Keren Yaacov Limited

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Removed Stamford Hill charitable company that paid £520,375 to individuals in 2015

Keren Yaacov Limited

Type Charitable company (removed)
Founded 2008-09-12 (registered)
Dissolved 2020-01-15 (removed from the register)
Registration ID Registered charity 1125865; company 05662939
Area served Israel


Keren Yaacov Limited was a charitable company (05662939) registered on 12 September 2008 and removed from the register on 15 January 2020; its only register area was Israel.[1][2] Its objects were Orthodox Jewish education and religion, poverty relief and relief of the aged, infirm and disabled, carried out by grantmaking; its trustees in 2016 were A Weinberg, G T Weinberg (also company secretary), M Halpern (resigned 16 November 2017) and J Halpern (resigned 24 February 2016), and its registered office was First Floor, 94 Stamford Hill, London N16 6XS (p.1–2).[2] In 2016 income was £211,685, grants £121,783 and funds £144,306; in 2015 income had been £646,451 (p.4).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION/JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION/JEWISH RELIGION FAITH.3) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, AND4) THE RELIEF OF AGED INFIRM AND DISABLED."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Grantmaking to other charities and individuals"[1]

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

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[1]

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2016-12-31 £211,685 £123,448

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[3]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[5]

Funding in Israel

  • 2016 grants £121,783 (institutions £44,325, including Be'er Avraham £35,000; individuals £77,458); 2015 grants £520,375, all to individuals. No recipient country is stated (p.7–8).[2]

Israeli partners

Be'er Avraham, with no location given.[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
No place is named. 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; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[6][7][8][9][10]
  • Grants to individuals and trustee balances. In 2015 all grants – £520,375 – went to individuals for relief of poverty; in 2016 individuals received £77,458 for religious education and institutions £44,325, including £35,000 to Be'er Avraham. Creditors included "Trustees' accounts" of £266,252 (2015: £165,232) (p.7–9).[2]
  • Unsigned, undated accounts. The 2016 trustees' report, balance sheet approval and independent examiner's report all leave the date blank (p.2–3, 6).[2] The 2015 accounts were approved on 29 December 2016.[11]

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).[12] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[13]

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.[14]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[15]

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.[16]

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.[17] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[18]

  • Investment property £86,511 at 31 December 2016 (syndicate income £7,885); address not stated – Archived 2016 accounts (p.7–8); company 05662939 – no current CCOD match was found (source: [19])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Keren Yaacov Limited", "Keren Yaacov" returned 0 contributions in total.[20]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[21]

See also

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 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 Charity Commission, Keren Yaacov Limited: report of the trustees and unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2016 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 07/01/2020 (the charity was removed in 2020 and no accounts are downloadable from the live register; this is the latest accounts file found).
  3. ↑ Keren Yaacov Limited accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  4. ↑ Keren Yaacov Limited accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  5. ↑ Keren Yaacov Limited accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  6. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  7. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  8. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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").
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Keren Yaacov Limited: trustees' report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 07/01/2020. (approved 29 December 2016).
  12. ↑ 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).
  13. ↑ 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).
  14. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Keren Yaacov' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  15. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1125865 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Keren Yaacov Limited: report of the trustees and unaudited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2016 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 07/01/2020. (company 05662939; registered office First Floor, 94 Stamford Hill, London N16 6XS).
  20. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Keren Yaacov" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  21. ↑ Register entry 1125865, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
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