C E K Stern Charitable Trust

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Gateshead property-funded family trust whose largest grant goes to the Amud Hatzodokoh Trust

C E K Stern Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1995-09-13 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1049157
Headquarters Gateshead NE8
Area served Israel, Throughout England


C E K Stern Charitable Trust was established by trust deed of 1 June 1992 and registered on 13 September 1995; register areas are Israel and England.[1] Its trustees are Zvi Stern and Chaya Esther Stern, with a principal address in Gateshead NE8 (PDF p.3).[2] It uses income from investment properties for grants to Orthodox Jewish and other institutions (PDF p.4). In the year to 31 August 2025 income was £219,876 (rents £218,134), grants £249,310 and expenditure £317,707, giving a deficit of £97,831; funds were £2,634,958 (PDF p.4, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "INCOME AND CAPITAL TO SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To provide and distribute grants and donations to Orthodox Jewish Charities."[1]

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

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Throughout England.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of C E K Stern Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Zvi Stern not recorded —
Chaya Esther Stern not recorded —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-10 Zm Kaufman; Chaya Esther Stern; Simon Kaufman; Zvi Stern [3]
2010-07-12 Zm Kaufman; Chaya Esther Stern; Simon Kaufman; Zvi Stern [4]
2021-01-11 Chaya Esther Stern; Zvi Stern [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-08-31 £176,238 £184,958
2022-08-31 £152,850 £159,428
2023-08-31 £152,333 £160,592
2024-08-31 £177,738 £186,522
2025-08-31 £219,876 £317,707

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 05/04/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £249,310: Amud Hatzodokoh Trust £151,280, Yesamach Levav £40,200, KTrust Limited £35,000, Dushinsky Trust Limited £19,400 and sundry £3,430; the accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.11).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named. Yesamach Levav and Dushinsky Trust Limited share names with UK charities profiled on Powerbase; identities were not confirmed.[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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
  • Undated report and costly property management. The trustees' report approval date is left blank; investment management costs were £64,245, including property management of £54,150 and interest of £10,095 (PDF p.5, 7, 11).[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).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]

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.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]

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.[21]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[22] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[23]

  • Investment properties £2,677,000 at 31 August 2025 at the trustees' valuation (cost £2,588,320); bank loans of £114,157 secured on them; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.12–13); the trust is unincorporated, so no CCOD company match is possible (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "C E K Stern Charitable Trust", "CEK Stern" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

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]

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 2.7 Charity Commission, C E K Stern Charitable Trust (1049157): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1049157, contact and trustees (capture of 20100710) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1049157, contact and trustees (capture of 20100712) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1049157, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ C E K Stern Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ C E K Stern Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ C E K Stern Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ C E K Stern Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  10. ↑ C E K Stern Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  11. ↑ 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-12 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status – "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" for 22 charities, "Removed charity" for Mifal Tzedukas and Keren Yaacov Limited, and "Charity reporting is up to date (256 days late)" for Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-12 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names: Madrasatul Imam Mohammad Zakariya and Harris Kaufman Trust).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-12 charity names returned zero results).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'C E K Stern Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1049157 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-12 screening covered 390 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived accounts (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the six charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (Millage Limited, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (United Kingdom) Limited and Ezer Bekovoid Limited), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Foundation", "Society", "International") and surname-only coincidences (Green, Anderson, Weiss, Frank, Grace, Friedman, Fox, Ward); lists downloaded October 2026.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "C E K Stern Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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