British Friends of Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo

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Prestwich trust funding a yeshiva and kollel in Israel whose town is not stated

British Friends of Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo

Type Trust
Founded 2008-02-18 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1122820
Headquarters 2nd Floor Parkgates, Bury New Road, Prestwich, M25 0TL
Area served Manchester City, Lancashire, Israel
Key people Simon Krausz (chair)


British Friends of Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo was established by trust deed on 19 January 2008 and registered on 18 February 2008; register areas are Manchester, Lancashire and Israel.[1] The accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 give its principal office as 2nd Floor Parkgates, Bury New Road, Prestwich M25 0TL, with S Krausz running day-to-day affairs. Its objects are Orthodox Jewish education and religion "in Israel", and it makes grants "to fund the Yeshiva and Kollel in Israel". Donations were £660,783, expenditure £674,706 and funds –£4,849, with short-term loans from supporters (PDF p.3–6, 8).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN AND THE RELIGION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH IN ISRAEL."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To pursue the objects of the charity with all the resources available tot he charity."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Manchester City, Lancashire, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of British Friends of Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Simon Krausz not recorded Yes —
Naftoli Rosenberg not recorded —
Henry Brysh 2025-05-01 Adass Yeshurun Synagogue (1174025)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-12 Menashe Rosenberg; The Inform-all Project Limited Naftoli Rosenberg; Simon Krausz (chair) [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-06-30 £411,317 £402,003
2022-06-30 £527,977 £527,895
2023-06-30 £757,883 £664,603
2024-06-30 £662,777 £760,065
2025-06-30 £660,783 £674,706

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 30/06/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[7]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025: Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo £290,023 (2024: £345,572); SCH Charitable Trust £1,000; educational grants to individuals £236,773 (PDF p.15).[2]

Israeli partners

Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo, Israel (town not stated).[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 yeshiva is described only as "in Israel".[2] Not established – country only

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;[8] 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.[9][10][11][12] 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.[13]
  • Unexplained direct costs. Note 7 includes £130,797 of "activities undertaken directly" without explanation (PDF p.15).[2]
  • Stale comparative. The staff note cites "2021: Nil" as its comparative figure.[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).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name returned no notices.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[17]

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.[18]

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.[19]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo', 'Shaarei Chochmo' returned 0 contributions in total.[20]

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]

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 Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo (1122820): 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 1122820, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ British Friends of Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo accounts, year ended 2014-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  5. ↑ British Friends of Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo accounts, year ended 2015-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  6. ↑ British Friends of Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo accounts, year ended 2017-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  7. ↑ British Friends of Yeshivas Shaarei Chochmo accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ 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).
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  10. ↑ 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).
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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").
  14. ↑ 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-6 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-6 charity name returned zero results).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Shaarei Chochmo' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1122820 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-6 screening covered 429 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), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers and related persons named in the accounts read for this batch (including archived accounts); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Shaarei Chochmo' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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