In order to preserve the heritage of the community he had left behind, soon after settling in the UK, he founded a community centre in West
Kensington for new Iraqi Jewish immigrants, and in 1971 began editing and publishing
The Scribe – Journal of Babylonian Jewry, with 4000 subscribers in 25 countries which continued to be published for 35 years. In 1970, he revived the title of
Exilarch – an ancient title held by the supreme leader of all the Jewish communities in
Babylonia, up until the 13th century. During the sanctions on Iraq, Dangoor donated a significant amount to needy people in the country. In 2003, he demanded £12 billion ($20 billion) from Iraq's leaders as compensation for what the Iraqi-Jewish community had lost in Iraq after the
Second World War. As his business in the UK grew, he wanted to give back to the country that had taken him in. In 1980 he set up the Exilarch's Foundation, a charity that has made numerous donations to causes relating to education and health. In 2004, he created the Dangoor Scholarships to help one thousand undergraduate students who had no family history of further education, at the 1994 Group of universities. The Exilarch's Foundation also sponsors the Westminster Academy in West London, whose pupils hail from over 60 countries, many in the Middle East. Dangoor's family have been closely involved with the running of the school and have seen it go from being issued with an Ofsted 'Notice to Improve' in 2009, to being rated as 'Outstanding' in 2013. Since the Academy opened the number of students achieving five A*-C GCSE grades including both English and Maths has increased from 17% to 70% in 2014. Dangoor also donated a significant amount to
Cancer Research UK to support their website, in memory of his late wife Renée, who died from breast cancer in 2008. At
Bar-Ilan University in Israel, Dangoor set up the Dangoor Centre for Personalised Medicine in the
Galilee, which partners with hospitals to analyse the genetic makeup of individual patients, enabling doctors to implement the most effective treatments. In 2014 he made the largest gift to the
Royal Society of Medicine in its history. The donation is being used to help support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who would like to pursue a career in medicine, as well as supporting the society's post-graduate education provision. Dangoor was also the largest private individual donor to the
Francis Crick Institute in London, Europe's largest biomedical research centre. Dangoor Walk, a pathway that runs beside the Francis Crick Institute and links Midland Road with Ossulston Street, is named after him. Through his foundation Dangoor promoted the idea of 'Universal Monotheism' a concept that he believes can bring about unity and create a framework for a global religious ethic. He has sponsored the setting up of a Centre for Universal Monotheism at
Bar-Ilan University from which he received an honorary doctorate in 2006. He made contributions to the
University of Nanjing in China, and had a particular interest in China because his late wife Renée was born and grew up in
Shanghai. In Nanjing he funded scholarships for the university's Jewish Studies Institute and sponsored an international symposium on monotheism, attended by delegates from all over China, the US, Australia and Israel. In 2011 he was made a consultant professor of the University of Nanjing in recognition of his contributions. ==Honours ==