English Holdings Charitable Trust

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Salford grant trust with a Gibraltar property subsidiary

English Holdings Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 2001-03-26 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1085811
Headquarters 2nd Floor Parkgates, Bury New Road, M25 0TL
Area served Bury, Salford City, United States, Israel


English Holdings Charitable Trust (other name M&R Charity Trust) was established by trust deed on 20 September 2000; register areas are Bury, Salford, the United States and Israel.[1] Its office is 18 Ainsdale Avenue, Salford M7 4LS, and its trustees are R Halpern, C Lemberger and Y Mantel. Its objects include training young men to become rabbis, Torah research and relief of poverty. In the year to 31 March 2025 donations were £389,665 and grants £348,072; gift aid of £70,455 was received from its wholly owned subsidiary Bextor Estates Ltd, a property investment company registered in Gibraltar, whose 2025 profit was £46,578 after a 2024 loss of £2,824,559 (PDF p.3–7, 16, 18).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(I) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE JEWISH FAITH IN GREAT BRITAIN AND OVERSEAS BY PROMOTING THE TRAINING OF YOUNG MEN OF THE JEWISH FAITH TO BECOME RABBIS(II) TO PROMOTE RESEARCH IN THE JEWISH FAITH AND IN PARTICULAR RELIGIOUS TORAH EDUCATION, TEACHING SKILLS AND COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS AND TO DISSEMINATE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.(III) TO CARRY OUT SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity continues to receive income from its investment property and also collects donations to further its objects."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Bury, Salford City, United States, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of English Holdings Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Rephoel Tzvi Halpern 2019-08-09 Convalescent Retreat Limited (1183303); The Sympathetic Trust (1191919)
Chaim Alexander Lemberger 2019-08-09 —
Yitzchok Mantel 2019-08-09 Ami Community Aid (1161112)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-01-14 Goldie Michelle Weltscher; Israel Meir Weltscher; Mordechai Yehuda Moskowitz; Jacob Adler; Moshe Samuel Landau [3]
2013-05-03 Goldie Michelle Weltscher; Israel Meir Weltscher; Mordechai Yehuda Moskowitz; Jacob Adler; Moshe Samuel Landau [4]
2013-09-04 Goldie Michelle Weltscher; Israel Meir Weltscher; Mordechai Yehuda Moskowitz; Jacob Adler; Moshe Samuel Landau [5]
2014-01-04 Goldie Michelle Weltscher; Israel Meir Weltscher; Mordechai Yehuda Moskowitz; Jacob Adler; Moshe Samuel Landau [6]
2021-01-12 Rephoel Tzvi Halpern (from 09 August 2019) – also trustee of Convalescent Retreat Limited; Chaim Alexander Lemberger (from 09 August 2019); Dovber Elchonon Uhrmasher (from 23 April 2014) [7]
2021-07-02 Yitzchok Mantel (from 09 August 2019) – also trustee of Ami Community Aid; Rephoel Tzvi Halpern (from 09 August 2019) – also trustee of Convalescent Retreat Limited; Chaim Alexander Lemberger (from 09 August 2019) [8]

The accounts state that the charity is run day to day by M Lobenstein, and that trustee R Halpern is also a director of Newmarston Ltd, which made charitable donations of £228,360 (PDF p.4, 19).[2]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £1,554,731 £1,524,211
2022-03-31 £1,977,782 £1,218,451
2023-03-31 £1,574,982 £1,289,234
2024-03-31 £231,165 £184,207
2025-03-31 £398,035 £352,348

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Mar 2005 429,128 432,391 [9]
31 Mar 2006 420,000 298,451 [9]
31 Mar 2007 513,885 463,549 [9]
31 Mar 2008 540,115 574,658 [9]
31 Mar 2009 634,582 637,390 [9]
31 Mar 2010 601,792 609,777 [10]
31 Mar 2011 580,976 582,804 [11]
31 Mar 2012 514,694 517,827 [11]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2006[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2007[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2008[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2011[17]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2012[18]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[19]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[20]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[21]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[22]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[23]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £348,072: Choinein Vochessed £227,000 (2024: £157,015), Congregation Chasdei Ezriel Yehuda £119,322 (2024: £20,102) and grants under £1,000 £1,750; by purpose, Torah education £228,750 and poverty £119,322 (PDF p.6, 16). The accounts do not give the recipients' locations.[2]

Israeli partners

Not identified as Israeli organisations; locations not given.[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 for any recipient. 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;[24] 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.[25][26][27][28] 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.[29]
  • Offshore subsidiary. Bextor Estates Ltd's registered office is Suites 41/42 Victoria House, 26 Main Street, Gibraltar; its capital and reserves were £529,503. The trust also had other creditors due after more than one year of £522,715 (PDF p.18).[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).[30] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[31]

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.[32]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[33]

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.[34]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[35] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[36]

  • Register records land or property; the accounts describe a wholly owned non-charitable property investment subsidiary, Bextor Estates Ltd, registered in Gibraltar (Suites 41/42 Victoria House, 26 Main Street); no property addresses are stated – Accounts (PDF p.4, 18); no CCOD or OCOD title was found under the names Bextor Estates or English Holdings; the trust is unincorporated (source: accounts)

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "English Holdings Charitable Trust", "M&R Charity Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[37]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 6 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".[7]

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 Charity Commission, English Holdings Charitable Trust (1085811): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1085811, contact and trustees (capture of 20110114) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1085811, contact and trustees (capture of 20130503) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1085811, contact and trustees (capture of 20130904) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 1085811, contact and trustees (capture of 20140104) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Register entry 1085811, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ Register entry 1085811, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Register entry 1085811, financial history (capture of 20110114) UK Government Web Archive.
  10. ↑ Register entry 1085811, financial history (capture of 20130503) UK Government Web Archive.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Register entry 1085811, financial history (capture of 20140104) UK Government Web Archive.
  12. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2006-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  13. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2007-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  14. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2008-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130905).
  15. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130905).
  16. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140104).
  17. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2011-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140104).
  18. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2012-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140104).
  19. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  20. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  21. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  22. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  23. ↑ English Holdings Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  24. ↑ 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-9 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none of the 25 pages showed an alert.
  25. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  26. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  27. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  28. ↑ 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.
  29. ↑ 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").
  30. ↑ 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-9 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  31. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-9 charity name returned zero results; a control search returned results normally).
  32. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'English Holdings Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  33. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1085811 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  34. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-9 screening covered 296 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 trustees, officers, lenders, donor companies, subsidiaries and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch (including Bextor Estates Ltd, Newmarston Ltd, PWorld.UK Ltd and Gateway Sight Ltd and their directors); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname candidate arose; all candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps (for example "Trust" or "Israel"); lists downloaded October 2026.
  35. ↑ 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.
  36. ↑ 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.
  37. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "English Holdings Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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