MYR Charitable Trust

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Kaufman–Zonszajn trust in Gateshead funding Orthodox causes, including Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, from £1.4 million of property

MYR Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 2004-06-17 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1104406
Headquarters Gateshead NE8
Area served Israel


MYR Charitable Trust was established by a trust deed of 14 June 2004 and registered on 17 June 2004; its only register area is Israel, and its area of benefit is described as "in practice Israel, USA and England".[1] Its trustees are Simon Kaufman, Arthur Abraham Zonszajn and Joseph Kaufman (from 1 September 2004), with a principal office in Gateshead NE8; the independent examiner is Benny Brenig FCA of Cohen Arnold, London NW11 (PDF p.3).[1][2] Its income comes from investments and "donations from the trustees and associates" (PDF p.4). In 2024 property income was £105,404 (2023: £100,532), donations £9,050 (2023: £33,725), property management costs £17,065 and charitable spending £81,017, including grants of £77,150; funds were £1,459,271. The investment properties are carried at £1,425,000 on the trustees' own valuation – "Trustees are all experienced in the field of property valuation" – against a historical cost of £331,600 (PDF p.4, 7–8, 13).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH TRADITION AND FOR THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND POVERTY OF PERSONS RECOGNISED BY ANY ORTHODOX BEIS DIN AS BEING A MEMBER OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The Charity supports those organisations deemed to promote the objectives of the charity."[1]

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

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of MYR Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Simon Kaufman not recorded Areivim (1125655); C and F Charitable Trust (274529); C S Kaufman Charitable Trust (253194); Five K Foundation (1172014); K M Charitable Trust (286759); Largsmount Ltd (280509); Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust (1176231); Nesivos Hatorah Ltd (1172367); S C K Charitable Trust (1049159); The Mk Charitable Trust (260439)
Arthur Abraham Zonszajn not recorded Bedetex Limited (1174314); Friends of Rachashei Lev (1085350); Gur Community Welfare Society (1098067); Lingate Charitable Trust (1143210); T.d Seminary Ltd (1172027)
Joseph Kaufman 2004-09-01 J O Charitable Trust (327059)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-10 Zm Kaufman; Simon Kaufman; Arthur Abraham Zonszajn; Joseph Kaufman [3]
2010-07-12 Zm Kaufman; Simon Kaufman; Arthur Abraham Zonszajn; Joseph Kaufman [4]
2021-01-16 Arthur Abraham Zonszajn – also trustee of Lingate Charitable Trust, The Rozac Charitable Trust, T.d Seminary Ltd; Simon Kaufman – also trustee of S C K Charitable Trust, Largsmount Ltd, The Rozac Charitable Trust, C and F Charitable Trust, K M Charitable Trust, Nesivos Hatorah Ltd, Five K Foundation, The Mk Charitable Trust, Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust, C S Kaufman Charitable Trust; Joseph Kaufman [5]

Arthur Abraham Zonszajn is also a trustee of Lingate Charitable Trust (1143210).[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £102,933 £476,792
2021-12-31 £109,271 £110,629
2022-12-31 £96,958 £114,560
2023-12-31 £134,257 £152,368
2024-12-31 £114,454 £98,082

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 31/12/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

Israeli partners

Colel Polen Kupath Ramban. The Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness website lists "Colel Polen Kupath Ramban" at 479 Holloway Road, London N7, as its London office and gives its Israel office as 40 Strauss Street, Jerusalem.[11] The other grantees are not identified as Israeli.[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
Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness gives its Israel office as 40 Strauss Street, Jerusalem; no activity beyond the Green Line is stated.[11] High

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;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
  • Connected donors and grantee. Donations received include amounts from entities connected to the trustees, and the £8,200 grant to J O Charitable Trust went to a charity with a trustee in common (PDF p.11–12).[2]
  • Valuation by the trustees. The properties are valued by the trustees themselves at more than four times their cost (PDF p.13).[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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]

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.[20]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]

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.[22]

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.[23] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[24]

  • Investment properties £1,425,000 at the trustees' valuation (historical cost £331,600), producing property income of £105,404; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.7–8, 13) (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "MYR Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[25]

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".[5]

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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, MYR Charitable Trust (1104406): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1104406, contact and trustees (capture of 20100710) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1104406, contact and trustees (capture of 20100712) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1104406, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ MYR Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  7. ↑ MYR Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ MYR Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  9. ↑ MYR Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  10. ↑ MYR Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, Contact kupathrabbimeir.org, retrieved 16 October 2026 (London office "Colel Polen Kupath Ramban, 479 Holloway Road, London N7"; Israel office "Kupath Rambahn, 40 Strauss Street, P.O.B. 658, Jerusalem 91006").
  12. ↑ 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-16 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust showed "Removed charity".
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  16. ↑ 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).
  17. ↑ 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").
  18. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
  20. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'MYR Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1104406 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people 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 Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ 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 five charitable companies (01663511, 05791711, 08786769, 00803733, 07500030) and on the charities' registered and other names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  25. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "MYR Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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