The Shaarei Chesed Trust

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Stamford Hill Bernath family poverty trust that gave £29,150 to trustees' relatives

The Shaarei Chesed Trust

Type Other
Founded 1989-09-06 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 328332
Headquarters London N16
Area served Hackney, Israel


The Shaarei Chesed Trust was registered on 6 September 1989 under a declaration of trust of 14 August 1989; register areas are Hackney and Israel.[1][2] Its trustees are Moshe Bernath, Eva Bernath and Meir Klein (appointed October 2025), with a principal address in London N16 (PDF p.3).[1][2] Its object is the relief of poverty (PDF p.4). In the year to 30 September 2025 donations were £161,238 (up 27%), grants to individuals £142,255, grants to institutions £8,300 and funds £36,307 (PDF p.4, 7, 10).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITIES CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST.)"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "the relief of poverty, and other such charitable purposes as the trustees think fit."[1]

Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of The Shaarei Chesed Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Moshe Bernath not recorded Torah Temimah Trust (802390)
Eva Bernath not recorded Torah Temimah Trust (802390)
Meir Klein 2025-10-22 Torah Temimah Trust (802390)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-14 Eva Bernath – also trustee of Torah Temimah Trust; Moshe Bernath – also trustee of Torah Temimah Trust [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-09-30 £66,454 £73,000
2022-09-30 £88,794 £75,732
2023-09-30 £157,314 £154,453
2024-09-30 £127,145 £106,488
2025-09-30 £161,238 £158,280

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 30/09/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2018[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/09/2019[9]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants to individuals for the relief of poverty £142,255 (2024: £82,749) and to institutions £8,300; recipients and places are not named (PDF p.10).[2] Israel appears as a register area of operation.[1]

Israeli partners

Not 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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
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]
  • Grants to trustees' relatives. "Grants totalling £29,150 (2024: £12,154) were made to relatives of the trustees" (PDF p.12).[2]
  • Donation from a connected charity. A donation printed as "£7,7500" (2024: £2,500) came from Torah Temimah Trust, which has trustees in common; the charity also carries small bank loans (PDF p.11–12).[2] All three trustees are register trustees of Torah Temimah Trust (802390).[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).[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

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2013-04-11 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 This is a project by a charity in Hackney. The group will use the funding to deliver a trip with physical activities and communication skill

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[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 records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[21]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Shaarei Chesed Trust", "Shaarei Chesed" 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. ↑ 1.00 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, The Shaarei Chesed Trust (328332): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 328332, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ The Shaarei Chesed Trust accounts, year ended 2014-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  5. ↑ The Shaarei Chesed Trust accounts, year ended 2015-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  6. ↑ The Shaarei Chesed Trust accounts, year ended 2016-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  7. ↑ The Shaarei Chesed Trust accounts, year ended 2017-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  8. ↑ The Shaarei Chesed Trust accounts, year ended 2018-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  9. ↑ The Shaarei Chesed Trust accounts, year ended 2019-09-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  10. ↑ 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-14 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Friends of the Israel Cancer Association showed "up to date (13 days late)" and The Bertie Black Foundation "up to date (82 days late)"; British Friends of Neve Shalom, Mesila UK, The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions and Etz Chaim Foundation showed "Removed charity".
  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 'Shaarei Chesed' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-328332 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 "Shaarei Chesed" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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