British Friends of Agudat Beit Avraham
Golders Green trust that sent £79,193 in 2025/26 to the Israeli charity Agudat Beit Avraham
| British Friends of Agudat Beit Avraham
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2016-07-07 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1168114 |
| Headquarters | London NW11 |
| Area served | Israel |
| Key people | Ethel Hekelman (chair) |
British Friends of Agudat Beit Avraham (also registered as "British Friends of Agudat Beis Avraham") is a trust established by a declaration of trust of 9 March 2016 and registered on 7 July 2016; its principal address is in London NW11 (PDF p.3–4).[1][2] It supports "Agudat Beit Avraham", an Israeli charity, and "seeks donations from individuals" (PDF p.4).[2] The trustees are Ethel Hekelman and Myriam Mendelsohn; the independent examiner is S. D. Stern of Stern Associates, London NW11 (PDF p.3, 5).[2] In the year to 31 March 2026 donations were £83,026 (2025: £88,301), grants to Agudat Beit Avraham in Israel £79,193 (2025: £81,400) and grants to "other individuals" £1,000 (2025: £4,500) (PDF p.4, 6).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (AS CHARITABLE IN ENGLISH LAW) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT. IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE SUPPORT OF ÔAGUDAT BEIS AVRAHAMÖ AN ISRAELI CHARITY ESTABLISHED IN ISRAEL WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "To further such charitable purposes as charitable in English Law as the trustees see fit. In particular, but not exclusively, in the support of Agudat Beit Avraham an Israeli charity established in Israel with a particular focus on the relief of poverty and the advancement of education."[1]
Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethel Hekelman | 2016-03-09 | Yes | — |
| Myriam Mendelsohn | 2016-03-09 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-13 | Myriam Mendelsohn (from 09 March 2016); Hilary Scheiner (from 09 March 2016); Ethel Hekelman (chair) (from 09 March 2016) | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £82,630 | £83,170 |
| 2023-03-31 | £77,220 | £77,084 |
| 2024-03-31 | £103,509 | £103,085 |
| 2025-03-31 | £88,301 | £88,771 |
| 2026-03-31 | £83,026 | £82,857 |
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 31/03/2017[4]
Funding in Israel
- Year to 31 March 2026: grants to Agudat Beit Avraham, Israel £79,193 (2025: £81,400) (PDF p.4, 6).[2]
Israeli partners
Agudat Beit Avraham, an Israeli charity; the accounts do not say where it works or what it does (PDF p.4).[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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
- Wrong charity number. The trustees' report gives the charity number as 1071809; the charity's number is 1168114 (PDF p.3).[2][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).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]
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.[13]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[14]
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.[15]
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.[16]
US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)
| Organisation | EIN | Latest filing year | Revenue (US$) | Expenses (US$) |
|---|
This US organisation shares the UK charity's beneficiary; its latest return shows no revenue, and no financial flows between it and the UK charity were established.[2]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "British Friends of Agudat Beit Avraham", "Agudat Beit Avraham" returned 0 contributions in total.[17]
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, British Friends of Agudat Beit Avraham (1168114): 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 1168114, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ British Friends of Agudat Beit Avraham accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ 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-19 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Twenty-two registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 1691 days"; Leibovici Charitable Trust and Friends of Bereaved Families Forum (1118221) 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-19 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-19 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'British Friends of Agudat Beit Avraham' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1168114 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-19 screening covered 358 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, grantees 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 Miller, Gold) or generic words in organisation names (Trust, Ltd, Limited).
- ↑ 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 "British Friends of Agudat Beit Avraham" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).