Hand to Hand (North West London)

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Cass family trust in Golders Green that delivers free milk and food credit to about 100 local families; it spent £134,202 in 2024/25

Hand to Hand (North West London)

Type Trust
Founded 2010-03-24 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1135151
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Barnet, Hackney, Harrow, Manchester City, Salford City, Israel
Key people Laurence Cass (chair)


Hand to Hand (North West London) is a trust registered on 24 March 2010; its principal address is in London NW11 and its register areas include Israel.[1][2] The register describes its activities as "mainly distribution of free milk and in addition other foods and clothing to poor and needy families".[3] The trustees are Laurence Cass, Alison Cass and Neville Cass; the report describes food credit at a kosher outlet and supermarkets, milk deliveries "to approximately 100 local families" and help for single and needy parents, funded "mainly from a few large donors" (PDF p.1, 4–5).[2] In the year to 1 December 2025 receipts were £74,958 (2024: £157,945) and payments £134,202 (2024: £85,746), shown as a single line; cash fell to £29,078 (PDF p.7).[2] The independent examiner is Adrian Heller FCA (PDF p.9).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST PERSONS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION IN ENGLAND AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR PERSONS ATTENDING JEWISH ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS IN ENGLAND AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "MAINLY DISTRIBUTION OF FREE MILK AND IN ADDITION OTHER FOODS AND CLOTHING TO POOR AND NEEDY FAMILIES"[1]

Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Harrow, Manchester City, Salford City, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Hand to Hand (North West London) (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Laurence Cass not recorded Yes —
alison cass not recorded —
Neville Cass 2015-03-01 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-06 Neville Cass (from 01 March 2015); Laurence Cass (chair); alison cass [4]

The examiner, Adrian Heller, is also a register trustee of the Nosson Tittain Foundation (1113755).[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-01 £53,220 £56,463
2022-12-01 £68,810 £62,308
2023-12-01 £70,100 £68,205
2024-12-01 £157,945 £85,746
2025-12-01 £74,958 £134,202

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 01/12/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 01/12/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 01/12/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 01/12/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 01/12/2018[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 01/12/2019[10]

Funding in Israel

  • The report says "Except for £2000 all was used in the UK"; where the £2,000 went is not stated (PDF p.6).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named.[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 in Israel is named.[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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
  • Payments not itemised. Payments of £134,202 are shown as a single figure with no breakdown (PDF p.7).[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).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]

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.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]

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.[21]

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.[22]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Hand to Hand (North West London)" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

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 (on time)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]

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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Hand to Hand (North West London) (1135151): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Charity Commission, Hand to Hand (North West London) (1135151): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1135151, full print (capture of 20210706) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Hand to Hand (North West London) accounts, year ended 2014-12-01 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  6. ↑ Hand to Hand (North West London) accounts, year ended 2015-12-01 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  7. ↑ Hand to Hand (North West London) accounts, year ended 2016-12-01 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  8. ↑ Hand to Hand (North West London) accounts, year ended 2017-12-01 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  9. ↑ Hand to Hand (North West London) accounts, year ended 2018-12-01 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  10. ↑ Hand to Hand (North West London) accounts, year ended 2019-12-01 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  11. ↑ 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 each of the 25 batch-19 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Twenty-two registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 1691 days"; Leibovici Charitable Trust and Friends of Bereaved Families Forum (1118221) showed "Removed charity".
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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).
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-19 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-19 charity names returned zero results).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Hand to Hand (North West London)' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1135151 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-19 screening covered 358 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees 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 Miller, Gold) or generic words in organisation names (Trust, Ltd, Limited).
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Hand to Hand (North West London)" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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