British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel

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Stamford Hill trust funding Chernobyl Hasidic institutions, with a negative fund balance

British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel

Type Other
Founded 1998-08-05 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1070877
Headquarters 160 Holmleigh Road, London, N16 5PY
Area served Israel


British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel is an unincorporated charity registered on 5 August 1998, with its principal address at 16 Holmleigh Road, London N16 5PY; its only register area is Israel.[1][2] Trustees are A Schechter, N B Bindiger and N Ollech (appointed 25 November 2025). In the year ended 31 March 2025 income was £1,073,613, expenditure £1,148,049, grants to institutions £1,064,005 (2024: £853,393) and to individuals £35,000; funds were –£137,736 at the year end.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND EDUCATION GENERALLY (C) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND (D) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "General charitable grants and donations"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, 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]

Trustees of British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Rabbi Nathan Benjamin Bindiger not recorded —
Abraham Schechter 2013-03-07 Get Set Girls (1085966); The Interlink Foundation (1079311)
Nathan Ollech 2025-11-25 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-02 Abraham Schechter (from 07 March 2013) – also trustee of Beis Yaakov London Seminary, British Friends of Chaiyanu, Get Set Girls, Youthdirect, The Interlink Foundation; Rabbi Nathan Benjamin Bindiger [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £696,125 £714,638
2022-03-31 £979,947 £1,015,438
2023-03-31 £999,108 £1,143,054
2024-03-31 £957,370 £899,151
2025-03-31 £1,073,613 £1,148,049

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]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[9]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 named grants: Geon Tzvi £491,080 (2024: £524,255); Mosdos Chasidut Chernebel £211,000; Merkaz De Chasedei Tchernobel £83,000; Yisamach Lev £69,000 (2024: £238,500); Meirat Einayim £47,073; Frankgiving Ltd £35,000; others under £30,000 £127,852.[2]

Israeli partners

Recipient locations are not given.[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 – no place is named.[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 funds and loan interest. The charity ended the year with funds of –£137,736 and paid loan interest of £9,899; trustee expenses were £3,795 and travel £13,697.[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] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[22]

  • CCOD records for Tchernobel Foundation Limited (09816576), leaseholds at 21 Northfield Road, London N16 5RL (AGL386010, AGL535099); a separately incorporated body – no link to this trust was established – CCOD name-only match – not attributed (source: [22])

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Mosdos Tchernobel', 'Tchernobel' returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 3 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 (113 days late)" 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 Charity Commission, British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel (1070877): 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 1070877, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  5. ↑ British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  6. ↑ British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ British Friends of Mosdos Tchernobel accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  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 'Tchernobel' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1070877 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. ↑ 22.0 22.1 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Tchernobel' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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