The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust

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Stamford Hill trust funding the Alexander Hasidic institutions in Israel

The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1996-05-01 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1055077
Headquarters 39 Leweston Place, London, N16 6RJ
Area served Throughout London, Israel


The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust is a charitable trust registered on 1 May 1996, with its office at 39 Leweston Place, London N16 6RJ; trustees are A I Perelman, A Piekarski and I Freylich, and register areas are London and Israel.[1][2] Its main activity is "to make grants to Alexander institutions". In the year ended 31 March 2025 income was £1,105,926, expenditure £1,050,725 and grants £1,043,022.[2] The register also lists the other name "FRIENDS OF THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE (F.A.T)".[1]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE TRUSTEES SHALL STAND POSSESSED OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE WHOLE OF THE INCOME AND THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND TO OR TOWARDS OR IN FURTHERANCE OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITIES CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD IN SUCH SHARES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "During the year, the company's principal activity was the provision and distribution of grants tocharities."[1]

Register classifications: Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Asher I Perelman 1996-05-01 Ezer Vesaad Trust (1118068)
Isaac Freylich 2021-10-01 —
Aryeh Piekarski 2021-10-01 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-04 Asher I Perelman; Abraham Eliezer Perelman Asher [3]
2012-05-04 Asher I Perelman; Abraham Eliezer Perelman Asher [4]
2021-01-16 Raphael Perelman (from 01 January 2016) – also trustee of The Tsehchenov Institutions Trust; Jonah Perelman (from 01 January 2016) – also trustee of Dina Perelman Trust Limited, Anleydale Limited; Asher I Perelman (from 01 May 1996) – also trustee of Ezer Vesaad Trust [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £708,027 £766,234
2022-03-31 £956,897 £1,003,239
2023-03-31 £1,408,068 £1,333,107
2024-03-31 £1,023,716 £1,054,756
2025-03-31 £1,105,926 £1,050,725

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 31/03/2007[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2011[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[14]

Funding in Israel

  • "Including in grants and donations is £1,006,254 donated to Imrei Menachem Alexander in Israel" (FY2025).[2]

Israeli partners

Imrei Menachem Alexander, Israel; no address is given.[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
Not established – the recipient's location is not stated.[2] Low

Support for the IDF: No IDF 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;[15] 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.[16][17][18][19] 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.[20]
  • Related-party balances. Donations from related parties were £621,648. At the year end £15,900 was owed to Dina Perelman Trust Limited (common trustee), £31,550 to Mr A Perelman and £9,900 to Tollshunt Ltd (of which a trustee is a director), and £3,800 was due from Zedoko Vochessed Ltd (common trustee).[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).[21] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[22]

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.[23]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[24]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages 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.[25]

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.[26]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Friends of Alexander Institutions', 'Alexander Institutions' returned 0 contributions in total.[27]

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".[5]

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 Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust (1055077): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1055077, contact and trustees (capture of 20100704) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1055077, contact and trustees (capture of 20120504) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1055077, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust accounts, year ended 2007-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120108).
  7. ↑ The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120108).
  8. ↑ The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120108).
  9. ↑ The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust accounts, year ended 2011-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120504).
  10. ↑ The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  11. ↑ The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  12. ↑ The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  13. ↑ The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  14. ↑ The Friends of Alexander Institutions Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  15. ↑ 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).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  17. ↑ 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).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ 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").
  21. ↑ 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-4 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  22. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-4 charity name returned zero results).
  23. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Alexander Institutions' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  24. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1055077 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  25. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-4 screening covered 354 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) and Companies House officers of the 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  26. ↑ 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.
  27. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Alexander Institutions' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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