The British Friends of Zichron Menachem

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UK friends of the Jerusalem children's cancer charity Zichron Menachem, which sent it £172,000 in 2025 while spending heavily on fundraising

The British Friends of Zichron Menachem

Logo The British Friends of Zichron Menachem logo.png
Type Other
Founded 12 March 2004 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1102612
Headquarters London NW11
Area served Throughout England, Israel
Website www.zichronuk.org


The British Friends of Zichron Menachem (also Zichron Menachem and Zum Zum) was registered on 12 March 2004 under a trust deed of 21 January 2004; register areas are England and Israel.[1][2] Its trustees are Eli Seliger, Brian Leon Resnick, Robert D Green and Wayne Salkinder, with a principal address in London NW11 (PDF p.2).[1][2] It is "informally affiliated to Zichron Menachem, an Israeli charity which provides support and assistance to Israeli children who have cancer"; Seliger manages "Zichron Menachem UK" day to day, and the report notes that "Mr Green founded the emergency response and ambulance service Hatzola" (PDF p.5). Its UK work includes camps for children with cancer in the UK and Europe and a hair-donation campaign for wigs "in Israel and the UK" (PDF p.4). In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £152,006, expenditure £317,199 and funds fell to £62,788 (2024: £227,981) (PDF p.7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS PARTICULARLY BY SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH SICKNESS AND PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO JEWISH CHILDREN SUFFERING AGAINST CANCER."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The relief of sickness and particularly by assisting young cancer patients and their families."[1]

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The British Friends of Zichron Menachem (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Robert D Green 2004-01-21 —
Eli Seliger 2004-01-21 —
Brian Leon Resnick 2004-01-21 —
Wayne Salkinder 2023-07-09 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-04 Joseph Daniel Pfeffer Eli Seliger; Brian Leon Resnick; Robert D Green [3]
2010-07-04 Joseph Daniel Pfeffer Eli Seliger; Brian Leon Resnick; Robert D Green [4]
2021-01-12 Brian Leon Resnick (from 21 January 2004); Robert D Green (from 21 January 2004); Eli Seliger (from 21 January 2004) [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £151,021 £84,606
2022-03-31 £119,664 £231,369
2023-03-31 £141,498 £71,685
2024-03-31 £156,905 £92,732
2025-03-31 £152,006 £317,199

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[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 donations to Zichron Menachem Israel £172,000 (£168,000 unrestricted, £4,000 restricted; 2024: £14,000); camp costs £34,629 (PDF p.12).[2]
  • A 2012 capture of the UK website described the charity as "Brightening the lives of Israeli Children with Cancer", with events for "Jerusalem Parents".[11]

Israeli partners

Zichron Menachem, Israel: its contact page gives an office at 26 Moshe Zilberg St, Jerusalem, and a "Dream Center" at 10 Leo Wiseman St, Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, and lists Zichron Menachem UK (charity 1102612) at the charity's NW11 address.[12]

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
The partner's Dream Center is in Bayit Vegan, West Jerusalem – inside Israel's pre-1967 lines.[12] Low
Other partner activity: no site beyond the 1949 line is named.[12][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;[13] 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.[14][15][16][17] 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.[18]
  • Large transfer and high fundraising costs. Donations to Zichron Menachem Israel rose to £172,000 (2024: £14,000), producing a deficit of £165,193; fundraising costs were £94,480 – 62% of income – including consultancy of £24,797 and advertising of £19,083 (PDF p.7, 11–12).[2]

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).[19] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[20]

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.[21]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[22]

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.[23]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[24]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Friends of Zichron Menachem", "Zichron Menachem" returned 0 contributions in total.[25]

Web archive

  • zichronuk.org: 8 yearly captures, first 2007-02-10, last 2024-12-07.[26]

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 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, The British Friends of Zichron Menachem (1102612): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1102612, contact and trustees (capture of 20100704) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1102612, contact and trustees (capture of 20100704) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1102612, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ The British Friends of Zichron Menachem accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  7. ↑ The British Friends of Zichron Menachem accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  8. ↑ The British Friends of Zichron Menachem accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  9. ↑ The British Friends of Zichron Menachem accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  10. ↑ The British Friends of Zichron Menachem accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  11. ↑ Zichron Menachem UK, zichronuk.org home page Wayback Machine, capture of 6 January 2012 ("Zichron Menachem UK – Brightening the lives of Israeli Children with Cancer"; news items include "Weekend for Jerusalem Parents" and "Pampering for Jerusalem Moms").
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Zichron Menachem, Contact us zichron-intl.org, retrieved 16 October 2026 (office at 26 Moshe Zilberg St., Jerusalem; "Dream Center" at 10 Leo Wiseman St., Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem; UK contact "Zichron Menachem UK 30 Brookside Road London NW11 9NE ... Registered Charity number 1102612").
  13. ↑ 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-14 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Friends of the Israel Cancer Association showed "up to date (13 days late)" and The Bertie Black Foundation "up to date (82 days late)"; British Friends of Neve Shalom, Mesila UK, The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions and Etz Chaim Foundation showed "Removed charity".
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  17. ↑ 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).
  18. ↑ 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").
  19. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-14 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-14 charity names returned zero results).
  21. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Zichron Menachem' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1102612 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  23. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-14 screening covered 282 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, directors of the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation company and of Mesila UK Limited, related companies and charities named in the accounts (including Bestgreat Ltd, Jonvan Properties, One Shakespeare Limited, Beauland Limited, Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited and Torah Temimah Trust) and trustees, examiners and donors named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person or company was found; the only token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Cohen and Jones); lists downloaded October 2026.
  24. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  25. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Zichron Menachem" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  26. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for zichronuk.org Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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