Machzikei Lomdei Torah
Stamford Hill trust funding a Jerusalem kollel of the Belz Machnovka Hasidim
| Machzikei Lomdei Torah
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2018-01-15 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1176658 |
| Headquarters | 67A Watermint Quay, Craven Walk, London, N16 6DN |
| Area served | Israel |
| Key people | Samuel Lipschitz (chair) |
Machzikei Lomdei Torah is an unincorporated trust registered on 15 January 2018, at 67A Watermint Quay, Craven Walk, London N16 6DN; trustees are Samuel Lipschitz, Moshe Leib Brander and Mrs Malky Brander, and its only register area is Israel.[1][2] Its principal activity is supporting Machzikei Lomdei Torah Yerushalayim, a kollel of married students on stipends "under the guidance and direction of the spiritual rabbinical authority of the Grand Rabbi of Belz Machnovka, Israel". For the nine months to 31 December 2024 grants were £956,380 (year to March 2024: £693,500).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORTING THE CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE TALMUDICAL COLLEGE KNOWN AS BEIS VA’AD L’BOCHURIM AND THE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TALMUDICAL STUDIES KNOWN AS KOLLEL HALOCHO BOTH UNDER THE GUIDANCE AND DIRECTION OF THE SPIRITUAL RABBINICAL AUTHORITY OF BELZ MACHNOVKA, JERUSALEM ISRAEL"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "We support the charitable educational activities of the Talmudical College known as Beis Va'ad l'Bochurim and the institute of advanced Talmudical Studies known as Kollel Halocho, both under the guidance and direction of the spiritual rabbinical authority of Belz Machnovka, Jerusalem, Israel"[1]
Register classifications: 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]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Lipschitz | 2017-05-02 | Yes | — |
| Moshe Leib Brander | 2017-05-02 | — | |
| Malky Brander | 2017-05-02 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-12 | Malky Brander (from 02 May 2017); Moshe Leib Brander (from 02 May 2017); Samuel Lipschitz (chair) (from 02 May 2017) | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £316,434 | £317,380 |
| 2022-03-31 | £445,749 | £460,615 |
| 2023-03-31 | £608,228 | £621,415 |
| 2024-03-31 | £729,091 | £701,764 |
| 2024-12-31 | £973,402 | £962,100 |
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 31/03/2019[4]
Funding in Israel
- All grants (£956,380 for April–December 2024) went to Machzikei Lomdei Torah Yerushalayim.[2]
Israeli partners
Machzikei Lomdei Torah Yerushalayim (Jerusalem); no address is given.[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 |
|---|---|
| Not established – the location within Jerusalem is not stated.[2] | Low |
Support for the IDF: No IDF 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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
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).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]
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.[13]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[14]
Sanctions screening
The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages 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.[15]
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.[16]
Parliament
Hansard searches for 'Machzikei Lomdei Torah' returned 0 contributions in total.[17]
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".[3]
See also
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, Machzikei Lomdei Torah (1176658): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1176658, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Machzikei Lomdei Torah accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ 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-4 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-4 charity name returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Machzikei Lomdei Torah' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1176658 360Giving, queried 14 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-4 screening covered 354 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) and Companies House officers of the 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Machzikei Lomdei Torah' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).