Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust
Gateshead Kaufman family property trust that values its own £2.9 million portfolio
| Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2017-12-12 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1176231 |
| Headquarters | Gateshead NE8 |
| Area served | Throughout England, Israel |
| Key people | Simon Kaufman (chair) |
Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust was registered on 12 December 2017 under a trust deed of 20 June 2017; register areas are England and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Simon Kaufman (chair on the register), Noemi Kaufman and Chaim Yehoshua Kaufman, with a principal office in Gateshead NE8 – the same address as the Five K Foundation (PDF p.3).[1][2] It makes donations to religious educational and other charitable institutions from investment-property income. In the year to 5 April 2025 income was £183,230 (property income £182,980), donations paid £197,525 and funds £2,548,910 (PDF p.5, 7).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "A. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATIONB. THE RELIEF OF POVERTYC. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOND. ANY OTHER PURPOSES CURRENTLY RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE BY ANALOGY, OR WITHIN THE SPIRIT OF, PURPOSES OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "TO PROVIDE AND DISTRIBUTE GRANTS AND DONATIONS TO ORTHODOX JEWISH CHARITIES."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Kaufman | 2017-06-20 | Yes | 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); Myr Charitable Trust (1104406); Nesivos Hatorah Ltd (1172367); S C K Charitable Trust (1049159); The Mk Charitable Trust (260439) |
| Noemi Kaufman | 2017-06-20 | Five K Foundation (1172014) | |
| Chaim Yehoshua Kaufman | 2017-08-01 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-11 | Simon Kaufman (chair) (from 20 June 2017) – also trustee of S C K Charitable Trust, Largsmount Ltd, The Rozac Charitable Trust, C and F Charitable Trust, Myr Charitable Trust, K M Charitable Trust, Nesivos Hatorah Ltd, Five K Foundation, The Mk Charitable Trust, C S Kaufman Charitable Trust; Noemi Kaufman (from 20 June 2017) – also trustee of Five K Foundation; Chaim Yehoshua Kaufman (from 01 August 2017) | [3] |
Simon Kaufman is also a register trustee of Areivim, C and F Charitable Trust, C S Kaufman Charitable Trust, Five K Foundation, K M Charitable Trust, Largsmount Ltd, MYR Charitable Trust, Nesivos Hatorah Ltd, S C K Charitable Trust and The MK Charitable Trust; Noemi Kaufman of Five K Foundation.[1]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-05 | £281,947 | £121,213 |
| 2022-04-05 | £158,354 | £176,704 |
| 2023-04-05 | £153,801 | £219,526 |
| 2024-04-05 | £190,794 | £189,404 |
| 2025-04-05 | £183,230 | £286,641 |
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 05/04/2019[4]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants: Chevras Mo'oz Ladol £30,000, Achisomoch Aid Company £28,000, Keren Chomoh Betzuroh £18,525, Shar Hamelech £15,000, Start Upright £15,000, VHLT Ltd £15,000 and others under £15,000 £76,000. No place in Israel is named (PDF p.12).[2]
Israeli partners
No Israeli organisation is named. Chevras Mo'oz Ladol, VHLT Ltd and Achisomoch Aid Company Limited are UK charities with their own profiles.[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 |
|---|---|
| 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;[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]
- Trustee valuation and borrowing. Investment properties of £2,864,500 are carried at the trustees' valuation, the trustees being described as "experienced in the field of property valuation"; bank loans are £14,000 and £404,638, and investment management costs (interest £31,331 and property management £52,758) took £84,089 of income (PDF p.7, 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).[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.[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, 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.[15]
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.[16] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[17]
- Investment properties £2,864,500 at 5 April 2025 at the trustees' valuation (disposal £30,000); bank loans £14,000 and £404,638; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.7, 13) (source: [2])
- 56 Elgin Street, Bolton (BL1 3ER) (title GM214434, leasehold; proprietor added 30/05/2023, price paid £98,000) – Name-only CCOD match: proprietor recorded as "MENDEL KAUFMAN MEMORIAL TRUST" with no company number; the trust holds investment properties (see accounts), but this title was not verified against a title register (source: [17])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[18]
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 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust (1176231): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1176231, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust accounts, year ended 2019-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
- ↑ 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-13 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The 22 registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd, Trumfold Limited and The Naaman Trust 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-13 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-13 charity names returned zero results, except "J O Charitable", which returned only unrelated Northern Irish charities).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Mendel Kaufman' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1176231 360Giving, queried 15 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-13 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the six charitable companies (including the removed Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd and Trumfold Limited), related companies named in the accounts (Cromwell Corporate Protector Limited, Salmino Limited, Bullion Properties Limited, Crewpride Limited, Wilkincroft Ltd and others), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts and fetched partner pages 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", "Ltd", "Foundation") and surname-only coincidences (Weiss, Friedman, Kish, Silver, James, Seal, Potash); 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 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.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 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 and numbers of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Mendel Kaufman" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).