MYA Charitable Trust
Rothfeld family trust in Stamford Hill that owns property companies, lends interest-free and gave £193,875 in 2024/25
| MYA Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Other |
| Founded | 1988-07-14 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 299642 |
| Headquarters | Medcar House, 149A Stamford Hill, London, N16 5LL |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
| Key people | Myer Rothfeld (chair) |
The M Y A Charitable Trust was registered on 14 July 1988 and is governed by a trust deed; its objects are any charitable purpose, especially the Orthodox Jewish religion and education and the relief of poverty, and it makes grants to institutions and individuals and "short term interest-free loans"; its register areas are England and Wales and Israel (PDF p.4–5).[1][2] The trustees are Myer Rothfeld (chair), Eve Rothfeld and Rachel Dym; the principal office is Medcar House, 149a Stamford Hill, London N16 (PDF p.3).[1][2] In the year to 30 April 2025 donations received were £80,167 and charitable spending £195,015, including grants of £193,875; funds fell to £1,031,259 (PDF p.4, 7).[2] It owns three property companies outright and 40% of a fourth, and holds an investment property valued by the trustees at £500,000 (PDF p.8, 13).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "SUCH CHARITIES CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION MAY DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The charity makes donations to both educational and religious institutions and institutions helping to relieve poverty, as well as to individuals in need of financial and medical aid."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myer Rothfeld | not recorded | Yes | The Egerton Road Trust (1057841); Yad Ezrah (The Helping Hand) (297233) |
| Eve Rothfeld | not recorded | Yad Ezrah (The Helping Hand) (297233) | |
| Rachel Dym | 2023-03-30 | Birah Trust (1154454); The Howard Family Charitable Trust (1207918) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-04 | Joseph Daniel Pfeffer; Myer Rothfeld; Eve Rothfeld; Hannah Schraiber | [3] |
| 2012-05-05 | Joseph Daniel Pfeffer; Myer Rothfeld; Eve Rothfeld; Hannah Schraiber | [4] |
| 2013-09-04 | Joseph Daniel Pfeffer; Myer Rothfeld; Eve Rothfeld; Hannah Schraiber | [5] |
| 2014-01-04 | Joseph Daniel Pfeffer; Myer Rothfeld; Eve Rothfeld; Hannah Schraiber | [6] |
| 2021-01-14 | Myer Rothfeld (chair) – also trustee of The Egerton Road Trust, Yad Ezrah (The Helping Hand); Joseph Daniel Pfeffer – also trustee of Anshel Pfeffer Trust; Hannah Schraiber; Eve Rothfeld | [7] |
The subsidiaries, all registered at Medcar House, are Alphapeak Properties Ltd (03069403), Fineview Properties Ltd (03119073) and Landregal Managements Ltd (02779623), each wholly owned, and Rosetower Ltd (03420847), 40% owned (PDF p.13).[2]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-30 | £104,690 | £279,850 |
| 2022-04-30 | £190,236 | £815,711 |
| 2023-04-30 | £226,555 | £325,990 |
| 2024-04-30 | £90,631 | £260,573 |
| 2025-04-30 | £87,571 | £195,297 |
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 30/04/2007[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2008[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2009[10]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2010[11]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2011[12]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2012[13]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2014[14]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2015[15]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2016[16]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2017[17]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2018[18]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2019[19]
Funding in Israel
- 2024/25 grants: institutions £183,235 and individuals £10,640. Material grants: Moreshet Hatorah £50,000; "Mesifta Beis Medrash L'Torah, Israel" £19,256; Chevras Mooz Ladol £16,500; The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust £16,000; Colel Polen Kupath Ramban Limited £10,000; others under £10,000 £71,479 (PDF p.11–12).[2]
Israeli partners
"Mesifta Beis Medrash L'Torah, Israel" (no town given) (PDF p.12).[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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| The only Israeli grantee is identified by country, not town (PDF p.12).[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;[20] 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.[21][22][23][24] 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.[25]
- Trustee's interests in investee companies. The charity owns 40% of Rosetower Ltd, and "40% of the remaining share capital is held by M. Rothfeld", a trustee; Rosetower donated £20,000. The charity owed £140,000 to Starbeam Estates Ltd, "a company under the control of one of the trustees" (PDF p.13, 15).[2]
- Loans and debtors. The charity lent £69,000 to Fineview Properties Ltd and £54,103 to Landregal Managements Ltd; other debtors of £402,640 are not explained (PDF p.14–15).[2]
- Undated accounts. The trustees' report and balance sheet are signed by M Rothfeld with the date left blank, and the independent examiner's report (Esther Royde FCCA, Accshire Accountancy LLP) is undated (PDF p.5, 8–9).[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).[26] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[27]
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.[28]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[29]
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.[30]
Land and property
The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[31] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[32]
- Investment property £500,000 at the trustees' valuation; property-owning subsidiaries Alphapeak Properties Ltd, Fineview Properties Ltd and Landregal Managements Ltd, and 40% of Rosetower Ltd; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.8, 13) (source: [2])
- Freehold property, Boscombe, Bournemouth BH1 (title DT67447, freehold; proprietor added 04/03/2002, price paid £200,000) – registered to Rosetower Ltd (03420847), 40% owned by the charity and 40% by trustee M Rothfeld; not necessarily charity property (source: [32])
- Freehold property, Heathside Park Road, Woking (title SY289129, freehold; proprietor added 22/12/1997) – registered to Rosetower Ltd (03420847), 40% owned by the charity and 40% by trustee M Rothfeld; not necessarily charity property (source: [32])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "M Y A Charitable Trust", "MYA Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[33]
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".[7]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 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.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 Charity Commission, MYA Charitable Trust (299642): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Register entry 299642, contact and trustees (capture of 20100704) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 299642, contact and trustees (capture of 20120505) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 299642, contact and trustees (capture of 20130904) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 299642, contact and trustees (capture of 20140104) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Register entry 299642, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2007-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120505).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2008-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2009-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2010-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2011-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2012-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130904).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ MYA Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'M Y A Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-299642 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "M Y A Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).