Shir Chesed Beis Yisroel
Stamford Hill grant-making CIO, removed in January 2026, whose archived accounts name no recipients
| Shir Chesed Beis Yisroel
| |
|---|---|
| Type | CIO (removed) |
| Founded | 2017-06-21 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2026-01-07 (removed: reason not stated in the register extract) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1173524 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
Shir Chesed Beis Yisroel was a charitable incorporated organisation registered on 21 June 2017 and removed from the register on 7 January 2026; register areas were England and Wales and Israel, and its last reported income was £969,238 for the year to 31 December 2024.[1] Its first accounts, for the period 21 June 2017 to 31 August 2018, give its address as 88 Holmleigh Road, London N16 5PY, and record donations received of £595,429 and donations made of £577,937. No recipient is named.[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH EDUCATION AND EDUCATION IN GENERAL BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITIES WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITIES WORKING TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "advancement of Jewish religion and education"[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[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.
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-17 | Yakov Gluzman (from 01 October 2017); Meir Glaser (from 01 October 2017); Dov Meir Max Ascher (chair) (from 01 October 2017) | [3] |
The archived accounts for 2017–18 name D M M Ascher, M Y Glaser and Y Gluzman, all appointed on 21 June 2017.[2]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-31 | £221,253 | £216,193 |
| 2021-09-30 | £512,926 | £507,802 |
| 2022-12-31 | £1,241,197 | £1,267,335 |
| 2023-12-31 | £903,405 | £884,384 |
| 2024-12-31 | £969,238 | £1,306,775 |
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 31/08/2018[4]
Funding in Israel
- 2017–18: donations made £577,937 according to the trustees' report (£578,937 in the grants note); the recipients and their locations are not named.[2] Israel is one of the register's areas of operation.[1]
Israeli partners
Not identified; the archived accounts name no recipients.[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 |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel or the occupied territories is named in the archived accounts.[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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
- Removal. The register extract records removal on 7 January 2026 but no reason.[1]
- Inconsistent figures. The 2017–18 trustees' report gives donations made as £577,937, while the note on grants to institutions gives £578,937, a difference of £1,000.[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).[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 notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[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 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.[16]
Parliament
Hansard searches for 'Shir Chesed Beis Yisroel', 'Shir Chesed' returned 0 contributions in total.[17]
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
- ↑ 1.0 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, Shir Chesed Beis Yisroel: accounts for the period 21 June 2017 to 31 August 2018 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 7 January 2020); the charity was removed from the register on 7 January 2026 and the live register offers no accounts ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1173524, full print (capture of 20210117) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Shir Chesed Beis Yisroel accounts, year ended 2018-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
- ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ 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-5 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-5 charity name returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Shir Chesed' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1173524 360Giving, queried 14 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-5 screening covered 345 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) and on the Companies House pages for Brightness Ltd; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); 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 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Shir Chesed' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).