A W CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 283322 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides grants to institutions set up to support the needy and to those furthering the Orthodox Jewish Religion and Orthodox Jewish education.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Latest income

£17.6m

Latest spending

£11.9m

Registered

1981

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted revenue funds increased to £249,199,801, while total unrestricted funds decreased to £270,497,918 due to a significant unrealised loss on investment revaluations. The trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory and confirm that resources are adequate to continue operations and make charitable grants.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Investments (97% of income)

“Investments 17,599,832” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: retain reserves for the repayment of loans and unforeseen contingencies (held: £249.2m)

“The trustees intend to maintain a high level of distributions from income and to also retain reserves for the repayment of loans and unforeseen contingencies.” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Combined Property Control, controlled by trustee A Weis, acted as managing agents with no fees charged. The group owed £479,207 to Combined Property Control at year end.

“During the year Combined Property Control controlled by A Weis acted as managing agents to the group. No management fees were charged for their services. During the year the group received loans from Combined Property Control . At the year end Combined Property Control was owed £479,207 by the group.” — page 32

“All the trustees of the group are trustees of The Helping Foundation, a registered charity, At the year beginning the foundation owed the group £1,933,971. This was repaid in the year.” — page 32

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The Helping Foundation, a charity where all trustees serve, owed £1,933,971 at the start of the year, which was repaid.

“During the year Combined Property Control controlled by A Weis acted as managing agents to the group. No management fees were charged for their services. During the year the group received loans from Combined Property Control . At the year end Combined Property Control was owed £479,207 by the group.” — page 32

“All the trustees of the group are trustees of The Helping Foundation, a registered charity, At the year beginning the foundation owed the group £1,933,971. This was repaid in the year.” — page 32

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Newmarston Ltd, a charity where Sir Weis is a trustee, owed £4,568,812 interest-free at the start of the year, which was repaid.

“During the year Combined Property Control controlled by A Weis acted as managing agents to the group. No management fees were charged for their services. During the year the group received loans from Combined Property Control . At the year end Combined Property Control was owed £479,207 by the group.” — page 32

“All the trustees of the group are trustees of The Helping Foundation, a registered charity, At the year beginning the foundation owed the group £1,933,971. This was repaid in the year.” — page 32

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Wholly owned subsidiaries Barnsfold Limited and Torland Limited were owed £2,200,453 and £868,690 respectively by the charity.

“During the year Combined Property Control controlled by A Weis acted as managing agents to the group. No management fees were charged for their services. During the year the group received loans from Combined Property Control . At the year end Combined Property Control was owed £479,207 by the group.” — page 32

“All the trustees of the group are trustees of The Helping Foundation, a registered charity, At the year beginning the foundation owed the group £1,933,971. This was repaid in the year.” — page 32

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Barnsfold Limited, Torland Limited

“The Charity has two wholly owned non-charitable subsidiaries, Barnsfold Limited and Torland Limited, whose activities and trading performance are disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by B Olsberg & Co. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income

£17.6m

Total spending

£11.9m

Cost of raising funds

£1.4m

Reserves (reported)

£270.5m

Employees

0

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

RABBI AUBREY WEIS · trustee of 1 other charity
RACHEL WEIS · trustee of 1 other charity
SIR WEIS · trustee of 2 other charities

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Gateshead · Manchester City · Salford City · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/06/2025	£17.6m	£11.9m
30/06/2024	£27.6m	£7.5m
30/06/2023	£21.9m	£19.9m
30/06/2022	£16.0m	£7.5m
30/06/2021	£16.4m	£13.9m

Common questions

Is A W CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted revenue funds increased to £249,199,801, while total unrestricted funds decreased to £270,497,918 due to a significant unrealised loss on investment revaluations. The trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory and confirm that resources are adequate to continue operations and make charitable grants. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by B Olsberg & Co.

Who funds A W CHARITABLE TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name A W CHARITABLE TRUST as a grant recipient include THE HELPING FOUNDATION.

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

RABBI AUBREY WEIS — trustee here and at THE HELPING FOUNDATION
RACHEL WEIS — trustee here and at THE HELPING FOUNDATION
SIR WEIS — trustee here and at THE HELPING FOUNDATION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE HELPING FOUNDATION	FY2023	£10.0m	Advancement of education/relief of poverty

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
TRUMROS LIMITED	1	£161k
COUNTYPIER LIMITED	1	£116k
C E K STERN CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£35k
HURDALE CHARITY LIMITED	1	£25k
REIFER MEMORIAL LIMITED	1	£20k
AHAVAS SHALOM TRUST	1	£7k
BIG BEN TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LINGATE CHARITABLE TRUST.

LINGATE CHARITABLE TRUST income £122k
BEFORE TRUST income £219k
I WAQF CHARITABLE TRUST income £283k
WISEHEIGHTS LIMITED income £3.7m
S O CHARITABLE TRUST income £149k
ALEXANDER SHTIEBEL income £248k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
A W CHARITABLE TRUST	£17.6m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
LINGATE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£122k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BEFORE TRUST FY2025	£219k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
I WAQF CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£283k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
WISEHEIGHTS LIMITED FY2025	£3.7m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
S O CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£149k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.