Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited

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Stamford Hill kollel company in deficit, with trustee links to two cheque-cashing inquiry charities

Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited

Type Charitable company
Founded 2008-09-22 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1125997; company 06673948
Headquarters Venitt & Greaves, 115 Craven Park Road, London, N15 6BL
Area served Belgium, Israel, United States, Salford City, Gateshead, Manchester City, Throughout London


Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited is a charitable company (06673948) registered on 22 September 2008; register areas include Belgium, Israel, the United States, Salford, Gateshead, Manchester and London.[1] The FY2025 accounts give its address as 57 Jessam Avenue, Clapton Common, London E5 9DU, and its trustees as S Tambur (also company secretary), A M Fogel, M Zafir and S Cik (resigned 20 September 2024). In the year ended 31 August 2025 it raised £925,549 and spent £862,333 on charitable activities, including grants to institutions and individuals and staff working for local educational institutions; funds were –£215,180.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH, THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER OBJECTS AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW.ANS A COURSE AT, OR CREDITED BY, A TERTIARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.'NEEDY' MEANS THEY HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO RAISE ENOUGH FUNDS FOR THEIR COURSE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of advancement of Orthodox Jewish religious education, the relief of poverty sickness and infirmity among members of the Jewish faith and advancement of such other objects as are charitable according to English Law."[1]

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

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Belgium, Israel, United States, Salford City, Gateshead, Manchester City, Throughout London.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Alta Mordechai Fogel not recorded Rays of Hope (1063700); The Z.s.v. Trust (1063860); Utry (1154569)
Samuel Tambur not recorded Binyen Torah Limited (1151892); Kollel Veyoel Moshe (1172072); Kollel Satmar (1153160); Machsikei Yeshive (1154995); Mosdos Satmar LIMITED (1147131)
Mayer Zafir not recorded Comunidad Israelita Ortodoxa of Argentina (1084438); Yetev Lev London Jerusalem Trust (1118504)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2014-09-05 Alta Mordechai Fogel; Meyer Zafir; Shalom Cik; Samuel Tambur [3]
2021-01-14 Alta Mordechai Fogel – also trustee of The Z.s.v. Trust, Rays of Hope, Utry; Shalom Cik – also trustee of Talmud Torah Education Limited; Samuel Tambur – also trustee of Binyen Torah Limited, Yeshiva Gedolah Torah Veyirah Seven Oaks Limited, Machsikei Yeshive, Friends of Yeshiva Gedolah Sevenoaks, Kollel Veyoel Moshe; Meyer Zafir – also trustee of Yetev Lev London Jerusalem Trust, Comunidad Israelita Ortodoxa of Argentina [4]

Companies House records Shulom Cik as a director from 15 August 2008 to 20 September 2024.[5]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 6 current and former officers of the charitable company (06673948), 4 of them active.[6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-08-31 £1,383,198 £1,381,221
2022-08-31 £968,963 £1,223,509
2023-08-31 £946,121 £1,097,234
2024-08-31 £994,606 £1,060,766
2025-08-31 £925,549 £867,252

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 31/08/2010[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2011[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2012[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2013[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2014[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2015[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2016[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2017[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2018[15]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025: grants to institutions and individuals "to pursuit the teachings of Torah" and staff costs for local educational institutions, within charitable expenditure of £862,333; no recipients are named.[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
No place in Israel or the occupied territories 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]
  • Trustee also trustee of an inquiry charity. Trustee Alta Mordechai Fogel is recorded on the register as a trustee of The Z.S.V. Trust (1063860),[1] which entered the cheque-cashing class inquiry in the September 2025 tranche.[18] The Commission concluded its investigation into that charity on 9 September 2026, finding that it had issued open cheques and making "a finding of misconduct and/or mismanagement"; it was "satisfied that each charity was undertaking charitable activities in line with their charitable purposes".[20] Neither release makes any finding about this charity.
  • Former trustee's name. The former director Shulom Cik (resigned 20 September 2024)[5] has the same name as a register trustee of Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054),[1] another charity in the September 2025 tranche.[18] Whether they are the same person is not established.
  • Deficit and related-charity creditors. Funds were –£215,180 at 31 August 2025. The charity donated £33,145 to charities sharing common trustees and owed £169,615 to such charities; none is named. A Bounce Back Loan of £9,528 was outstanding.[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 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 notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[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 does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[27]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Kollel Torah Ve Yirah', 'Torah Ve Yirah' returned 0 contributions in total.[28]

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".[4]

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, Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited (1125997): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1125997, contact and trustees (capture of 20140905) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1125997, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Companies House, Company 06673948 (Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 14 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Company 06673948: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  7. ↑ Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited accounts, year ended 2010-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140905).
  8. ↑ Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited accounts, year ended 2011-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140905).
  9. ↑ Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited accounts, year ended 2012-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140905).
  10. ↑ Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited accounts, year ended 2013-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140905).
  11. ↑ Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited accounts, year ended 2014-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  12. ↑ Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited accounts, year ended 2015-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  13. ↑ Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited accounts, year ended 2016-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  14. ↑ Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited accounts, year ended 2017-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  15. ↑ Kollel Torah Ve Yirah Limited accounts, year ended 2018-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  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 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).
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  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. ↑ 20.0 20.1 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.
  21. ↑ 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").
  22. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-5 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  23. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-5 charity name returned zero results).
  24. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Torah Ve Yirah' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  25. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1125997 360Giving, queried 14 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-5 screening covered 345 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers and related persons named in the accounts read for this batch (including archived accounts) and on the Companies House pages for Brightness Ltd; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); 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 on 14 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. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Torah Ve Yirah' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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