Afikim – The Israel Family Enrichment Association

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London trust, formerly the UK Friends of Meir Panim, that funded the Afikim after-school programme for at-risk children in Jerusalem, Kiryat Malachi and Kiryat Shmona; it was removed in 2012

Afikim – The Israel Family Enrichment Association

Logo Kiryat Shmona City Hall 2025.jpg
Kiryat Shmona City Hall; the 2010 accounts say the Afikim Association ran an after-school centre in Kiryat Shmona (2025)
Type Trust (removed)
Founded 2006-03-06 (registered)
Dissolved 2012-05-29 (removed from the register: Ceased to exist)
Registration ID Registered charity 1113173
Headquarters London N16 (2010 accounts)
Area served Throughout London, Israel


Afikim – The Israel Family Enrichment Association (formerly the Meor Panim London Charitable Trust and the UK Friends of Meir Panim Charitable Trust) was established by a trust deed of 2 February 2006, varied by a deed of 11 September 2006 and a resolution of 27 December 2007; it was registered on 6 March 2006 and removed on 29 May 2012 as "Ceased to exist".[1] The archived accounts for the year to 28 February 2010 name the trustees as J Margulies, D Margulies, A I Perelman, Ms R Masri and J Ozer, with a charity address in London N16, and describe the objects as the advancement of the Jewish religion and education and the relief of poverty among Jews worldwide.[2] The report says that "In 2007, the AFIKIM Association, rose to the challenge and developed a unique intervention program" for children at risk and their parents, and that it "presently operates a network of after-school centers in Jerusalem, Kiryat Malachi, and Kiryat Shmona".[2] Register income was shown as £167.14k in 2007, £170.40k in 2008, £76.18k in 2009 and £166.60k in 2010, and as £66,170 in its last year, to 28 February 2011, whose accounts were filed 146 days late.[1]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "I) THE ADVANCEMENT AND FURTHERANCE OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AND THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY AMONG THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.II) OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[3]

The register describes its activities as: "In 2007, the AFIKIM Association, rose to the challenge and developed a unique intervention program. The focus of the AFIKIM program is on children and their families. Our aim is to provide children at-risk with their immediate needs while integrating them into a long-term program geared towards excellence in education, values and character."[3]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[3]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel.[3]

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-03 Asher I Perelman; Joseph Margulies; David Margulies; Rebecca Masri; Joseph Ozer Asher [4]
2012-05-03 Asher I Perelman; Sidney Sinitsky; David Margulies; Rebecca Masri; Joseph Ozer Asher [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2009-02-28 £76,180 £91,990
2010-02-28 £166,597 £199,782
2011-02-28 £66,170 £66,920

Source: register annual-return history.[3]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2007[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2008[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2009[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2010[9]

Funding in Israel

  • The 2010 statement of financial activities has a line "Supporting Afikim's activities in Israel"; the amount could not be read reliably from the archived file.[2] Register spending was shown as £199.78k in 2010 and £66,920 in 2011.[1]

Israeli partners

Aerial view of Kiryat Malakhi (2012); the 2010 accounts say the Afikim Association ran after-school centres in Jerusalem, Kiryat Malachi and Kiryat Shmona

The AFIKIM Association, Israel, which the 2010 report says runs after-school educational centres and parental empowerment centres following "a Ministry of Education curriculum".[2]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
The 2010 report places the centres in Jerusalem, Kiryat Malachi and Kiryat Shmona; no centre is placed beyond the Green Line.[2] High

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[10][11][12][13][14] The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Ceased to exist".[1]
  • Late and missing filings. The 2011 accounts were 146 days late and those for 2012 were not submitted.[1]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[17]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[19]

Land and property

The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[3] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[20]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Afikim - The Israel Family Enrichment Association", "Israel Family Enrichment Association", "Meir Panim London", "Meor Panim London" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[22]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Charity Commission, Afikim - The Israel Family Enrichment Association (1113173): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("06 March 2006: Standard registration 29 May 2012: Removed (Ceased to exist)").
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, Afikim – The Israel Family Enrichment Association: accounts for the year ended 28 February 2010 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 06/01/2012. (part of the PDF text layer uses a shifted font encoding and was decoded; figures in those parts could not be read reliably).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1113173, contact and trustees (capture of 20100703) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1113173, contact and trustees (capture of 20120503) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Afikim – The Israel Family Enrichment Association accounts, year ended 2007-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120106).
  7. ↑ Afikim – The Israel Family Enrichment Association accounts, year ended 2008-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120107).
  8. ↑ Afikim – The Israel Family Enrichment Association accounts, year ended 2009-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120106).
  9. ↑ Afikim – The Israel Family Enrichment Association accounts, year ended 2010-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120106).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date).
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-20 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (a name-only hit for "Sheila & Denis Cohen Charitable Trust" was not established to be connected with the Cohen Charitable Trust and is disregarded).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-20 charity names returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Afikim' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1113173 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-20 screening covered 272 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people and bodies named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Weiss, Sara, Masri, Cohen) or generic words in organisation names (Limited, Company, Trust).
  20. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Afikim" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  22. ↑ Register entry 1113173, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
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