UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed

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Hackney trust funding Ahavas Chesed in Israel, whose trustee had borrowed from the charity

UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed

Type Trust
Founded 2010-03-17 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1134987
Headquarters Flat 51, Lea View House, Springfield, London, E5 9DY
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Israel
Key people Berish Dresdner (chair)


UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed was established by trust deed of 1 February 2010 and registered on 17 March 2010; register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1][2] Its trustees are B Dresdner, M Meirovitz and M Linshe, at 51 Lea View House, Springfield, London E5 9DY. Its objects are general charitable purposes "primarily but not exclusively for the benefit of people of Israel". In the year ended 31 March 2025 donations were £758,451 and grants £731,075.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(I) TO PROMOTE GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY INDIVIDUALS OF THE JEWISH FAITH AND TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SOCIAL AND / OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE(II) TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "RELIEF OF POVERTY AND OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Berish Dresdner not recorded Yes Friends of Torah V'emunah (1016943); UK Friends of Tzohar (1157419)
Moshe Meirovits 2014-09-01 Unite to Ignite (1207540)
Moshe Linshe 2014-09-01 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-17 Moshe Linshe (from 01 September 2014); Berish Dresdner (chair) – also trustee of UK Friends of Tzohar; Moshe Meirovits (from 01 September 2014) [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £552,080 £384,840
2022-03-31 £521,647 £573,628
2023-03-31 £635,697 £657,829
2024-03-31 £607,454 £556,079
2025-03-31 £758,595 £749,464

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]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants: Ahavas Chesed Israel £562,245; Michlol £67,075; Amud Hatzdokoh Trust £59,255; Belz Communities £17,500; Care All Ltd £10,000; Mercaz Torah £10,000; Chasdei Sorele £5,000.[2]

Israeli partners

Ahavas Chesed Israel; no town is given.[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 town in Israel is named.[2] Not established – country only

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]
  • Money owed by a trustee and his companies. The accounts state: "Mr M Meirovitz, a trustee of the charity, is also the director of Fleexco Ltd, Day Love and Grand Deals Ltd. The balance owing from Mr M Meirovitz and his company's outstanding at the year-end is £47,572." They add that he "has repaid these sums back to the charity in line with instruction from his advisors and will not continue to borrow money from the charity in the future".[2]
  • Stale wording. The FY2025 trustees' report refers to the "period ended 31st March 2022".[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 does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[20]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Friends of Ahavas Chesed', 'Ahavas Chesed' returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

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 2.7 Charity Commission, UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed (1134987): 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 1134987, full print (capture of 20210117) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  5. ↑ UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  6. ↑ UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  7. ↑ UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  8. ↑ UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  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-5 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-5 charity name returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Ahavas Chesed' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1134987 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-5 screening covered 345 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) and on the Companies House pages for Brightness Ltd; 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. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Ahavas Chesed' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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