The Friends of Asos Chesed

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Warfman family trust in Salford funding Asos Chesed in Israel

The Friends of Asos Chesed

Type Trust
Founded 1980-06-26 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 279223
Headquarters 43 Northumberland Street, Salford, M7 4DQ
Area served Salford City, Israel


The Friends of Asos Chesed is a trust (deed of 29 November 1979) registered on 26 June 1980; register areas are Salford and Israel.[1] Its trustees are B D Warfman, H Warfman and C Tager, and its address is 43 Northumberland Street, Salford M7 4DQ. Its objects include furthering "the charity in Israel known as "Asos Chesed"", which gives aid to new mothers and the sick, clothing to the poor and interest-free loans (PDF p.3–4).[2] In 2025 income was £284,525 (2024: £111,534) and spending £336,818, leaving net liabilities of £151,582 (PDF p.7–8).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIE ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT IN ANY WAY LIMITING THE FOREGOING TO SUPPORT AND FURTHER THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY IN ISRAEL KNOW AS "ASOS CHESED""[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Furtherance of charitable purposes and institutions."[1]

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Friends of Asos Chesed (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Hannah Warfman not recorded Bewick Charitable Trust (279219); Daas Kedoishim Foundation (1094990); The Friends of Maasse Tsedokoh (1053970)
Chaya Tager not recorded —
Bernard Daniel Warfman not recorded The Friends of Maasse Tsedokoh (1053970)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-12 Hannah Warfman – also trustee of Bewick Charitable Trust, The Friends of Maasse Tsedokoh, Daas Kedoishim Foundation; Chaya Tager; Bernard Daniel Warfman – also trustee of The Friends of Maasse Tsedokoh [3]

Hannah Warfman is also a register trustee of Bewick Charitable Trust (279219), Daas Kedoishim Foundation (1094990) and The Friends of Maasse Tsedokoh (1053970); Bernard Daniel Warfman of The Friends of Maasse Tsedokoh.[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £279,821 £327,642
2022-12-31 £319,074 £289,134
2023-12-31 £231,765 £260,869
2024-12-31 £111,534 £147,129
2025-12-31 £284,525 £336,818

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 31/12/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • 2025 donations to Asos Chesed in Israel £333,600; the grants note names no town (PDF p.4, 12).[2]

Israeli partners

Asos Chesed, 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
No location is given for Asos Chesed. 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;[9] 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.[10][11][12][13] 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.[14]
  • Insolvent balance sheet, funded by trustees' companies. The trust has a reserves deficit of £151,582, and going concern depends on the "ongoing support of the major creditors" (PDF p.4).[2] Creditors include Portford Limited £20,000, Wilkincroft Limited £23,000 and Pandor Estates Limited £5,000 – companies of which the trustees are directors – as well as B Warfman £19,500 and The Friends of Maase Tzedoko, a charity with B and H Warfman as trustees, £91,800 (PDF p.13).[2][15]
  • Contradictory examiner's report. The independent examiner's report is headed as if a matter of concern had been identified, but its text reports no concerns (PDF p.6).[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.[20]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[21] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[22]

  • 113 High Street, Porthmadog (LL49 9HA) (title WA583700, freehold; proprietor added 16/04/1997) – 1 title registered to Portford Limited (03282339), a lender to the charity (£20,000) of which the trustees are directors; not charity property (source: [22][15])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Asos Chesed" 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 73 days late" 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 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 2.7 Charity Commission, The Friends of Asos Chesed (279223): 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 279223, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ The Friends of Asos Chesed accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  5. ↑ The Friends of Asos Chesed accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  6. ↑ The Friends of Asos Chesed accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ The Friends of Asos Chesed accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ The Friends of Asos Chesed accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ 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-10 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; alerts were shown only for Solev Co Limited (254623) and Lehachyos (1170523).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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").
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Companies House, Company 03282339 (Portford Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026. Companies House, Company 01966220 (Wilkincroft Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026. Companies House, Company 05309298 (Pandor Estates Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026.
  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-10 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-10 charity name returned no relevant result; the search for "Kosov" returned only an unrelated removed charity, Kosova Support Group, showing that the API was answering).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Asos Chesed' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-279223 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-10 screening covered 337 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 of related companies named in the accounts (including Pinlee Investments, Calvert Estates, Kendleville, Pidom Export, Faircastle, Hatzlocho, Localtrent, Ardina, Ridgesave, Portford, Wilkincroft and Pandor Estates), and trustees, lenders, donor companies and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic company words ("Services Limited" in the name of a corporate secretary) and surname-only coincidences; lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Asos Chesed" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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