Emerald Benevolence Ltd
Removed Feldman family charitable company in Stamford Hill that gave to Orthodox charities from 2018 to 2020
| Emerald Benevolence Ltd
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company (removed) |
| Founded | 2018-05-03 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2022-08-16 (removed from the register: Ceased to exist) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1178222; company 11091095 |
| Headquarters | London N16 |
| Area served | Hackney, Israel |
Emerald Benevolence Ltd was a charitable company registered on 3 May 2018 and removed from the register on 16 August 2022 as having ceased to exist; register areas were Hackney and Israel.[1][2] The register gives no company number, but its governing document – memorandum and articles incorporated on 1 December 2017 – matches Emerald Benevolence Ltd (11091095), with a registered office in London N16, which was dissolved on 2 August 2022.[1][3] Its object was the relief of poverty, sickness and infirmity.[1] An archived register page of January 2021 lists the trustees as Shmuel Feldman (chair) and Judith Feldman, both from 1 December 2017, and Moses Stern from 2 June 2020; Shmuel Feldman was also a trustee of The Friends of Yeshivas Brisk.[4] In its first period, to 31 December 2018, it received £62,400 and gave £44,400 in grants (PDF p.4, 11–12).[5] The register shows income of £238,800 and spending of £255,245 in 2019, and £101,500 and £100,053 in 2020.[1]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "THE CHARITY HAS CONCENTRATED ITS ACTIVITIES ON GIVING PHILANTHROPIC AID TO THE ELDERLY AND NEEDY AND ASSISTING CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS PROFESSING AND TEACHING THE PRINCIPLES OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM."[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Hackney, Israel.[1]
Trustees
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-07 | Judith Feldman (from 01 December 2017); Moses Stern (from 02 June 2020); Shmuel Feldman (chair) (from 01 December 2017) – also trustee of The Friends of Yeshivas Brisk | [6] |
| 2021-07-06 | Shmuel Baruch Feldman (chair) (from 01 December 2017) – also trustee of The Friends of Yeshivas Brisk; Judith Feldman (from 01 December 2017); Moses Stern (from 02 June 2020) | [7] |
At Companies House, Shmuel Baruch Feldman was a director from 1 December 2017 and Judith Feldman from 1 December 2017 to 6 May 2022; they hold 34 and 14 appointments respectively.[3]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 2 current and former officers of the charitable company (11091095), 0 of them active.[8]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-12-31 | £62,400 | £45,740 |
| 2019-12-31 | £238,800 | £255,245 |
| 2020-12-31 | £101,500 | £100,053 |
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 31/12/2018[9]
Funding in Israel
- Period to 31 December 2018 grants £44,400: Give N'Earn £15,000, Friends of Wiznitz Limited £10,000, Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh £10,000, The New Rachmistrivke Synagogue Trust £3,500, Beis Aharon Trust Ltd £3,000, Mifal Tzedoko V'chesed Limited £1,300, Yesamach Levav £1,000 and grants under £1,000 totalling £600; none is identified as Israeli (PDF p.12).[5] No accounts were found for 2019 or 2020.[1]
Israeli partners
No Israeli organisation is identified (PDF p.12).[5]
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.[5] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated in the only accounts found.[5]
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.[10][11][12][13][14] The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Ceased to exist".[2]
- Trust wording for a company. The 2018 report says the charity is "controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust", although it was a company (PDF p.4).[5]
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).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette returned only Companies House filing lists (2017–2020) naming Emerald Benevolence Ltd; no insolvency or winding-up notice was found. Companies House records the company as dissolved on 2 August 2022.[3][17]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]
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.[19]
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.[20]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Emerald Benevolence" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]
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".[6]
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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Charity Commission, Register of Charities, full-print pages for the removed charities 1099520 (organisation 4001386), 1109035 (organisation 4014995), 1178222 (organisation 5118257) and 801772, retrieved 16 October 2026 (each shows "Removed (Ceased to exist)").
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Companies House, EMERALD BENEVOLENCE LTD (11091095) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026 (company limited by guarantee incorporated 1 December 2017; registered office in London N16; last accounts made up to 31 December 2020; dissolved 2 August 2022).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register entry 1178222 (Emerald Benevolence Ltd), full print UK Government Web Archive, capture of 07/01/2021 (trustees Judith Feldman and Shmuel Feldman, chair, from 1 December 2017, and Moses Stern from 2 June 2020; "This charity does not own and/or lease land or property").
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Charity Commission, Emerald Benevolence Ltd: report and financial statements for the period ended 31 December 2018 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 08/01/2020 (the charity was removed in 2022 and no accounts are downloadable from the live register; independent examiner Jack Silver ACCA, Precision Ltd, report dated 6 August 2019; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 1178222, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 1178222, full print (capture of 20210706) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Company 11091095: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Emerald Benevolence Ltd accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-17 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-17 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Emerald Benevolence' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1178222 360Giving, queried 16 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-17 screening covered 231 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people and bodies 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 Rotenberg, Weiss, Levy and Cohen) or generic words such as "Ltd", "International", "Group" and "Team"; 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 "Emerald Benevolence" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).