British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel

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Salford-registered trust run by Gibraltar trustees, paying about £142,000 a year to unnamed charitable causes

British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel

Type Other
Founded 1998-10-02 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1071809
Headquarters Salford M7
Area served Throughout London, Manchester City, Israel, Gibraltar
Key people Abraham Hassan (chair)


British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel was established by a declaration of trust of 11 December 1997 (varied 4 August 1998) and registered on 2 October 1998; register areas are London, Manchester, Israel and Gibraltar.[1][2] Its register trustees are Rabbi Abraham Hassan (chair), Moe Cohen, Yamin Ibgui, Ariel Samuel Belilo and Nissim Hassan; the accounts list the treasurer as SVM Cohen, and the register address is in Salford M7. The independent examiner is Lisa Maynard FCA of ESV Hassan & Co, Gibraltar (PDF p.4–5).[1][2] Its aims are to help young men become rabbis, Jewish education in schools, synagogue religious activities and the relief of poverty (PDF p.4). In the year to 30 September 2025 receipts were £135,074 (donations £134,272) and payments £142,292, of which £142,272 went "to charitable causes"; net assets were £20,507 (PDF p.4, 6).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE JEWISH FAITH IN GIBRALTAR AND OTHER PLACES BY ASSISTING YOUNG MEN OF THE JEWISH FAITH TO BECOME RABBIS.2) FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY.3) TO PROVIDE SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORT FOR JEWISH EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES IN SYNAGOGUES."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The Charity provides assistance for education, poverty and religious projects"[1]

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

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Ariel Samuel Belilo not recorded —
Moe Cohen not recorded —
Nissim Hassan not recorded British Friends of Ezrat Yisrael Kiryat Sefer (1136917); Rnh Synagogue & College Ltd (1123674)
Abraham Hassan not recorded Yes Heichal Hatorah (1095687); Noam Shabbos Association (1013846)
Yamin Ibgui not recorded The H and a Moher Trust (1060090)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-07 Abraham Hassan Moe Cohen Yamin Ibgui Ariel Belilo; Nissim Hassan [3]
2012-01-21 Abraham Hassan Moe Cohen Yamin Ibgui Ariel Belilo; Nissim Hassan [4]
2013-09-04 Abraham Hassan Moe Cohen Yamin Ibgui Ariel Belilo; Nissim Hassan [5]
2014-01-04 Abraham Hassan Moe Cohen Yamin Ibgui Ariel Belilo; Nissim Hassan [6]
2021-01-06 Nissim Hassan – also trustee of Noam Shabbos Association, British Friends of Ezrat Yisrael Kiryat Sefer; Abraham Hassan (chair) – also trustee of Noam Shabbos Association, Heichal Hatorah; Ariel Samuel Belilo; Moe Cohen; Yamin Ibgui – also trustee of The H and a Moher Trust, Manchester Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews [7]
2021-07-02 Abraham Hassan (chair) – also trustee of Noam Shabbos Association, Heichal Hatorah; Nissim Hassan – also trustee of Noam Shabbos Association, British Friends of Ezrat Yisrael Kiryat Sefer; Ariel Samuel Belilo; Moe Cohen; Yamin Ibgui – also trustee of The H and a Moher Trust, Manchester Congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews [8]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-09-30 £264,774 £107,583
2022-09-30 £115,502 £266,004
2023-09-30 £62,038 £61,726
2024-09-30 £88,048 £86,664
2025-09-30 £135,074 £142,292

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 30/09/2006[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2007[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2008[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2009[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2010[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2011[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2012[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2014[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2015[17]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2016[18]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2017[19]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2018[20]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 payments to charitable causes £142,272; the accounts name no recipients and do not mention Israel (PDF p.6).[2]

Israeli partners

No partner is named.[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
No place in Israel is named.[2] Not established

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;[21] 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.[22][23][24][25] 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.[26]
  • Recipients and places not named. The accounts do not name recipients or mention Israel, and the balance sheet heading is misdated "at 30 September 2024" (PDF p.4, 6).[2]

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).[27] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[28]

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.[29]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[30]

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.[31]

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.[32]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Gibraltar Kollel" returned 0 contributions in total.[33]

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".[7]

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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel (1071809): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1071809, contact and trustees (capture of 20100707) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1071809, contact and trustees (capture of 20120121) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1071809, contact and trustees (capture of 20130904) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 1071809, contact and trustees (capture of 20140104) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Register entry 1071809, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ Register entry 1071809, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  9. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2006-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110912).
  10. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2007-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110912).
  11. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2008-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
  12. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2009-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
  13. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2010-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
  14. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2011-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
  15. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2012-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
  16. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2014-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  17. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2015-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  18. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2016-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  19. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2017-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  20. ↑ British Friends of the Gibraltar Kollel accounts, year ended 2018-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  21. ↑ 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".
  22. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  23. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  24. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  25. ↑ 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).
  26. ↑ 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").
  27. ↑ 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.
  28. ↑ 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).
  29. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Gibraltar Kollel' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  30. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1071809 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  31. ↑ 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.
  32. ↑ 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.
  33. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Gibraltar Kollel" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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