Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations

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1919 Jewish relief trust whose Israel office closed in 2023

Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations

Type Other
Founded 1965-11-23 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 250006
Headquarters Fjro, 120 Salmon Street, Kingsbury, London, NW9 8NL
Area served Israel


Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations (FJRO) is an unincorporated charitable trust established in 1919; Israel is its only register area.[1] Its objects include relieving Jewish victims of war and persecution and relieving poverty and sickness among, and advancing the education of, the Jewish people "in the UK, Israel or elsewhere". Its trustees are A M Garfield FCA (honorary treasurer) and H J Garfield, and its address is 120 Salmon Street, London NW9 8NL. In the year to 31 March 2025 incoming resources were £498,201 and resources expended £122,484 (PDF p.3–5).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1. TO RELIEVE JEWISH VICTIMS OF WAR AND PERSECUTION. 2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AMONG, AND THO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF JEWS."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "1. To relieve Jewish victims of war and persecution2. To relieve poverty and sickness among, and to advance the education of, Jewish people"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Alfred Marcel Garfield Fca 1994-01-15 The British Friends of the Jaffa Institute (282049); The Chilton Charitable Trust (1051738)
Hannah Josephine Garfield 2021-07-01 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-14 Angela Lando; Alfred Marcel Garfield (from 15 January 1994) – also trustee of The British Friends of the Jaffa Institute, The Chilton Charitable Trust [3]
2021-07-04 Angela Lando; Alfred Marcel FCA (from 15 January 1994) – also trustee of The British Friends of the Jaffa Institute, The Chilton Charitable Trust [4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £36,376 £57,110
2022-03-31 £87,367 £60,302
2023-03-31 £126,626 £76,189
2024-03-31 £170,333 £87,843
2025-03-31 £498,201 £491,859

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 31/03/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 restricted donations of £369,375 were paid; unrestricted donors named include the Leon Kossoff Artistic Estate £111,000, the Christadelphians £11,906 and Juliet Hartley £8,000; Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation gave £10,000 and the Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust £347,375 restricted (PDF p.5).[2]

Israeli partners

Not named beyond the closed Israel office.[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
The Israel office closed in September 2023; no settlement or OPT 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]
  • Israel office closed. The trustees' report states that "The Israel office operations closed in September 2023" and that £3,972 was paid "on behalf of the Israel office for legal fees to complete the closure of the charity" (PDF p.5).[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).[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 returned no notices.[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 searches for 'Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations', 'FJRO' returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

Web archive

  • fjro.org.uk: no captures found.[22]

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, Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations (250006): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file; text recovered by OCR from scanned pages).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 250006, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 250006, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  6. ↑ Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ Federation of Jewish Relief Organisations accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  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 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).
  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, 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).
  16. ↑ 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).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Federation of Jewish Relief' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-250006 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-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.
  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 'Federation of Jewish Relief' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
  22. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for fjro.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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