Israeli Charity Foundation
Jochnovitz family trust in Gateshead letting £955,000 of property and giving to unnamed educational causes
| Israeli Charity Foundation
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2006-07-05 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1115102 |
| Headquarters | Gateshead NE8 |
| Area served | Gateshead, Israel |
Israeli Charity Foundation was established by a trust deed of 3 January 2006 and registered on 5 July 2006; register areas are Gateshead and Israel, and the register describes its area of benefit as "in practice America and Israel".[1] The register lists Joshua Pesach Jochnowitz, Abraham Jochnovitz and Ayala Jochnowitz as trustees (spelt Joshua Jochnovitz, Mrs Ayale Jochnovitz and Abraham Jochnovitz in the accounts); the charity's offices are care of its independent examiner, B Olsberg FCA of B Olsberg & Co, Manchester, and its register address is in Gateshead NE8 (PDF p.3).[1][2] It collects donations and lets its properties to fund strictly Orthodox Jewish education, religion and poverty relief (PDF p.4).[1] In 2024 rent was £118,130 (2023: £128,636) and donations £6,110; it distributed £45,979 (2023: £138,870), and total spending, including £11,252 of management and letting fees and £12,455 of repairs, was £74,433. Funds were £871,168, including freehold property at a valuation of £955,408, against loans of £166,163 (2023: £178,363) (PDF p.5, 8–10).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "(A) TO PROMOTE ADVANCE AND PROVIDE STRICTLY ORTHODOX JEWISH EDUCATION AND TO GENERALLY FURTHER PROMOTE ALL ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.(B) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF ORTHODOX JUDAISM. (C) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST PERSONS OF THE JEWISH FAITH.(D) TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE ARE CONNECTED WITH THE ABOVE CLAUSES."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The charity currently collects donations and is letting out its properties to enable it to distribute funds in accordance with its objects."[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Gateshead, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Pesach Jochnowitz | not recorded | — | |
| Abraham Jochnovitz | not recorded | — | |
| Ayala Jochnowitz | not recorded | Yeshivah L'zeirim (514963) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-07 | Joshua Pesach Jochnowitz; Abraham Jochnovitz; Ayala Jochnowitz – also trustee of Yeshivah L'zeirim | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-31 | £93,237 | £59,627 |
| 2021-12-31 | £117,487 | £78,569 |
| 2022-12-31 | £127,353 | £81,706 |
| 2023-12-31 | £138,146 | £155,094 |
| 2024-12-31 | £124,240 | £74,433 |
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 31/12/2014[4]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[8]
Funding in Israel
- FY2024 donations distributed £45,979 (2023: £138,870); the accounts say only that they "were for education" and name no recipients, so the Israeli share, if any, is not known (PDF p.8, 10).[2]
Israeli partners
No 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.
| 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;[9] 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.[10][11][12][13] 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.[14]
- Unnamed lender; recipients not named. The accounts do not say who lent the £166,163, and state only that "Donations paid in the year were for education" (PDF p.10).[2]
- Outdated reporting framework. The accounts follow the superseded 2005 SORP (PDF p.3, 10).[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).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]
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.[17]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]
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.[19]
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.[20] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[21]
- Freehold property at a valuation of £955,408, let to produce rent of £118,130; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.8–10) (source: [2])
- Leasehold property, Crumpsall, Manchester M8 (title LA98635, leasehold; proprietor added 22/12/2014, price paid £64,500) – Name-only CCOD match: proprietor recorded as "ISRAELI CHARITY FOUNDATION" with no company number (proprietor added 2014); probably the charity, but not verified against a title register (source: [21])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Israeli Charity Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]
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]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Israeli Charity Foundation (1115102): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1115102, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Israeli Charity Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Israeli Charity Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Israeli Charity Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Israeli Charity Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Israeli Charity Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ 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-16 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ 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-16 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-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Israeli Charity Foundation' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1115102 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-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people 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, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; lists downloaded 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.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 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 the company numbers of the five charitable companies (01663511, 05791711, 08786769, 00803733, 07500030) and on the charities' registered and other names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Israeli Charity Foundation" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).