Ezras Hakohol Trust

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Ezras Hakohol Trust

Type Other
Founded 2001-04-26 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1086338
Headquarters London N16
Area served Hackney, Haringey, Israel


Ezras Hakohol Trust is a trust (declaration of trust of 18 January 2001) registered on 26 April 2001; register areas are Hackney, Haringey and Israel.[1] The register lists trustees Menachem Einhorn and Larissa Lea Fleischer (appointed 24 August 2020), with an address in London N16; the accounts also name Asher Bard as a trustee (PDF p.3).[1][2] Its objects are grants to the poor and needy and to Orthodox Jewish institutions. In the year to 31 March 2025 donations were £246,566, grants £229,656, travel £10,473 and funds £21,156 (PDF p.5, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1) FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR AMONGST PERSONS OF THE JEWISH FAITH;AND2) THE SUPPORT AND ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES TRUSTS AND ORGANISATIONS AS THE TRUSTEE MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Supporting organisations and institutions that advance Orthodox Jewish religion and education."[1]

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Ezras Hakohol Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Menachem Einhorn not recorded —
Larissa Lea Fleischer 2020-08-24 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-16 Lea Fleischer (from 24 August 2020); Asher Bard; Menachem Einhorn [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £259,451 £242,727
2022-03-31 £351,426 £377,547
2023-03-31 £267,931 £272,350
2024-03-31 £167,838 £160,682
2025-03-31 £246,566 £246,084

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

  • FY2025 grants £229,656 (2024: £145,785); the accounts name no recipients and the accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.7, 9).[2]

Israeli partners

Not 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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place is named. 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]
  • Outdated and inconsistent accounts. The report says the charity adopts the withdrawn SORP 2005; the balance sheet is headed "as at 31 March 2024" in the 2025 accounts; the prior-year surplus is labelled "2023"; and grants are described only as donations "to institutions and individuals for worthy orthodox Jewish causes", with no recipients (PDF p.3, 5, 8–9).[2]
  • Trustee lists differ. The accounts name Asher Bard as a trustee, but he is not on the register (PDF p.3).[2][1]

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

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2020-07-15 Hackney CVS 3,000 Employment of a project coordinator.
2021-01-19 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 The funding will be used to support Jewish children that have experienced loss and trauma during the Covid-19 pandemic. The project aims to
2025-10-30 The National Lottery Community Fund 20,000 EZRAS HAKOHOL TRUST - Community - National Lottery Awards for All England

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[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 "Ezras Hakohol Trust", "Ezras Hakohol" 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]

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 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, Ezras Hakohol Trust (1086338): 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 1086338, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Ezras Hakohol Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  5. ↑ Ezras Hakohol Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  6. ↑ Ezras Hakohol Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  7. ↑ Ezras Hakohol Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ Ezras Hakohol Trust accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  9. ↑ 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-11 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status (for example "Charity reporting is up to date (39 days late)" for British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre, "(4 days late)" for British Friends of Aleh and "(11 days late)" for Urgent Projects).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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").
  15. ↑ 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-11 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names such as J R Gibb Charitable Trust and Boleskine Community Care).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-11 charity names returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Ezras Hakohol' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1086338 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-11 screening covered 386 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 of related companies named in the accounts (GS Property Management Services, Igerville, Housefresh, Vitalina, Rochester Developments and Delapage), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Fund", "Israel", "Republic") and surname-only coincidences (Cohen, Levy, Friedman, Green, Said); lists downloaded October 2026.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Ezras Hakohol" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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