Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust

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Edgware trust with Israel-only objects whose accounts describe all spending as UK educational events

Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1995-02-22 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1044458
Headquarters 78 St. Margarets Road, Edgware, HA8 9UU
Area served Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Manchester City, Israel
Key people Rabbi Rabbi Godlewsky (chair)


Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust (also known as Achdut) was registered on 22 February 1995; register areas are Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Manchester and Israel.[1] The accounts for the year to 5 April 2025, independently examined by Ankur Shah of MAP Accounting, give its principal address as 78 St Margarets Road, Edgware HA8 9UU, and its trustees as R Z Godlewsky and Z Polias. Voluntary income was £547,846 and spending on "Educational events and lectures / United Kingdom" £468,828; funds were £136,161 (PDF p.3, 5).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1.THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ISRAEL. 2.THE REHABILITATION OF MINORS AND INFANTS IN ISRAEL. 3.TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN ISRAEL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX PRACTICE. 4.TO ADVANCE JEWISH EDUCATION IN ISRAEL. 5.SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS CHARITABLE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "1. The relief of poverty in the UK and Israel.2. The rehabilitation of minors and infants in the UK and Israel.3. To advance the religion of the Jewish faith in the UK and Israel in accordance with the orthodox practice. 4. To advance Jewish education in the UK and Israel. 5. Such other purposes as are recognised by the law of England and Wales as charitable."[1]

Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Manchester City, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Rabbi Rabbi Godlewsky not recorded Yes Etc Youth Ltd (1114581)
Zev Polias not recorded —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-14 Rabbi Rabbi Godlewsky (chair); Zev Polias; Yisroel Friedman [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £250,689 £266,607
2022-04-05 £650,160 £639,188
2023-04-05 £730,397 £717,505
2024-04-05 £601,393 £550,107
2025-04-05 £547,864 £468,828

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 05/04/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2019[8]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to April 2025: £468,828 on "Educational events and lectures" in the United Kingdom (PDF p.5).[2]

Israeli partners

Not identified.[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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
The accounts label all spending as in the United Kingdom and name no place in Israel.[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]
  • Objects and spending do not match. The register records objects directed to Israel,[1] but the accounts label all spending as UK educational events and give "Charitable activities" of £465,602 without any breakdown or recipient; Israel is not mentioned (PDF p.5, 9).[2]
  • Shared trustees. Godlewsky and Polias also run ETC Youth Ltd (1114581), which has the same register address and the same examiner.[1][15]

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, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name returned no notices.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2011-04-20 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 This is a project by a community group in Barnet. The group will use funding to deliver workshops in IT, citizenship and healthy lifestyles
2012-11-29 The National Lottery Community Fund 9,976 This is a project by a charity in Barnet. The group will use the funding to run a social and educational breakfast club for older people. Th

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[19]

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.[20]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[21]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Keren Hayeled', 'Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust' 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]

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 Charity Commission, Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust (1044458): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 (the PDF is a scan and was read by OCR, with key figures checked against the page images; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1044458, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  5. ↑ Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  6. ↑ Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
  9. ↑ 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).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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").
  15. ↑ Companies House, Company 05703580 (ETC Youth Ltd): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026.
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the batch-7 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Lieutenancy of Scotland, is a separate Scottish body).
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-7 charity name returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Keren Hayeled' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1044458 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-7 screening covered 428 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers, lenders, subsidiaries and related bodies named in the accounts read for this batch (including Ambertown International Ltd); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. The single forename-and-surname candidate (a former Wimbledon and District Synagogue director against a UK counter-terrorism designation) has different middle names and was not treated as a match; all other candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps; lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Keren Hayeled' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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