Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation

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Hackney grant-making company with a grant to an inquiry charity

Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation

Type Charitable company
Founded 2001-02-06 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1084906; company 04030964
Headquarters 15-17 Belfast Road, London, N16 6UN
Area served Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Israel, Belgium, United States
Key people Solomon Gluck (chair)


Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation is a charitable company (04030964) with its office at 15–17 Belfast Road, London N16 6UN; register areas include Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Israel and Belgium.[1] Its trustees are S Gluck, J Gluck and R Bokor. In the year to 31 July 2025 income was £492,894 and grantmaking £501,393; funds were –£18,937 (PDF p.3, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(1) FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH FAITH BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A SYNAGOGUE FOR RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE COMPANY MAY DETERMINE; (11) FOR THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF YOUNG PERSONS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO MAY ATTEND THE SYNAGOGUE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND SO THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED; (111) FOR THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO ORGANISATIONS EXPERIENCED IN THE FIELD OF HELPING UNDER-PRIVILEGED OR HANDICAPPED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL AND EUROPE; (1V) FOR THE RELIEF OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, YOUTH, INFIRMITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED BY PROVIDING GRANTS, LOANS, MEALS, HEALTH CARE AIDS, TRAINING, ADVICE AND COUNSELLING AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE COMPANY MAY DETERMINE; AND (V) FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Making grants to institutions other charities and individuals in accordance with the charity's objects."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Israel, Belgium, United States.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Solomon Gluck not recorded Yes British Friends of Sulam (1104086); Kollel Imrei Chaim Wiznitz Trust (1122005)
Joseph Gluck 2019-08-01 —
Refoel Bokor 2020-08-25 Ohavei Torasecha (1179591)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-13 Joseph Gluck (from 01 August 2019); Refoel Bokor (from 25 August 2020) – also trustee of Ohavei Torasecha; Solomon Gluck (chair) – also trustee of Kollel Imrei Chaim Wiznitz Trust, British Friends of Sulam [3]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 8 current and former officers of the charitable company (04030964), 1 of them active.[4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-07-31 £527,889 £671,552
2022-07-31 £388,100 £418,081
2023-07-31 £672,711 £680,272
2024-07-31 £658,480 £668,307
2025-07-31 £492,894 £504,912

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 31/07/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/07/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/07/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/07/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/07/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 institutional grants £154,128: Viznitz Institutions Inc £29,798, Yetev Lev £20,408, Florence Nightingale £13,560, Ezer Viznitz Foundation £11,000 and others under £7,000 £79,362; grants to individuals £347,199, mostly relief of poverty (PDF p.11–12).[2]

Israeli partners

Viznitz Institutions Inc and Yetev Lev are named without locations.[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

  • Grant to a charity under the cheque-cashing class inquiry. FY2025 institutional grants include £11,000 to Ezer Viznitz Foundation (PDF p.11).[2] Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881) entered the Commission's class inquiry in September 2025.[10] The release makes no finding about Ezer Mikoidesh.
  • No Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert.[11]

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).[12] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[13]

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.[14]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[15]

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.[16]

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.[17]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Ezer Mikoidesh', 'Ezer Mikodesh' returned 0 contributions in total.[18]

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]

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 Charity Commission, Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation (1084906): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1084906, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Company 04030964: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  6. ↑ Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  9. ↑ Ezer Mikoidesh Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  11. ↑ 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 every charity in batches 1–8 (200 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102), The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust (299687) and Kollel Mishkon Yakov (1170620).
  12. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the batch-7 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Lieutenancy of Scotland, is a separate Scottish body).
  13. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-7 charity name returned zero results).
  14. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Ezer Mikoidesh' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  15. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1084906 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  16. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-7 screening covered 428 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, subsidiaries and related bodies named in the accounts read for this batch (including Ambertown International Ltd); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. The single forename-and-surname candidate (a former Wimbledon and District Synagogue director against a UK counter-terrorism designation) has different middle names and was not treated as a match; all other candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps; lists downloaded October 2026.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Ezer Mikoidesh' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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