Friends of Achiezer Arad

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Property-owning trust supporting Torah institutions and individuals, particularly in Arad, Israel

Friends of Achiezer Arad

Type Other
Founded 1990-07-04 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 803548
Headquarters 70 Lingwood Road, London, E5 9BN
Area served Canada, Israel
Key people Israel Moskovitz (chair)


Friends of Achiezer Arad is a charitable trust established by deed of 5 March 1990 and registered on 4 July 1990, with a contact address in London E5; register areas of operation are Canada and Israel.[1] The deed empowers payments to individuals "in particular in the town of Arad, Israel".[2] In the year ended 5 April 2025 income was £1,222,298 (donations £871,992; investment income £350,306, including rents of £237,062), expenditure £465,724 and grants £234,291. Group investment property was valued at £9,127,000, partly held through the subsidiary Orphan Support Limited.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITIES CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD IN SUCH SHARES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Pay or apply the whole of the income and the capital of the Trust Fund to or towards or in furtherance or for the benefit of such one or more charities, charitable institutions or charitable purposes in any part of the world in such shares and in such manner as the Trustees in their absolute discretion may from time to time determine and in particular for the relief of poverty."[1]

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

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Friends of Achiezer Arad (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Chavi Moskovitz not recorded —
Israel Moskovitz not recorded Yes Ezra Umarpeh Limited (1081176); Friends of the United Institutions of Arad (1012222); Kollel Shas Yiden C.i.o. (1191225)
Solomon Reich 2011-04-17 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-05 Chavi Moskovitz; Israel Moskovitz (chair) – also trustee of Friends of the United Institutions of Arad, Kollel Shas Yiden C.i.o., Chasdei Yitzok Charities Limited; Solomon Reich (from 17 April 2011) [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £355,609 £496,977
2022-04-05 £359,558 £1,162,942
2023-04-05 £907,690 £1,370,694
2024-04-05 £889,225 £397,101
2025-04-05 £1,222,298 £465,725

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 05/04/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 named grants: Shas Eiden £112,000; The David Hofstedter Family Foundation £30,467; Kollel Shas Yiden £29,500; Agudat Israel Housing Association £14,500; other grants under £10,000 £26,631; individuals £21,193.[2]

Israeli partners

The trust deed names Arad, Israel; the recipients' locations are not stated.[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
Not established. Arad, the town named in the trust deed, lies inside the 1949 line; no settlement is named.[2] Low

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]
  • Trustee-connected loans and negative free reserves. The accounts disclose a loan of £2,999,125 owed to Y & Y Management Ltd and £12,000 to Avon Ground Rents Ltd, companies controlled by trustees, and donations of £448,500 from companies of which trustees are directors; properties are managed without charge by a company of trustee I Moskovitz. A secured bank loan of £1,450,000 is also shown. Free reserves were –£3,323,972 against total funds of £5,803,028.[2]
  • Related-party grant. £29,500 went to Kollel Shas Yiden, of which Mr Moskovitz is a trustee.[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[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 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 owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[20] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[21]

  • 6 Poplar Court, Old Ruislip Road, Northolt UB5 6QG and garage 6 (title MX442050, leasehold, price paid £150,000, proprietor added 29 April 2026) – CCOD name-only match – proprietor 'FRIENDS OF ACHIEZER ARAD' (no company number; the charity is an unincorporated trust) (source: [21])
  • 22 Poplar Court, Old Ruislip Road, Northolt and garage 29 (title NGL179301, leasehold, price paid £150,000, proprietor added 29 April 2026) – CCOD name-only match – proprietor 'FRIENDS OF ACHIEZER ARAD' (source: [21])
  • Group investment property £9,127,000 at 5 April 2025, partly held through subsidiary Orphan Support Limited (property investment); addresses not stated in the accounts – Register + accounts (source: register + accounts)

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Friends of Achiezer Arad', 'Achiezer' returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

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 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Friends of Achiezer Arad (803548): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 803548, full print (capture of 20210105) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Friends of Achiezer Arad accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  5. ↑ Friends of Achiezer Arad accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  6. ↑ Friends of Achiezer Arad accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ Friends of Achiezer Arad accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ Friends of Achiezer Arad accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  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 1–7 (175 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 – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  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 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  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, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-4 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-4 charity name returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Achiezer' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-803548 360Giving, queried 14 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-4 screening covered 354 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive) and Companies House officers of the 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-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 on 14 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. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Achiezer' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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