Eizer Le'Zedoko

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Salford Orthodox Jewish grant-making trust that paid out grants of between £372,577 and £755,122 a year in 2013/14–2016/17 without naming recipients; its 2017 accounts carry an audit opinion while stating they were unaudited, and it was removed in 2020

Eizer Le'Zedoko

Type Trust (removed)
Founded 2008-08-13 (registered)
Dissolved 2020-01-31 (removed from the register: Ceased to exist)
Registration ID Registered charity 1125496
Headquarters Salford M7 (2017 accounts)
Area served Manchester City, Salford City, Israel


Eizer Le'Zedoko was constituted by a trust deed of 30 July 2008 and registered on 13 August 2008; it was removed from the register on 31 January 2020 as "Ceased to exist".[1][2] Its objects were to relieve financial hardship, sickness and other needs of large families, one-parent families and families with children with special needs in Orthodox Jewish communities, and to advance the Orthodox Jewish faith; its register areas were Manchester, Salford and Israel.[1] The archived accounts for the year to 31 August 2017 name the trustees as Rabbi D Orzel, Rabbi Aryeh Schonberg and Mr Moshe Schwartz, who was also chief executive, with a charity address in Salford M7 and accountants G A Harris & Co Ltd of Middleton; the charity invited applications for funding "through contacting local philanthropists".[2] Grants in the archived accounts were £458,741 (2013/14),[3] £755,122 (2014/15)[4] and £423,277 (2015/16);[5] in 2016/17 it "received donations in the year of £381,121 and paid out grants there from of £372,577"; no recipient is named and the accounts do not mention Israel.[2] Register income was £454.83k in 2014, £760.29k in 2015 and £428.84k in 2016, falling to £59,221 in its last reported year, to 31 August 2018.[1]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1 TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SICKNESS OR OTHER CHARITABLE NEEDS OF LARGE FAMILIES, ONE PARENT FAMILIES AND FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN ORTHODOX JEWISH COMMUNITIES.2 TO ADVANCE THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH INCLUDING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.3 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE BENEFIT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH COMMUNITIES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT."[6]

The register describes its activities as: "Raising funds and distributing them in accordance with the objects of the charity."[6]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science.[6]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Manchester City, Salford City, Israel.[6]

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2016-08-31 £428,843 £431,698
2017-08-31 £381,121 £378,234
2018-08-31 £59,221 £68,594

Source: register annual-return history.[6]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2014[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2015[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2016[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2017[10]

Funding in Israel

  • No spending in Israel is identified; grants of £372,577 in 2016/17 are not attributed to any recipient or country, although the register listed Israel among the areas of operation.[2][1]

Israeli partners

No Israeli 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 naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[11][12][13][14][15] The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Ceased to exist".[1]
  • Contradictory audit report. The 2017 "Independent Auditor's report", signed by Gary Andrew Harris FCA as statutory auditor on 27 July 2018, gives a true-and-fair opinion but also states that the financial statements "were unaudited"; the balance sheet says it was approved on 17 August 2017, before the year end.[2]
  • Labelling errors. The statement of financial activities labels the £2,887 surplus "Net outgoing resources" and the funds note calls it a "Deficit in the year"; both balance-sheet columns are headed 2016; and the notes cite SORP 2011 and the financial reporting standard for smaller entities although the report says the accounts follow FRS 102.[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).[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.[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, 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.[20]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[6] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[21]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Eizer Le'Zedoko", "Eizer Lezedoko" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[23]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Charity Commission, Eizer Le'Zedoko (1125496): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("13 August 2008: Standard registration 31 January 2020: Removed (Ceased to exist)").
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Eizer Le'Zedoko: financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2017 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 03/09/2019. (scanned).
  3. ↑ Charity Commission, Eizer Le'Zedoko: financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2014 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 03/09/2019. (scanned).
  4. ↑ Charity Commission, Eizer Le'Zedoko: financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2015 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 03/09/2019. (scanned).
  5. ↑ Charity Commission, Eizer Le'Zedoko: financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2016 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 03/09/2019. (scanned).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 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.
  7. ↑ Eizer Le'Zedoko accounts, year ended 2014-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  8. ↑ Eizer Le'Zedoko accounts, year ended 2015-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  9. ↑ Eizer Le'Zedoko accounts, year ended 2016-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  10. ↑ Eizer Le'Zedoko accounts, year ended 2017-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  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).
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-21 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-21 charity names returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Eizer Le'Zedoko' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1125496 360Giving, queried 16 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-21 screening covered 246 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, 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 Levy, Cohen, Phillips, Smith) or generic words in organisation names (Limited, Trust, International).
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Eizer Le'Zedoko" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  23. ↑ Register entry 1125496, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
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