Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust

Not to be confused with the Lewis Family Charitable Trust
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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 billionLewis Trust Group Ltd, Annual Report and Financial Statements made up to 31 December 2009, p.27. including 13 hotels in Israel and three in the United States.Lewis Trust Group Ltd... up to 31 December 2009, pp.3-4. 
==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
 Electoral Commission, Donation Search, accessed 2 March 2015 
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.Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, Financial Statements 31 December 2009, p.9.
==Grants paid==
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 	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==
*David & Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust
==Contact==
:Clive Lewis
:River island Clothing Co
:Chelsea House
:West Gate
:London
:W5 1DR
:Tel: 020 8991 4500
==Notes==
Category:Conservative Party Donors Category: Civitas Category: Centre for Social Cohesion Category: Policy Exchange Category: Foundations