Friends of Bnei Akiva (Bachad)

Charitable company behind Bnei Akiva UK

Friends of Bnei Akiva (Bachad)
Type	Charitable company
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Founded
Founder(s)
Dissolved
Registration ID	1109706
Status
Headquarters
Location	2 Hallswelle Road, London NW11 0DJ
Area served
Services
Registration	26 May 2005
Key people
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Friends of Bnei Akiva (Bachad) (charity 1109706; company 05373032) is the charitable company of Bnei Akiva UK. The company was incorporated on 15 April 2005. The charity was registered on 26 May 2005. It is a grant-maker, recognised for Gift Aid, and also makes grants to individuals and provides buildings. Officers: Companies House. Register: Charity Commission.

Objects

(1) To foster, promote and organise the education (including education in the Jewish religion) and also the vocational training of Jewish youth in the United Kingdom and in Israel and in particular with a view to Jewish youth being rendered fit for life in Israel and elsewhere.

(2) To establish and maintain, or contribute to, institutions for the religious or vocational education or training of Jewish youth, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

(3) To edit, print and publish books and periodicals in English, Hebrew or any other language calculated to promote the Jewish religion or the education or vocational training of Jewish youth.

(4) Generally to foster the advancement of the Jewish religion, the education of Jewish youth and the training of such youth.

The register activity line is education, including Jewish religious education, for Jewish youth in the UK and in Israel. Area of operation on the register is Manchester and throughout London. Email bachad@bauk.org. Phone 020 8209 1319. The existing Powerbase page lists The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust as a funder.

Money

Expenditure has exceeded income in four of the last five filed years.

Year to 30 September	Income	Expenditure
2021	£88,020	£215,440
2022	£542,480	£430,400
2023	£203,590	£385,940
2024	£417,610	£443,970
2025	£141,735	£390,347

Trustees and current directors

Name	Role	Appointed	Date of birth	Other trusteeships
Sean Alan Melnick	Chair; director	14 April 2019	April 1969	Mizrachi (UK); Mizrachi (UK) Israel Support Trust; Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand U.K.; The Arieh Handler Scholarship Fund
Steven Anthony Blumgart	Trustee; director	1 March 2020	December 1973	None on record
Michael Levi Weinstein	Trustee; director	14 April 2016	September 1948	The Arieh Handler Scholarship Fund; The P Nathan Benevolent Charitable Trust; The Linda and Michael Weinstein Charitable Trust; The New Garden Lodge Benevolent Fund; The Joy and Malcolm Lyons Foundation; Finchley Jewish Primary School Trust

Melnick’s correspondence address is 40 Winnington Road, London N2 0TY. Blumgart and Weinstein use 2 Hallswelle Road.

Former directors and secretaries

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned	Date of birth	Note
Waterlow Secretaries Limited	Nominee secretary	22 February 2005	21 March 2005	—	6–8 Underwood Street, N1 7JQ
Perry Austin Burns	Director	21 March 2005	3 February 2009	September 1954	Also secretary, 21 March 2005 to 20 March 2010; 32 Crespigny Road, NW4 3DR
Boris Ben Ari	Director	21 March 2005	8 January 2008	August 1956	Nationality Swedish; 11 Lytton Close, N2
Nigel Ian Fisch	Director	21 March 2005	4 August 2009	April 1958	28 Kingsley Way, N2 0EW
Andrew Jonathan Mazin	Director	21 March 2005	6 September 2005	June 1956	28 Vaughan Avenue, NW4 4HU
Harry Tobias Klahr	Director	21 March 2005	28 February 2015	February 1941	9 Haslemere Gardens, N3 3EA
Gareth Trevor Laurence Kreike	Director	1 November 2006	14 December 2010	October 1964	8 Bury Old Road, Prestwich
Deborah Jane, Lady Kestenbaum	Director	16 January 2008	1 March 2020	August 1963	12 Broughton Avenue, N3 3ER
Lawrence Joseph Susser	Director	20 March 2010	14 April 2016	April 1956	Also secretary, 20 March 2010 to 14 April 2016
Sally Saunders	Director	1 July 2014	1 March 2020	May 1966	Also secretary, 14 April 2016 to 14 April 2019
Jeremy Kurnedz	Director	14 April 2019	1 March 2020	September 1964	Country of residence filed as Israel

See also

• Bnei Akiva UK
• World Bnei Akiva
• The Arieh Handler Scholarship Fund
• Mizrachi UK
• Sean Melnick
• Michael Weinstein