Slabodka Yeshiva Trust

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Golders Green trust paying all grants to "Slabodka Yeshiva Israel"

Slabodka Yeshiva Trust

Type Other
Founded 1968-08-06 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 256600
Headquarters 10 Limes Avenue, London, NW11 9TJ
Area served Israel


Slabodka Yeshiva Trust is an unincorporated charity registered on 6 August 1968; Israel is its only register area.[1] Its principal address is 10 Limes Avenue, London NW11 9TJ, and its trustees are A Heller, D Frand and A Edelstein. In the year to 31 March 2025 donations were £381,522 (2024: £573,088) and donations made £382,000 (2024: £579,097); funds were £5,999 (PDF p.2, 4).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO APPLY THE SAME AND THE INCOME THEREOF FOR THE FURTHERANCE AND PROMOTION OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AND JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Supports Talmudical College"[1]

Register classifications: Education/training.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Slabodka Yeshiva Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Alexander Edelstein not recorded —
David Frand not recorded —
Adrian Heller not recorded Alglen Limited (287544); Helenslea Tzedoko Limited (1095125); North West London Chevra Kadisha (1212433); Nosson Tittain Foundation (1113755); Torah Temimoh Primary School (1000146)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-06 David Frand; Adrian Heller – also trustee of Jewish Education Fund Limited, Torah Temimoh Primary School, Helenslea Tzedoko Limited, Nosson Tittain Foundation; Alexander Edelstein [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £251,567 £242,090
2022-03-31 £936,251 £978,189
2023-03-31 £484,874 £494,225
2024-03-31 £573,088 £579,322
2025-03-31 £381,522 £382,690

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 31/03/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[7]

Funding in Israel

Beit midrash building of the Slabodka yeshiva, Bnei Brak (2021). The trust's FY2025 grants of £382,000 were all paid to "Slabodka Yeshiva Israel"; the accounts give no address, so the link to this yeshiva is by name only
  • FY2025 grants £382,000; "All grants were paid out to Slabodka Yeshiva Israel" (PDF p.9).[2]

Israeli partners

"Slabodka Yeshiva Israel" (no address in the accounts). The Slabodka yeshiva Knesset Yisrael in Israel is at 12 Harav Sher Street, Bnei Brak (association 580027605).[8][9]

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
If the recipient is the Slabodka yeshiva Knesset Yisrael, it is in Bnei Brak, inside the 1949 armistice lines; the accounts do not give the address.[8][9] Low – Bnei Brak (identification by name)

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]
  • Inconsistent figures. The 2024 comparative in the grants note (£548,438) does not match the SOFA figure for donations made (£579,097), and the approval date on the trustees' report is blank (PDF p.4–5, 9).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and 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

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.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[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]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
Alumni Of The Rabbinical College Knesseth Israel Of Slabodka Kowno[22] 135600406 2019 3,063,744 3,670,004

These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Slabodka Yeshiva", "Slabodka" 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 (on time)" 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 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 Charity Commission, Slabodka Yeshiva Trust (256600): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 256600, full print (capture of 20210706) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Slabodka Yeshiva Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  5. ↑ Slabodka Yeshiva Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  6. ↑ Slabodka Yeshiva Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ Slabodka Yeshiva Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Torah Index, Knesset Yisrael – Slabodka torahindex.com, viewed 15 October 2026 (address "12 Harav Sher St.", Bnei Brak; association number 580027605).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 ישיבת סלבודקה כנסת ישראל (ע"ר) – association 580027605 Open Budget (obudget.org), viewed 15 October 2026 (address "הרב שר, 12, בני ברק"; reported 2023 turnover ₪29,421,752).
  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 each of the 25 batch-9 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none of the 25 pages showed an alert.
  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.
  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, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-9 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-9 charity name returned zero results; a control search returned results normally).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Slabodka' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-256600 360Giving, queried 15 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-9 screening covered 296 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers, lenders, donor companies, subsidiaries and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch (including Bextor Estates Ltd, Newmarston Ltd, PWorld.UK Ltd and Gateway Sight Ltd and their directors); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname candidate arose; all candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps (for example "Trust" or "Israel"); 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 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.
  22. ↑ Alumni Of The Rabbinical College Knesseth Israel Of Slabodka Kowno – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 15 October 2026.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Slabodka" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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