000 | ||||||||||
| Healing Justice London | 20,000 | 20,000 | |||||||||||||
| Help Refugees | 45,000 | 45,000 | |||||||||||||
| Henry Jackson Society | 35,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 85,789 | 65,455 | 261,244 | ||||||||
| ICAAD | 2,400 | 2,400 | |||||||||||||
| Impact Foundation (India) | 55,045 | 55,045 | |||||||||||||
| Imperial Health Charity | 3,000 | 3,000 | |||||||||||||
| J.W. Philanthropy - Mission Motorsport | 46,784 | 2,880 | 49,664 | ||||||||||||
| James Lewis Foundation | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||||||||||
| Jewish Blind & Disabled | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 50,000 | |||||||||
| Jewish Care | 53,000 | 53,000 | 33,000 | 33,000 | 53,900 | 53,120 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 429,020 | |||||
| Jewish Deaf Association | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||||||||||
| Jewish Heritage | 2,500 | 2,500 | |||||||||||||
| Jewish Leadership Council | 25,000 | 27,500 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 75,000 | 25,000 | 242,500 | |||||||
| Just for Kids Law | 30,000 | 30,000 | |||||||||||||
| JustDifferent | 3,000 | 10,000 | 13,000 | ||||||||||||
| Kidstime Foundation | 60,000 | 60,000 | |||||||||||||
| Kings College | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Loldia School Fund | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||||||
| London Jewish Forum | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||||||
| London Prisons Mission | 28,800 | 28,800 | |||||||||||||
| Magen David Adom UK | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 90,000 | |||||
| Magic Bus | 5,500 | 64,849 | 20,500 | 307,500 | 11,500 | 6,150 | 350,000 | 18,000 | 783,999 | ||||||
| Maidenhead Synagogue Building Project | 16,888 | 16,888 | |||||||||||||
| Maidenhead Synagogue Homeless Appeal | 2,000 | 2,000 | |||||||||||||
| May Edwards | 1,500 | 1,500 | |||||||||||||
| Meath Epilepsy | 110,000 | 110,000 | |||||||||||||
| Medecins sans Frontieres UK | 20,000 | 20,000 | |||||||||||||
| Miles Frost Fund - British Heart Foundation | 6,000 | 6,000 | |||||||||||||
| MIND | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 30,000 | |||||||||||
| More Smiles Appeal | 25,000 | 25,000 | |||||||||||||
| Movement for Non-Mobile Children | 150,000 | 24,600 | 174,600 | ||||||||||||
| MQ mental health | 694,100 | 694,100 | |||||||||||||
| Multiple Sclerosis Society | 2,000 | 2,000 | |||||||||||||
| Myasthenia Gravis Association / Myaware (MGA) | 1,000 | 1,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 5,000 | 32,000 | |||||||
| NAPICU | 200,000 | 35,024 | 235,024 | ||||||||||||
| Narok University College | 707 | 707 | |||||||||||||
| Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children | 100,050 | 101,468 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 406,995 | 1,708,513 | |||||||
| Nicholas Mills Foundation | 5,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,500 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 95,500 | ||||
| Norwood | 28,500 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 353,500 | |||||
| Off Ploy | 30,000 | 30,000 | |||||||||||||
| One North East London | 10,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | ||||||||||||
| Open Charity t/a Foodshare Maidenhead | 20,000 | 20,000 | |||||||||||||
| Our Children Foundation UK | 25,000 | 25,000 | |||||||||||||
| Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies | 5,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 55,000 | ||||||||
| PACE Centre | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 20,000 | 95,000 | ||||||||||
| Pain Relief Foundation | 105,000 | 20,000 | 125,000 | ||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-Semitism | 20,000 | 20,000 | 40,000 | ||||||||||||
| Phyllis Akuru | 1,486 | 3,109 | 4,595 | ||||||||||||
| Pimlico Opera | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||||||
| Place2Be | 677,500 | 900,000 | 1,577,500 | ||||||||||||
| Policy Exchange | 15,000 | 15,000 | |||||||||||||
| Pratham UK | 33,500 | 33,500 | |||||||||||||
| Professional Teaching Institute | 30,000 | 30,000 | |||||||||||||
| Project 57 | 103,732 | 103,732 | |||||||||||||
| Rainbow Trust | 10,000 | 1,500 | 11,500 | ||||||||||||
| Ramadhan Kara Makarasa | 1,138 | 538 | 1,676 | ||||||||||||
| Rehab UK | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 40,000 | ||||||||||
| Resolution Property | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||||||||||||
| Shalom Foundation of the Zionist Federation | 10,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | ||||||||||||
| Shelter | 5,000 | 15,000 | 5,000 | 25,000 | |||||||||||
| Sight Savers International | 220,000 | 205,833 | 50,283 | 40,000 | 50,000 | 566,116 | |||||||||
| Smart Works | 15,000 | 15,000 | |||||||||||||
| Social Investment Consultancy | 19,600 | 19,600 | |||||||||||||
| Soham for Kids | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||||||||||
| South Bucks Hospice | 5,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | |||||||||||
| Spark Inside | 71,348 | 98,375 | 169,723 | ||||||||||||
| Speakability | 5,000 | 10,000 | 15,000 | ||||||||||||
| St Pancras Amateur Boxing Club | 1,500 | 1,500 | |||||||||||||
| Step2Recovery | 20,009 | 1,400 | 21,409 | ||||||||||||
| Sudbury Neighbourhood Centre | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||||||||||||
| Sue Ryder | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||||||||||
| Switch Back | 105,000 | 5,000 | 110,000 | ||||||||||||
| UKCP | 3,000 | 3,000 | |||||||||||||
| United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) | 50,000 | 50,000 | 25,000 | 125,000 | |||||||||||
| University of Bedfordshire | 100,000 | 100,000 | |||||||||||||
| Vallabhadas Dagra Indian Society for Mentally Retarded | 25,000 | 25,000 | |||||||||||||
| Variety Club | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||||||
| Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust | 50,000 | 50,000 | |||||||||||||
| We Belong | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||||||||||
| Well Child Trust | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||||||||||
| Westminster Synagogue | 2,500 | 11,000 | 18,000 | 5,000 | 6,000 | 3,000 | 3,300 | 48,800 | |||||||
| Wilderness Foundation UK | 50,000 | 30,000 | 80,000 | ||||||||||||
| Will Houghton Foundation | 5,000 | 5,250 | 10,250 | ||||||||||||
| William Wates Memorial Trust | 5,000 | 5,000 | |||||||||||||
| Working Chance | 15,000 | 15,000 | |||||||||||||
| Young Epilepsy | 1,500 | 225,000 | 226,500 | ||||||||||||
| Zionist Federation | 10,000 | 10,000 | |||||||||||||
Data Sources
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2008.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2009.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2010.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2012.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2016.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2017.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2018.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020.
- Trustees' Report and Financial Statements, The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Year Ended 31 December 2021.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust Trustees report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2022.
- The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023.
Trustees
| Name | Role | Date Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Bernard Lewis | Trustee | |
| Leonard Lewis | Trustee | |
| Clive Lewis | Trustee | |
| Caroline Grainge | Trustee |
See also
Contact
- Clive Lewis
- River island Clothing Co
- Chelsea House
- West Gate
- London
- W5 1DR
- Tel: 020 8991 4500
Notes
- ↑ Lewis Trust Group Ltd, Annual Report and Financial Statements made up to 31 December 2009, p.27.
- ↑ Lewis Trust Group Ltd... up to 31 December 2009, pp.3-4.
- ↑ Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 2 March 2015
- ↑ Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Financial Statements 31 December 2009, p.9.
