Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund

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North London Orthodox Jewish trust with £412,232 in funds that gave £53,100 in 2024/25, mainly to Achisomoch and Asser Bishvil, while saying its grants were for families' festival expenses

Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund

Type Other
Founded 2006-01-03 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1112608
Headquarters London N16
Area served Hackney, Israel


Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund (registered as The Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund) was established by a declaration of trust of 28 October 2005 and registered on 3 January 2006; its principal office is in London N16.[1][2] Its objects are the Orthodox Jewish faith, Orthodox Jewish religious education and "the relief of poverty sickness and infirmity amongst persons of the Jewish faith".[3] The trustees are M Siemiatycki, S Y Zelevansky and T Y Zelevansky (Moshe Siemiatycki, Sima Yehudis Zelevansky and Tzvi Yehuda Zelevansky on the register, all from 28 April 2021) (PDF p.3).[2][3] In the year to 31 March 2025 investment income was £49,766 (2024: £33,969) and it spent £53,879; funds fell from £416,345 to £412,232 (PDF p.6, 9).[2] The grants were £22,500 to Achisomoch, £22,000 to Asser Bishvil, £7,000 to Golders Green Beth Hamedrash and £1,600 to Ahavas Chesed Trust, a total of £53,100 (2024: £33,600, including £30,000 to Torah Veyirah) (note 8).[2] The accounts were examined by Mr Howard Schwalbe ACA of Prestwich and approved on 27 January 2026.[2]

Objects and activities

Golders Green Beth Hamedrash (2025); the charity's accounts record a £7,000 grant to it

The charity's registered objects read: "3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND (III) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONG PERSONS OF THE JEWISH FAITH3.2 THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH OF THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINEINCLUDING PAYMENTS BY WAY OF GIFT OR LOAN (WITH OR WITHOUT INTEREST)"[3]

The register describes its activities as: "Assistance with religious education"[3]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[3]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Hackney, Israel.[3]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[3]

Trustees of Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Tzvi Yehuda Zelevansky 2021-04-28 —
Sima Yehudis Zelevansky 2021-04-28 —
Moshe Siemiatycki 2021-04-28 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-09 Sarah Siemiatycki; Chaya Halpern; Menachem Halpern – also trustee of Mekadshei Shevei Charitable Trust, Law of Truth Talmudical College, The Menchester Trust, Cupermall Limited, British Friends of B'shvilaych [4]
2021-07-04 Sima Yehudis Zelevansky (from 28 April 2021); Moshe Siemiatycki (from 28 April 2021); Tzvi Yehuda Zelevansky (from 28 April 2021) [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £37,175 £40,200
2022-03-31 £21,047 £41,356
2023-03-31 £28,724 £22,549
2024-03-31 £33,969 £34,320
2025-03-31 £49,766 £53,879

Source: register annual-return history.[3]

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 31/03/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named. The register lists Israel among the charity's areas of operation.[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.[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]
  • Grants described differently. The report says grants were "for assistance towards festival expenses for families on low income", but note 8 lists only grants to institutions (PDF p.6).[2]
  • Investments. The report says "There were no investments made during the year", but note 12 shows additions of £42,023; the type of investment is not stated (PDF p.6).[2]
  • Net-asset analysis does not match. Note 17 shows "Tangible fixed assets" of £304,894 and current assets of £108,058, while the balance sheet shows fixed-asset investments of £344,023 (note 17).[2]
  • Property on the register. The register says the charity owns or leases land or property; the accounts show investments only (PDF p.10).[3][2]

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.[3] No title registers were purchased.[20] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[21]

  • Fixed-asset investments of £344,023, type not stated; the register says the charity owns or leases land or property – Accounts (PDF p.10) (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund", "Siemiatycki" 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). 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. ↑ Charity Commission, The Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund (1112608): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 Charity Commission, Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund (1112608): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 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.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1112608, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1112608, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ Rebbetzen G Siemiatycki Memorial Fund accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ 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-22 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none was shown.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ 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).
  14. ↑ 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").
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-22 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-22 charity names returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Siemiatycki' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1112608 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-22 screening covered 196 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and staff named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words in charity names (such as "Charitable Foundation", "Trust", "Fund" and "Association") matching listed entities, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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 charitable companies in this batch and searched for distinctive charity-name keywords; no title registers were purchased.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Siemiatycki" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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