The Talmud Education Trust

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Former UK education trust (removed 2011) that operated in Canada, Israel and the US

The Talmud Education Trust

Type Trust (removed)
Founded 1983-01-08 (registered)
Dissolved 2011-08-23 (removed: ceased to exist)
Registration ID Registered charity 326264
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Canada, Israel, United States


The Talmud Education Trust was a registered charity in England and Wales from 1983 until removal on 23 August 2011.[1] Register areas included England and Wales, Canada, Israel and the United States. Latest recorded income in the extract is £6,952,053 for the year ended 31 August 2008. The register gives the reason for removal as "ceased to exist".[2] No accounts of the trust itself were recovered, but the published accounts of two grant-making charities, The Helping Foundation and Newmarston Limited, record grants to it totalling £11,839,000 in financial years ending between February 2006 and December 2009, and the accounts of the Bluston Charitable Settlement give the trust's charity number for a £10,000 grant to "Mechinoh Boys School" in 2005–06 (see Donors).

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL FOR THE TIME BEING BE CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Canada, Israel, United States.[1]

The governing document was a trust deed dated 2 July 1982. The register recorded that the charity helped children and young people, "people of a particular ethnic or racial origin" and other charities or voluntary bodies, and that it made grants to individuals and organisations and provided buildings, facilities or open space.[2] A January 2011 capture of the register showed "no information recorded" for its activities.[3]

In the Bluston Charitable Settlement's grants list for the year to 5 April 2006, a £10,000 grant to "Mechinoh Boys School" is shown with the charity number 326264, the trust's number.[4] Mechinoh School is an independent secondary school for Orthodox Jewish boys aged 11 to 16 at 13 Upper Park Road, Salford (URN 105999).[5][6] Ofsted reports give its opening date as September 1982 and named its proprietor as "Mechinoh School Organisation" between 2008 and 2013;[6][7] the Department for Education register records an open date of 11 January 1985 and gives the current proprietor as Mechinoh L'Yeshiva,[5] a charity (1161782) registered in 2015.[1] Ofsted judged the school inadequate in June 2024 and found in March 2026 that it still did not meet all of the independent school standards.[8][9] The Helping Foundation and Newmarston Limited accounts do not describe any of their grants to the trust as being for the school; both listed separate grants to "Mechina Boys School" in 2009–10 and 2010 (£2,000 from Newmarston and £8,000 from the Helping Foundation).[10][11] No other source consulted ties the trust or its number to the school.

Mechinoh School: ownership timeline

  • 2 July 1982 and 8 January 1983: the trust's governing document, a trust deed, is dated 2 July 1982;[2] the trust was registered on 8 January 1983.[1]
  • September 1982: Ofsted gives this as the date Mechinoh Boys' School opened in Salford.[12]
  • 2005–06: the Bluston Charitable Settlement's accounts for the year to 5 April 2006 list a £10,000 grant to "Mechinoh Boys School" with the charity number 326264.[4]
  • 2008–2013: Ofsted reports of January 2008, October 2010, November 2011 and November 2013 name the school's proprietor as "Mechinoh School Organisation".[6][12][13][7]
  • 4 November 2009 to 14 February 2012: Mechinoh L'Yeshiva Manchester Ltd (company 07066816), a private company limited by guarantee whose nature of business was general secondary education, had its registered office at the school's address, 13 Upper Park Road, Salford, M7 4HY. Noach Baddiel was a director from 1 December 2009. Its last annual return was made up to 4 November 2010, and it was dissolved by compulsory strike-off on 14 February 2012.[14]
  • January 2011: the trust's accounts and annual return for the year to 31 August 2009 were 210 days overdue.[3]
  • 23 August 2011: the trust was removed from the register as "ceased to exist".[1][2]
  • 2014 to March 2023: Ofsted reports between November 2014 and March 2023 that give a proprietor name it as "Mechinoh School".[15][16][17]
  • 2015: Mechinoh L'Yeshiva (charity 1161782), of 60 Waterpark Road, Salford, M7 4JL, was set up by a trust deed dated 2 January 2015 and registered on 21 May 2015. Its register entry describes its activities as "The provision and maintenance of a secondary school for high school age boys in Manchester."[18]
  • 2021–22: Ofsted reported in March 2023 that at the time of the May 2022 inspection there had been no proprietor in place for the preceding 12 months, and that the headteacher took over as proprietor during that inspection.[17]
  • 19 July 2023: the Department for Education wrote to the school confirming that the proposed change to the proprietorship arrangements had been agreed.[19]
  • November 2023 onwards: Ofsted reports of November 2023, June 2024 and March 2026 name the proprietor as Mechinoh L'Yeshiva.[19][8][9]

The Charity Commission's Register of Merged Charities has no entry linking the trust and Mechinoh L'Yeshiva, and none of the sources cited records a transfer from the trust.[20]

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2007-08-31 £4,262,622 n/a
2008-08-31 £6,952,053 £6,996,394

Source: register public extract (annual-return history up to removal);[1] 2008 expenditure from the archived 2011 register page.[3]

For the year to 31 August 2008 the archived register page broke income down as voluntary income £6,943,672 and investment income £8,381, and spending as £6,896,345 on charitable activities, £36,749 on generating voluntary income and £63,300 other. It recorded own-use assets of £1,126,413, other assets of £115,147, liabilities of £55,229 and one employee. By January 2011 the accounts and annual return for the year to 31 August 2009 were 210 days overdue.[3]

Donors

The following grants to the trust are recorded in the donors' accounts, filed at Companies House (Helping Foundation and Newmarston) or with the Charity Commission (Bluston). The Helping Foundation and Newmarston are Manchester-area grant-making charities; the Helping Foundation's accounts for the period to December 2009 record that its trustee David Neuwirth was also a trustee of Newmarston Limited.[21]

