Etz Chaim Foundation
Removed charitable company that raised funds for Jewish educational charities "both in Israel and the Diaspora"; its company was dissolved in 2012
| Etz Chaim Foundation
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company (removed) |
| Founded | 2004-01-22 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2013-01-15 (removed from the register) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1101688; company 04773267 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
Etz Chaim Foundation was a charitable company registered on 22 January 2004 and removed from the register on 15 January 2013; register areas were England and Wales and Israel.[1][2] Its objects were Jewish education and the relief of poverty, and its activity was "the raising of funds through networking contacts in order to be able to distribute grants to recognised Jewish Educational Charities both in Israel and the Diaspora".[1] The register gives no company number; a company of the same name, ETZ CHAIM FOUNDATION (04773267), was incorporated on 21 May 2003 and dissolved on 11 December 2012, with Dr Mitchell Joseph Greenberg (also secretary), Frances Greenberg, Jeremy Howard Pollins and Judah Rabinowitz as directors – the link is inferred from the name, company type and dates.[3] Its last reported year, to 31 August 2010, showed income of £158,110 and expenditure of £166,326.[1]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE JEWISH EDUCATION AND TEACHINGS AMONGST THE GENERAL PUBLIC; AND TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "To advance and promote Jewish Education and teachings amongst the general public. To advance and promote the relief of poverty. The Principle Activities are the raising of funds through networking contacts in order to be able to distribute grants to recognised Jewish Educational Charities both in Israel and the Diaspora."[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2009-08-31 | £156,394 | £131,950 |
| 2010-08-31 | £158,110 | £166,326 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No accounts were found. The register describes grants to "recognised Jewish Educational Charities both in Israel and the Diaspora".[1]
Israeli partners
Not known.[1]
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 information is available.[1] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No information on IDF or military funding is available; no accounts were found.[1]
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.[4][5][6][7][8] The register shows it as "Removed charity" without giving a reason.[2]
- No accounts available. No accounts for this charity were found on the live register or in the UK Government Web Archive, so its grants cannot be traced.
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).[9] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[10]
The Gazette
Etz Chaim Foundation appears in Companies House notice lists in supplements to The London Gazette between 2007 and 2012; Companies House records company 04773267 as dissolved on 11 December 2012.[3] No insolvency notice was found.[11]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[12]
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.[13]
Land and property
The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[14]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Etz Chaim Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[15]
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".[16]
See also
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 1.11 1.12 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, overview pages for the removed charities 290062 (organisation 290062), 1114573 (organisation 4023776), 328504 (organisation 328504) and 1101688 (organisation 4005492), retrieved 16 October 2026 (each marked "Removed charity", with activities and the last income and expenditure figures; no removal reason is shown).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Companies House, ETZ CHAIM FOUNDATION (04773267): officers Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026 and company overview (private company limited by guarantee, incorporated 21 May 2003, "Dissolved on 11 December 2012", last accounts made up to 31 August 2010, registered office Joseph Kahan Associates, 923 Finchley Road, London NW11 7PE; directors Dr Mitchell Joseph Greenberg (also secretary) and Jeremy Howard Pollins and Judah Rabinowitz, appointed 21 May 2003, and Frances Greenberg, appointed 20 July 2004).
- ↑ 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-14 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-14 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Etz Chaim Foundation' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1101688 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-14 screening covered 282 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, directors of the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation company and of Mesila UK Limited, related companies and charities named in the accounts (including Bestgreat Ltd, Jonvan Properties, One Shakespeare Limited, Beauland Limited, Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited and Torah Temimah Trust) and trustees, examiners and donors named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person or company was found; the only token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Cohen and Jones); 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 "Etz Chaim Foundation" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
- ↑ Register entry 1101688, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.