Acheinu Limited
| Acheinmu Limited | |
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| Type | Charitable company |
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| Founded | Incorporated 3 April 2009; registered as a charity 1 October 2009 |
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| Dissolved | |
| Registration ID | 1131948 |
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| Headquarters | |
| Location | 240 Hendon Way, London NW4 3NL |
| Area served | |
| Services | |
| Registration | |
| Key people | Maurice Moshe Frankel (chair); Mathew Daniel Sher; David Wilner; Ari Leaman (founder / chief executive) |
| Website | https://www.theclubhouse.biz |
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Acheinu Limited (charity number 1131948; company number 06868489), working name The Boys Clubhouse, is an English charitable company incorporated on 3 April 2009 and registered on 1 October 2009. It supports Jewish children and young men at risk of social and economic exclusion, including those excluded from school or affected by family breakdown, homelessness or addiction. Services described by the charity and in its accounts include accommodation, food, employment and vocational training, education, therapy and mentoring. It operates throughout London and also lists Bury, Gateshead, Salford and Israel. Gift Aid is recorded. It owns or leases land or property. Reporting is up to date. There is no current statutory-inquiry alert on the register.[1][2][3]
In January 2024 the Charity Commission opened a regulatory compliance case (not a section 46 statutory class inquiry) after the charity advertised a lunch with Levi Simon, a British man who had served with the Israeli army in Gaza, as a “special star guest”. Protests and counter-protests formed outside the Hendon premises; police said the advertised event was cancelled at that site and it went ahead at another address. Founder and chief executive Ari Leaman MBE told the Jewish Chronicle that Simon had been invited to speak to four excluded schoolboys about overcoming adversity and not doing drugs, and that the talk “had nothing to do with the army”.[4][5]
Middle East Eye later reported that the charity runs a Jerusalem project known as the Cave Club which assists young British men, including some previously supported in London, to join the Israeli army’s lone-soldiers programme. The Commission’s published register entry does not describe the outcome of the 2024 compliance case.[6]
Objects
(I) The relief of poverty hardship and distress including emotional distress amongst Jewish children and young people in particular but not exclusively by the provision of educational services, vocational training and recreational facilities with the object of improving the conditions of life of such persons and so that they become actively engaged in society and useful citizens
(II) The advancement of education of Jewish young persons whose welfare is at risk or impaired by abuse or neglect or social disadvantage
(III) The advancement of such other objects as are for the benefit of the public and are charitable according to English law.[1]
Area of benefit: undefined; in practice national and overseas. Beneficiaries listed: children/young people; people with disabilities; people of a particular ethnic or racial origin. How: grants to individuals; buildings/facilities; services. Three trustees; two employees; eight volunteers. No trading subsidiaries. No trustee remuneration.[1]
The charity’s website and 2022 trustees’ report describe a homeless shelter, gym, music studio and a Business Enterprise Unit (CBE, piloted 2013) using online selling platforms for employability training.[3][2]
Contact
- Address: 240 Hendon Way, London NW4 3NL
- Accounts correspondence has also used 8 Rodborough Road, London NW11 8RY
- Phone: 020 8090 5094
- Email: info@theboysclubhouse.co.uk
- Website: https://www.theclubhouse.biz (also theboysclubhouse.co.uk)[1][2]
People
Trustees
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other charities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice Moshe Frankel | Chair | None on record | |
| Mathew Daniel Sher | Trustee | 1 May 2024 | None on record |
| David Wilner | Trustee | 20 April 2015 | None on record |
Ari Leaman MBE is described in contemporaneous reporting as founder and chief executive; he is not listed as a current Commission trustee.[5]
Finances
| Year to 30 April | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | £246.71k | £367.89k |
| 2022 | £799.18k | £574.32k |
| 2023 | £328.35k | £526.55k |
| 2024 | £903.62k | £621.95k |
| 2025 | £552,129 | £594,445 |
Income is mainly donations, plus some trading. Own-use assets about £691,000 in recent years; other assets £249,370 and liabilities £212,130 at 30 April 2025. A £1,000 government grant is recorded for 2021 only.[1]
360Giving records include a City Bridge Foundation award of £30,829 (31 May 2024, three years) towards psychotherapy and counselling costs, and earlier grants from the National Lottery Community Fund, Garfield Weston Foundation, Greater London Authority, London Marathon Foundation, Power to Change and The Childhood Trust. After the January 2024 event, the Mayor of London’s office publicly distanced itself from past funding listed on the charity’s site.[7][4]
Regulatory compliance case and controversy
On 17 January 2024 the Commission told Middle East Eye it had opened a regulatory compliance case “to assess concerns raised about an event allegedly hosted by the charity” and had contacted the trustees. That is a lower-level engagement than a statutory inquiry under section 46 of the Charities Act 2011. The current full-print register page carries no inquiry or compliance alert.[4][1]
Simon had posted Gaza footage on social media. Critics circulated the charity’s address; a lunchtime gathering outside 240 Hendon Way involved protesters and counter-protesters. The Jewish Chronicle reported that the talk moved to another venue and quoted Leaman on its intended pastoral purpose. Middle East Eye separately reported the Cave Club / lone-soldiers link in Jerusalem; that report has not been adopted as a Commission finding on the register.[5][6]
Acheinu Limited does not appear on the Commission’s published first lists of charities in the £22 million cashed-cheques class inquiry.[8]
See also
- Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator
- Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques
- Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques
- British Jewish or Zionist charities investigated by the Charity Commission, 2005-2023
- British Jewish charities investigated by the Charity Commission
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Charity Commission, ACHEINU LIMITED - 1131948 Register of Charities, accessed 26 September 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Acheinu Limited, Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 April 2022.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Boys Clubhouse, Home.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Middle East Eye, UK regulator investigating charity over event with British-Israeli soldier, 17 January 2024.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Charity mobbed by hooded men after hosting controversial IDF soldier Levi Simon, 17 January 2024.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Middle East Eye, London Jewish youth club helps 'teenagers in crisis' join Israeli army, 24 January 2024.
- ↑ Jane Prinsley, Orthodox charities investigated over £22m cheque-cashing scandal Jewish Chronicle, 14 May 2025.