Grants to The Talmud Education Trust recorded in donor accounts
Donor Financial period ended Amount (£)
Newmarston Limited 28 February 2006 70,000[22]
Bluston Charitable Settlement 5 April 2006 10,000 (listed as "Mechinoh Boys School", charity number 326264)[4]
The Helping Foundation 31 March 2007 3,175,000[23]
Newmarston Limited 29 February 2008 1,720,000[24]
The Helping Foundation 31 March 2008 975,000[25]
Newmarston Limited 28 February 2009 668,000[26]
The Helping Foundation 31 March 2009 1,870,000[27]
Newmarston Limited 28 February 2010 656,000[10]
The Helping Foundation 31 December 2009 (nine months) 2,705,000[21]
Total 11,849,000

Newmarston Limited's accounts for the year to 28 February 2007 list no grant to the trust, and the Helping Foundation's accounts for 2010 record none.[11]

The Bluston Charitable Settlement's accounts for the year to 5 April 2007 show nothing against "Mechinoh Boys School" for that year, with £10,000 as the 2006 comparative,[28] and no grant to the trust or the school appears in its accounts for the years to April 2011–2015.

Funding in Israel

  • No accounts available after removal (2011). Extract latest income £6,952,053 (year to 31 Aug 2008).[1]

Israeli partners

Not established from available sources.

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
Register listed Israel among areas; no grant detail recovered. low

Support for the IDF: No accounts were available to assess IDF-related spending.

Controversies and regulatory action

  • Removed charity; no current accounts. No Gazette insolvency notice was found. The register gives the removal reason as "ceased to exist".[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).[29] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[30]

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.[31]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[32]

Sanctions screening

The names of current and archived trustees and Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match on full name was found; only coincidental surname matches.[33]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[34]

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'Talmud Education Trust' returned 0 contributions in total.[35]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds archived Charity Commission register pages for this charity from January 2011 and January 2021 (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[2]

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 1.8 1.9 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 Register entry 326264, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Register entry 326264, charity overview (capture of 26 January 2011) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bluston Charitable Settlement of 15 March 1968, Report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2006, note 5 (grants payable).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Department for Education, Mechinoh School, URN 105999 Get Information about Schools, accessed 26 October 2026.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Ofsted, Mechinoh School: inspection report, 30–31 January 2008 Ofsted.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ofsted, Mechinoh School: inspection report, 26–28 November 2013 Ofsted.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Ofsted, Inspection of Mechinoh School, 25–27 June 2024 Ofsted.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ofsted, Mechinoh School: progress monitoring inspection report, 18 March 2026 Ofsted.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Newmarston Limited, Report and financial statements for the year ended 28 February 2010, filed at Companies House 1 December 2010, note on direct charitable expenditure.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 The Helping Foundation, Report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2010, filed at Companies House 30 September 2011, note on charitable grants (nil to the trust in 2010; £2,705,000 comparative).
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Ofsted, Mechinoh School: inspection report, 12–13 October 2010 Ofsted.
  13. ↑ Ofsted, Mechinoh School: inspection report, 14 November 2011 Ofsted.
  14. ↑ Companies House, Mechinoh L'Yeshiva Manchester Ltd, company 07066816: company overview, officers and filing history, accessed 26 October 2026.
  15. ↑ Ofsted, Mechinoh School: inspection report, 25–27 November 2014 Ofsted.
  16. ↑ Ofsted, Mechinoh School: inspection report, 24–26 May 2022 Ofsted.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Ofsted, Mechinoh School: progress monitoring inspection report, 2 March 2023 Ofsted.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity and charity_governing_document, entry 1161782), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Ofsted, Mechinoh School: progress monitoring inspection report, 7 November 2023 Ofsted.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of merged charities – all entries (CSV, updated 1 October 2026), searched 26 October 2026 for 326264, 1161782, "Mechin" and "Talmud".
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 The Helping Foundation, Report and financial statements for the period 1 April to 31 December 2009, filed at Companies House 24 September 2010, note 22 (charitable grants) and note 15 (related party transactions).
  22. ↑ Newmarston Limited, Report and financial statements for the year ended 28 February 2006, filed at Companies House 20 February 2007, note on direct charitable expenditure (listed as "TET").
  23. ↑ The Helping Foundation, Report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2007, filed at Companies House 10 December 2007, note 4 (costs of charitable activities).
  24. ↑ Newmarston Limited, Report and financial statements for the year ended 29 February 2008, filed at Companies House 27 December 2008, note on direct charitable expenditure.
  25. ↑ The Helping Foundation, Report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2008, filed at Companies House 8 January 2009, note 4 (costs of charitable activities).
  26. ↑ Newmarston Limited, Report and financial statements for the year ended 28 February 2009, filed at Companies House 4 January 2010, note 7 (direct charitable expenditure).
  27. ↑ The Helping Foundation, Report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2009, filed at Companies House 23 September 2009, note 4 (costs of charitable activities).
  28. ↑ Bluston Charitable Settlement of 15 March 1968, Report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2007, received by the Charity Commission 29 October 2007, note 5 (grants payable).
  29. ↑ 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 found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit for "breakthrough" was Breakthrough Breast Cancer SC039058, unrelated).
  30. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch charity name returned zero results).
  31. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Talmud Education Trust' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  32. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-326264 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  33. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV, version of 12 October 2026); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv, last updated 3 June 2026). Screening of 405 names (current and archived trustees and Companies House officers of the 25 batch-1 charities) carried out 14 October 2026.
  34. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  35. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Talmud Education Trust' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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