Binyen Torah Limited

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Small Stamford Hill charitable company passing on about £1m a year in donations, with negative net assets

Binyen Torah Limited

Type Charitable company
Founded 2013-05-03 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1151892; company 08393109
Headquarters Venitt & Greaves, 115 Craven Park Road, London, N15 6BL
Area served Hackney, Belgium, Israel
Key people Samuel Tambur (chair)


Binyen Torah Limited is a charitable company (08393109) registered on 3 May 2013, with its registered office at 69 Lordship Road, London N16 0QX; register areas are Hackney, Belgium and Israel.[1][2] In the year ended 28 February 2025 donations received were £983,881 (2024: £890,834) and donations made £1,030,810 (2024: £751,069), of which £453,443 is shown as grants to institutions; the balance is not analysed.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITHII) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT AS ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The advancement of the Orthodox Jewish religion,Orthodox Jewish education and education in general. The relief of poverty, sickness and infirmity by providing grants or services to individuals in need and/ or charities ot other organisations to prevent /relief of poverty"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Hackney, Belgium, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Binyen Torah Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Samuel Tambur 2013-05-02 Yes Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited (1125997); Kollel Veyoel Moshe (1172072); Kollel Satmar (1153160); Machsikei Yeshive (1154995); Mosdos Satmar LIMITED (1147131)
Lea Rosenberg 2024-09-15 Kollel Veyoel Moshe (1172072); Kollel Satmar (1153160)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-16 Miriam Tambur (from 02 May 2013); Samuel Tambur (chair) (from 02 May 2013) – also trustee of Yeshiva Gedolah Torah Veyirah Seven Oaks Limited, Machsikei Yeshive, Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited, Friends of Yeshiva Gedolah Sevenoaks, Kollel Veyoel Moshe [3]

The FY2025 accounts list S Tambur, E Friedman (appointed 15 September 2024) and C Rosenberg (appointed 15 September 2024) as trustees.[2] Companies House shows only Chave Rosenberg and Samuel Tambur as active directors; no Companies House appointment for E Friedman was found.

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 4 current and former officers of the charitable company (08393109), 2 of them active.[4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-02-28 £909,263 £965,603
2022-02-28 £990,271 £1,139,603
2023-02-28 £969,579 £816,806
2024-03-03 £890,834 £832,885
2025-03-03 £983,881 £1,052,432

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/02/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2018[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2019[9]

Funding in Israel

  • No recipients or countries are named in the FY2025 accounts.[2]

Israeli partners

No partner organisation is named.[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
Not established.[2] Low

Support for the IDF: No IDF funding is stated.[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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
  • Negative net assets and Bounce Back Loan. Net assets were –£48,706 at the year end, and a Bounce Back Loan balance of £37,046 was outstanding. £22,890 was donated to charities sharing common trustees.[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages 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.[20]

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.[21]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Binyen Torah' returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

See also

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Binyen Torah Limited (1151892): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1151892, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Company 08393109: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Binyen Torah Limited accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  6. ↑ Binyen Torah Limited accounts, year ended 2016-02-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ Binyen Torah Limited accounts, year ended 2017-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ Binyen Torah Limited accounts, year ended 2018-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ Binyen Torah Limited accounts, year ended 2019-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  10. ↑ 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 every charity in batches 1–7 (175 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  14. ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-4 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-4 charity name returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Binyen Torah' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1151892 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-4 screening covered 354 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive) and Companies House officers of the 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 14 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.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Binyen Torah' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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