The Moreah Teachers' College
North London grant-making charity set up in 1970 to improve Jewish religious education, with Israel among its areas of operation; its income is rent from an investment property and deposit interest, and it made £15,800 of grants in 2024/25 without naming any recipient
| The Moreah Teachers' College
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|---|---|
| Type | Other |
| Founded | 1970-08-06 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 261341 |
| Headquarters | London N16 (register); the accounts leave the principal address blank |
| Area served | Throughout London, Bury, Manchester City, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Israel, Gateshead |
The Moreah Teachers' College is a charity whose constitution was adopted on 24 April 1970 and amended on 19 June 1970, 6 August 1971 and 20 September 1993; it was registered on 6 August 1970.[1] Its objects are "TO IMPROVE THE STANDARDS OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF CONSTITUTION)", and the accounts give its objectives as "the advancement of the education and training of persons expressing the orthodox Jewish faith and advancement of orthodox Jewish faith".[1][2] The register lists its areas of operation as "Throughout London, Bury, Manchester City, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Israel, Gateshead", gives an address in London N16, and records that it makes grants to individuals and to organisations.[3][1] The register trustees are Maurice Berger (from 18 July 1979), Simcha Yehuda Steinhous (from 23 February 1997), Julian Lewin (from 24 January 2018) and Mark Berger (from 28 February 2022).[3][1] Julian Lewin is also recorded as a trustee of British Friends of Tiferes Chaim, Friends of Hakshiva and Yankov Charitable Trust, and an archived register print of 2021 records Maurice Berger as a trustee of Step by Step London.[1][4] The accounts for the year to 31 March 2025 say "There were no significant activities to report" and "Funds have been granted to institutions during the period from rents received."[2] Income was £25,288 (2024: £22,209), made up of rents of £20,015 (2024: £16,901) and deposit interest of £5,273 (2024: £5,308); spending was £21,089 (2024: £12,180), including donations made of £15,800 (2024: £17,520).[2] The balance sheet shows an investment property at fair value of £290,460 (unchanged from 2024), unlisted investments of £108,332 and cash of £365,469, and funds of £758,712 (2024: £751,854).[2] The accounts were prepared by London Accounting Group Ltd.[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO IMPROVE THE STANDARDS OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF CONSTITUTION)"[3]
The register describes its activities as: "Makes grants to organisationsMakes grants to individuals"[3]
Register classifications: Education/training, Religious Activities.[3]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Bury, Manchester City, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Israel, Gateshead.[3]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[3]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice Berger | 1979-07-18 | — | |
| Simcha Yehuda Steinhous | 1997-02-23 | — | |
| Julian Lewin | 2018-01-24 | British Friends of Tiferes Chaim (1121054); Friends of Hakshiva (1145097); Yankov Charitable Trust (1106703) | |
| Mark Berger | 2022-02-28 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-12 | Maurice Berger (from 18 July 1979) – also trustee of Step by Step London; Julian Lewin (from 24 January 2018) – also trustee of Yankov Charitable Trust, Friends of Hakshiva, British Friends of Tiferes Chaim; Simcha Yehuda Steinhous (from 23 February 1997) | [5] |
The 2025 accounts list S Lederberger and R Baddiel as trustees, and the 2018 accounts list H Sipper and A Carmell; none of the four appears on the current register.[2][6][3]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £13,101 | £29,115 |
| 2022-03-31 | £22,477 | £44,059 |
| 2023-03-31 | £8,341 | £41,374 |
| 2024-03-31 | £22,209 | £12,180 |
| 2025-03-31 | £25,288 | £21,089 |
Source: register annual-return history.[3]
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[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[9]
Funding in Israel
- Year to 31 March 2025: donations made of £15,800 (2024: £17,520); the accounts say "Funds have been granted to institutions during the period from rents received" but name no recipient or place.[2]
- Year to 31 March 2018: grants to institutions of £15,750 and grants to individuals of £2,975 (PDF p.9, read from the page image); no recipient is named.[6]
Israeli partners
No recipient is named.[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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named.[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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
- No examiner's report. Income for the year to 31 March 2025 was £25,288, and accounts were filed for that year (for the years to March 2021–2024 the register shows accounts as "Not required"), but the filed document contains no independent examiner's report; its approval date and signatory are blank.[2][1] The accounts for 2014 had included an independent examiner's report.[16]
- Late filing. The register records the annual return and accounts for the year to 31 March 2025 as received on 12 March 2026, "40 days late", and the 2021 annual return as 35 days late.[1]
- Trustee lists differ. The accounts list six trustees – "M Berger", "S Steinhaus (resigned 27.2.26)", "J Lewin", "Rabbi S Lederberger", "M Berger" and "Mrs R Baddiel"; S Lederberger and R Baddiel do not appear on the register, which lists four trustees, including Simcha Yehuda Steinhous.[2][3] The 2018 accounts named the trustees as M Berger, H Sipper, S Steinhaus and A Carmell.[6]
- Governing document described differently. The accounts describe the governing document as "a deed of trust" constituting "an unincorporated charity"; the register records a constitution adopted in 1970.[2][1]
- Unusual comparative figures. The 2024 column of the statement of financial activities shows negative expenditure lines, "Raising funds" of (1,440) and "Other" of (3,900).[2]
- Unnamed recipients and unidentified property. Neither the 2025 accounts nor the archived 2018 accounts name any grant recipient or give the address of the investment property; the 2018 accounts show rents of £33,100 (2017: £33,933), grants to institutions of £15,750 (2017: £24,250) and grants to individuals of £2,975 (2017: £2,775), as read from the page image (PDF p.9).[2][6]
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).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no notice of any kind.[19]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]
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.[21]
Land and property
The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[3] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[22] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[23]
- No candidate address: the register records that the charity owns or leases land, and the accounts for the year to 31 March 2025 show an investment property at fair value of £290,460 producing rents of £20,015, but give no address; the charity is unincorporated, and CCOD/OCOD list only company proprietors, so a title held in the names of individual trustees would not appear there; a name search for 'MOREAH' found nothing – Register and accounts (source: [3][2][23])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "The Moreah Teachers' College", "Moreah Teachers College", "Moreah" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]
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]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Charity Commission, The Moreah Teachers' College (261341): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 Charity Commission, The Moreah Teachers' College (261341): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; accounts for the year to 31 March 2025 (titled "Moreah Teachers College", prepared by London Accounting Group Ltd), downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 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.
- ↑ Charity Commission, The Moreah Teachers' College (261341): full print UK Government Web Archive, capture of 12/01/2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 261341, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Charity Commission, The Moreah Teachers' College: accounts for the year to 31 March 2018 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 08/01/2020. Text read by OCR.
- ↑ The Moreah Teachers' College accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ The Moreah Teachers' College accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ The Moreah Teachers' College accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ 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 3 batch-27 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Charity Commission, The Moreah Teachers' College: accounts for the year to 31 March 2014 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 08/01/2020. Text read by OCR.
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 3 batch-27 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 3 batch-27 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Moreah' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-261341 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-27 screening covered 29 name strings: the 3 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and in current and archived accounts, and the accountants named in the accounts; the only hits were generic words in organisation names (such as "London", "Ltd", "College" and "Trust") 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 – 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.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 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, searched for the proprietor-name keywords "MOREAH", "KANFEI" and "RESHET" (none of the three charities is a company, so no company-number match was possible); no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Moreah" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).