Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad

From Powerbase
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Removed Stamford Hill charitable company that passed its income to "Friends of Horim, Israel" and was struck off as a company in 2017

Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad

Type Charitable company (removed)
Founded 1991-02-11 (registered)
Dissolved 2019-01-16 (removed from the register: ceased to exist)
Registration ID Registered charity 1001828; company 01966551
Area served Israel


Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad (previously Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad Limited) was a charitable company registered on 11 February 1991 and removed from the register on 16 January 2019; its only register area was Israel.[1][2] Its company (01966551) was a private unlimited company without share capital, incorporated on 28 November 1985 as Altonleague Limited and renamed on 14 February 1986; it was dissolved by compulsory strike-off on 21 November 2017.[3] The latest accounts found, for the year to 31 March 2011, name the trustees as M Y Goldberg, Y Roth and E Silberman, with a registered office in London N16 and J Sugarwhite FCA of Sugarwhite Associates as examiner (PDF p.3).[4] Its objects were the Orthodox Jewish religion and the relief of poverty. Income fell from £894,078 to £453,047 – "Income decreased dramatically in a year of financial difficulties" – and grants of £497,000 (2010: £880,000) were all listed as "Grants (Friends of Horim, Israel)" (PDF p.4, 6, 8).[4]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(1)THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH.(2)THE RELIEF OF POVERTY.(3)SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS CHARITABLE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Making grants to institutions"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2014-09-04 Eli Silberman; Moshe Yehuda Goldberg; Israel Kaminer [5]

At Companies House the last directors were Israel Kaminer (from 18 June 2014), Yoseph Regal (from 2 December 2014), Gad Sampson (from 5 November 2015, resident in Israel) and Eli Silberman (from before 13 June 1991); Moshe Yehudo Goldberg (resident in Israel) resigned on 1 April 2015 and Yitzchok Roth on 31 March 2012.[3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2015-03-31 £1,081 £356
2016-03-31 £147,662 £140,821

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 31/03/2009[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2011[8]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2011 grants £497,000 (2010: £880,000), all described as "Grants (Friends of Horim, Israel)" (PDF p.6, 8).[4]

Israeli partners

"Friends of Horim, Israel"; the charity's name refers to Horim establishments in Tel Aviv and Arad, but the accounts give no addresses (PDF p.8).[4]

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 charity's name refers to Tel Aviv and Arad; the accounts name no place.[4] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[4]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[9][10][11][12][13] The live register shows it only as "Removed charity";[14] an archived register page gives the reason as "Ceased to exist".[2]
  • Company struck off before the charity was removed. Companies House published a first Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off on 5 September 2017 and dissolved the company on 21 November 2017; the charity stayed on the register until 16 January 2019.[3][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 returned Companies House notice lists naming the company; Companies House records a first Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off on 5 September 2017 and dissolution via compulsory strike-off on 21 November 2017.[3] No insolvency notice was found.[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 exact-phrase searches for "Horim Establishments", "Horim" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Regulatory alert Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[22]

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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Charity Commission, Register entry 1001828, full print UK Government Web Archive, capture of 15/01/2021. (registration history: "11 February 1991 : registered 16 January 2019 : removed (CEASED TO EXIST)").
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Companies House, FRIENDS OF HORIM ESTABLISHMENTS TEL AVIV AND ARAD (01966551) Find and update company information, overview, officers and filing history, viewed 16 October 2026 (private unlimited company without share capital, incorporated 28 November 1985, previously Altonleague Limited until 14 February 1986; first Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off 5 September 2017, strike-off suspended 7 October 2017, dissolved via compulsory strike-off 21 November 2017).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Charity Commission, Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad: financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2011 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 04/09/2014 (the charity was removed in 2019 and no accounts are downloadable from the live register; this is the latest accounts file found; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  5. ↑ Register entry 1001828, contact and trustees (capture of 20140904) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  7. ↑ Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  8. ↑ Friends of Horim Establishments Tel Aviv and Arad accounts, year ended 2011-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  12. ↑ 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).
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, overview pages for the removed charities 1184144 (organisation 5130289), 1001828, 326132 and 244518, retrieved 16 October 2026 (each marked "Removed charity"; no removal reason is shown).
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-15 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-15 charity names returned no matching charity; the only result, for "Donkey", was an unrelated Belfast organisation).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Friends of Horim' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1001828 360Giving, queried 16 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-15 screening covered 227 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the three charitable companies and of J. E. Joseph Trustee Company Limited, directors of the dissolved Friends of Horim company (01966551), and trustees, executive-committee members, examiners and other people named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Hassan, Friedman, Cohen and Sabah) or the generic words "Company Limited"; 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 "Friends of Horim" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  22. ↑ Register entry 1001828, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
Retrieved from "https://powerbase.info/index.php?title=Friends_of_Horim_Establishments_Tel_Aviv_and_Arad&oldid=281973"