British Friends of Tiferes Chaim

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Salford trust funding Manchester kollels and a Bnei Brak yeshiva

British Friends of Tiferes Chaim

Type Other
Founded 2007-10-03 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1121054
Headquarters 39 Northumberland Street, Salford, M7 4DG
Area served Barnet, Haringey, Salford City, Gateshead, Israel
Key people Julian Lewin (chair)


British Friends of Tiferes Chaim (also known as ACHIM) was registered on 3 October 2007; register areas are Barnet, Haringey, Salford, Gateshead and Israel.[1] The accounts for the year to 30 September 2025 give its address as 39 Northumberland Street, Salford M7 4DG, and its trustees as Ashley Fisher and Julian Lewin (chair). Its object is the advancement of the Jewish religion and culture. Income was £587,827 and charitable spending £584,762; funds were £3,436 (PDF p.3, 6, 8).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(A) THE ADVANCEMENT AND FURTHERANCE OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION AND ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY AMONG THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.(B) THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH OTHER OBJECTS THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Grants in accordance with objects of the charityProjects include "ACHIM" and Kollel Tiferes Chaim."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Haringey, Salford City, Gateshead, Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of British Friends of Tiferes Chaim (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Rabbi Ashley Fisher not recorded —
Julian Lewin 2018-05-28 Yes Friends of Hakshiva (1145097); The Moreah Teachers' College (261341); Yankov Charitable Trust (1106703)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-09-23 Ashley Fisher; Jerry Fried; David Joel Hirsch [3]
2021-01-11 Jerry Fried – also trustee of Joel Memorial Limited, Richmond Trust Fund; Rabbi Ashley Fisher – also trustee of Beis Hamedrash Shaarei Tefillah; Julian Lewin (chair) (from 28 May 2018) – also trustee of Yankov Charitable Trust, Friends of Hakshiva, The Moreah Teachers' College [4]

Other trustees named in archived snapshots of the Charity Commission register (first and last snapshot only; not appointment dates):

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-09-30 £320,040 £393,305
2022-09-30 £426,222 £455,334
2023-09-30 £530,279 £515,746
2024-09-30 £459,777 £461,677
2025-09-30 £587,827 £584,762

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 30/09/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to September 2025: £469,946 to ACHIM, CHAYEINU and other kollel projects in Manchester; £61,290 to Yeshivat Hiyun Hatalmod, Bnei Brak, for stipends under the Tiferes Chaim Kollel project; £52,066 to the Yankov Charitable Trust (PDF p.9).[2]

Israeli partners

Yeshivat Hiyun Hatalmod, Bnei Brak.[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
The only Israeli place named is Bnei Brak, inside the 1949 armistice line.[2] Low

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]
  • Grant to a trustee's other charity. Note 4 records £52,066 paid to the Yankov Charitable Trust (PDF p.9);[2] Julian Lewin is recorded on the register as a trustee of that trust (1106703).[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, downloaded 15 October 2026 and 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 for "Tiferes Chaim" returned only Companies House lists (2024–2026) naming Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd (company 07500030), whose connection with this unincorporated charity was not established; no notice naming the charity was found.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2021-09-10 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 The funding will be used to offer a series of workshops on 'soft' work skills. These will include communication skills problem solving inter
2023-01-27 The National Lottery Community Fund 9,980 The organisation will communication and public speaking courses for Orthodox Jewish adults who are either unemployed or require training to
2024-06-27 The National Lottery Community Fund 19,920 The funding will be used to provide members of the Orthodox Jewish community with employability courses which will include job shadowing pee
2025-11-20 The National Lottery Community Fund 19,860 British friends of Tiferes Chaim - Children & Young People - National Lottery Awards for All England

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[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]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Friends of Tiferes Chaim', 'Tiferes Chaim' returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

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".[4]

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 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, British Friends of Tiferes Chaim (1121054): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 (PDF pages 4, 5 and 7 are scans and were read from the page images; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1121054, contact and trustees (capture of 20110923) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1121054, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ UK Government Web Archive, British Friends of Tiferes Chaim – register entry (26 July 2017), archived snapshot of the Charity Commission register dated 26 July 2017, accessed 14 October 2026.
  6. ↑ UK Government Web Archive, British Friends of Tiferes Chaim – register entry (3 January 2018), archived snapshot of the Charity Commission register dated 3 January 2018, accessed 14 October 2026.
  7. ↑ British Friends of Tiferes Chaim accounts, year ended 2015-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ British Friends of Tiferes Chaim accounts, year ended 2016-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ British Friends of Tiferes Chaim accounts, year ended 2018-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  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.
  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), 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, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the batch-7 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Lieutenancy of Scotland, is a separate Scottish body).
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-7 charity name returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Tiferes Chaim' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1121054 360Giving, queried 15 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-7 screening covered 428 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers, lenders, subsidiaries and related bodies named in the accounts read for this batch (including Ambertown International Ltd); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. The single forename-and-surname candidate (a former Wimbledon and District Synagogue director against a UK counter-terrorism designation) has different middle names and was not treated as a match; all other candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic 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 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. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Tiferes Chaim' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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