British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos)

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UK charity remitting all its grants to Kollel Shomrei Hachomos in Israel

British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos)

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Type Other
Founded 1983-10-21 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 288023
Headquarters 34 Heathland Road, London, N16 5LZ
Area served Israel


British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) (KSH) is a charity registered on 21 October 1983, with its address in London N16; its only register area is Israel.[1] Its objects include relief of poverty, housing, old-age care and "financial help for schools and colleges, run by Kollel Shomrei Hachomos in Israel". In the year ended 31 March 2025 donations paid were £1,527,900 (2024: £1,360,000): "All grants were paid out to Kollel Shomrei Hachomos - Israel". Support costs were £42,845, including wages of £31,724.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND THE JEWISH RELIGION IN PARTICULAR BY ASSISTING POOR PERSONS WITH ALL NECESSARY RELIEF AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE HOUSING AND OLD AGE CARE FACILITIES AND PROVIDING FINANCIAL HELP FOR THE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES RUN BY THE ORIGINAL CHARITY."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "the relief of poverty and the advancement of jewish education and the jewish religion, in particular by assisting poor persons with all necessary relief and medical assistance, housing, old age care facilities and providing financial help for schools and colleges, run by Kollel Shomrei Hachomos in Israel"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, 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 the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Mr Jehudah Baumgarten not recorded Chinuch UK Limited (1195717); CML - Chevras Mo'oz Ladol (295818); Cosmon (Belz) Limited (266130); Keren Yesomim (1064093); Nachlath Sholomo Ltd (1137122); Resolve Now (1189333); The Talmud Torah Machzikei Hadass Trust (270693)
Joseph Schischa not recorded The Leah Schischa Memorial Trust Fund (802100)
Jacob Frankel 2013-05-03 The F W Trust Ltd (1131276)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-06 Joseph Schischa – also trustee of The Leah Schischa Memorial Trust Fund; Jakob Frankel (from 03 May 2013); Mr Jehodah Baumgarten – also trustee of Uohc Foundation, The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Beth Jacob Teachers' Seminary, The Association of Orthodox Jewish Schools and Organisations Limited, Uohc Foundation Ltd, Belz Foundation Ltd, Children Ahead Ltd, The Talmud Torah Machzikei Hadass Trust, Keren Yesomim, Resolve Now, Cosmon (Belz) Limited, Clapton Common Boys Club [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £1,875,544 £1,925,055
2022-03-31 £1,241,799 £1,003,093
2023-03-31 £2,548,723 £2,768,755
2024-03-31 £1,728,805 £1,448,813
2025-03-31 £1,556,857 £1,603,815

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: £1,527,900 to Kollel Shomrei Hachomos, Israel (sole recipient).[2]

Israeli partners

Kollel Shomrei Hachomos (Israel); Israeli registration details 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. The locations of the Kollel's institutions are not stated.[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] (The audited accounts title the charity "British Fiends Of The Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity", a typographical error.)

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]

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'Kollel Shomrei Hachomos' returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

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" 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 Charity Commission, British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) (288023): 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 288023, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  5. ↑ British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  6. ↑ British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  7. ↑ British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  8. ↑ British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  9. ↑ British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200704).
  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, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-3 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-3 charity name returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Kollel Shomrei Hachomos' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-288023 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-3 screening covered 409 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 12 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually; lists downloaded October 2026. (Corrected 14 October 2026: the first run omitted the 21 names found only on archived full-print pages; the re-screen found no match.)
  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. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Kollel Shomrei Hachomos' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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