British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat

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North London charitable company, also called Neve Hadassah UK, whose 2024/25 accounts show negative funds of £50,260, a £50,000 bank loan repayable on demand and no named grantee

British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat

Type Charitable company
Founded 2012-02-08 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1145806; company 07727158
Headquarters London N16
Area served Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Manchester City, Israel


British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat (also registered as "Neve Hadassah UK") is a charitable company (07727158) incorporated on 3 August 2011 and registered on 8 February 2012; its registered office is in London N16.[1][2][3] Its register object is "the advancement of the Orthodox Jewish faith", and the accounts say it "makes grants to individuals and institutions in order to relief the sick and needy" (PDF p.3).[1][3] The trustees named in the accounts for the year to 31 August 2025 are E Feldman, B Z Feldman and R N Lipschitz, with A Lipschitz as company secretary; the independent examiner is Samuel Feigenblatt ACCA of London Accounting Group (PDF p.4).[3] Donations were £73,088 (2024: £90,042) and total spending £80,323 (2024: £81,767) (PDF p.6).[3] Despite its name, the accounts do not mention Tzfat, the Neve institute or Israel.[3]

Objects and activities

A gate in the old city of Safed (Tzfat) (2021); the charity is named after an institute in Tzfat, though its accounts do not mention the town

The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH."[4]

The register describes its activities as: "Make grants to individuals and institutions in relief of sick and needy, advance religion through religiuos education both UK and throghout the world."[4]

Register classifications: Religious Activities.[4]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Manchester City, Israel.[4]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[4]

Trustees of British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Elimelech Feldman 2011-12-25 —
Benjamin Feldman 2012-02-08 —
Reisel Lipschitz 2012-02-08 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-09 Reisel Lipschitz (from 08 February 2012); Benjamin Feldman (from 08 February 2012); Eli. Feldman (from 25 December 2011) [5]

At Companies House, Benjamin Zeev Feldman's appointment as a director ended on 25 August 2026 and Yehudith Klein was appointed on 25 August 2026; Elimelech Feldman and Reisel Nechama Lipschitz remain directors and Aron Lipschitz secretary. The register still lists Benjamin Feldman as a trustee.[2][4]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 5 current and former officers of the charitable company (07727158), 4 of them active.[6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-08-31 £34,328 £82,392
2022-08-31 £47,002 £46,578
2023-08-31 £49,815 £62,894
2024-08-31 £90,042 £81,767
2025-08-31 £73,088 £80,323

Source: register annual-return history.[4]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2017[8]

Funding in Israel

  • No spending in Israel is identified; the 2024/25 accounts name no recipient and do not mention Israel (PDF p.3–11).[3]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named in the accounts; the charity's name refers to a "Neve Institute" in Tzfat, but no source read ties it to a specific institution.[3]

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
No place in Israel is named.[3] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]

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;[9] 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.[10][11][12][13] 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.[14]
  • Negative funds and a bank loan. Funds fell from minus £43,025 to minus £50,260; the balance sheet shows cash of £831 against creditors of £51,124, including bank loans and overdrafts of £50,000 (2024: £50,000) repayable on demand (PDF p.6–7, 10).[3]
  • Mislabelled spending. Charitable spending of £73,843 (2024: £78,009) is labelled "Costs of generating voluntary income", no recipient is named, and the report describes the company as governed by "a deed of trust" (PDF p.4, 6).[3]

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).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[17]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]

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.[19]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[4] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[20]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat", "Neve Hadassah UK", "Neve Hadassah" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

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".[5]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charity Commission, British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat (1145806): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Companies House, BRITISH FRIENDS OF NEVE INSTITUTE OF TZFAT (07727158) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Charity Commission, British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat (1145806): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1145806, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Company 07727158: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  7. ↑ British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat accounts, year ended 2016-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat accounts, year ended 2017-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ 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-20 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the other eight (Friends of Milbat, British Friends of Atid, River Progress Foundation, Morris Family Israel Trust, Afikim, the Cohen Charitable Trust, the Adrienne and Leslie Sussman Charitable Trust and Encompass) showed "Removed charity".
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ 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).
  14. ↑ 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").
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-20 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (a name-only hit for "Sheila & Denis Cohen Charitable Trust" was not established to be connected with the Cohen Charitable Trust and is disregarded).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-20 charity names returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1145806 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-20 screening covered 272 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners 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, Sara, Masri, Cohen) or generic words in organisation names (Limited, Company, Trust).
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "British Friends of Neve Institute of Tzfat" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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