Ger/Gur non profits in the UK
Hackney Ger cheder company; part of the UK Gur charity network funding education and grants, including objects that name Israel
| Talmud Torah D'Chasidei Gur Limited | |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company limited by guarantee |
| Logo | |
| Founded | 21 July 2010[1] |
| Founder(s) | |
| Dissolved | |
| Registration ID | Charity 1138791 (Charity Commission); company 07321432 |
| Status | Active |
| Headquarters | 17 Margaret Road, London N16 6UX;[1] school also given as 142 Holmleigh Road, London N16 5PY |
| Location | Hackney, London |
| Area served | United Kingdom |
| Services | Independent strictly Orthodox boys’ primary; education and relief of poverty |
| Registration | England and Wales |
| Key people | Abraham Schreiber; Aaron Goldman; Isaiah Traube |
| Website | |
| Remarks | Ger (Gur) court vehicle. Income £1,457,440 in the year to 31 July 2024.[2] |
Talmud Torah D'Chasidei Gur Limited is the charitable company that runs TTD Gur School, the Ger boys’ primary in Hackney. It was incorporated on 21 July 2010 and registered as charity 1138791 on 3 November 2010.[1][2] On Jewish Schools in the UK it is listed as strictly Orthodox, associated with Ger, and noted as linked to United Torah Judaism politics in Israel; The Kasner Charitable Trust appears as a donor on that inventory.[3]
Governance
Powerbase records the 21 July 2010 directors / trustees as Aaron Goldman, Abraham Schreiber and Isaiah Traube.[3] Schreiber is the school-side administrator in later files. Do not collapse these names with Jacob Goldman of Gerer Shtiebel Synagogue without a Companies House identity match.
Accounts describe an independent primary for boys in the local Orthodox community and, in some years, grants to other charities whose objects are education and relief of poverty.[4]
United Kingdom Ger network
London Ger is smaller than Satmar or Vizhnitz in Stamford Hill but it is a complete court: cheder, yeshiva, shtiebel, kollel and grant vehicles. Trustees interlock. Several governing documents name Israel (and in one case the United States and Europe) without a Green Line / occupied-territory split. Ger’s Israeli politics — UTJ, the Housing Ministry, Beitar Illit, Modiin Illit, Arad — is the destination those grants can reach.
| Name | Number | Address (register) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talmud Torah D'Chasidei Gur Limited | charity 1138791; co. 07321432 | Margaret Road / Holmleigh Road, N16 | Cheder. Income £1,457,440 (year to 31 July 2024).[2] |
| Gerer Shtiebel Synagogue | 1180593 | 2 Lampard Grove, N16 6UZ | Prayer hall and grants. Objects: Orthodox education and relief of poverty in England and Wales, the United States, Israel and Europe. Trustees: Jacob Goldman (chair; also Ichud Mosdos Gur Limited, Yeshivas Lev Simcha Limited, Kupat Ezer Lenisuin Beth Yisroel, Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations); Meyer Wahrhaftig.[5] |
| Yeshiva Gedoilah Torah Veyirah Limited | 1141035; co. 07452599 | 98 Osbaldeston Road, N16 6NL | Talmudical college for boys 16–18; also grants. Income £480,708 / spend £500,249 (year to 30 November 2025).[6] |
| Kehal Yisroel D'Chasidei Gur | 1114930 | 125 Craven Park Road, N15 6BP | Voucher / donor-advised grants; objects include Orthodox education and relief of the poor “in any part of the world.” Income £892,001 (year to 30 September 2024).[7] Trustees: Mordechai Pesach, Joseph Margulies, Hinda Pesach; overlapping Kollel Gur Trust. Pesach is also a trustee of Friends of the United Institutions of Arad — Arad is a Green Line development town with a large Ger population, not a West Bank settlement. |
| Kollel Gur Trust | (linked on Kehal trustees) | London | Adult study; same Pesach / Margulies network.[7] |
| Ichud Mosdos Gur Limited | (Goldman trusteeship) | London | “Union of Gur institutions”; Goldman chair overlap with the shtiebel.[5] |
| Yeshivas Lev Simcha Limited | (Goldman trusteeship) | London | Named for the sixth rebbe (Simcha Bunim Alter, Lev Simcha).[5] |
| Kupat Ezer Lenisuin Beth Yisroel | (Goldman trusteeship) | London | Wedding / family support; Beis Yisroel is the fifth rebbe’s title.[5] |
| Friends of the United Institutions of Arad | (Pesach trusteeship) | — | UK friends body for Ger-heavy institutions in Arad, Israel (Green Line).[7] |
Money and Israel
- Gerer Shtiebel Synagogue names Israel (and the US and Europe) as a poverty-relief theatre in its objects.[5]
- Kehal Yisroel D'Chasidei Gur is worldwide by objects; the Commission “where it operates” field is throughout London, but the trust deed is not limited to Hackney.[7]
- Friends of Mosdot Goor Inc. (US EIN 13-3065542, Brooklyn) is the large American “friends of Gur institutions in Israel” pipe — recent 990s show revenue on the order of $12–17 million — not a UK charity.[8]
- No UK filing seen here itemises Beitar Illit or Modiin Illit. Ger Housing Ministers (Yaakov Litzman, Yitzhak Goldknopf) still built and then demanded funding for those settlement cities; UK and US “Israel” grants sit on the same court.
See also
- Ger (Hasidic dynasty)
- Jewish Schools in the UK
- Friends of Mosdot Goor Inc.
- Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations
- Agudat Yisrael
- Arad
- Beitar Illit
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Companies House, TALMUD TORAH D'CHASIDEI GUR LIMITED, company 07321432.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Charity Commission, Talmud Torah D'Chasidei Gur Limited, 1138791.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedPBSchoolsGur - ↑ Talmud Torah D'Chasidei Gur Limited, Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 July 2021, Charity Commission accounts file.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Charity Commission, Gerer Shtiebel Synagogue, 1180593.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Yeshiva Gedoilah Torah Veyirah Limited, 1141035.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Charity Commission, Kehal Yisroel D'Chasidei Gur, 1114930.
- ↑ Charity Navigator / Cause IQ summaries for Friends of Mosdot Goor Inc., EIN 13-3065542.