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Englander-family property-group charity making multi-million-pound grants, largely to Belz and other Hasidic institutions

Keren Association Limited

Type Charitable company
Founded Registered 15 February 1962
Registration ID 313119
Location United Kingdom and abroad (grant maker)
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Belgium, Israel, United States
Key people E. Englander (chair); Joseph Stern; Asher Isiah Perelman; Shulem Zvi Englander; Jacob Shea Englander; Pinkus Naftola Englander; Hannah Zelda Weiss; Nicha Weiss


Keren Association Limited (also Keren Association; charity number 313119; company number 00707087) is an English charitable company registered on 15 February 1962. Published activity is “to further those purposes both in the United Kingdom and abroad recognised as charitable by English Law”. It is a large grant-maker: institutional grants were £5.67 million in the year to 31 March 2025 and over £10 million in several earlier years. Reporting is up to date. One or more trustees are also directors of subsidiaries. Gift Aid is recorded. The charity owns and/or leases land or property. No trustee remuneration.[1][2]

Joseph Stern is also a trustee of Combined Funds Limited. Accounts extracts for 2018–22 show large grants to Belz- and Satmar-linked institutions, including Friends of Mercaz Hatorah Belz Macnivka, United Talmudical Associates Ltd and China Vchisda.[3]

Objects

To further those purposes both in the United Kingdom and abroad recognised as charitable by English law.[1]

People

Trustees

Register as accessed September 2026 (eight trustees). An April 2023 snapshot is noted where names were abbreviated.

Name Role Date appointed Other trusteeships
E. Englander Chair 1 November 1961 Wychville Limited; Melcren Limited; Collel Chibath Yerushalayim, Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes Trust; Menachem General Charitable Trust; The Zecharia Charitable Trust; Friends of Mosdos Belz Machnovka; Ridgesave Limited; Thornbirch Limited
Joseph Stern Trustee 6 August 2020 Possuk Limited; Achim Limited; Crownhost Limited; Sellata Limited; Combined Funds Limited
Asher Isiah Perelman Trustee 7 November 2019 Imrei Menachem Trust Limited; Dina Perelman Trust Limited; Zedoko Vochessed Ltd
Shulem Zvi Englander Trustee 9 August 1990 Organisation for the Support of Torah Education Limited; Crownhost Limited
Jacob Shea Englander Trustee 9 August 1990 Thornbirch Limited
Pinkus Naftola Englander Trustee 9 August 1990 None on record
Hannah Zelda Weiss Trustee 9 August 1990 Ridgesave Limited; Menachem General Charitable Trust; Side by Side (Children) Limited; The Beth Jacob Youth Movement
Nicha Weiss Trustee 28 May 1980 Beis Brucha Ltd; Melcren Limited; Mishon

[3][4]

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-14 S Englander; Zelda Weiss; Berish Englander; E Englander; N Weiss; Jacob Shea Englander; Pinkus Naftola Englander; Shulem Zvi Englander [5]
2021-01-12 Asher Isiah Perelman (from 07 November 2019) – also trustee of Zedoko Vochessed Ltd, Dina Perelman Trust Limited; Mrs H Z Weiss (from 09 August 1990) – also trustee of Side by Side (Children) Limited, Ridgesave Limited, The Beth Jacob Youth Movement, Menachem General Charitable Trust; Mr E Englander (chair) (from 01 November 1961) – also trustee of Wychville Limited, Thornbirch Limited, Collel Chibath Yerushalayim, Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes Trust, Melcren Limited, Friends of Mosdos Belz Machnovka, Ridgesave Limited, The Zecharia Charitable Trust, Menachem General Charitable Trust; Mrs N Weiss (from 28 May 1980) – also trustee of Melcren Limited, Mishon; Jacob Shea Englander (from 09 August 1990) – also trustee of Thornbirch Limited; Sarah ENGLANDER (from 28 May 1980); Joseph Stern (from 06 August 2020) – also trustee of Crownhost Limited, Achim Limited, Combined Funds Limited, Possuk Limited, Sellata Limited; Mr S Z Englander (from 09 August 1990) – also trustee of Organisation for the Support of Torah Education Limited, Kolel Belz Machnovkeh Limited; Pinkus Naftola Englander (from 09 August 1990) [6]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 15 current and former officers of the charitable company (00707087), 9 of them active.[7] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Jacob Shea Englander (Israel, active).[7]

Finances

Year to 31 March Income Expenditure Grants to institutions
2021 £3.00m £12.18m £10.75m
2022 £2.73m £10.40m £9.09m
2023 £2.39m £12.92m £11.67m
2024 £3.53m £14.06m £13.20m
2025 £1.77m £6.05m £5.67m

[8]

Year to 31 March 2025: income £1,772,756 (donations £1.00m; investments £772,760); expenditure £6,049,774; investment gains £4,060,726. Spending consistently exceeds incoming resources, funded from investments/reserves. No government contracts or grants on the published history table.[1][8]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Mar 2005 5,938,678 5,067,298 [9]
31 Mar 2006 5,763,626 5,096,099 [9]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[14]

Grants (accounts extract, calendar years 2018–2022)

Compiled from Keren Association annual accounts. Year columns are as extracted from those reports. Two printed totals in the source compilation were inconsistent with the year columns; the table uses the sum of the year columns. “Other grants (below £50,000)” five-year total is the sum of the five year lines.

