THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1181806 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's activities involve remembering and developing learning on the Holocaust and the historical context in which it occurred. The charity's primary activity is to support (by grant-funding) the establishment and subsequent operation of a new UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre which is proposed to be built in Victoria Tower Gardens, London, adjacent to the Houses of Parliament.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, EITHER DIRECTLY OR BY WAY OF MAKING GRANTS:(A) TO PROMOTE MENTAL AND MORAL IMPROVEMENT BY REMEMBERING AND REFLECTING UPON THE HOLOCAUST IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION OF THE PROPOSED HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND LEARNING CENTRE AT VICTORIA GARDENS IN LONDON;(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN RELATION TO THE HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS, IN PARTICULAR DEMOCRACY AND THE POLITICAL CONTEXT IN WHICH THE HOLOCAUST OCCURRED AND THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING MINORITIES WITHIN A DEMOCRACY;(C) TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY • RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES• PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;• PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATION.(D) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AND IN PARTICULAR THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RELIGION, RACE, DISABILITY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION; AND (E) TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE WHICH RELATE TO THE HOLOCAUST OR GENOCIDE OR PERSECUTION MORE GENERALLY.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• SIR GERALD MAURICE RONSON CBEchair
• Edward Michael Balls · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lord Andrew Simon Feldman Lord Feldman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lord Eric Jack Pickles Lord Pickles
• Lord Stuart Polak
• Natasha Kaplinsky · trustee of 4 other charities
• Peter Geoffrey FREEMAN
• Sir Lloyd Marshall Dorfman

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Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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