Bitton Charity Limited
Golders Green charitable company that earns 11% interest on a £400,000 property-development loan and funds UK Orthodox charities
| Bitton Charity Limited
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2019-04-24 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1183106; company 11678469 |
| Headquarters | London NW11 |
| Area served | Throughout England, Israel |
| Key people | Nissim Bitton (chair) |
Bitton Charity Limited is a charitable company (11678469) incorporated on 15 November 2018 and registered as a charity on 24 April 2019; its objects are the Jewish religion and education and the relief of poverty "throughout the world", and its register areas are England and Israel (PDF p.3).[1][2] The trustees are Nissim Bitton (chair), Dganit Bitton and Yaniv Barashi; the registered office is New Burlington House, 1075 Finchley Road, London NW11 (PDF p.3).[1][2] In 2025 it received donations of £31,500 and loan interest of £54,392, spent £75,937 on charitable activities and held funds of £461,825 (PDF p.7, 12).[2] The examiner is David Goldberg FCA DChA (4 June 2026).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE CHARITYÆS OBJECTS (ÔOBJECTSÖ) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO ADVANCING THE JEWISH RELIGION, ADVANCING JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY AMONG THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "To assist and promote the advancement and furtherance of the Jewish Religion and Jewish religious education.To alleviate poverty among the Jewish Community throughout the world.To undertake other charitable activities that the Trustees may from time to time determine."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dganit Bitton | 2018-11-15 | — | |
| Nissim Bitton | 2018-11-15 | Yes | — |
| Yaniv Barashi | 2018-11-15 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-09 | Dganit Bitton (from 15 November 2018); Yaniv Barashi (from 15 November 2018); Nissim Bitton (chair) (from 15 November 2018) | [3] |
At Companies House, all three directors were appointed on 15 November 2018.[4]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 3 current and former officers of the charitable company (11678469), 3 of them active.[5]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-31 | £0 | £171,542 |
| 2022-12-31 | £0 | £76,101 |
| 2023-12-31 | £0 | £135,521 |
| 2024-12-31 | £2,411 | £161,439 |
| 2025-12-31 | £85,892 | £75,937 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- 2025 grants: Achisomoch Aid Co Ltd £32,000; Chasdei Sorei £17,500; Kollel Hakol £15,000; Edupoor Ltd £10,000. No grantee is identified as Israeli (PDF p.13).[2]
Israeli partners
No Israeli partner 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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named.[2] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military 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;[6] 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.[7][8][9][10] 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.[11]
- Property-development loan. The charity's main asset is a £400,000 loan to Bridgepark Capital Ltd "for finance and development of a property", secured by a first legal charge at 11% a year for 12 months; the note says the loan was made "During the year", although the same £400,000 debtor appears at 31 December 2024 (PDF p.8, 14).[2]
- Inconsistencies. The report says the charity is "reliant mainly on voluntary donations from companies connected with the trustees", but loan interest exceeded donations in 2025; it supports institutions "in Great Britain" although the objects are worldwide; the staff note gives a head count of nil and three full-time equivalents; Nissim Bitton has lent the charity £5,000 interest-free (PDF p.3–4, 13, 15).[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).[12] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[13]
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.[14]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[15]
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.[16]
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.[17]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Bitton Charity" returned 0 contributions in total.[18]
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]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, Bitton Charity Limited (1183106): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1183106, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Companies House, BITTON CHARITY LIMITED (11678469) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Company 11678469: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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-18 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Sixteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the Porter Foundation showed "up to date (1 day late)", The Persian Hebrew Community "up to date (48 days late)", Bernard Kahn Charitable Trust "up to date (33 days late)" and the Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; Jassiane Limited showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 623 days"; The Friends of Birzeit University, The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls and John Hagee Ministries showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-18 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Bitton Charity' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1183106 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries 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, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Bitton Charity" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).