Kol Haloshon Trust

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Removed trust that ran a telephone and web library of rabbinic lectures

Kol Haloshon Trust

Type Trust (removed)
Founded 2007-07-26 (registered)
Dissolved 2014-04-22 (removed from the register: Funds spent (by trustees))
Registration ID Registered charity 1120273
Area served Israel


Kol Haloshon Trust was an unincorporated trust (deed of 16 May 2007) registered on 26 July 2007; Israel was its only register area.[1] The register describes it as running "a database of lectures which individuals can access via the charity's website or through an automated telephone system", recorded by rabbis. Its reported income was nil in the year to March 2011, £109,000 in 2012 and £333,000 in the year to 31 March 2013, its last reported year.[1] It was removed on 9 September 2010, re-registered on 29 October 2010 and removed again on 22 April 2014 as "Funds spent (by trustees)".[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "I) THE ADVANCEMENT AND FURTHERANCE OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AND JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AMONG THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.II) OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity runs and maintains a database of lectures which individuals can access via the charity's website or through an automated telephone system. These lectures are recorded by eminent rabbis and the intention is to advance the Jewish religion by increasing individuals' knowledge."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[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
2011-03-31 £0 £0
2012-03-31 £109,000 £101,457
2013-03-31 £333,000 £331,272

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Funding in Israel

  • No accounts are available. Income was £109,000 (FY2012) and £333,000 (FY2013), with expenditure of £101,457 and £331,272.[1]

Israeli partners

Not documented.

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 in any available record. Not established

Support for the IDF: No information on any IDF or military funding is available; no accounts could be read.[3]

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.[4][5][6][7][8]
  • Inconsistent removal records. The live register gives the reason for the 2010 removal as "Does not operate",[2] while the archived 2021 register page gave "FUNDS SPENT (BY TRUSTEES)" for both removals.[9]
  • No accounts or trustees available. The register lists accounts for 2012 and 2013 as received but offers no download, no accounts were found in the UK Government Web Archive, and the register extract holds no trustee names for this removed charity.[3][1]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[10] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[11]

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.[12]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[13]

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.[14]

Land and property

The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[15]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Kol Haloshon" returned 0 contributions in total.[16]

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".[17]

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 Charity Commission, Kol Haloshon Trust (1120273): governance Register of Charities, viewed 15 October 2026 ("26 July 2007: Standard registration 09 September 2010: Removed (Does not operate) 29 October 2010: Standard registration 22 April 2014: Removed (Funds spent (by trustees))").
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Charity Commission, Kol Haloshon Trust (1120273): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities, viewed 15 October 2026 (removed in 2014; the page lists accounts received for 2012 and 2013 but offers no download, and no archived accounts file was found in the UK Government Web Archive).
  4. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  5. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  6. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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").
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Kol Haloshon Trust (1120273): full print UK Government Web Archive, capture of 06/01/2021. ("26 July 2007 : registered 09 September 2010 : removed (FUNDS SPENT (BY TRUSTEES)) 29 October 2010 : registered 22 April 2014 : removed (FUNDS SPENT (BY TRUSTEES))").
  10. ↑ 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-10 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-10 charity name returned no relevant result; the search for "Kosov" returned only an unrelated removed charity, Kosova Support Group, showing that the API was answering).
  12. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Kol Haloshon' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  13. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1120273 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  14. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-10 screening covered 337 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 of related companies named in the accounts (including Pinlee Investments, Calvert Estates, Kendleville, Pidom Export, Faircastle, Hatzlocho, Localtrent, Ardina, Ridgesave, Portford, Wilkincroft and Pandor Estates), and trustees, lenders, donor companies 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 company words ("Services Limited" in the name of a corporate secretary) and surname-only coincidences; lists downloaded October 2026.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Kol Haloshon" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  17. ↑ Register entry 1120273, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
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