The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation

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Prestwich trust promoting the work of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov whose largest cost in 2025 was £18,000 of consultancy paid to an unnamed person; its examiner's report contains no examiner's statement

The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation

Type Trust
Founded 1980-06-19 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 280174
Headquarters Prestwich, Manchester M25
Area served Israel
Key people Ben Moss-Barclay (chair)


The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation is a charitable trust registered on 19 June 1980; the register gives its governing document as a trust deed of 30 April 1980, while the accounts give 30 April 1990.[1][2][3] Its address is in Prestwich, Manchester M25, and its only recorded area of operation is Israel.[1] Its objects are the advancement of the Orthodox Jewish religion and education, "in particular the work of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and his followers".[2] The trustees are Ben Moss-Barclay (chair, from 5 March 2018) and Hyman Davies (from 29 December 2024), who the register shows is also a trustee of the Manchester Jewish School for Special Education (1140756).[1] In 2025 donations were £29,701 (2024: £48,465) and book sales £3,666 (2024: £12,635); charitable spending was £31,857 (2024: £40,234), including consultancy £18,000 (2024: £17,200), charitable donations £8,660 (2024: £10,530) and book purchases £5,787; funds were £25,090 (2024: £23,580).[2] The trustees donated £2,475 (2024: £1,300).[2] The accounts, headed "Report of the Council", were approved on 26 August 2026 and signed by Mr B Moss-Barclay.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE RELIGION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND EDUCATION IN THE SAID FAITH INCLUDING BUT WITHOUB PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF SYNAGOGOUES AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ANY PERSON OR PERSONS FOR THE STUDY OF AND INSTRUCTION IN ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS LITERATURE INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR THE WORK OF RABBI NACHAM OF BRESLOV AND HIS FOLLOWERS."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Promoting the advancement of the religion of the orthodox Jewish faith and education in the said faith."[1]

Register classifications: Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Ben Moss-Barclay 2018-03-05 Yes —
Hyman Davies 2024-12-29 Manchester Jewish School for Special Education (1140756)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-14 Michael Lowe; Joel Monath; Ben Moss-Barclay (chair) (from 05 March 2018) [4]
2021-07-02 Michael Lowe; Ben Moss-Barclay (chair) (from 05 March 2018); Joel Monath [5]

The archived full print of January 2021 lists Michael Lowe and Joel Monath as trustees alongside Ben Moss-Barclay.[6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £16,177 £13,120
2022-12-31 £22,481 £24,435
2023-12-31 £37,382 £38,426
2024-12-31 £61,100 £40,234
2025-12-31 £33,367 £31,857

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[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[11]

Funding in Israel

  • 2025: charitable donations £8,660 (2024: £10,530), educational grants nil (2024: £8,325), consultancy £18,000 (2024: £17,200); no recipient or place is named.[2]

Israeli partners

No recipient is named. Israel is the charity's only recorded area of operation.[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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place in Israel is named.[2] Not established

Support for the IDF: Not established.[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;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
  • Examiner's report without a statement. The independent examiner's report, dated 26 August 2026, is signed only "Brooks & Co." (Salford M7), names no individual examiner and moves from the basis of the report to the signature without the examiner's statement.[2]
  • Unnamed consultancy. The largest cost, "Consultancy" of £18,000 (2024: £17,200), is shown in the staff-costs note without naming who was paid or what was provided.[2]
  • Outdated framework. The accounts cite "Charities SORP 2005".[2]

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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]

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.[20]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]

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.[22]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[23]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation" 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".[4]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Charity Commission, The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation (280174): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Charity Commission, The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation (280174): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 280174, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 280174, full print (capture of 20210702) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Charity Commission, The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation (280174): full print UK Government Web Archive, capture of 14/01/2021.
  7. ↑ The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  9. ↑ The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  10. ↑ The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  11. ↑ The Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  12. ↑ 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-25 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none showed one.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  16. ↑ 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).
  17. ↑ 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").
  18. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-25 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-25 charity names returned zero results).
  20. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Rabbi Nachman of Breslov' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-280174 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-25 screening covered 459 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers, examiners and other people and organisations named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, every person and organisation linked in the profiles, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of the related companies Renco Properties, Conlatuse and Landmead; the only hits were generic words (the word "QA" in the names of corporate formation agents) and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Rabbi Nachman of Breslov" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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