The Ruzin Sadagora Trust

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Golders Green trust funding the Ruzin Sadagora synagogue, with £5 million of freehold property and secured loans

The Ruzin Sadagora Trust

Type Trust
Founded 1982-10-12 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 285475
Headquarters 269 Golders Green Road, London, NW11 9JJ
Area served Barnet, Israel
Key people Rabbi Aaron Friedman (chair)


The Ruzin Sadagora Trust was established by trust deed on 18 June 1982 and registered on 12 October 1982; register areas are Barnet and Israel.[1] The accounts for the year to 30 June 2025, audited by Harold Everett Wreford LLP, give its principal address as 269 Golders Green Road, London NW11 9JJ, and its trustees as Rabbi A Friedman, Mr J Feldman and Mrs S Friedman. It funds "the cost, upkeep and activities of the Ruzin Sadagora Synagogue in London" and "other associated and affiliated Sadagora Institutions", and has funded the redevelopment of the synagogue. Donations were £670,433, expenditure £620,922 and funds £2,739,844 (PDF p.2, 4, 16).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO PAY APPLY AND APPROPRIATE THE WHOLE OF THE TRUST FUND TO THOSE PURPOSES BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE BY ENGLISH LAW."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity funds the cost, upkeep and activities of the Ruzin Sadagora Synagogue in London. The charity funds and supports the parent and other associated and affiliated Sadagora Institutions and other religious Jewish causes and charities."[1]

Register classifications: Religious Activities, Economic/community Development/employment.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Ruzin Sadagora Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Sara Friedman not recorded Mosart Charitable Trust (1122765); North London Charities Ltd (312740)
Rabbi Aaron Friedman 2016-07-01 Yes —
Joseph Feldman 2020-08-10 Amhurst Park Education and Donations (1152424); Fairview Charitable Trust (1123582); M a Grunwald Charity (1173611); Suncroft Donations Trust (1147134); The Viznitz (Keren Nitzchi) Foundation (326581)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-12 Rabbi Aaron Friedman (chair) (from 01 July 2016); Joseph Feldman (from 10 August 2020) – also trustee of Fairview Charitable Trust, M a Grunwald Charity, Amhurst Park Education and Donations, Suncroft Donations Trust, The Viznitz (Keren Nitzchi) Foundation; Sara Friedman – also trustee of Mosart Charitable Trust [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-06-30 £455,115 £190,245
2022-06-30 £1,127,257 £514,706
2023-06-30 £1,546,733 £660,991
2024-06-30 £666,673 £902,713
2025-06-30 £670,433 £620,922

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 30/06/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £154,081, all shown as "Other"; no recipient or place is named.[2]

Israeli partners

"Other associated and affiliated Sadagora Institutions" (unnamed).[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 place 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;[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]
  • Unnamed grants. Grants of £154,081 are all shown as "Other" (PDF p.16).[2]
  • Borrowing. Bank loans of £1,461,065 are secured by fixed charges, and other creditors of £1,166,044 are not explained; financing costs were £92,020 (PDF p.17–18).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]

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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[17]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]

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.[19]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[20] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[21]

  • 269 Golders Green Road, London NW11 9JJ – principal address in the accounts – Accounts show freehold land and buildings (cost £5,705,833, carrying value £5,072,837) and bank loans of £1,461,065 secured by fixed charges; the property addresses are not stated, and the trust is unincorporated, so no CCOD company match is possible (PDF p.17–18) (source: accounts)

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Ruzin Sadagora Trust', 'Ruzin Sadagora', 'Sadigura' returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

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".[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 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 Charity Commission, The Ruzin Sadagora Trust (285475): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 285475, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ The Ruzin Sadagora Trust accounts, year ended 2014-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  5. ↑ The Ruzin Sadagora Trust accounts, year ended 2015-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  6. ↑ The Ruzin Sadagora Trust accounts, year ended 2016-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  7. ↑ The Ruzin Sadagora Trust accounts, year ended 2017-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  8. ↑ The Ruzin Sadagora Trust accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  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 every charity in batches 1–7 (175 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  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 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  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. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-6 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-6 charity name returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Ruzin Sadagora' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-285475 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-6 screening covered 429 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers and related persons named in the accounts read for this batch (including archived accounts); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  20. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 14 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.
  21. ↑ HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Ruzin Sadagora' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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