British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov

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Salford family trust passing all its receipts to the Meohr Bais Yaakov seminary in Jerusalem

British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov

Type Trust
Founded 2009-05-14 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1129628
Headquarters Salford M7
Area served Israel


British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov is a charitable trust (trust deed of 17 March 2009) registered on 14 May 2009; its only register area is Israel.[1][2] Its trustees are Reuben Michael Hill, Doreen Hill and Jonathan Henry Hill, with an address in Salford M7 (OCR, PDF p.2–4).[1][2] It furthers "the religious education of the students of Meohr Beis Yaakov in Israel by the provision of grants". For the year to 31 March 2025 the register records income of £146,989 and spending of £175,044; the filed receipts-and-payments accounts, which are partly illegible, show cash of £54,629 and state that "All monies are donated to Meohr Bais Yaakov" (OCR, PDF p.1–2, 6).[1][2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE FURTHERANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF THE STUDENTS OF MEOHR BAIS YAAKOV IN ISRAEL BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS AND OTHER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The furtherance of the religious education of the students of Meohr Beis Yaakov in Israel by the provision of grants and other financial assistance."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training.[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]

Trustees of British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Reuben Michael Hill not recorded British Friends of Yeshiva Bircas Mordechai (1119274)
Doreen Hill not recorded —
Jonathan Henry Hill 2018-09-13 British Friends of Yeshiva Bircas Mordechai (1119274)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-04 Doreen Hill; Jonathan Henry Hill (from 13 September 2018) – also trustee of British Friends of Yeshiva Bircas Mordechai; Reuben Michael Hill – also trustee of British Friends of Yeshiva Bircas Mordechai [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £196,689 £145,392
2022-03-31 £163,273 £246,052
2023-03-31 £178,681 £120,335
2024-03-31 £134,811 £125,035
2025-03-31 £146,989 £175,044

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 31/03/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 payments £175,044 (register figure); the report states that all money is donated to Meohr Bais Yaakov (OCR, PDF p.6).[1][2]

Israeli partners

Meohr Bais Yaakov, a seminary whose website gives its address as Rechov Hagai 1, Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem.[9]

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
Meohr Bais Yaakov gives its address as Rechov Hagai 1, Beit Hakerem, Jerusalem; no activity beyond the Green Line is stated.[9] High

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;[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]
  • Poor filed copy. The accounts are a scanned receipts-and-payments return that is illegible in places, so the year's figures here are taken from the register (OCR, PDF p.1).[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).[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.[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, 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.[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]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
Friends Of Meohr Bais Yaakov Inc[22] 822007319 2023 364,226 253,644

These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Meohr Bais Yaakov" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

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 (2 days late)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

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 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 2.5 Charity Commission, British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov (1129628): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1129628, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  5. ↑ British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  6. ↑ British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ British Friends of Meohr Bais Yaakov accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Me'ohr Bais Yaakov, Welcome to the Me'ohr website meohr.com, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("Meohr Bais Yaakov, Rechov Hagai 1, Beit Hakerem Yerushalayim").
  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 each of the 25 batch-15 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; The Kolel Limited showed "up to date (85 days late)" and Practical Compassion for Destitute Children "up to date (2 days late)"; Lionel Black Charitable Trust, Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad, Prayer for Israel (326132) and The Maurice Wohl Charitable Trust showed "Removed charity".
  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.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  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).
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-15 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-15 charity names returned no matching charity; the only result, for "Donkey", was an unrelated Belfast organisation).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Meohr Bais Yaakov' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1129628 360Giving, queried 16 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-15 screening covered 227 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the three charitable companies and of J. E. Joseph Trustee Company Limited, directors of the dissolved Friends of Horim company (01966551), and trustees, executive-committee members, examiners and other people 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 Hassan, Friedman, Cohen and Sabah) or the generic words "Company Limited"; 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 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.
  22. ↑ Friends Of Meohr Bais Yaakov Inc – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 16 October 2026.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Meohr Bais Yaakov" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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