Organisation 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Total (£)
Achisomoch Aid Company Limited 475,000 879,000 1,094,000 640,000 831,000 3,919,000
Agudat Yeshivat Belz Machnovke 86,505 199,947 125,329 238,216 156,496 806,493
Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc. 116,093 116,093
Asser Bishvil Foundation 195,000 222,000 417,000
Beis Aharon Trust Ltd 775,196 854,580 751,320 580,605 699,450 2,885,955
Beth Hamedrash Satmar Trust 100,000 80,000 180,000
Beth Yitzchok VZW / Beth Jitschok VZW 163,800 113,300 125,700 140,700 89,300 632,800
Bnos Zion D'Bobov Limited 103,000 103,000
C and H Association Limited 75,000 75,000
Chasdei Aharon Ltd 56,000 56,000
China Vchisda 524,727 1,113,922 1,314,656 1,006,519 693,880 4,653,704
CMZ Ltd 80,000 80,000
Collel Chibath Yerushalayim, Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes Trust 75,609 91,300 180,160 347,069
Congregation Oz Vehador 359,156 188,552 91,547 639,255
Crownhost Ltd 121,500 121,500
Dushinsky Trust Limited 64,570 64,570
Emuno Educational Centre Limited 286,459 431,126 69,000 786,585
Ezer V'Hatzalah Limited 77,970 91,500 169,470
Ezer Viznitz Foundation 54,520 100,800 59,000 214,320
Ezra Lecol Ma Detzarich 81,222 240,241 321,463
Ezras Hakohol Trust 58,000 58,000
Friends of Beis Chinuch Lebonos Trust 369,920 200,000 145,000 714,920
Friends of Beis Soroh Schneirer 111,650 55,000 166,650
Friends of Gur 85,776 85,776
Friends of Mercaz Hatorah Belz Macnivka 4,596,600 2,883,201 2,608,460 2,007,541 1,632,315 13,728,117
Friends of Mosdos Belz Machnovka 50,000 50,000
Friends of Mosdos Torah Veyirah 63,000 63,000
Friends of Shekel Hakodesh Limited 138,255 138,255
Friends of Wiznitz Limited 136,481 86,703 223,184
Hadar Zion 190,259 190,259
Hatzola Trust Limited 72,000 72,000
Heichal Aharon Dchasidei Belz 108,330 256,157 304,656 326,270 196,370 1,191,783
Heichalei Hakodesh 1,908,435 781,018 751,074 559,942 4,000,469
Ichud Mosdos Gur Limited 580,159 457,100 434,321 204,758 135,000 1,811,338
Kedushat Aharon Belz 80,671 80,671
Keren Hatzolas Doros Alei Siach 369,150 91,650 460,800
Keren Hatzolo Trust 52,400 72,850 125,250
Keren Tzedokoh Vechessed 618,738 618,738
Kolel Belz Machnovkeh Limited 80,000 80,000
Kolel Torah Veyirah Limited 80,000 80,000
Kollel Kedushas Aharon Belz 85,318 65,475 95,938 246,731
Kollel Mishkon Yakov 53,000 53,000
Machon Oiz Vehudor 54,856 122,753 177,609
Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh 55,000 157,200 762,173 974,373
Mifalei Tzedokoh V'chesed 553,151 302,582 855,733
MLT Belz 225,360 202,740 305,320 212,500 218,260 1,164,180
Mosdos Belz Machnivka Beis Shemesh 170,000 170,000
Mosdot Kedushat Aharon Belz Machnovka-Elad 78,926 268,398 312,926 319,499 307,751 1,287,500
Mosdot Toras Ahron 681,602 881,611 872,568 480,326 2,916,107
New Rachmistrivke Synagogue Trust 206,035 160,700 70,500 154,200 591,435
OJC Fund 264,668 360,722 748,964 1,374,354
Parkwill Limited 80,000 268,000 551,000 536,000 800,000 2,235,000
Schiffshul Ltd 91,000 91,000
Side by Side School Ltd 50,000 50,000 100,000
Society of Friends of the Torah Limited 1,644,110 774,800 167,400 2,586,310
Synagogue D'chasidei Belz 162,660 176,380 146,083 140,800 107,750 733,673
Thornbirch Limited 100,000 100,000
Torath Aharon 127,671 127,671
TTBA Belz 91,600 91,600
United Talmudical Academy "Torah V'Yirah" 189,402 189,402
United Talmudical Associates 348,002 355,673 703,675
United Talmudical Associates Ltd 309,290 410,342 719,632
Yesamach Levav 97,570 60,900 158,470
Yeshiva Gedola Torah Veyirah Sevenoaks Ltd 100,000 100,000
Yetev Lev London Jerusalem Trust 52,241 52,241
Zera Aharon Machnovka Belz Yerushalayim 73,890 201,000 234,250 509,140
Zidkat Eretz Hakodesh Bobov 52,471 52,471
Other grants (below £50,000) 1,100,908 1,225,927 1,490,233 968,761 930,162 5,715,991

