Manor Drive Torah Keren Limited

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Golders Green family charitable company giving 90% of grants to unnamed individuals

Manor Drive Torah Keren Limited

Type Charitable company
Founded 2015-03-16 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1160908; company 08518857
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel


Manor Drive Torah Keren Limited is a charitable company (08518857, incorporated 7 May 2013) registered on 16 March 2015; register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Alexander Markovic and Judith Markovic, and its address is in London NW11.[1] It makes grants for education, religion and the relief of poverty from voluntary donations, responding to requests from "charitable institutions operating all over England" (PDF p.3–4). In the year to 31 May 2025 donations were £230,903, grants £228,599 and net liabilities £25,959 (PDF p.4, 6–7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:THE ADVANCEMENT AND FURTHERANCE OF RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The Charity's object and its principal activity continues to be that providing grants for the enhancement of education religion and relief of poor."[1]

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

Trustees of Manor Drive Torah Keren Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Judith Markovic 2013-05-07 —
Alexander Markovic 2013-05-07 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-16 Judith Markovic (from 07 May 2013); Alexander Markovic (from 07 May 2013); Aaron Luftig (from 27 May 2014) [3]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 4 current and former officers of the charitable company (08518857), 2 of them active.[4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-05-31 £141,033 £153,183
2022-05-31 £132,813 £163,672
2023-05-31 £194,021 £198,837
2024-05-31 £208,055 £207,084
2025-05-31 £230,920 £228,847

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 31/05/2016[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2017[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/05/2018[7]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £228,599, of which individuals £206,099; the accounts name no recipients and the accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.4, 10).[2]

Israeli partners

Not named.[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 is named. 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;[8] 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.[9][10][11][12] 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.[13]
  • Grants to individuals and negative reserves. "Included in grants paid is £206,099 paid to individuals" (90% of grants); no recipients are named; the charity had negative reserves and a bank loan of £29,713, and its going-concern basis relies on "the continued provision of financial support by the charity's creditors" (PDF p.4, 7, 10).[2]
  • Register says land is held. The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land,[1] but no property appears in the accounts (PDF p.7).[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).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]

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.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[17]

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.[18]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[19] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[20]

  • No land or property appears in the accounts (net liabilities £25,959) – Accounts (PDF p.7); the register records that the charity owns and/or leases land, which conflicts with the accounts (source: [2][1])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Manor Drive Torah Keren", "Manor Drive Torah" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

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. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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 2.6 Charity Commission, Manor Drive Torah Keren Limited (1160908): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1160908, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Company 08518857: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Manor Drive Torah Keren Limited accounts, year ended 2016-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  6. ↑ Manor Drive Torah Keren Limited accounts, year ended 2017-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ Manor Drive Torah Keren Limited accounts, year ended 2018-05-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ 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-11 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status (for example "Charity reporting is up to date (39 days late)" for British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre, "(4 days late)" for British Friends of Aleh and "(11 days late)" for Urgent Projects).
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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").
  14. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-11 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names such as J R Gibb Charitable Trust and Boleskine Community Care).
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-11 charity names returned zero results).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Manor Drive Torah Keren' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1160908 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-11 screening covered 386 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (GS Property Management Services, Igerville, Housefresh, Vitalina, Rochester Developments and Delapage), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Fund", "Israel", "Republic") and surname-only coincidences (Cohen, Levy, Friedman, Green, Said); lists downloaded October 2026.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ 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 charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Manor Drive Torah Keren" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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