Rabbi Moshe and Leah Dermer Foundation

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Sternlight–Rotenberg charitable company in Golders Green that has lent £344,094 to parties connected with its trustees

Rabbi Moshe and Leah Dermer Foundation

Type Charitable company
Founded 2001-01-24 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1084700; company 03753983
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Barnet, Brent, Hackney, Gateshead, Israel, United States


The Rabbi Moshe & Leah Dermer Foundation is a charitable company (03753983) incorporated on 14 April 1999 as The Moshe & Leah Dermer Charity and registered on 24 January 2001; register areas are Barnet, Brent, Hackney, Gateshead, Israel and the United States.[1][2] Its objects are relief for poor people in the UK, Israel and the USA and other charitable purposes, particularly for Jewish people and institutions.[1] The trustees are Joseph Isaac Sternlight, Rachel Sternlight and Andrew Asher Rotenberg, who is also company secretary; the principal office is that of the accountants and examiner, Cohen Arnold, at 1075 Finchley Road, London NW11 (PDF p.3).[3] In the year to 30 April 2025 income was £107,634 (donations £93,803, interest £13,831) and grants £258,430 (2024: £170,673), and funds fell from £618,367 to £462,546 (PDF p.5, 7).[3] The largest grants were to British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz (£76,000) and Ohr Chaya (£45,192) (PDF p.12).[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE CHARITIES OBJECTS ARE TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE RELIEF FOR POOR PEOPLE IN THE UK, ISRAEL AND THE USA AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFITTING JEWISH PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To provide charitable relief with particular reference to charitable purposes benefiting Jewish people and institutions."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Brent, Hackney, Gateshead, Israel, United States.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Rabbi Moshe and Leah Dermer Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
A Rotenberg not recorded —
J Sternlight not recorded —
R Sternlight not recorded —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-12 A Rotenberg; J Sternlight – also trustee of Israel Special Kids Fund - UK; R Sternlight [4]

At Companies House, Joseph Isaac Sternlight has been a director since 14 April 1999 and Andrew Asher Rotenberg secretary since 14 April 1999 and a director since 26 February 2025; Rachel Sternlight became a director on 12 February 2025. Joseph Isaac Sternlight holds 35 appointments, Rachel Sternlight 18 and Andrew Asher Rotenberg 16. The company's registered office is 764b Finchley Road, London NW11, which differs from the address in the accounts.[2][3]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 6 current and former officers of the charitable company (03753983), 4 of them active.[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-04-30 £68,026 £146,088
2022-04-30 £65,234 £197,006
2023-04-30 £231,607 £249,433
2024-04-30 £74,531 £176,608
2025-04-30 £107,634 £263,455

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 30/04/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £258,430 (£254,526 to institutions, £3,904 to individuals). Named grants: British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz £76,000, Ohr Chaya £45,192, MTT Foundation £8,855, Achisomoch Aid Company £6,830, Mifal Tzedoko V'Chesed £6,175, Belz Foundation £6,000, UOHC Foundation £5,500, Gateshead Talmudical College £5,325, London Academy of Jewish Studies £5,000, Start Upright £5,000 and smaller grants; no grantee is identified as Israeli (PDF p.12).[3]

Israeli partners

No Israeli organisation is named; grants go to UK charities (PDF p.12).[3]

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
No place in Israel is named.[3] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]

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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
  • Loans to trustees' connections. Other debtors include £344,094 "due from parties connected with the Trustees", repayable on demand; the charity's interest income of £13,285 is interest charged on these loans. Other creditors of £22,350 are due to connected parties, and £15,950 of donations came from companies and individuals connected with the trustees (PDF p.14).[3]
  • Most assets lent out. Debtors of £485,718 made up almost all of the charity's assets, against cash of £1,428 (PDF p.8, 13).[3]

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).[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 for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[19]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[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. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[21]

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.[22]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Moshe & Leah Dermer Foundation", "Dermer Foundation" 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" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Companies House, THE RABBI MOSHE & LEAH DERMER FOUNDATION (03753983) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026 (incorporated 14 April 1999 as The Moshe & Leah Dermer Charity, renamed 7 May 1999; registered office 764b Finchley Road, London NW11).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Charity Commission, Rabbi Moshe and Leah Dermer Foundation (1084700): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1084700, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Company 03753983: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Rabbi Moshe and Leah Dermer Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ Rabbi Moshe and Leah Dermer Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ Rabbi Moshe and Leah Dermer Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ Rabbi Moshe and Leah Dermer Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  10. ↑ Rabbi Moshe and Leah Dermer Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  11. ↑ 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-17 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Starscope Limited showed "up to date (23 days late)", UK Friends of Tzohar "up to date (18 days late)" and The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; BFON Trust showed no reporting-status line; Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Michoel, Friends of Reb Sender Dominitz, Emerald Benevolence Ltd and Academic Study Group showed "Removed charity".
  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).
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-17 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-17 charity names returned no matching charity).
  19. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Dermer Foundation' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1084700 360Giving, queried 16 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-17 screening covered 231 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners 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 Rotenberg, Weiss, Levy and Cohen) or generic words such as "Ltd", "International", "Group" and "Team"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Dermer Foundation" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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