Shekel Limited
Removed Prestwich charitable company with an Israeli-resident director, dissolved as a company in 2015
| Shekel Limited
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company (removed) |
| Founded | 2006-06-05 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2015-11-25 (removed from the register) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1114548; company 05791711 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
Shekel Limited was a charitable company registered on 5 June 2006 and removed from the register on 25 November 2015; register areas were England and Wales and Israel.[1] Its objects were the Jewish religion and religious education and the relief of poverty among the Jewish community throughout the world; the register lists its activities as promoting "employment in communities by Supporting businesses", the "Alleviation of poverty by distributing food and goods", and its religious and educational objects.[1] The register gives no company number, but its governing document – memorandum and articles incorporated on 24 April 2006 – matches Shekel Limited (05791711), a private company limited by guarantee registered at Rico House, George Street, Prestwich M25, which was dissolved on 20 January 2015, ten months before the charity was removed; the link rests on the name and the incorporation date.[1][2] Its directors at dissolution were Shmuel Eliezer Bowden and Eitan Shichrur (resident in Israel), both from 18 May 2007, and Yonathan Kahn, from 1 June 2013; Shlomo Von Weisl was a director and secretary from 2007 to 2013, and the founding directors, from 24 April 2006 to 18 May 2007, were Chaim Menachem Frommer, Meir Frommer and Yael Frommer.[2] Its last reported year, to 30 April 2013, shows income of £113,384 and spending of £94,402 (2012: £6,584 and £5,000).[1] No accounts were found on the live register or in the web archive.
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "(A) THE ADVANCEMENT AND FURTHERANCE OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AND JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY AMONG THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.(B) OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "1. Promote employment in communities by Supporting businesses .2. Alleviation of poverty by distributing food and goods 3. The advancement and furtherance of the Jewish religion and Jewish religious education and the alleviation of poverty among the Jewish community throughout the world. 4.Other charitable activities that the trustees may from time to time determine."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.
Yonathan Kahn's 11 Companies House appointments include Orthodox Council of Jerusalem Limited (00956850); Chaim Menachem Frommer's 46 include The North West London Talmudical College and Stahl Memorial Limited; Shlomo Von Weisl's 10 include Shefa Shop Limited and UEB Property Development Limited.[3]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 10 current and former officers of the charitable company (05791711), 0 of them active.[4] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Eitan Shichrur (Israel, ).[4]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-04-30 | £6,584 | £5,000 |
| 2013-04-30 | £113,384 | £94,402 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No accounts were found, so spending in Israel is not known; Israel was a register area of operation.[1]
Israeli partners
Not known.[1]
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 |
|---|---|
| No accounts or partner information were found.[1] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is recorded; no accounts were found.[1]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[5][6][7][8][9] The register shows it as "Removed charity" without giving a reason, and no archived register page giving a reason was found.[10]
- Company dissolved before the charity was removed. Companies House dissolved the company on 20 January 2015, with its last accounts made up to 30 April 2012; the charity stayed on the register until 25 November 2015.[2][1]
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).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette returned only Companies House filing lists naming Shekel Limited; no insolvency or winding-up notice was found. Companies House records the company as dissolved on 20 January 2015.[2][13]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[14]
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.[15]
Land and property
The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[16]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Shekel Limited" returned 0 contributions in total.[17]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[18]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Companies House, SHEKEL LIMITED (05791711) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026 (private company limited by guarantee incorporated 24 April 2006; registered office Rico House, George Street, Prestwich M25; nature of business 94910 religious organisations; last accounts made up to 30 April 2012; dissolved 20 January 2015).
- ↑ Companies House, KAHN, Yonathan: appointments, VON WEISL, Shlomo: appointments and FROMMER, Chaim Menachem: appointments Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026 (11, 10 and 46 appointments; Yonathan Kahn's include Orthodox Council of Jerusalem Limited, 00956850; Chaim Menachem Frommer's include The North West London Talmudical College and Stahl Memorial Limited).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Company 05791711: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, overview pages for the removed charities 287754, 1114548 (organisation 4023825) and 1169452 (organisation 5087045), retrieved 16 October 2026 (each marked "Removed charity"; no removal reason is shown).
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 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-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Shekel Limited' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1114548 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-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people 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 Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Shekel Limited" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
- ↑ Register entry 1114548, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.