IGO Foundation Limited

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Golders Green charitable company whose grantees include a charity under the cheque-cashing class inquiry

IGO Foundation Limited

Type Charitable company
Founded 2012-07-26 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1148316; company 08098333
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Barnet, Hackney, Salford City, Gateshead, Israel, United States
Key people Bernard Ost (chair)


IGO Foundation Limited is a charitable company (08098333) registered on 26 July 2012; register areas are Barnet, Hackney, Salford, Gateshead, Israel and the United States.[1] Its trustees and directors are Bernard Ost (chair), Gita Ost and Abraham Lipschitz, with an address in London NW11.[1] Its objects are poverty relief, the Jewish religion and Jewish education "in any part of the world", funded by "donations from corporate sponsors and investment income" (PDF p.3). In the year to 30 June 2025 income was £221,733 (investment income £173,663), donations to institutions £264,601 and food parcels £6,863; funds were £1,457,478, of which £1,250,000 restricted (PDF p.3, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AND JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE.4. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The objectives of the charity are:The relief of poverty in any part of the world;The advancement of the Jewish religion in any part of the world;The advancement of the education of the public in any part of the world in the knowledge of the Jewish history and culture;Such other charitable purposes in any part of the world as the trustees shall from time to time decide."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Salford City, Gateshead, Israel, United States.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of IGO Foundation Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Abraham Lipschitz 2012-06-18 Dayrose Limited (1006523); The Aa Trust (1139322)
Bernard Ost 2012-06-18 Yes —
Gita Ost 2012-06-18 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-16 Abraham Lipschitz (from 18 June 2012) – also trustee of The Aa Trust; Gita Ost (from 18 June 2012); Bernard Ost (chair) (from 18 June 2012) [3]

Abraham Lipschitz is also a register trustee of Dayrose Limited (1006523) and The AA Trust (1139322) – the latter a recipient of a £10,000 grant in FY2025.[1][2]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 3 current and former officers of the charitable company (08098333), 3 of them active.[4] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Gita Ost (Swiss, active).[4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-06-30 £229,875 £218,320
2022-06-30 £239,215 £235,864
2023-06-30 £274,412 £283,367
2024-06-30 £405,581 £272,641
2025-06-30 £221,733 £274,148

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 30/06/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 donations £264,601, including Yeshuos Shabbos £20,000, Yesmach Levav £18,536, Lehachzikom UK £11,000 and £10,000 each to Keren Olam Hatorah, Rise and Shine, CMZ Ltd, Chasdei Chaim Moishe, The AA Trust, Live and Learn, Mifal Tzedoko V'Chesed Limited, Mifal Hachesed Vehatzdokoh and Sows Charity; other £115,065. The accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.10).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named.[2] Several recipients share names with UK charities profiled on Powerbase – Yesamach Levav, Lehachzikom, Mifal Tzedoko V'Chesed Limited and Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh; identities were not confirmed.

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 naming this charity was found and its register entry shows no regulatory alert.[10] The charity is not itself named in the cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements; the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[11]
  • Grant to an inquiry-named charity. FY2025 grants included £10,000 to Mifal Hachesed Vehatzdokoh – the name (in a variant spelling) of Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), one of the first charities placed in the Commission's cheque-cashing class inquiry in May 2025 (PDF p.10).[2][12] The identity of the recipient was not confirmed, and no finding has been made against this charity.
  • Grants list does not add up. The listed grants (including "Other" £115,065) sum to £254,601, £10,000 less than the stated total of £264,601 (PDF p.10).[2]
  • Trustee-linked companies. £40,000 (2024: £55,000) was donated by companies under common control, and £395,000 (2024: £240,800) was owed to companies controlled by one or more trustees; restricted funds were received to buy the investment property of £1,851,618 (PDF p.8, 12–13).[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).[13] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[14]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[15]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[16]

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.[17]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[18] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[19]

  • Investment property £1,851,618 at 30 June 2025 (additions £101,618), bought with restricted funds; address not stated – Accounts (PDF p.8, 13) (source: [2])
  • 182 Shelbourne Road, London (N17 9YA) (title AGL268708, freehold; proprietor added 26/10/2012) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 08098333 (proprietor IGO FOUNDATION LIMITED) (source: [19])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "IGO Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[20]

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 1.9 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 2.7 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, IGO Foundation Limited (1148316): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1148316, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Company 08098333: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  5. ↑ IGO Foundation Limited accounts, year ended 2014-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  6. ↑ IGO Foundation Limited accounts, year ended 2015-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  7. ↑ IGO Foundation Limited accounts, year ended 2016-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  8. ↑ IGO Foundation Limited accounts, year ended 2017-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  9. ↑ IGO Foundation Limited accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  10. ↑ 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-12 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status – "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" for 22 charities, "Removed charity" for Mifal Tzedukas and Keren Yaacov Limited, and "Charity reporting is up to date (256 days late)" for Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem.
  11. ↑ 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").
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-12 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names: Madrasatul Imam Mohammad Zakariya and Harris Kaufman Trust).
  14. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-12 charity names returned zero results).
  15. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'IGO Foundation' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  16. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1148316 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  17. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-12 screening covered 390 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived accounts (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the six charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (Millage Limited, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (United Kingdom) Limited and Ezer Bekovoid Limited), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Foundation", "Society", "International") and surname-only coincidences (Green, Anderson, Weiss, Frank, Grace, Friedman, Fox, Ward); lists downloaded October 2026.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  20. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "IGO Foundation" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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