Chasdei Esther
Charitable company linked to the Yesodey Hatorah schools that holds rental property
| Chasdei Esther
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2018-02-09 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1177086; company 10658076 |
| Headquarters | Raffingers LLP, 19-20 Bourne Court, Southend Road, Woodford Green, IG8 8HD |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
| Key people | Rabbi Pinter (chair) |
Chasdei Esther is a charitable company (10658076) incorporated on 8 March 2017 and registered on 9 February 2018; register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1] Its registered office is the accountants' office at 19–20 Bourne Court, Southend Road, Woodford Green IG8 8HD, and the accounts name trustees P S Pinter and D Halberstam (PDF p.3–4).[2] The register lists Dovid Halberstam, Rabbi Pinter (chair) and Pinchos Pinter.[1] In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £286,731 (donations £258,451; rents £28,280), spending £278,042 and funds £122,719 (PDF p.3, 6).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION, ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND EDUCATION IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY MAKING GRANTS TO AND SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF SCHOOLS, ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER CHARITIES BOTH IN THE UK AND WORLDWIDETHE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONG PERSONS OF THE JEWISH FAITH RESIDING IN BOTH THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY PROVIDING ANY CHARITABLE MEANS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The advancement of orthodox Jewish religion, orthodox Jewish religious education and education in general and in particular (but not exclusively) by making grants to and supporting the charitable activities of schools, organisations and other charities both in the UK and worldwide.The relief of poverty, sickness and infirmity among persons of the Jewish faith residing in both the UK and worlwide."[1]
Register classifications: Disability, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dovid Halberstam | 2017-03-08 | — | |
| Rabbi Pinter | 2017-03-08 | Yes | Agudas Israel Community Services (287367); Yesodey Hatorah Nursery (292611) |
| Pinchos Pinter | 2017-03-08 | Action Plus (1148084); Yeshuas Chaim Synagogue (260802) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-15 | Rabbi Pinter (chair) (from 08 March 2017) – also trustee of Yesodey Hatorah Primary Girls School Trust, Agudas Israel Community Services, Yesodey Hatorah Nursery; Dovid Halberstam (from 08 March 2017); Pinchos Pinter (from 08 March 2017) – also trustee of Action Plus | [3] |
Rabbi Pinter is also recorded on the register as a trustee of Agudas Israel Community Services (287367) and Yesodey Hatorah Nursery (292611); Pinchos Pinter of Action Plus (1148084) and Yeshuas Chaim Synagogue (260802).[1]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 3 current and former officers of the charitable company (10658076), 2 of them active.[4]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £206,394 | £205,471 |
| 2022-03-31 | £241,015 | £226,101 |
| 2023-03-31 | £291,294 | £285,788 |
| 2024-03-31 | £255,458 | £258,025 |
| 2025-03-31 | £286,731 | £278,042 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants £255,978: to institutions £172,767 (Yesodey Hatorah School £20,300, Beis Knesses Sharai Orah £18,500, Fundd £15,262 and smaller grants £118,705) and to individuals £82,211 (PDF p.11).[2]
Israeli partners
No recipient is identified with a place in Israel.[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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named. | 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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
- Property not reported to the register. The register records that the charity does not own or lease land,[1] but the accounts show investment property of £410,000, valued by the trustees,[2] and CCOD lists eight titles registered to the charity's company number, including flats and houses bought for £280,000 (2020) and £323,000 (2026) (see Land and property).[11]
- Short-term funding of property. Creditors due within one year are £305,893 (other creditors £294,379; bank loan £8,334), leaving net current liabilities of £287,281 (PDF p.7).[2]
- Related parties. The charity received £5,000 from Yesodey Hatorah Primary Girls School Trust, of which D Halberstam is a trustee, and owes £2,000 to Yesodey Hatorah Girls School Limited, of which P S Pinter is a director (PDF p.14).[2]
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[12] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[13]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[14]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
| Date | Funder | Amount (£) | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-05 | The National Lottery Community Fund | 20,000 | The funding will be used to provide hampers to families affected by the cost-of-living crisis supplying them with items designed to help the |
No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[15]
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.[16]
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.[17] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[11]
- Investment property £410,000 at 31 March 2025, valued by the trustees; address not stated – Accounts (PDF p.7, 12); the register records that the charity does not own or lease land (source: accounts)
- Garage 6 Carmelite Road, Luton (title BD205309, freehold; proprietor added 24/06/2020) – CCOD match on the charity's company number 10658076 (proprietor CHASDEI ESTHER) (source: [11])
- Garage, Carmelite Road, Luton (title BD27896, freehold; proprietor added 24/06/2020) – CCOD match on the charity's company number 10658076 (proprietor CHASDEI ESTHER) (source: [11])
- Garage, Carmelite Road, Luton (title BD31108, freehold; proprietor added 24/06/2020) – CCOD match on the charity's company number 10658076 (proprietor CHASDEI ESTHER) (source: [11])
- Garage, Carmelite Road, Luton (title BD31109, freehold; proprietor added 24/06/2020) – CCOD match on the charity's company number 10658076 (proprietor CHASDEI ESTHER) (source: [11])
- 69 Kimberley Road, Walthamstow, London (E17 5EE) (title EGL100973, freehold; proprietor added 17/01/2019) – CCOD match on the charity's company number 10658076 (proprietor CHASDEI ESTHER) (source: [11])
- Garage 109 Inglewood Close, New North Road, Ilford (title EGL266939, leasehold; proprietor added 13/09/2022) – CCOD match on the charity's company number 10658076 (proprietor CHASDEI ESTHER) (source: [11])
- 74 Darenth Road, Welling (DA16 3EF) (title SGL865576, freehold; proprietor added 28/05/2026, price paid £323,000) – CCOD match on the charity's company number 10658076 (proprietor CHASDEI ESTHER) (source: [11])
- Flat 96, Chute House, Stockwell Park Road, London (SW9 0HG) (title TGL230575, leasehold; proprietor added 11/05/2020, price paid £280,000) – CCOD match on the charity's company number 10658076 (proprietor CHASDEI ESTHER) (source: [11])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Chasdei Esther" returned 0 contributions in total.[18]
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
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Chasdei Esther (1177086): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1177086, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Company 10658076: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 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-10 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; alerts were shown only for Solev Co Limited (254623) and Lehachyos (1170523).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 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.
- ↑ 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-10 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-10 charity name returned no relevant result; the search for "Kosov" returned only an unrelated removed charity, Kosova Support Group, showing that the API was answering).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Chasdei Esther' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1177086 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-10 screening covered 337 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 of related companies named in the accounts (including Pinlee Investments, Calvert Estates, Kendleville, Pidom Export, Faircastle, Hatzlocho, Localtrent, Ardina, Ridgesave, Portford, Wilkincroft and Pandor Estates), and trustees, lenders, donor companies 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 company words ("Services Limited" in the name of a corporate secretary) and surname-only coincidences; lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Chasdei Esther" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).