The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions

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Removed Salford trust that passed all its income to "Ohr Akiva Institutions"

The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions

Type Other (removed)
Founded 1990-01-30 (registered)
Dissolved 2017-06-19 (removed from the register)
Registration ID Registered charity 328504
Area served Israel


The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions was registered on 30 January 1990 under a deed of 9 January 1990 and removed from the register on 19 June 2017; its only register area was Israel.[1][2][3] Its last archived accounts, for 2010, name M S Leitner, D Lobenstein and Rabbi S M Jungerman as trustees, with an address in Salford M7 (PDF p.3).[3] Its object was Orthodox Jewish religious education, funded through local philanthropists (PDF p.5). In 2010 donations were £415,480 and grants £426,000, all to "Ohr Akiva Institutions"; funds were £424 (PDF p.5, 8, 11).[3] Its last reported income was £159,030 (2015).[1]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1. UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE WHOLE OF THE INCOME & CAPITAL THEREOF TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN & THE RELIGION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH & IN FURTHERANCE THEREOF TO SUPPORT FINANCIALLY OR OTHERWISE THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE OHR AKIVA INSTITUTION IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE. 2. SUBJECT AS AFORESAID THE TRUSTEES SHALL STAND POSSESSED OF THE TRUST FUND & THE INCOME THEREOF OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS SHALL NOT HAVE BEEN PAID OR APPLIED FROM TIME TO TIME IN SUPPORT OF THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE INSTITUTION PURSUANT TO THE TRUST HEREINBEFORE DECLARED UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE WHOLE OF THE INCOME & THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND TO OR TOWARDS OR IN FURTHERANCE OR FOR THE BENEFIT AND PROMOTION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION AND ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 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."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To pursue the objects of the charity with all the resources available to the charity."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training.[1]

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

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-09-17 David Lobenstein; Montague Simon Leitner; Sholom Meir Junserman [4]
2011-09-20 David Lobenstein; Montague Simon Leitner; Sholom Meir Junserman [5]

The register extract holds no trustees for this removed charity; the archived register pages above spell the third trustee's surname "Junserman", the accounts "Jungerman" (PDF p.3).[3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2013-12-31 £301,546 £377,050
2014-12-31 £183,998 £183,797
2015-12-31 £159,030 £159,731

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 31/12/2006[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2007[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2008[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2009[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2010[10]

Funding in Israel

  • 2010 grants: Ohr Akiva Institutions £426,000 (2009: £638,000); the place is not stated (PDF p.11).[3]

Israeli partners

"Ohr Akiva Institutions", location not given.[3]

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 place in Israel is named.[3] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[11][12][13][14][15] The register shows it as "Removed charity" without giving a reason.[2]
  • No accounts after 2010 found. Accounts later than 2010 were not found in the UK Government Web Archive, so grants in its final years cannot be traced.

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).[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. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[20]

Land and property

The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[21]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Friends of Ohr Akiva", "Ohr Akiva" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 1 archived Charity Commission register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[23]

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 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 Charity Commission, Register of Charities, overview pages for the removed charities 290062 (organisation 290062), 1114573 (organisation 4023776), 328504 (organisation 328504) and 1101688 (organisation 4005492), retrieved 16 October 2026 (each marked "Removed charity", with activities and the last income and expenditure figures; no removal reason is shown).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Charity Commission, The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions: financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2010 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 17/09/2011 (the charity was removed in 2017 and no accounts are downloadable from the live register; this is the latest accounts file found; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  4. ↑ Register entry 328504, contact and trustees (capture of 20110917) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 328504, contact and trustees (capture of 20110920) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions accounts, year ended 2006-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110917).
  7. ↑ The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions accounts, year ended 2007-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110917).
  8. ↑ The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions accounts, year ended 2008-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110917).
  9. ↑ The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions accounts, year ended 2009-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110917).
  10. ↑ The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions accounts, year ended 2010-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110917).
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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).
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Ohr Akiva' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-328504 360Giving, queried 16 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-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.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Ohr Akiva" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  23. ↑ Register entry 328504, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
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