Friends of Galanta

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Prestwich grant-making trust whose accounts record only relief-of-poverty grants to individuals

Friends of Galanta

Type Other
Founded 2011-12-09 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1144993
Headquarters Haffner Hoff Ltd, 2nd Floor - Parkgates, Bury New Road, Prestwich, M25 0TL
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel


Friends of Galanta was established by trust deed on 1 August 2011 and registered on 9 December 2011; register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1] The accounts for the year to 31 May 2025 give its principal office as c/o Haffner Hoff Ltd, 2nd Floor Parkgates, Bury New Road, Prestwich, and its trustees as G Klyne and J Grossman. Its object is the advancement of the Jewish religion. Donations were £727,139 (2024: £856,384), expenditure £672,056 and funds £69,775 (PDF p.3–5, 8).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The advancement of the Jewish Religion."[1]

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

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Friends of Galanta (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Jacque Grossmann 2011-08-02 —
Gedalia Klyne 2011-12-09 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-11 Gedalia Klyne (from 09 December 2011); Jacque Grossmann (from 02 August 2011) [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-05-31 £566,347 £564,797
2022-05-31 £754,742 £734,416
2023-05-31 £810,562 £801,604
2024-05-31 £856,384 £883,484
2025-05-31 £727,139 £672,056

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 31/05/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to 31 May 2025: grants of £671,000 to individuals for the relief of poverty; the accounts do not mention Israel, which appears only as a register area.[2][1]

Israeli partners

Not identified.[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 for any recipient.[2] 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]
  • Grant policy and grants do not match. The report says grants are made "to organisations registered as charities in the UK or overseas", but note 8 shows all grants, £671,000 (2024: £882,500), as "Grants to individuals – Relief of Poverty". The report also says grants over £1,000 "are detailed in the notes", but no recipient is named (PDF p.5, 14).[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, 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 'Friends of Galanta', 'Galanta' 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 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 Charity Commission, Friends of Galanta (1144993): 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 1144993, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Friends of Galanta accounts, year ended 2014-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  5. ↑ Friends of Galanta accounts, year ended 2015-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  6. ↑ Friends of Galanta accounts, year ended 2016-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ Friends of Galanta accounts, year ended 2017-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ Friends of Galanta accounts, year ended 2018-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  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.
  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-6 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-6 charity name returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Galanta' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1144993 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-6 screening covered 429 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), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers and related persons named in the accounts read for this batch (including archived accounts); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits 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 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. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Galanta' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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