Keren Zedakah

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Stamford Hill grant-making charity that spent £42,671 in 2024 on local families, students and institutions; its six-page accounts carry no independent examiner's report

Keren Zedakah

Type Other
Founded 1982-06-21 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 284826
Headquarters London N16
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Belgium, Israel, United States
Key people Gerald Raymond Conrad (chair)
Website kerenzedakah.org


Keren Zedakah is a charity registered on 21 June 1982 and "governed by a constitution"; its principal address is in London N16.[1][2] The register describes its activities as "Raise money from contributors & make grants for individuals & institutions meeting our requirements, according to funds available" and lists England and Wales, Belgium, Israel and the United States as areas of operation.[3] The trustees' report for 2024 gives its objective as "to advance education and relieve hardship among individuals and families in the local community", through grants to local institutions, support for needy families and "travel and medical assistance to students facing financial hardship".[2] The accounts name the trustees as M Schwartz (chair), G Conrad and S Hartman; the register lists Gerald Raymond Conrad as chair (from 2 January 1980), with M Schwartz and Shulem Hartman.[2][3] Income was £47,834, "primarily from donations and community fundraising"; spending was £42,671 – £11,925 in grants to educational and community institutions, £17,166 in support to families and £13,580 in travel and medical assistance to students – leaving a surplus of £5,163 and reserves, all in cash, rising from £101,456 to £106,619.[2] Its website describes "A mission to help individuals and institutions in our local community" and says it was established in 1982.[4]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[3]

The register describes its activities as: "Raise money from contributors & make grants for individuals & institutions meeting our requirements, according to funds available."[3]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[3]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Belgium, Israel, United States.[3]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[3]

Trustees of Keren Zedakah (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Shulem Hartman not recorded Yetev Lev Youth Club (295213)
M Schwartz not recorded Bikur Cholim Canvey (1201957)
Gerald Raymond Conrad 1980-01-02 Yes Tchabe Kollel Limited (1116598)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-16 Shulem Hartman; M Schwartz; Gerald Raymond Conrad (chair) (from 02 January 1980) – also trustee of Tchabe Kollel Limited [5]

Gerald Raymond Conrad is also a register trustee of Tchabe Kollel Limited (1116598); Shulem Hartman of Yetev Lev Youth Club (295213); and M Schwartz of Bikur Cholim Canvey (1201957).[3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £74,204 £51,779
2021-12-31 £73,693 £58,149
2022-12-31 £77,993 £58,764
2023-12-31 £68,532 £51,613
2024-12-31 £47,834 £42,671

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 31/12/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • No spending in Israel is identified; the 2024 report describes grants in "the local community" and names no recipient.[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named. The register lists Israel among the charity's areas of operation.[3]

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 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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
  • No independent examination. The six-page document filed for 2024, approved on 4 November 2025 and signed by M Schwartz as chair, contains no independent examiner's report and names no accountant.[2]
  • Chair recorded differently. The accounts name M Schwartz as chair, while the register records Gerald Raymond Conrad as chair.[2][3]

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).[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 found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[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.[20]

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.[21]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Keren Zedakah" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

Web archive

  • kerenzedakah.org: 2 yearly captures, first 2024-12-05, last 2025-09-10.[23]

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".[5]

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ Charity Commission, Keren Zedakah (284826): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Keren Zedakah (284826): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 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.
  4. ↑ Keren Zedakah Foundation, Home page kerenzedakah.org, viewed 16 October 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 284826, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Keren Zedakah accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  7. ↑ Keren Zedakah accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  8. ↑ Keren Zedakah accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  9. ↑ Keren Zedakah accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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).
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Keren Zedakah' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-284826 360Giving, queried 16 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-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.
  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 the exact phrase "Keren Zedakah" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  23. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for kerenzedakah.org Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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