European Yarchei Kalloh
Stamford Hill trust sponsoring an annual Orthodox Jewish study seminar, held in England in the latest year
| European Yarchei Kalloh
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Other |
| Founded | 1996-12-05 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1059627 |
| Headquarters | London N15 |
| Area served | Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Salford City, Israel, Netherlands, Switzerland |
The European Yarchei Kalloh was established by a declaration of trust of 29 October 1996 and registered on 5 December 1996; register areas are Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Salford, Israel, the Netherlands and Switzerland.[1] Its trustees are Michael Lobenstein (chair in the accounts) and Jacob Schonberg, with an address in London N15 (PDF p.3).[1][2] It promotes the "Yarchei Kalloh revival in Europe" through an annual study programme, "which took place last year in England" (PDF p.3).[1][2] In the year to 31 March 2026 seminar sponsorship was £113,492 (2025: £99,360) and seminar costs £105,381 (2025: £122,263); funds were £228,477, including a £100,000 designated fund "to underwrite the continuity and development of the Yarchei Kalloh seminar project in new venues" (PDF p.6, 8). The accounts were approved on 8 July 2026 and signed by Jacob Schonberg (PDF p.7).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION AND ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Promotion and sponsorship of Yarchei Kalloh revival in Europe"[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Salford City, Israel, Netherlands, Switzerland.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Lobenstein | not recorded | Uohc Foundation Ltd (1164377) | |
| Jacob Schonberg | not recorded | Friends of Kehillas Hagra (Beit Shemesh) (1101265); Uohc Foundation (1057181); Uohc Foundation Ltd (1164377); Yankov Charitable Trust (1106703) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-16 | Jacob Schonberg – also trustee of Uohc Foundation, Yankov Charitable Trust, Uohc Foundation Ltd, Friends of Kehillas Hagra (Beit Shemesh); Michael Lobenstein – also trustee of Uohc Foundation Ltd | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-31 | £1 | £0 |
| 2023-03-31 | £110,902 | £114,394 |
| 2024-03-31 | £119,869 | £123,715 |
| 2025-03-31 | £99,469 | £122,263 |
| 2026-03-31 | £113,536 | £105,381 |
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 31/03/2015[4]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[8]
Funding in Israel
- No spending in Israel is reported; the seminar programme took place in England, and seminar costs were £105,381 (PDF p.3, 8).[2]
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.
| 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, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[9] 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.[10][11][12][13] 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.[14]
- No examiner named. The accounts read for this profile name no independent examiner (PDF p.3–8).[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).[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 notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[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 "European Yarchei Kalloh", "Yarchei Kalloh" 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".[3]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 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 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, European Yarchei Kalloh (1059627): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1059627, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ European Yarchei Kalloh accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ European Yarchei Kalloh accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ European Yarchei Kalloh accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ European Yarchei Kalloh accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ European Yarchei Kalloh accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ 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-16 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust 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-16 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-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Yarchei Kalloh' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1059627 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-16 screening covered 247 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 Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; 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 "Yarchei Kalloh" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).