The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust

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North Jerusalem yeshiva trust under Charity Commission inquiry since July 2023

The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust

Type Other
Founded 1988-08-04 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 299687
Headquarters 18 Woodlands Close, London, NW11 9QP
Area served Israel


The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust was registered to support the "Horaoth Hatalmud Telz Academy and Talmud Torah" "situated in North Jerusalem, Israel".[1][2] Its latest accounts on the register, for the year to 31 March 2023 and examined by Malcolm Venitt, give its principal address as 18 Darenth Road, London N16 6EJ, and its trustees as Rabbi Y C Baddiel, C Lopian and A Hercz (deceased 14 March 2023). Donations were £480,100 and grants £621,106; funds were –£47,809 (PDF p.3, 5, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE TELZ TALMUDICAL ACADEMY AND TALMUD TORAH OR IN FURTHERANCE AND PROMOTION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To raise fund for the Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud torah Trust in Israel"[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, 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 Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Rabbi Yaacov Chanoch Baddiel not recorded The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102)
Chaim Lopian not recorded The Friends of Beis-eliyohu Trust (264365); The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-13 Chaim Lopian – also trustee of The Friends of Beis-eliyohu Trust, The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust; Alfred Hercz – also trustee of The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust; Rabbi Yaacov Chanoch Baddiel – also trustee of The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust [3]

The latest accounts on the register are for the year to 31 March 2023 (approved 31 January 2024); later returns are overdue. The accounts record A Hercz as deceased on 14 March 2023 (PDF p.5).[2]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £935,250 £958,250
2022-03-31 £667,000 £571,000
2023-03-31 £480,100 £624,909

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 31/03/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[9]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2023 grants to institutions £621,106, all to Horaoth Hatalmud Telz Academy and Talmud Torah in North Jerusalem (PDF p.5, 7, 12).[2]

Israeli partners

Horaoth Hatalmud Telz Academy and Talmud Torah, North Jerusalem.[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
"North Jerusalem" is named; no further district is given. Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • Statutory inquiry (July 2023). The Charity Commission opened inquiries into this charity and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust on 17 July 2023. It said the charities, which share trustees, "raise funds for faith institutes in Israel"; that "one trustee, who lives in Israel, is in possession of the charities' cheque books containing a number of blank cheques pre-signed by the trustees who live in the UK"; that they "operate heavily in cash" and "do not maintain adequate records"; and that the trustees "could not provide sufficient evidence that they were monitoring or verifying the end use of the charities' funds overseas". An order under section 76(3)(f) prohibited transactions including "withdrawing charitable funds in cash and pre-signing cheques". An inquiry is not itself a finding of wrongdoing.[10] The register still shows a regulatory alert.[11]
  • Shared trustees with Gevurath Ari. Trustees Baddiel and Lopian are recorded on the register as trustees of Gevurath Ari (1003102).[1] The accounts state that "All donations shown in the accounts are to Horaoth Hatalmud Telz Academy and Talmud Torah" (PDF p.5).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[12] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[13]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name returned no notices.[14]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[15]

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.[16]

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.[17]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Telz Talmudical Academy', 'Telz' returned 0 contributions in total.[18]

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 1.8 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 Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust (299687): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest available accounts (year to 31 March 2023) downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 299687, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  5. ↑ The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  6. ↑ The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  9. ↑ The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200702).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Charities investigated over poor financial management GOV.UK, 25 July 2023.
  11. ↑ 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 1–8 (200 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 – The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102), The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust (299687) and Kollel Mishkon Yakov (1170620).
  12. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the batch-7 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Lieutenancy of Scotland, is a separate Scottish body).
  13. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-7 charity name returned zero results).
  14. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Telz Talmudical' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  15. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-299687 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  16. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-7 screening covered 428 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers, lenders, subsidiaries and related bodies named in the accounts read for this batch (including Ambertown International Ltd); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. The single forename-and-surname candidate (a former Wimbledon and District Synagogue director against a UK counter-terrorism designation) has different middle names and was not treated as a match; all other candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps; lists downloaded October 2026.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Telz Talmudical' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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