[15][16][17][18][19]

Funding in Israel

Israeli partners

Most named recipients are UK charities, including UK 'friends' bodies of Israeli institutions. Israeli-named recipients include Mosdos Kedushas Aharon D'Chasidei Belz Machnovka Elad and Zera Aharon Machnovka Belz Yerushalayim.[20]

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 West Bank settlement is named. The Israeli-named recipients refer to Elad and Jerusalem (Yerushalayim); their exact locations were not verified.[20] Low

Support for the IDF: No IDF funding is stated. All grants are described as being for education, furtherance of the Jewish religion and alleviation of poverty.[20]

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;[21] 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.[22][23][24][25] 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.[26]
  • Grant recipient named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry. Keren's largest FY2025 grant, £1,289,380, went to Friends of Mercaz Hatorah Belz Macnivka. A charity of that name (1126075) is one of those the Charity Commission placed under inquiry in May 2025 in connection with a company cashing cheques.[20][22] That release also names Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited (1010420). Keren's accounts list "Beis Aharon Trust Ltd" (£297,300) without a charity number, so it was not established whether this is the same body. The release states no finding about Keren Association itself.
  • Related-party grants. The accounts disclose donations of £153,623 to Collel Chibath Yerushalayim Trust, £44,650 to Beis Brucha Ltd, £10,000 to Dina Perelman Trust Limited, £1,480 to Side by Side (Children) Limited and £40,000 to Friends of Mosdos Belz Machnovka, where "Certain Trustees of the Charitable Company are also Trustees" of the recipients. Keren trustee E Englander is also a register trustee of Collel Chibath Yerushalayim, Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes Trust (326692).[20][27]

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).[28] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[29]

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.[30]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[31]

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.[32]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[27] No title registers were purchased.[33] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[34]

  • 48, 60A, 62, 68A, 70 and 70A Willow Tree Lane, Hayes UB4 9BD (title MX448931, freehold, proprietor added 2018) – CCOD match on company 00707087 (source: [34])
  • Register records land ownership; group rents receivable from investment properties £539,974 in year ended 31 March 2025 (subsidiaries Blustart Co., E & S Property Trading Co., Englander Company, Gerrone Properties, Hollow-ware Products, Manhill Co.) – Register + accounts (source: register + accounts)

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'Keren Association' returned 0 contributions in total.[35]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 4 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]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Charity Commission, KEREN ASSOCIATION LIMITED - 313119 Register of Charities, accessed 15 September 2026.
  2. ↑ Charity Commission, Governance KEREN ASSOCIATION LIMITED.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Charity Commission, Trustees KEREN ASSOCIATION LIMITED, accessed 15 September 2026.
  4. ↑ Charity Commission, Keren Association Trustees, retrieved 13 April 2023.
  5. ↑ Register entry 313119, contact and trustees (capture of 20100714) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 313119, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Company 00707087: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Charity Commission, Financial history KEREN ASSOCIATION LIMITED, accessed 15 September 2026.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Register entry 313119, financial history (capture of 20100714) UK Government Web Archive.
  10. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  11. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  12. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  13. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  14. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  15. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts 2017–18.
  16. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts 2018–19.
  17. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts 2019–20.
  18. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts 2020–21.
  19. ↑ Keren Association Limited accounts 2021–22.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 20.5 Charity Commission, Keren Association Limited (313119): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  21. ↑ 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).
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  23. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  24. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  25. ↑ 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.
  26. ↑ 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").
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 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.
  28. ↑ 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-3 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  29. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-3 charity name returned zero results).
  30. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Keren Association' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  31. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-313119 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  32. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-3 screening covered 409 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 12 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually; lists downloaded October 2026. (Corrected 14 October 2026: the first run omitted the 21 names found only on archived full-print pages; the re-screen found no match.)
  33. ↑ 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.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  35. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Keren Association' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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