Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah

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Hackney trust funding the Satmar-affiliated Torah Veyirah institutions in Israel, with donations from a trustee's companies

Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah

Type Trust
Founded 2007-06-05 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1119479
Headquarters 1st Floor, Unit 1 Grosvenor Way, London
Area served Israel


Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah is a charitable trust registered on 5 June 2007, with its register area of operation given as Israel.[1] Its trustees are Joseph Alexander Goldstein and Chaskel Berger, at 1st Floor, Unit 1, Grosvenor Way, London E5 9ND. Its objects are Orthodox Jewish education, religion and relief of poverty "in any part of the world", in particular through "Mosdos Torah Veyirah". In the year ended 31 March 2025 income was £783,738 and grants "to Institutions Torah Veyirah, Israel" were £646,468 (2024: £1,172,263); funds were –£147,415.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND EDUCATION GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTION2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND3 THE RELIEF OF THE POOR SICK AND FEEBLE AMONGST PERSONS OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Charitable grants to advance orthodox Jewish religious education and relieve the poor, sick and feeble amongst members of the Jewish faith."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[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 Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Joseph Alexander Goldstein not recorded The Rehabilitation Trust (288622); Toldos Aharon Trust Limited (1162774)
Chaskel Berger 2013-12-23 Bais Hamedrash Ohel Yakov Ltd (1115308); C and H Association Limited (287082); Cam Estates (1167993); Kessef Limited (284652)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-15 Joseph Alexander Goldstein – also trustee of Tsedoko Limited, The Rehabilitation Trust, Toldos Aharon Trust Limited; Chaskel Berger (from 23 December 2013) – also trustee of Cam Estates, Trustwell Limited, Bais Hamedrash Ohel Yakov Ltd, C and H Association Limited, Kessef Limited [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £676,621 £627,719
2022-03-31 £737,637 £737,775
2023-03-31 £806,271 £761,693
2024-03-31 £919,664 £1,172,411
2025-03-31 £783,738 £678,633

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[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[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: £646,468 to "Institutions Torah Veyirah, Israel" (2024: £1,172,263); other donations £31,130.[2]

Israeli partners

Mosdos Torah Veyirah, Israel; no town is given.[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 accounts give Israel as the country but no town.[2] Not established – country only

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 also trustee of an inquiry charity. Trustee Joseph Alexander Goldstein is recorded on the register as a trustee of The Rehabilitation Trust (288622),[1] which entered the cheque-cashing class inquiry in May 2025.[10] The release makes no finding about this charity.
  • Donations from a trustee's companies. £180,270 (2024: £67,715) was donated by companies controlled by trustee C Berger.[2]
  • Deficit. Funds were –£147,415 at 31 March 2025.[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 'Mosdos Torah Veyirah', 'Torah Veyirah' 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 2.6 Charity Commission, Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah (1119479): 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 1119479, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  5. ↑ Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  6. ↑ Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  7. ↑ Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  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. ↑ 10.0 10.1 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-5 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-5 charity name returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Torah Veyirah' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1119479 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-5 screening covered 345 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) and on the Companies House pages for Brightness Ltd; 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 'Torah Veyirah' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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