Mifal Tzedukas
Removed Hackney CIO that filed one set of accounts and was later overdue
| Mifal Tzedukas
| |
|---|---|
| Type | CIO (removed) |
| Founded | 2017-07-03 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2023-07-24 (removed from the register) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1173641 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel, United States |
Mifal Tzedukas was a charitable incorporated organisation registered on 3 July 2017 and removed from the register on 24 July 2023; register areas were England and Wales, Israel and the United States.[1] Its object was "the advancement of the Jewish faith by suppoting [sic] the religious education of children and young people"; its trustees were Chana Bella Kish, Chaim Dov Scher and J S Sonden (recorded on the register as Jarowlaw Slawomir Sondej), and its office was in London E5.[2][3] In its first period, to 30 September 2018, donations were £212,595, grants £208,904 and funds £2,426 (p.5–7).[4]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION(II) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, AND(III) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION(II) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, AND(III) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, Disability.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel, United States.[1]
Trustees
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-12 | Chaim Dov Scher (from 03 July 2017); Chana Bella Kish (from 03 July 2017); Jarowlaw Slawomir Sondej (from 03 July 2017) | [5] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-30 | £212,595 | £210,169 (latest figures held in the charity record; no annual-return history in the extract) |
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 30/09/2018[6]
Funding in Israel
- Period to 30 September 2018: grants (advancement of religion) £208,904, of which only Yad Shlomo Trust £7,350 is named; the accounts do not mention Israel (p.7).[4] Israel appeared as a register area of operation.[1]
Israeli partners
No partner is named.[4]
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 is named. | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[4]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[7][8][9][10][11]
- Overdue before removal. Archived register pages show the charity's reporting "166 days late" in January 2021 and "overdue by 341 days" in July 2021; the only accounts found are for the period to 30 September 2018, approved on 4 October 2019.[3][4]
- Recipients largely unnamed. Grants of £208,904 were all "institutional"; the only named recipient is Yad Shlomo Trust, £7,350 (p.7).[4]
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).[12] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[13]
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.[14]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[15]
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.[16]
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.[17]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Mifal Tzedukas" 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 166 days late" and "Other regulators: No information available".[5]
See also
- Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator
- Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques
- Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques
- British Jewish or Zionist charities investigated by the Charity Commission, 2005-2023
- British Jewish charities investigated by the Charity Commission
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.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Mifal Tzedukas: trustees' report and financial statements for the period ended 30 September 2018 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 06/01/2020. (trustees C B Kish, C D Scher, J S Sonden; independent examiner E Meyer FCA, Sugarwhite Meyer Accountants Ltd; approved 4 October 2019).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Charity Commission, Mifal Tzedukas (1173641): register full print UK Government Web Archive, capture of 06/07/2021. (status "Charity reporting is overdue by 341 days"; trustees Chaim Dov Scher, Chana Bella Kish and Jarowlaw [sic] Slawomir Sondej, all from 3 July 2017).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Charity Commission, Mifal Tzedukas: trustees' report and financial statements for the period ended 30 September 2018 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 06/01/2020 (the charity was removed in 2023 and no accounts are downloadable from the live register; this is the only accounts file found).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1173641, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Mifal Tzedukas accounts, year ended 2018-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ 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), 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, 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).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Mifal Tzedukas' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1173641 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-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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Mifal Tzedukas" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).