Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited

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Hasidic synagogue company in north London making seven-figure grants to Orthodox institutions in Israel

Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited

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The Toldos Aharon beis midrash in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem. The company's FY2024 grants included £360,000 to Cong. Mosdos Toldos Aharon
Type Charitable company
Founded 2006-11-01 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1116596; company 05947204
Headquarters 23 Portland Avenue, London, N16 6HD
Area served Hackney, Israel


Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited is a charitable company (05947204) registered with the Charity Commission on 1 November 2006; the register gives a London N16 contact address and areas of operation Hackney and Israel.[1] Its registered office in the accounts is 19–20 Bourne Court, Woodford Green IG8 8HD. Its objects cover a synagogue and grants to institutions and individuals. In the year ended 31 March 2025 income was £1,274,328 (2024: £1,347,704), expenditure £1,280,914 and grants to institutions £1,217,276 (2024: £1,318,200), with £35,650 to individuals.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(I) TO ADVANCE THE JEWISH FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC(II) AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING OBJECT) TO CARRY ON MANAGE AND MAINTAIN THE SYNAGOGUE KNOWN AS CONGREGATION SHAREI SHOLOM TCHABE WHICH SYNAGOGUE HAD FOR MANY YEARS PREVIOUSLY BEEN CARRIED ON AT 37 CRAVEN WALK LONDON N16 AND IS PRESENTLY SITUATED AT 23 PORTLAND AVENUE LONDON N16, AND(III) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AT THE SAID SYNAGOGUE FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP AND PRAYER AND ALL USUAL SERVICES AND FACILITIES REQUIRED BY A CONGREGATION FOR THE PRACTICE OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To advance the Jewish Faith for the benefit of the public; to maintain the synagogue known as Congregation Sharei Shalom Tchabe; and to provide facilities at the synagogue for public worship and prayer."[1]

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

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Rabbi Eli Schwartz not recorded Chasdei Aharon Limited (1142565); Chasdei Sholom (1142505); Start Upright (1130608)
Avrohom Josefovitz 2022-06-27 College for Higher Rabbinical Studies (803466)
Nicha Schwartz 2024-04-01 Start Upright (1130608); Tchabe Kollel Limited (1116598)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2013-01-04 Avrohom Reifer; Abraham Landau; Eli Schwartz [3]
2021-01-16 Simcha Kraushar (from 19 August 2013) – also trustee of Tchabe Kollel Limited; Avrohom Reifer; Rabbi Eli Schwartz – also trustee of Chasdei Sholom, Jay Education Trust, Chasdei Aharon Limited, D. Weis Trust [4]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 7 current and former officers of the charitable company (05947204), 4 of them active.[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-29 £1,718,664 £1,935,909
2022-03-29 £2,177,906 £2,247,036
2023-03-29 £2,815,794 £2,705,441
2024-03-29 £1,347,704 £1,476,396
2025-03-29 £1,274,328 £1,280,914

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 30/09/2008[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2009[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/03/2011[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/03/2012[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/03/2015[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/03/2016[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/03/2017[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/03/2018[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/03/2019[14]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 named grants: Ohr Hameir L'torah V'chesed £360,000; Mishkan Soroh Ramat Beit Shemesh £299,996 (2024: £300,000); Talmud Torah Remat Shlomo £200,000; L'Dovid Emes £150,000; Mosdos Viznitz B'eretz Hakodesh £125,000; Congregation Chernobil £82,280 (2024: £298,200). FY2024 grants also included Cong. Mosdos Toldos Aharon £360,000 and Kollel Gaved £360,000.[2]

Israeli partners

Israeli-named recipients include Mishkan Soroh Ramat Beit Shemesh and Mosdos Viznitz B'eretz Hakodesh ("in the Holy Land"); the accounts give no addresses.[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
"Talmud Torah Remat Shlomo" (£200,000) takes its name from Ramat Shlomo in Jerusalem, but the accounts give no address and the recipient could not be matched to a registered Israeli body, so no location finding is made.[2] Unverified – name only
Ramat Beit Shemesh (Mishkan Soroh) lies inside the 1949 line on the name given; no other place is named.[2] Low

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;[15] 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.[16][17][18][19] 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.[20]
  • Unrestricted deficit. Unrestricted funds stood at –£7,348 at 31 March 2025.[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).[21] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[22]

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.[23]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[24]

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.[25]

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.[26]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Sharei Sholom Tchabe', 'Congregation Sharei Sholom' returned 0 contributions in total.[27]

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".[4]

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, Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited (1116596): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1116596, contact and trustees (capture of 20130104) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1116596, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Company 05947204: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited accounts, year ended 2008-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130104).
  7. ↑ Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited accounts, year ended 2009-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130104).
  8. ↑ Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited accounts, year ended 2011-03-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130104).
  9. ↑ Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited accounts, year ended 2012-03-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130104).
  10. ↑ Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited accounts, year ended 2015-03-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  11. ↑ Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited accounts, year ended 2016-03-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  12. ↑ Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited accounts, year ended 2017-03-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  13. ↑ Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited accounts, year ended 2018-03-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  14. ↑ Congregation Sharei Sholom Tchabe Limited accounts, year ended 2019-03-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  15. ↑ 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).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  17. ↑ 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).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ 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").
  21. ↑ 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-4 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  22. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-4 charity name returned zero results).
  23. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Sharei Sholom Tchabe' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  24. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1116596 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  25. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-4 screening covered 354 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 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  26. ↑ 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.
  27. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Sharei Sholom Tchabe' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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