The Mizrachi Charitable Trust
Trust for Orthodox Jewish education "for the Jewish community in the United Kingdom and in Israel", removed from the register in July 2009 as "Ceased to exist"
| The Mizrachi Charitable Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust (removed) |
| Founded | 2003-10-06 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2009-07-09 (removed from the register: Ceased to exist) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1099851 |
| Headquarters | Not recorded on the register (removed) |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
The Mizrachi Charitable Trust was a charitable trust established by a declaration of 24 December 2002 and registered on 6 October 2003; it was removed from the register on 9 July 2009 as "Ceased to exist".[1] Its objects concerned Orthodox Jewish education, "A MODERN APPROACH TO JEWISH ORTHODOXY", "FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN ISRAEL", and the register lists England and Wales and Israel as its areas of operation.[2] Its last figures on the register are for the year to 31 December 2006: income of £41,293 and spending of £34,213 (2005: £28,497 and £29,928).[2][1] No accounts, trustee list or website for the charity were found.[3]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "1. TO ADVANCE JEWISH RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX PRINCIPLES AND BELIEFS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION, IN PARTICULAR EDUCATION AMONGST YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS SO AS TO FURTHER THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF A MODERN APPROACH TO JEWISH ORTHODOXY. 2. TO OTHERWISE ADVANCE AND FURTHER THE JEWISH RELIGION. 3. TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN ISRAEL."[2]
Register classifications: Education/training, Religious Activities.[2]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[2]
Trustees
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2005-12-31 | £28,497 | £29,928 |
| 2006-12-31 | £41,293 | £34,213 |
Source: register annual-return history.[2]
Funding in Israel
- No accounts are available; spending in Israel cannot be identified.[3]
Israeli partners
No Israeli partner is named in the register entry.[1]
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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named.[1] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated in the register entry.[1]
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.[4][5][6][7][8] The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Ceased to exist".[1]
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).[9] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[10]
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.[11]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[12]
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.[13]
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).[2] No title registers were purchased.[14]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Mizrachi Charitable Trust", "The Mizrachi Charitable Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[15]
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".[16]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Charity Commission, The Mizrachi Charitable Trust (1099851): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("06 October 2003: Standard registration 09 July 2009: Removed (Ceased to exist)").
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Charity Commission, The Mizrachi Charitable Trust (1099851): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities, viewed 16 October 2026 (removed charity; no accounts are available on the live register, and none were found in the UK Government Web Archive).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-24 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-24 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Mizrachi Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1099851 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-24 screening covered 264 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Foundation", "Company Limited" in the names of corporate formation agents) and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Mizrachi Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
- ↑ Register entry 1099851, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.