Koleiss Zedokoh Limited

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Salford charitable company whose £1.2m is held in joint property syndicates; it lost £76,726 on a syndicate sale in 2024/25

Koleiss Zedokoh Limited

Type Charitable company
Founded 1971-03-05 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 262170; company 00999987
Headquarters Salford M7
Area served Brent, Hackney, Bury, Salford City, Israel, United States


Koleiss Zedokoh Limited is a charitable company (00999987) incorporated on 18 January 1971 and registered as a charity on 5 March 1971; its objects are to support institutions teaching traditional Judaism, to advance the Orthodox Jewish faith and to aid needy persons, and its register areas are Brent, Hackney, Bury, Salford, Israel and the United States (PDF p.3–4).[1][2] The trustees are Hyman Weiss and Philip Weiss; the registered office is Heaton House, 148 Bury Old Road, Manchester M7 (PDF p.3).[1][2] In the year to 5 April 2025 income was £89,984, mostly investment income of £77,484, grants were £23,850 (2024: £64,025) and charitable spending £27,748; net losses on investments were £76,726 after "One of the syndicate holdings was sold during the year with a substantial loss"; funds were £1,213,087 (PDF p.4, 7).[2] The examiner is D Schwarz FCCA, Prestwich (19 January 2026).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "A) TO FOSTER AND ASSIST AND PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF ANY INSTITUTIONS PROFESSING AND TEACHING THE PRINCIPLES OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM. B) TO ADVANCE RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH. B) TO GIVE AID TO AND SUPPORT NEEDY PERSONS IN GENERAL."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To foster,assist and promote the charitable activities of any institutions professing and teaching the principles of traditional JudaismTo advance religion in accordance with the Jewish faithTo give aid to and support needy persons in general"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Brent, Hackney, Bury, Salford City, Israel, United States.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Koleiss Zedokoh Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Hyman Weiss 2012-04-03 Ardina Limited (262352); Beis Minchas Yitzchok Trust (326920); Localtrent Limited (326329); Melodor Limited (260972); Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited (251737)
Philip Weiss 2023-10-26 Ardina Limited (262352); Beis Minchas Yitzchok Trust (326920); Localtrent Limited (326329); Melodor Limited (260972); Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited (251737)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-19 Hyman Weiss; Maurice Neumann; Yocheved Weiss [3]
2011-09-13 Maurice Neumann; Yocheved Weiss [4]
2014-05-06 Zisel Weiss; Bernadin Weiss; Hyman Weiss; Rivka Ollech; Pesha Kohn [5]
2021-01-16 Hyman Weiss (from 03 April 2012) – also trustee of Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited, Cong Yetev Lev D'satmar M/c Ltd, Melodor Limited, Beis Minchas Yitzchok Trust, Kolyom Trust Limited, Localtrent Limited, Zoreya Tzedokos, Beis Yoel, Talmud Torah Yetev Lev Ltd; Bernadin Weiss (from 03 April 2012) – also trustee of Ardina Limited, Localtrent Limited; Pesha Kohn (from 03 April 2012) – also trustee of Melodor Limited; Rivka Ollech (from 03 April 2012) – also trustee of Melodor Limited; Zisel Weiss (from 03 April 2012) – also trustee of Ardina Limited, Melodor Limited, Localtrent Limited [6]

At Companies House, Hyman Weiss was a director from 10 January 2011 to 16 February 2024 and again from 19 July 2024, and Philip Weiss has been a director since 23 November 2022 (the register dates his appointment from 26 October 2023). Former directors include Ziesel Weiss, Pesha Kohn and Rivka Ollech (all to 22 November 2022).[7][1]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 13 current and former officers of the charitable company (00999987), 2 of them active.[8]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-05 £98,408 £25,136
2022-04-05 £139,404 £66,604
2023-04-05 £91,461 £49,246
2024-04-05 £122,858 £65,666
2025-04-05 £89,984 £27,748

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 05/04/2012[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2013[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2014[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2015[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2016[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2017[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2018[15]

Funding in Israel

  • 2024/25 grants £23,850: Teshuvo Tefiloh Tzedoko £8,500; Deleine Ltd £4,000; Yesamach Levov £1,600; Academy For Talmudical Reserach [sic] £1,000; Manchester Hachnosas Kaloh £1,000; other £7,750. 2023/24 grants (£64,025) included Chareidim Beis Shemesh £5,000. No grantee is placed in Israel by the accounts (PDF p.13).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is identified; the 2023/24 grantee "Chareidim Beis Shemesh" is named without an address (PDF p.13).[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 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;[16] 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.[17][18][19][20] 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.[21]
  • Syndicate investments not revalued. Other investments of £1,183,386 are "joint property syndicates" carried at capital plus accrued surpluses "without revaluing the syndicate properties"; the £76,726 loss on a syndicate disposal is labelled "Gains/(losses) on investment property", although the investment property itself (£4,227) did not change (PDF p.13–14).[2]
  • Balances with linked charities. Interest-free balances, repayable on demand, are due from Tradetone Limited (£4,200) and Localtrent Limited (£11,500), described as charities with common trustees, and £35,000 is owed to Beis Yoel (PDF p.16).[2]

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).[22] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[23]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[24]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[25]

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.[26]

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.[27] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[28]

  • Investment property £4,227 at the trustees' valuation and joint property syndicates £1,183,386; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.14) (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Koleiss Zedokoh" returned 0 contributions in total.[29]

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".[6]

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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Charity Commission, Koleiss Zedokoh Limited (262170): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 262170, contact and trustees (capture of 20100719) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 262170, contact and trustees (capture of 20110913) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 262170, contact and trustees (capture of 20140506) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 262170, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Companies House, KOLEISS ZEDOKOH LIMITED (00999987) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
  8. ↑ Company 00999987: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  9. ↑ Koleiss Zedokoh Limited accounts, year ended 2012-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140506).
  10. ↑ Koleiss Zedokoh Limited accounts, year ended 2013-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140506).
  11. ↑ Koleiss Zedokoh Limited accounts, year ended 2014-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  12. ↑ Koleiss Zedokoh Limited accounts, year ended 2015-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  13. ↑ Koleiss Zedokoh Limited accounts, year ended 2016-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  14. ↑ Koleiss Zedokoh Limited accounts, year ended 2017-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  15. ↑ Koleiss Zedokoh Limited accounts, year ended 2018-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  16. ↑ 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-18 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Sixteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the Porter Foundation showed "up to date (1 day late)", The Persian Hebrew Community "up to date (48 days late)", Bernard Kahn Charitable Trust "up to date (33 days late)" and the Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; Jassiane Limited showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 623 days"; The Friends of Birzeit University, The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls and John Hagee Ministries showed "Removed charity".
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  20. ↑ 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).
  21. ↑ 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").
  22. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-18 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  23. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
  24. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Koleiss Zedokoh' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  25. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-262170 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  26. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries and other people and bodies named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Weiss, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  27. ↑ 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.
  28. ↑ 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 the company numbers of the seven charitable companies (09792270, 04952955, 00999987, 06297292, 10610690, 10824802, 11678469), on the subsidiaries named in the accounts (03069403, 03119073, 02779623, 03420847) and on the charities' registered names and named subsidiaries; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  29. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Koleiss Zedokoh" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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