The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology

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UK friends' charity of the Jerusalem College of Technology (Machon Lev)

The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology

Logo New building of Mechon Lev.jpg
Type Trust
Founded 1971-09-29 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 263003
Headquarters Ashley Page Insurance Brokers Ltd, Gallery Court, 28 Arcadia Avenue, London, N3 2TN
Area served Israel
Website http://www.jctuk.org


The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT UK) is an unincorporated charitable trust registered on 29 September 1971; Israel is its only register area.[1] Its principal address is Gallery House, 28 Arcadia Avenue, London N3 2TN, and its trustees are A Rogoff, I E Woolf-Elbaum and M Staszewski. It funds scholarships and bursaries, laboratory infrastructure and research fellowships at the Jerusalem College of Technology, including "specialized tracks" for ultra-Orthodox and Ethiopian-Israeli students. In the year to 30 September 2025 donations were £333,825 and charitable expenditure £319,969, including £302,305 transferred to JCT in Israel; funds were £43,413 (PDF p.2, 5–6, 10, 15).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE SUPPORT OF THE CHARITABLE WORK CARRIED ON BY THE INSTITUTION ESTABLISHED AT JERUSALEM IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND KNOWN AS THE JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND GENERALLY THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHARITABLE EDUCATION (WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL OR OTHER OPINION) WITHIN THE STATE OF ISRAEL."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "TO RAISE MONIES TO SUPPORT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN THE JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY IN JERUSALEM , ISRAEL."[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 The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Ashley Rogoff not recorded Leilai Charitable Trust (1106419)
Ina Elise Woolf-Elbaum 2023-09-12 —
Michael Walter Staszewski 2024-09-08 The Avsons Charitable Trust (1163107); The Sasta Foundation (1150212)
Shraga Shlomo Zaltzman MBE 2026-05-04 —
Brenda Ruth Feldman 2026-06-17 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-13 Conrad Morris; Daniel Ian Baum; Ashley Rogoff [3]
2011-09-10 Conrad Morris; Daniel Ian Baum; Ashley Rogoff [4]
2021-01-09 Brenda Ruth FELDMAN (from 01 January 2018); Ashley Rogoff; Yitzchak Grant (from 08 October 2019) [5]
2021-07-07 Brenda Ruth FELDMAN (from 01 January 2018); Ashley Rogoff [6]

Other trustees named in archived snapshots of the Charity Commission register (first and last snapshot only; not appointment dates):

The accounts disclose insurance of £731 bought from Ashley Page Insurance Brokers Ltd, over which trustee Ashley Rogoff has indirect control (PDF p.18).[2]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-09-30 £180,739 £252,186
2022-09-30 £85,821 £107,027
2023-09-30 £291,342 £305,222
2024-09-30 £309,762 £303,978
2025-09-30 £333,825 £333,287

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 30/09/2006[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2007[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2008[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2014[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2015[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2016[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2017[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2018[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2019[16]

Funding in Israel

Jerusalem College of Technology (2012), to which the charity transferred £302,305 in FY2025
  • FY2025 £302,305 to the Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel, "for support of entrepreneurship activities, nursing programmes and other JCT projects" (2024: £285,000 per the note) (PDF p.6, 15).[2]

Israeli partners

Jerusalem College of Technology, whose Lev campus is in Jerusalem's Givat Mordechai neighbourhood (Havaad Haleumi 21); it also runs the Tal and Lustig campuses for women.[17]

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
JCT's main (Lev) campus is in Givat Mordechai, West Jerusalem, inside the 1949 armistice line; the locations of the other campuses were not verified.[17] Low – Givat Mordechai, Jerusalem

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;[18] 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.[19][20][21][22] 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.[23]

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).[24] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[25]

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.[26]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[27]

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.[28]

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.[29]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
Friends Of Jerusalem College Of Technology Ltd[30] 510165015 2023 1,448,527 652,110

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 "Jerusalem College of Technology", "Machon Lev" returned 0 contributions in total.[31]

Web archive

  • jctuk.org: 5 yearly captures, first 2021-12-04, last 2025-05-15.[32]

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".[5]

See also

External links

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, The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology (263003): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 263003, contact and trustees (capture of 20100713) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 263003, contact and trustees (capture of 20110910) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 263003, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 263003, full print (capture of 20210707) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ UK Government Web Archive, The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology – register entry (20 January 2009), archived snapshot of the Charity Commission register dated 20 January 2009, accessed 14 October 2026.
  8. ↑ The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology accounts, year ended 2006-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  9. ↑ The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology accounts, year ended 2007-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  10. ↑ The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology accounts, year ended 2008-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110712).
  11. ↑ The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology accounts, year ended 2014-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  12. ↑ The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology accounts, year ended 2015-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  13. ↑ The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology accounts, year ended 2016-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  14. ↑ The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology accounts, year ended 2017-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  15. ↑ The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology accounts, year ended 2018-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  16. ↑ The British Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology accounts, year ended 2019-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Jerusalem College of Technology, JCT Campuses jct.ac.il, viewed 15 October 2026 ("Located in the heart of Jerusalem's Givat Mordechai neighborhood, The Lev Campus"; address "Havaad Haleumi 21, Givat Mordechai 91160, Jerusalem").
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  21. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ 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").
  24. ↑ 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.
  25. ↑ 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).
  26. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Jerusalem College of Technology' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  27. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-263003 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  28. ↑ 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.
  29. ↑ 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.
  30. ↑ Friends Of Jerusalem College Of Technology Ltd – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 15 October 2026.
  31. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Jerusalem College of Technology" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  32. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for jctuk.org Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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