Open Door Society Limited
UK Orthodox Jewish relief charity making grants to institutions and individuals
| Open Door Society Limited
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2011-07-13 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1142853; company 07606279 |
| Headquarters | 16 Cazenove Road, London, N16 6BD |
| Area served | Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Israel, United States |
Open Door Society Limited is a charitable company (07606279) registered in 2011. Objects include relief of poverty primarily but not exclusively in the United Kingdom and Israel.[1] In the year ended 31 May 2025 donations were £1,871,267; charitable spending included grants £1,018,871 (institutions "Other" £443,281; individuals £575,590) plus direct costs for goods, housing, education assistance and medical costs.[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "(I) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN UNITED KINGDOM AND ISRAEL(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER OBJECTS AS ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE COMPANY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Assist in poverty and other charitable causes"[1]
Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Israel, United States.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Israel David Deutsch | 2022-09-07 | — | |
| Chaim Hoffmann | 2022-09-07 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-15 | Rabbi Aaron Henig (from 13 July 2011); Esther Issacharof (from 13 July 2011); Israel Issacharof (from 13 July 2011) | [3] |
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 5 current and former officers of the charitable company (07606279), 2 of them active.[4]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-30 | £20,424 | £13,918 |
| 2022-04-30 | £0 | £0 |
| 2023-04-30 | £103,042 | £99,039 |
| 2024-05-31 | £1,474,704 | £1,414,492 |
| 2025-05-31 | £1,871,267 | £1,869,542 |
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 30/04/2019[5]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants £1,018,871 plus substantial direct relief costs; Israel is in the objects and register areas but recipients are not named.[2][1]
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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Not established – recipients not named.[2] | Low |
Support for the IDF: No IDF funding is stated. Institutional grant recipients are not named beyond "Other".[2][2]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice was found.
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[6] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[7]
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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[8]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[9]
Sanctions screening
The charity's name and the names of its current register trustees 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.[10]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[11]
Parliament
A search of Hansard for 'Open Door Society Limited' returned 0 contributions in total.[12]
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 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, Open Door Society Limited (1142853): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1142853, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Company 07606279: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
- ↑ Open Door Society Limited accounts, year ended 2019-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-2 charities found no matching Scottish registration of the same organisations (unrelated name collisions such as Open Door Edinburgh SC007315 were disregarded).
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-2 charity name returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Open Door Society Limited' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1142853 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Screening of the current register trustees of the 25 batch-2 charities and the charity names, carried out 14 October 2026; no matches. Companies House officers and archived trustees were not included in this batch's screen. Viatcheslav Kantor (RUS1127) remains on the UK Sanctions List as previously noted.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 14 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 'Open Door Society Limited' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).