Heichalei Hakodesh Centre Machnovke Belz

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UK CIO funding Machnovke Belz institutions, especially Bnei Brak

Heichalei Hakodesh Centre Machnovke Belz

Type Registered charity
Founded 14 January 2022 (registered as a charity)
Registration ID Charity 1197513
Status Registered
Headquarters 32 Grayling Road, London, N16 0BT
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel, Belgium, United States
Registration Charity Commission for England and Wales

Heichalei Hakodesh Centre Machnovke Belz is a UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation — Foundation (charity no. 1197513; Companies House CE027946). Registered 14 January 2022. Reporting up to date. No trading subsidiary. Trustees unpaid.[1][2]

Objects: such charitable purposes as the trustees see fit, in particular advancing the Jewish religion, Jewish religious education and the alleviation of poverty among the Machnovke Belz community in Bnei Brak (Bene Berak), Israel, and Jewish communities throughout the world. Main method: grant-making to individuals and organisations.[1][3]

Register areas of operation: throughout England and Wales; Belgium; Israel; United States. Address: 32 Grayling Road, London N16 0BT (Stoke Newington / Stamford Hill). Phone 07974 235431. Email hhcentrembelz@gmail.com.[3][4]

Bnei Brak is inside the Green Line. The register does not list the occupied Palestinian territories as an area of operation. Named Israeli beneficiary community is Machnovke Belz in Bnei Brak, not a West Bank settlement.

Machnovke Belz

Machnovka (Machnovke / Machnovkeh) Belz is a Hasidic court historically linked to the Belz dynasty, with a contemporary centre in Bnei Brak. The CIO is a London fundraising vehicle for that court and for “Jewish communities throughout the world.” It is not the same legal body as:

Do not merge the three files.

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO ADVANCING THE JEWISH RELIGION, ADVANCING JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY AMONG THE MACHNOVKE BELZ COMMUNITY IN BENE BERAK, ISRAEL AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD."[7]

The register describes its activities as: "To advance such charitable purposes (according to the law of England and Wales) as the trustees see fit from time to time in particular but not limited to advancing the Jewish religion, advancing Jewish religious education and the alleviation of poverty among the Machnovke Belz community in Bene Berak, Israel and Jewish communities throughout the world."[7]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[7]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel, Belgium, United States.[7]

Finance

Almost all income is donations. Year to 31 October 2024: income £995,253; expenditure £1,004,058. Year to 31 October 2025 (Find that Charity / return filed March 2026): income £973,037; expenditure £970,874. Three volunteers; employee-pay band not published on the overview.[1][8]

Year ending Income Expenditure
31 October 2022 £548,815 £502,724
31 October 2023 £919,969 £946,194
31 October 2024 £995,253 £1,004,058
31 October 2025 £973,037 £970,874

[8]

Named grant recipients are not printed on the Commission overview. Supply accounts PDFs if a recipient table is needed.

Trustees

All three appointed on registration, 14 January 2022.[9]

Name Role Appointed Other trusteeships on the register
Menachem Krautwirt Chair 14 January 2022 None on record
Rachel Ludmir Trustee 14 January 2022 None on record
Shaul Krautwirt Trustee 14 January 2022 Friends of Beis Soroh Schneirer (reporting overdue); A Light in the Dark (recently registered)

Shaul Krautwirt and Menachem Krautwirt share a surname; the register does not state the relationship.

Funding in Israel

  • Direct charitable expenditure £953,612 in FY2025; no recipients are named.[10]

Israeli partners

The Machnovke Belz community in Bnei Brak.[10]

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
Bnei Brak, the only place named, lies inside the 1949 line.[10] Low

Support for the IDF: No IDF funding is stated.[10]

Contact

32 Grayling Road
London N16 0BT
07974 235431
hhcentrembelz@gmail.com

Controversies and conflicts

Charity Commission register

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
  • Trustee also trustee of an inquiry charity. Trustee Shaul Krautwirt is recorded on the register as a trustee of Friends of Beis Soroh Schneirer (1153647),[7] one of the charities placed under the cheque-cashing class inquiry in May 2025.[13] The release makes no finding about this charity.
  • Cash-flow inconsistency. The cash-flow statement gives opening cash of £78,781, whereas the prior year's closing cash is £58,915 (PDF p.8). The independent examiner is Brindley Goldstein Ltd of Waltham Cross.[10]

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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]

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.[20]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found.[22]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[7] No title registers were purchased.[23]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Heichalei Hakodesh', 'Machnovke Belz' returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 0 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile; none were found for this charity number.

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 HEICHALEI HAKODESH CENTRE MACHNOVKE BELZ, Charity Commission, 1197513.
  2. ↑ HEICHALEI HAKODESH CENTRE MACHNOVKE BELZ, Companies House, CE027946.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 What, who, how, where, Charity Commission 1197513.
  4. ↑ Full print, Charity Commission 1197513.
  5. ↑ Friends of Mosdos Belz Machnovka, Find that Charity, 1101793.
  6. ↑ KOLEL BELZ MACHNOVKEH LIMITED, Charity Commission, 1144942.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 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.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Heichalei Hakodesh Centre Machnovke Belz, Find that Charity.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Trustees, Charity Commission 1197513.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Charity Commission, Heichalei Hakodesh Centre Machnovke Belz (1197513): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  11. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, HEICHALEI HAKODESH CENTRE MACHNOVKE BELZ financial history Charity Commission for England and Wales, accessed 13 October 2026; figures from the Commission's public register data extract dated 13 October 2026.
  12. ↑ 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).
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  14. ↑ 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).
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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").
  18. ↑ 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-4 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-4 charity name returned zero results).
  20. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Machnovke Belz' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1197513 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  22. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-4 screening covered 354 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) and Companies House officers of the 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  23. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Machnovke Belz' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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