Persian Hebrew Community
North London charity of the Persian Jewish community that lets property and gave £70,000 and £37,000 in 2024/25 to two bodies helping poor Persian families in Israel
| Persian Hebrew Community
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Other |
| Founded | 2010-10-19 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1138468 |
| Headquarters | Azizoff Co Ltd, 2 Beechfield Road, London, N4 1PE |
| Area served | Throughout London, Hertfordshire, Israel |
| Key people | Michael Hakimian (chair) |
The Persian Hebrew Community (formerly The Persian Hebrew Congregation) is governed by a Charity Commission scheme of 19 July 2010 and was registered on 19 October 2010; its objects are the Jewish faith, education and the relief of poverty among the Persian Hebrew community, with preference for residents of Great Britain, and its register areas are London, Hertfordshire and Israel (PDF p.3).[1][2] The trustees are Michael Hakimian (chair), Amos Azizoff, Alex Bassalian, Jeffrey Azizoff and Geoffrey Azizollahoff; the address is c/o Azizoff Co Ltd, 2 Beechfield Road, London N4 (PDF p.2).[1][2] In the year to 31 March 2025 the accounts show rental income of £109,063 and charitable donations of £129,065, a loss of £22,412, freehold property of £1,182,925 and cash of £464,609 (PDF p.3, 5–7).[2] The accounts were prepared by Pytronot Accountancy Services Ltd, Birmingham.[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH FAITH AMONG PERSONS OF THE PERSIAN HEBREWCOMMUNITY WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE WHO ARE FOR THE TIME BEING RESIDENT INGREAT BRITAIN.(2) THE EDUCATION IN THE JEWISH FAITH OF THE CHILDREN OF MEMBERS OF THE PERSIANHEBREW COMMUNITY WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE WHO ARE FOR THE TIME BEINGRESIDENT IN GREAT BRITAIN.(3) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AMONG THE PERSIAN HEBREW COMMUNITYWITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE IN WHO ARE FOR THE TIME BEING RESIDENT GREATBRITAIN.(4) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES ANCILLARY TO THE FOREGOING PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAYFROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The advancement of and education in the Jewish faith among persons of the Persian Hebrew Community with a preference for those who are for the time being resident in the UK; the relief of poverty and sickness among the Persian Hebrew Community with a preference for those who are for the time being resident in the UK."[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Hertfordshire, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos Azizoff | not recorded | — | |
| Alex Bassalian | not recorded | Persian Sephardi Synagogue (1132415) | |
| Michael Hakimian | not recorded | Yes | Persian Sephardi Synagogue (1132415) |
| Jeffrey Azizoff | not recorded | — | |
| Geoffrey Azizollahoff | 2013-08-28 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-05 | Geoffrey Azizollahoff (from 28 August 2013); Michael Hakimian (chair) – also trustee of Persian Sephardi Synagogue; Alex Bassalian – also trustee of Persian Sephardi Synagogue; Amos Azizoff; Jeffrey Ephraim Azizoff | [3] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £77,321 | £51,663 |
| 2022-03-31 | £86,316 | £47,266 |
| 2023-03-31 | £150,791 | £107,825 |
| 2024-03-31 | £84,145 | £79,505 |
| 2025-03-31 | £91,519 | £129,928 |
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[4]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[8]
Funding in Israel
- 2024/25: £70,000 to the United Mashadi Community of Israel and £37,000 to Vaad Jerusalem "for the purpose of providing food and medicine for poor Persian families in Israel", and £21,915 for the Jewish education of Persian families in Israel (PDF p.3).[2]
Israeli partners
United Mashadi Community of Israel; Vaad Jerusalem (PDF p.3).[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 |
|---|---|
| The recipients are named without addresses; no place beyond the Green Line is mentioned (PDF p.3).[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]
- Defective accounts. The accounts are headed "Director's report" and "Profit and Loss Account", carry Companies Act audit-exemption statements although the charity is not a company, and say they are on a receipts-and-payments basis while presenting accruals statements; the independent examiner's report is unsigned and undated, does not name the examiner and refers to the "year ended 31 March 2024"; funds are given "As at 31 March 2024" (PDF p.3–7).[2]
- Figures do not agree. The register records income of £91,519 and expenditure of £129,928 for the year, against rental income of £109,063 in the accounts; the donations itemised in the report (£70,000, £37,000 and £21,915) do not add up to the £129,065 shown in the accounts (PDF p.3, 5).[1][2]
- Late filing. The register shows the latest accounts as received 48 days late.[9]
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.[19]
Land and property
The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[20] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[21]
- Freehold property £1,182,925, producing rent of £109,063; address not stated – Accounts (PDF p.3, 5–7) (source: [2])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Persian Hebrew Community" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above).
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.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Charity Commission, Persian Hebrew Community (1138468): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Register entry 1138468, full print (capture of 20210705) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Persian Hebrew Community accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ Persian Hebrew Community accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ Persian Hebrew Community accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ Persian Hebrew Community accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ Persian Hebrew Community accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 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-18 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Sixteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the Porter Foundation showed "up to date (1 day late)", The Persian Hebrew Community "up to date (48 days late)", Bernard Kahn Charitable Trust "up to date (33 days late)" and the Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; Jassiane Limited showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 623 days"; The Friends of Birzeit University, The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls and John Hagee Ministries 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-18 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Persian Hebrew Community' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1138468 360Giving, queried 16 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-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries and other people and bodies named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Weiss, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 the company numbers of the seven charitable companies (09792270, 04952955, 00999987, 06297292, 10610690, 10824802, 11678469), on the subsidiaries named in the accounts (03069403, 03119073, 02779623, 03420847) and on the charities' registered names and named subsidiaries; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Persian Hebrew Community" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).