Ohel Sarah UK

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Removed UK friends' charity of the Ohel Sarah special-needs institute in Bnei Brak

Ohel Sarah UK

Type Trust (removed)
Founded 1991-10-18 (registered)
Dissolved 2025-07-15 (removed from the register: DOES NOT OPERATE)
Registration ID Registered charity 1004992
Area served Israel


Ohel Sarah UK (formerly British Friends of the Ohel Sarah Institute for the Special Child and British Friends of Ohel Sarah) was a trust registered on 18 October 1991; Israel was its only register area.[1] Its object was "promoting the relief of children in Israel suffering from learning disabilities" and other disabilities, and the register says it provided funding to another organisation which delivered the care. Its last reported year, to 31 March 2024, shows income of £352,326 and expenditure of £345,394.[1] The register records that it received funds from the Peter Epstein Charitable Will Trust (1114617) on 7 April 2022 and that it was removed on 15 July 2025 as "Does not operate".[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "PROMOTING THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN IN ISRAEL SUFFERING FROM LEARNING DISABILITIES MENTAL RETARDATION EMOTIONAL DISORDERS AUTISM AND PHYSICAL HANDICAPS"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity collected funds to cover grants made for the benefit of children with special needs. The charity itself does not deal with children with special needs but provides funding to another organisation which delivers the care."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[1]

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2018-01-04 Martin Paisner; Derek Zissman; David Goldberg Qc Georgina Esterkin [3]
2021-07-03 Martin Paisner (from 04 December 2014) – also trustee of The Lily and Marcus Sieff Charitable Trust, Ben Gurion University Foundation, The Stuart Young Foundation, New Israel Fund, Friends of the Israel Cancer Association, Holocaust Educational Trust, The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation, The Rayman Hanbury Charitable Trust, The Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation, British Friends of Edith Wolfson Hospital, Shaare Zedek UK, The Phillips Family Charitable Trust, Teale Charitable Trust; David Goldberg QC (chair) (from 04 December 2014); Michelle Smaje (from 29 May 2018) – also trustee of March of the Living (UK) Limited; Derek Zissman (from 04 December 2014) [4]

The 2018 accounts list David Goldberg, Martin Paisner, Derek Zissman and Michelle Smaje (appointed 10 July 2018) as trustees, with Georgina Esterkin resigning on 10 July 2018; the principal office was Rowlandson House, 289/293 Ballards Lane, London N12 8NP.[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £323,587 £377,069
2022-03-31 £388,077 £328,504
2023-03-31 £373,502 £440,780
2024-03-31 £352,326 £345,394

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 31/03/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2018: the charity raised £205,129 in donations and transferred £70,000 "to Ohel Sarah centres in Israel", with £50,000 more sent after the year end; uses included £20,000 to renovate an independent-living apartment for young women "under the care of Ohel Sarah in Bnei Brak" and £15,000 for a therapy room at Gesharim school (PDF p.5).[5]

Israeli partners

Ohel Sarah, "a recognised not-for-profit under Israeli law" serving "nearly 500 children and adults with cognitive and physical disabilities in central Israel" (PDF p.4–5);[5] its main office is at 15 Tzefat Street, Bnei Brak.[11]

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
Ohel Sarah's main office and the apartment funded in 2018 are in Bnei Brak, inside the 1949 armistice lines.[5][11] Low – Bnei Brak

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated in the 2018 accounts.[5]

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.[12][13][14][15][16]
  • No current accounts. No accounts are available on the live register since the removal; the latest accounts read for this profile are for the year to 31 March 2018 (UK Government Web Archive).[5]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]

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.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2003-08-29 The Foyle Foundation 1,500 towards core costs of providing care services to 150 special needs children and adolescents
2004-07-21 The Foyle Foundation 2,000 towards core costs of providing round the clock care services to special needs children and adolescents in Israel
2005-09-26 The Foyle Foundation 2,000 towards core costs of providing care services to 190 special needs children and young adults
2006-10-09 The Foyle Foundation 2,000 towards core costs of providing care services to 190 special needs children and young adults
2007-09-24 The Foyle Foundation 2,000 towards core costs of providing care services to 190 special needs children and adolescents
2008-09-11 The Foyle Foundation 2,000 towards core costs of providing care services to 190 special needs children and adolescents

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[20]

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.[21]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[22]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Ohel Sarah" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

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 (on time)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]

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. ↑ Charity Commission, Ohel Sarah UK (1004992): full print UK Government Web Archive, capture of 19/07/2026. ("07 April 2022: Funds received from 1114617 PETER EPSTEIN CHARITABLE WILL TRUST 15 July 2025: Removed (Does not operate)").
  3. ↑ Register entry 1004992, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1004992, full print (capture of 20210703) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Charity Commission, Ohel Sarah UK: accounts for the year to 31 March 2018 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 06/01/2020 (the charity was removed in July 2025 and no current accounts are on the live register; this is the latest accounts file read for this profile).
  6. ↑ Ohel Sarah UK accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ Ohel Sarah UK accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ Ohel Sarah UK accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ Ohel Sarah UK accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  10. ↑ Ohel Sarah UK accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Ohel Sarah, Let's Be In Touch ohelsarah.org, viewed 15 October 2026 ("Main office: 15 Tzefat Street, Bnei Brak, Israel").
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ 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-9 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-9 charity name returned zero results; a control search returned results normally).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Ohel Sarah' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1004992 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-9 screening covered 296 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 trustees, officers, lenders, donor companies, subsidiaries and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch (including Bextor Estates Ltd, Newmarston Ltd, PWorld.UK Ltd and Gateway Sight Ltd and their directors); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname candidate arose; all candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps (for example "Trust" or "Israel"); lists downloaded October 2026.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Ohel Sarah" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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