Institute for Dayanim
North-west London trust that remitted £50,000 in 2024/25 for the Institute for Dayanim in Jerusalem; its office is the address of its independent examiner
| Institute for Dayanim
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2008-04-23 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1123833 |
| Headquarters | London NW11 (care of the charity's independent examiner) |
| Area served | Barnet, Israel |
Institute for Dayanim is a charitable trust registered on 23 April 2008; its office is care of its independent examiner in London NW11.[1][2] Its objects are the "advancements of the orthodox Jewish faith and orthodox Jewish religious education and in particular but not exclusively by supporting the charitable activities of the Institute for Dayanim in Jerusalem, Israel".[2] The accounts for the year to 30 April 2025 name the trustees as Philip Goldberg, Eli Katz and Jonathan Schonfeld, matching the register's Philip Goldberg, Eli Katz and Jonathan Schonfeld (from 29 January 2013).[2][3] Donations were £47,662 (2024: £48,958) and bank interest £103; the charity "made grants for the benefit of the Institute for Dayanim aggregating £50,000" (2024: £50,000), spent £2,213 on administration and bank charges, and its cash fell from £13,427 to £8,979.[2] The reserves note says "Funds are remitted for the benefit of the Institute for Dayanim in Israel on a regular basis".[2] The accounts were examined by M Hool FCA FCCA on 26 February 2026 and approved by Eli Katz the same day.[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE"[3]
The register describes its activities as: "The Charity receives donations from the public which are utilised for the purpose of supporting the charitable activities of the Institute for Dayanim."[3]
Register classifications: Education/training, Religious Activities.[3]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Israel.[3]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[3]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philip Goldberg | not recorded | A Z H R Charitable Trust (280953); Kisharonlangdon Group (1220035); KisharonLangdon (271519); Langdon College (1088936); The British Friends of Orot (292955); The Kisharon Charitable Trust (1194007); The Kisharon Charitable Trust (278369); The Langdon Foundation (1142742) | |
| Eli Katz | not recorded | Achisomoch Aid Company Limited (278387); Chinuch 20 (1175074); Nwlj Schools Planning Committee (1197033); Shema Koli (1151966) | |
| Jonathan Schonfeld | 2013-01-29 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-10 | Joseph Pearlman; Philip Goldberg; Eli Katz | [4] |
| 2012-01-21 | Joseph Pearlman; Philip Goldberg; Eli Katz | [5] |
| 2021-01-14 | Eli Katz – also trustee of Chinuch 20, Achisomoch Aid Company Limited, Shema Koli; Philip Goldberg – also trustee of The British Friends of Orot, The Kisharon Charitable Trust, A Z H R Charitable Trust, Kisharon; Jonathan Schonfeld (from 29 January 2013) | [6] |
| 2021-07-04 | Eli Katz – also trustee of Chinuch 20, Achisomoch Aid Company Limited, Shema Koli; Jonathan Schonfeld (from 29 January 2013); Philip Goldberg – also trustee of The British Friends of Orot, The Kisharon Charitable Trust, A Z H R Charitable Trust, Kisharon | [7] |
Philip Goldberg is also a register trustee of eight other charities, including the Kisharon Charitable Trust (1194007 and 278369), the Langdon Foundation (1142742) and The British Friends of Orot (292955); Eli Katz is also a trustee of Achisomoch Aid Company Limited (278387), Chinuch 20 (1175074), NWLJ Schools Planning Committee (1197033) and Shema Koli (1151966).[3]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-30 | £47,284 | £40,660 |
| 2022-04-30 | £64,548 | £71,031 |
| 2023-04-30 | £58,156 | £51,468 |
| 2024-04-30 | £49,084 | £50,753 |
| 2025-04-30 | £47,765 | £52,213 |
Source: register annual-return history.[3]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2014[10]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2015[11]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2016[12]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2017[13]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2018[14]
Funding in Israel
- Year to 30 April 2025: grants of £50,000 "for the benefit of the Institute for Dayanim" (2024: £50,000).[2]
Israeli partners
The Institute for Dayanim in Jerusalem, named in the objects; the accounts give no address or registration number for it.[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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| The objects place the Institute for Dayanim in Jerusalem without an address or neighbourhood; its position relative to the 1949 armistice line is not established.[2] | High (city named in the accounts; site 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;[15] 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.[16][17][18][19] 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.[20]
- Examiner's address used as the charity's office. The charity's address is given as care of Mordechai Hool, its independent examiner; the notes print the postcode as "NW9 0DA" rather than the NW11 postcode used elsewhere (PDF p.8).[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).[21] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[22]
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.[23]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[24]
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.[25]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[3] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[26]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Institute for Dayanim" returned 0 contributions in total.[27]
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".[6]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ Charity Commission, Institute for Dayanim (1123833): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Charity Commission, Institute for Dayanim (1123833): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 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.
- ↑ Register entry 1123833, contact and trustees (capture of 20100710) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 1123833, contact and trustees (capture of 20120121) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 1123833, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 1123833, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Institute for Dayanim accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110912).
- ↑ Institute for Dayanim accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120118).
- ↑ Institute for Dayanim accounts, year ended 2014-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
- ↑ Institute for Dayanim accounts, year ended 2015-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
- ↑ Institute for Dayanim accounts, year ended 2016-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
- ↑ Institute for Dayanim accounts, year ended 2017-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
- ↑ Institute for Dayanim accounts, year ended 2018-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
- ↑ 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-23 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none was shown.
- ↑ 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-23 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-23 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Institute for Dayanim' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1123833 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-23 screening covered 249 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Company Limited" in the name of a corporate formation agent, and ".com") and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Institute for Dayanim" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).