Masim Tovim

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Stamford Hill CIO whose largest grantee is Mercaz Chasidei Buhush and which "also supported institutions in Israel"

Masim Tovim

Type CIO
Founded 2013-11-01 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1154439
Headquarters London N16
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel


Masim Tovim is a charitable incorporated organisation registered on 1 November 2013 (constitution 17 October 2013); register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Pinchas Wanevitch, Clare Wanevitch and Leah Makovetsky, with a principal address in London N16 (PDF p.3).[2] It makes grants, donations or "Charitable Loans", mainly to UK registered charities, and "also supported institutions in Israel" (PDF p.4–5). In the year to 31 January 2025 income was £220,514 (charitable foundations £122,970, corporate donors £62,498, individuals £35,046), grants £213,232 and funds £8,862 (PDF p.5, 11–13).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION, ORTHODOX JEWISH EDUCATION AND EDUCATION IN GENERAL.2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.3) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The advancement of the Orthodox Jewish religion,Orthodox Jewish education and education in general. The relief of poverty, sickness and infirmity for the public benefit."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, 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 Masim Tovim (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Clare Wanevitch 2013-10-23 —
Leah Makovetsky 2013-10-23 —
Pinchas Wanevitch 2013-10-23 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-12 Clare Wanevitch (from 23 October 2013) – also trustee of Simcha Days in; Leah Makovetsky (from 23 October 2013); Pinchas Wanevitch (chair) (from 23 October 2013) [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-01-31 £190,902 £207,524
2022-01-31 £355,021 £348,164
2023-01-31 £263,928 £243,122
2024-01-31 £286,236 £313,206
2025-01-31 £220,514 £216,516

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 31/01/2015[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2016[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2017[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2018[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2019[8]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £213,232 (education £142,443, poverty £46,082, religious organisations £24,200). The only named recipient is Mercaz Chasidei Buhush (education), 14 payments totalling £114,146 (2024: 16 payments, £167,463); 42 smaller grants totalled £99,086. The accounts say the CIO "also supported institutions in Israel" without naming them (PDF p.5, 12).[2]

Israeli partners

Mercaz Chasidei Buhush; the accounts do not say where it is based. Unnamed "institutions in Israel".[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 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;[9] 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.[10][11][12][13] 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.[14]

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).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]

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.[17]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]

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.[19]

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.[20]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Masim Tovim" 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. ↑ 1.0 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, Masim Tovim (1154439): 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 1154439, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Masim Tovim accounts, year ended 2015-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  5. ↑ Masim Tovim accounts, year ended 2016-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  6. ↑ Masim Tovim accounts, year ended 2017-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ Masim Tovim accounts, year ended 2018-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ Masim Tovim accounts, year ended 2019-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ 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-12 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 – "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" for 22 charities, "Removed charity" for Mifal Tzedukas and Keren Yaacov Limited, and "Charity reporting is up to date (256 days late)" for Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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").
  15. ↑ 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-12 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names: Madrasatul Imam Mohammad Zakariya and Harris Kaufman Trust).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-12 charity names returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Masim Tovim' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1154439 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-12 screening covered 390 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived accounts (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the six charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (Millage Limited, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (United Kingdom) Limited and Ezer Bekovoid Limited), 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", "Limited", "Foundation", "Society", "International") and surname-only coincidences (Green, Anderson, Weiss, Frank, Grace, Friedman, Fox, Ward); lists downloaded October 2026.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Masim Tovim" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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