BFON Trust

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Golders Green trust for the Nadvorne charity in Jerusalem whose register filings for 2021–2025 are shown as not received

BFON Trust

Type Other
Founded 2005-12-09 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1112466
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Israel, Throughout England


BFON Trust, also known as British Friends of Nadvorne, is a trust established by a declaration of 17 November 2005 and registered on 9 December 2005; register areas are Israel and England.[1] Its objects are the relief of poverty, sickness and infirmity among Jewish people throughout the world, in particular by supporting the charitable activities of "Nadvorne, 6 Rechov Chana, Jerusalem, Israel".[1] The trustees are Jonathan Joseph Shapiro, Samuel Feld and Jacob Moskovitz, with a register address in London NW11.[1] The latest figures held by the register, for the year to 31 March 2021, show income of £98,727 and spending of £93,551; accounts for that year were received on 9 May 2022.[1] The latest accounts found, for the year to 31 March 2013, show donations of £999,512 and relief-of-poverty grants of £931,004, with no recipient named (PDF p.6, 8).[2] In November 2020 The National Lottery Community Fund gave the charity £10,000 for Covid support to Orthodox Jewish families.

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONG PERSONS OF THE JEWISH FAITH THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR BY SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANISATION (THE ORGANISATION BEING NADVORNE, 6 RECHOV CHANA, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - IS WAS ESTABLISHED TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED IN PARTICULAR THE AGED FEEBLE INFIRM THE SICK AND THOSE SUFFERING FINANCIAL HARDSHIP THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A VOLUNTARY SERVICE PROVIDING FOOD CLOTHING AND FINANCE TO SUCH PERSONS LIVING IN ISRAEL).THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH OF THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINEINCLUDING PAYMENTS BY WAY OF GIFT OR LOAN (WITH OR WITHOUT INTEREST) TO INDIVIDUAL PERSONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSONS QUALIFY AS OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANISATION AS DETERMINED BY ENGLISH LAW."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "THE OBJECTIVES OF THE TRUST CONTINUE TO BE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONG PERSONS OF THE JEWISH FAITH."[1]

Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Throughout England.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of BFON Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Samuel Feld not recorded —
Jacob Moskovitz not recorded —
Jonathan Joseph Shapiro not recorded The Leifer Trust (1116821); Y.m.e.r. CIO (1181160)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-09-07 Jonathan Joseph Shapiro; Samuel Feld; Jacob Moskovitz [3]
2013-01-06 Jonathan Joseph Shapiro; Samuel Feld; Jacob Moskovitz [4]
2013-09-03 Jonathan Joseph Shapiro; Samuel Feld; Jacob Moskovitz [5]
2014-09-04 Jonathan Joseph Shapiro; Samuel Feld; Jacob Moskovitz [6]
2021-07-04 Jonathan Joseph Shapiro – also trustee of Y.m.e.r. CIO, The Leifer Trust; Samuel Feld; Jacob Moskovitz [7]

Jonathan Shapiro is also a trustee of Y.M.E.R. CIO and The Leifer Trust.[8]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £98,727 £93,551

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Mar 2007 318,679 320,731 [9]
31 Mar 2008 467,675 451,215 [9]
31 Mar 2009 796,001 813,930 [9]
31 Mar 2010 703,932 733,456 [10]
31 Mar 2011 625,533 687,302 [10]
31 Mar 2012 752,088 710,210 [10]
31 Mar 2013 999,512 933,019 [10]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2008[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2011[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2012[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2013[16]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2013 relief-of-poverty grants £931,004 (2012: £708,241); the accounts name no recipient and do not mention Israel (PDF p.6, 8).[2] No later accounts were found.[8]

Israeli partners

The registered objects name Nadvorne, 6 Rechov Chana, Jerusalem; the accounts found do not mention it.[1][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 registered objects give the Nadvorne organisation's address as 6 Rechov Chana, Jerusalem; whether this is in East or West Jerusalem is not established.[1] Not established

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

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[17] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[18][19][20][21] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[22]
  • Filings shown as missing. The live register's full print lists the annual returns and accounts for the years ending 31 March 2021 to 2025 with no date received, and its overview page shows no reporting-status line; the register extract records the charity's reporting status as "Suppressed".[8][17][1]
  • No accounts available. No accounts are downloadable from the live register; the latest found, in the web archive, are for 2013.[8][2]

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).[23] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[24]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists naming Nadvorne Estates Ltd, a separate company; no notice naming the charity was found.[25]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2020-11-27 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 The project will provide one to one mental health support alongside awareness raising of COVID-19 and food parcels to Orthodox Jewish famili

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[26]

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.[27]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[28]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "BFON Trust", "British Friends of Nadvorne", "Nadvorne" returned 0 contributions in total.[29]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 6 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above).

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 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.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Charity Commission, BFON Trust: financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2013 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 04/09/2014 (the latest accounts found; none is downloadable from the live register; auditor Goldwins Limited; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1112466, contact and trustees (capture of 20110907) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1112466, contact and trustees (capture of 20130106) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1112466, contact and trustees (capture of 20130903) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 1112466, contact and trustees (capture of 20140904) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Register entry 1112466, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Charity Commission, BFON TRUST – 1112466, full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 (the accounts and annual returns table lists the years ending 31 March 2021 to 31 March 2025 with no date received; other name British Friends Of Nadvorne; not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Register entry 1112466, financial history (capture of 20110907) UK Government Web Archive.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Register entry 1112466, financial history (capture of 20140904) UK Government Web Archive.
  11. ↑ BFON Trust accounts, year ended 2008-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
  12. ↑ BFON Trust accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
  13. ↑ BFON Trust accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  14. ↑ BFON Trust accounts, year ended 2011-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  15. ↑ BFON Trust accounts, year ended 2012-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  16. ↑ BFON Trust accounts, year ended 2013-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-17 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Starscope Limited showed "up to date (23 days late)", UK Friends of Tzohar "up to date (18 days late)" and The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; BFON Trust showed no reporting-status line; Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Michoel, Friends of Reb Sender Dominitz, Emerald Benevolence Ltd and Academic Study Group showed "Removed charity".
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  21. ↑ 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).
  22. ↑ 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").
  23. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-17 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  24. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-17 charity names returned no matching charity).
  25. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'BFON Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  26. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1112466 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  27. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-17 screening covered 231 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight 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 Rotenberg, Weiss, Levy and Cohen) or generic words such as "Ltd", "International", "Group" and "Team"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  28. ↑ 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.
  29. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "BFON Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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