Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls
UK trust for an Israeli girls' school, removed from the register in 2013 as ceased to exist
| Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Other (removed) |
| Founded | 1990-05-24 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2013-02-16 (removed from the register: Ceased to exist) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 328648 |
| Area served | Israel |
The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls was a trust established by a declaration of trust of 11 May 1990 and registered on 24 May 1990; its object was the "FURTHERANCE OF THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE OR HACHAIM EDUCATIONAL CENTRE FOR GIRLS IN ISRAEL", and Israel was its only register area.[1] Its last reported accounts, for the year to 31 May 2005, showed income of £92,320 and expenditure of £93,081.[1] A 2010 archived register page named the trustees as Albert Bendahan and Benno Salem. The charity was removed on 16 February 2013 ("Ceased to exist").[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "FURTHERANCE OF THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE OR HACHAIM EDUCATIONAL CENTRE FOR GIRLS IN ISRAEL."[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport.[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)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-16 | Albert Bendahan; Benno Salem | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2005-05-31 | £92,320 | £93,081 (latest figures held in the charity record; no annual-return history in the extract) |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No accounts were found. The last register figures (year to 31 May 2005) show income of £92,320 and expenditure of £93,081; the objects concern the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls in Israel.[1]
Israeli partners
The Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls, "in Israel" (no town given).[1]
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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| The objects say only that the centre is "in Israel"; no place is named.[1] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is recorded; no accounts were found.[1]
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.[4][5][6][7][8] The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Ceased to exist".[2]
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).[9] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[10]
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.[11]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[12]
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.[13]
Land and property
The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[1] No title registers were purchased.[14]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Or Hachaim Educational Centre", "Or Hachaim" returned 0 contributions in total.[15]
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 "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[16]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Charity Commission, The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls (328648): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("24 May 1990: Standard registration 16 February 2013: Removed (Ceased to exist)").
- ↑ Register entry 328648, contact and trustees (capture of 20100716) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-18 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Or Hachaim' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-328648 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries and other people and bodies 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 Weiss, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Or Hachaim" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
- ↑ Register entry 328648, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.