Rise and Shine

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Stamford Hill children's education charity with negative funds and a contradictory related-party note

Rise and Shine

Type Trust
Founded 2011-10-14 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1144287
Headquarters The Brenner Community Centre, 91-93 Stamford Hill, London, N16 5TP
Area served Hackney, Haringey, Israel


Rise and Shine was established by trust deed on 30 June 2011 and registered on 14 October 2011; register areas are Hackney, Haringey and Israel.[1] The 2024 accounts give its address as Third Floor, 91-93 Stamford Hill, London N16 5TP. Its objects are Orthodox Jewish education and religious practice for children and young people and the relief of poverty. Donations were £684,404 (2023: £869,088); grants were £472,302, with a further £111,126 of direct costs that are not explained, and funds were –£191,550 (2023: –£289,166). No recipient is named (PDF p.3–4, 7, 12).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The Principal Objects of the Charity are a) To promote and advance the education of children and young people, b) to provide facilities and programmes for children and young people for their recreation and other leisure-time occupation c) The relief of poverty."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Recreation.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Rise and Shine (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Benzion Steiner 2011-07-21 Vishnitz Girls School Limited (1135285)
Mr Mordechai Stern 2011-10-14 Vishnitz Girls School Limited (1135285)
Israel Zig 2013-02-28 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-14 Mordechai Stern (from 14 October 2011) – also trustee of Vishnitz Girls School Limited; Benzion Steiner (from 21 July 2011) – also trustee of Vishnitz Girls School Limited; Israel Zig (from 28 February 2013) [3]
2021-07-07 Mordechai Stern (from 14 October 2011) – also trustee of Vishnitz Girls School Limited; Israel Zig (from 28 February 2013); Benzion Steiner (from 21 July 2011) – also trustee of Vishnitz Girls School Limited [4]

The accounts name the trustees as Rabbi M Steren, B Steiner and I Zig (PDF p.3); the register records "Mordechai Stern".[2][1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £871,348 £1,046,639
2021-12-31 £961,554 £812,418
2022-12-31 £897,432 £969,178
2023-12-31 £869,098 £869,161
2024-12-31 £684,410 £586,794

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 31/07/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/07/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/07/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • 2024: grants £472,302 and direct costs £111,126; no recipients or countries are named, and Israel is not mentioned in the accounts.[2]

Israeli partners

Not identified.[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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place 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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
  • Contradictory related-party note. Other creditors include £240,450 described as "owed to the company by Vishnitz Girls School Limited", a charity with a common trustee; a sum owed to the charity would normally be a debtor (note 14).[2] Trustees Benzion Steiner and Mordechai Stern are recorded on the register as trustees of Vishnitz Girls School Limited (1135285).[1]
  • Loan classification. A Bounce Back Loan of £30,967 is described both as due within one year and as within "creditors due after more than one year" (PDF p.14).[2]
  • Negative funds. Funds were –£191,550 at 31 December 2024.[2]

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).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

The Gazette

Insolvency notices returned by The Gazette for "Rise and Shine" concern unrelated businesses (a cleaning company and sole traders, 2000–2017); none names this charity.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2011-08-04 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 This is a project by a community group in Hackney. The group will use funding to refurbish a disused outdoor playground to enable them to de
2014-11-05 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 Not Available

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[19]

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.[20]

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.[21]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Rise and Shine Charity' 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".[3]

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 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Rise and Shine (1144287): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1144287, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1144287, full print (capture of 20210707) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Rise and Shine accounts, year ended 2014-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  6. ↑ Rise and Shine accounts, year ended 2015-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ Rise and Shine accounts, year ended 2016-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ Rise and Shine accounts, year ended 2017-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ Rise and Shine accounts, year ended 2018-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  10. ↑ 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 every charity in batches 1–7 (175 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ 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-6 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-6 charity name returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Rise and Shine' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1144287 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-6 screening covered 429 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers and related persons named in the accounts read for this batch (including archived accounts); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 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.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Rise and Shine' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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