The ABC Trust

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UK Bobov-affiliated charitable company making large grants and holding community-centre property in Hackney

The ABC Trust

Type Charitable company
Founded 2008-11-11 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1126661; company 06621830
Headquarters 79 Wargrave Avenue, London, N15 6TU
Area served Hackney, Haringey, Salford City, Israel, United States


The ABC Trust (also known historically as Ichud Chasidim Limited / Association of the Bobov Community) is a charitable company registered in England and Wales since 2008 (company 06621830). Register areas of operation include Hackney, Haringey, Salford, Israel and the United States.[1] In the year ended 31 December 2024 it made grants and donations of £3,892,308; the accounts state that the charity is affiliated with Bobov institutions in the UK and overseas and name Bobov Institutions (£2,752,848), Bilava Congregation (£352,973), Cong. Zichron Binyamin (£237,824), Tomchei Shabbos Chasdei Sarah (£203,600) and Bilava Israel (£58,996) among recipients (note 11).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF HACKNEY, HARINGEY, AND SALFORD AND IN ISRAEL AND IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY:-A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING.B) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS;C) THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH;D) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND E) DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "THE CHARITY HOLDS ITS PROPERTY, WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT, PRIMARILY FOR USE AS A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND A SYNAGOGUE AND FOR PROVIDING JEWISH EDUCATION. IT ALSO MAKES GRANTS AND DONATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS OBJECTIVES TO INSTITUTIONS WHICH UTILISE FUNDS IN A MANNER WHICH ACCORDS WITH THE CHARITY'S OBJECTIVES."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The ABC Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Mr Chaim Solomon Goldman 2008-06-17 The Netzach Charitable Trust (276232)
Joseph Paneth 2010-01-31 —
Jacob Jakobovits 2011-03-10 Community Safety Patrol (1151568); Lecheiris - a Spark in the Dark Trust (1187428)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-04 Joseph Paneth (from 31 January 2010); Jacob Jakobovits (from 10 March 2011) – also trustee of Lecheiris - a Spark in the Dark Trust, Community Safety Patrol, Genborough Limited, The Netzach Charitable Trust; Mr Chaim Solomon Goldman (from 17 June 2008) – also trustee of Genborough Limited, The Netzach Charitable Trust [3]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 9 current and former officers of the charitable company (06621830), 4 of them active.[4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-06-30 £3,302,760 £3,354,988
2021-06-30 £2,429,042 £2,135,595
2022-12-31 £5,060,555 £5,131,898
2023-12-31 £4,632,381 £4,607,459
2024-12-31 £3,896,978 £4,131,874

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 30/06/2014[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • Year ended 31 December 2024: grants £3,892,308 of which Bobov Institutions £2,752,848 and Bilava Israel £58,996; register areas include Israel.[2][1]

Israeli partners

Accounts state affiliation with Bobov institutions in the UK and overseas; Bilava Israel is named as a grant recipient. Legal status of overseas Bobov institutions not verified from UK register sources.[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 named West Bank settlement recipient was identified in the FY2024 grant list. Bilava Israel is named without a stated location beyond "Israel".[2] Low – name only

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military equipment funding is stated. Grants are described as for education, relief of poverty or furtherance of religion.[2][2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming The ABC Trust (1126661) was found.
  • One Heart Lev Echod grant. FY2024 accounts list a £25,000 grant to One Heart Lev Echod, a charity named in the Commission's May 2025 cheque-cashing class inquiry press release.[2][10] No finding concerning The ABC Trust itself is stated in that release.

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 and the names of its current register trustees 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 owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[16] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[17]

  • The Swan, 73 Clapton Common, London E5 9AA (title 48274) – CCOD match on company 06621830 (source: [17])
  • Register records land ownership; accounts describe property used as community centre and synagogue (79 Wargrave Avenue N15 6TU registered office) – Register + accounts (source: register + accounts)

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'ABC Trust' returned 1 contribution in total; most are general references rather than discussion of the UK charity.[18]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above).

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 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 Charity Commission, The ABC Trust (1126661): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1126661, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Company 06621830: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  5. ↑ The ABC Trust accounts, year ended 2014-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  6. ↑ The ABC Trust accounts, year ended 2015-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ The ABC Trust accounts, year ended 2016-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ The ABC Trust accounts, year ended 2017-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  9. ↑ The ABC Trust accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ 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-2 charities found no matching Scottish registration of the same organisations (unrelated name collisions such as Open Door Edinburgh SC007315 were disregarded).
  12. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-2 charity name returned zero results).
  13. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'ABC Trust' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  14. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1126661 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  15. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Screening of the current register trustees of the 25 batch-2 charities and the charity names, carried out 14 October 2026; no matches. Companies House officers and archived trustees were not included in this batch's screen. Viatcheslav Kantor (RUS1127) remains on the UK Sanctions List as previously noted.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  18. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'ABC Trust' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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