Emuno Educational Centre Limited
Gerer Hasidic charitable company in Stamford Hill that owns a £2,000,000 freehold used by the Gerer synagogue and is winding down; all its 2024/25 grants (£53,000) went to the Gerer Shteibel Synagogue
| Emuno Educational Centre Limited
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 1965-06-11 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 242649; company 00846151 |
| Headquarters | London N16 |
| Area served | Hackney, Israel |
Emuno Educational Centre Limited is a charitable company (00846151) whose memorandum and articles are dated 20 April 1965; it was registered on 11 June 1965 and its register contact address is in London N16.[1][2][3] Its object is to "advance and promote Hasidic Judaism in the UK and in Israel in accordance with the denomination known as the 'Gerer Hasidim'", including "supporting Gerrer educational institutions, especially higher Talmudical colleges" (PDF p.4).[3] The trustees are Israel Yechiel Chersky (also company secretary), Aron Kahn, Isiah Traube and Simcha Hecht; the accountants and independent examiner (E Meyer FCA) are Sugarwhite Meyer of Stamford Hill (PDF p.3).[3] "The charity owns a property which is used and run by the Gerer Synagogue", shown at its £2,000,000 cost (PDF p.4, 7).[3] In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £72,221 (2024: £6,231) and spending £56,082, of which grants were £53,000; "All grants were made to Gerer Shteibel Synagogue" (PDF p.6, 10).[3] The report says: "The trustees are winding down the activities of the charity which are being taken over by another charity of the Gerrer Institutions" (PDF p.4).[3]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE JEWISH RELIGION ACCORDING TO THE USAGES OF THE DENOMINATION KNOWN AS THE GERER CHASSIDI M. (FOR FULLER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION)."[4]
The register describes its activities as: "Making grants to institutions falling within the charities objects."[4]
Register classifications: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[4]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Hackney, Israel.[4]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[4]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Israel Yechiel Chersky | not recorded | — | |
| Aron Kahn | not recorded | Ichud Mosdos Gur Limited (1096711) | |
| Isiah Traube | 2020-06-25 | — | |
| Simcha Hecht | 2020-06-25 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-07 | Aron Kahn – also trustee of Ichud Mosdos Gur Limited; Isiah Traube (from 25 June 2020); Israel Yechiel Chersky; Simcha Hecht (from 25 June 2020) | [5] |
At Companies House, Israel Yechiel Chersky has been a director since 28 January 1994 and secretary since 18 September 2002; Aron Kahn was appointed on 12 July 2010 and Simcha Hecht and Isiah Eliezer Traube on 25 June 2020. Aron Kahn is also a register trustee of Ichud Mosdos Gur Limited (1096711).[2][4]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 12 current and former officers of the charitable company (00846151), 5 of them active.[6]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £62,191 | £57,267 |
| 2022-03-31 | £6,420 | £8,085 |
| 2023-03-31 | £6,240 | £5,768 |
| 2024-03-31 | £6,231 | £8,387 |
| 2025-03-31 | £72,221 | £56,082 |
Source: register annual-return history.[4]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[10]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[11]
Funding in Israel
- No spending in Israel is identified for 2024/25; all grants (£53,000) went to the Gerer Shteibel Synagogue, which the accounts do not place outside the UK (PDF p.10).[3]
Israeli partners
No Israeli partner is named. The objects refer to Gerer institutions in the UK and Israel (PDF p.4).[3]
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.[3] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]
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;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
- Typographical error in reserves. The reserves statement reads "££2,017,637 (2024 - £2,001,498) of which £6,207 (2024- £1,498) are free reserves"; almost all of the funds are the freehold property (PDF p.4, 7).[3]
- Successor not named. The charity that is taking over its activities is not named, and the accounts state there were no related-party transactions although the property is used by the synagogue that received all the grants (PDF p.4, 10, 12).[3]
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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]
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.[20]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]
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.[22]
Land and property
The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[4] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[23] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[24]
- Freehold property at a cost of £2,000,000, "used and run by the Gerer Synagogue"; address not stated – Accounts (PDF p.4, 7) (source: [3])
- Freehold property, Lampard Grove, London N16 (title LN236173, freehold; proprietor added 05/03/1980) – CCOD name match on the charity's own name (no company number recorded in the dataset); the accounts show a freehold property at a cost of £2,000,000 used by the Gerer Synagogue (source: [24])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Emuno Educational Centre" returned 0 contributions in total.[25]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 3 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]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ Charity Commission, Emuno Educational Centre Limited (242649): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Companies House, EMUNO EDUCATIONAL CENTRE LIMITED (00846151) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Charity Commission, Emuno Educational Centre Limited (242649): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 242649, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Company 00846151: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Emuno Educational Centre Limited accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Emuno Educational Centre Limited accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Emuno Educational Centre Limited accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Emuno Educational Centre Limited accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Emuno Educational Centre Limited accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ 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-20 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the other eight (Friends of Milbat, British Friends of Atid, River Progress Foundation, Morris Family Israel Trust, Afikim, the Cohen Charitable Trust, the Adrienne and Leslie Sussman Charitable Trust and Encompass) showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ 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-20 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (a name-only hit for "Sheila & Denis Cohen Charitable Trust" was not established to be connected with the Cohen Charitable Trust and is disregarded).
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-20 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Emuno Educational Centre' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-242649 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-20 screening covered 272 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 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 Weiss, Sara, Masri, Cohen) or generic words in organisation names (Limited, Company, Trust).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 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 the company numbers of the five charitable companies in this batch (07727158, 00846151, 00976427, 05021088, 02595407) and on the charities' registered names and named subsidiaries; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Emuno Educational Centre" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).