UK Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro

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UK CIO funding Beit Issie Shapiro, the disability services charity in Ra'anana

UK Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro

Logo Beit Issie Shapiro Raanana 2012.jpg
Type CIO
Founded 2019-09-23 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1185443
Headquarters Elstree WD6
Area served Israel, Throughout England And Wales
Key people Laura Weller (chair)
Website https://en.beitissie.org.il


UK Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro is a charitable incorporated organisation registered on 23 September 2019, successor to Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro (UK) (328303); register areas are Israel and England and Wales.[1][2] Its object is relief of children and adults with disabilities "more particularly by the provision of financial assistance to the Beit Issie Shapiro centres in Israel" (PDF p.4). Its nine trustees are chaired by Laura Weller; the others are Stuart Boyd, Michael Hirsch (treasurer), Alan Gabbay, Sharona Bor, Nathalie Esfandi, Angela Harding, Michal Cohen-Sagi and Andrea Zisman, with a principal office in Elstree WD6 (PDF p.3).[2][1] In the year to 31 August 2025 income was £202,167 (2024: £468,171), grants £149,699 and total expenditure £231,058 (PDF p.5).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES AND MORE PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO CENTRES IN ISRAEL."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The object of the CIO is the relief of children and adults with disabilities and more particularly by the provision of financial assistance to the Beit Issie Shapiro centres in Israel."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Disability, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of UK Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Laura Weller 2019-09-23 Yes Beth Shalom Limited (509022)
Stuart Boyd 2019-09-23 —
Michael Hirsch 2019-09-23 Keshet Eilon Foundation (1088965)
Alan Gabbay 2019-09-23 —
Sharona Bor 2019-09-23 —
Nathalie Esfandi 2019-09-23 —
Angela Harding 2019-09-23 The Speech, Language and Hearing Foundation (1002463)
Michal Cohen-Sagi 2019-12-10 —
Andrea Zisman 2023-08-29 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-06 Angela Harding (from 23 September 2019) – also trustee of The Speech, Language and Hearing Foundation; Nathalie Esfandi (from 23 September 2019); Laura Weller (chair) (from 23 September 2019) – also trustee of Beth Shalom Limited; Michael Hirsch (from 23 September 2019); Michal Cohen-Sagi (from 10 December 2019); Alan Gabbay (from 23 September 2019); Stuart Boyd (from 23 September 2019); Michael Tager (from 23 September 2019); Sharona Bor (from 23 September 2019) [3]

Laura Weller is also a register trustee of Beth Shalom Limited; Michael Hirsch of Keshet Eilon Foundation; Angela Harding of The Speech, Language and Hearing Foundation.[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-08-31 £123,843 £122,544
2022-08-31 £174,222 £157,775
2023-08-31 £744,113 £758,390
2024-08-31 £468,171 £427,158
2025-08-31 £202,167 £231,058

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 donations £149,699 (2024: £294,999), "all of which were earmarked to support Beit Issie Shapiro, a registered charity in Israel" (restricted £127,885) (PDF p.5).[2]

Israeli partners

Beit Issie Shapiro (Israeli registered charity 580071850), 1 Issie Shapiro Street, Ra'anana.[4]

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
Beit Issie Shapiro, 1 Issie Shapiro Street, Ra'anana – inside Israel's pre-1967 lines.[4] Low

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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
  • High staff costs relative to grants. One employee received benefits in the £60,001–£70,000 band; staff and pension costs were £74,813 against grants of £149,699 (notes).[2]
  • 360Giving record predates the CIO. A £45,000 grant from The Segelman Trust dated 21 August 2014 is recorded under this CIO's number, although the CIO was registered in 2019; it presumably went to the predecessor charity (see Grants recorded by 360Giving below).[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).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]

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.[13]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2014-08-21 The Segelman Trust 45,000 For a music therapy programme working with disabled children in a mixed Jewish/Arab community facility in Israel

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[14]

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.[15]

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.[16]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
The American Friends Of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc[17] 133434781 2023 2,168,805 2,145,249

These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

Parliament

Selected Hansard references
Date House Member Debate
2017-10-25 Commons Mary Robinson Centenary of the Balfour Declaration[18]

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Beit Issie Shapiro" returned 1 contribution in total.[18]

Web archive

  • beitissie.org.il: 22 yearly captures, first 2004-08-20, last 2026-01-01.[19]

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 "Recently registered" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

See also

External links

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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, UK Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro (1185443): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1185443, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Beit Issie Shapiro, Contact Us en.beitissie.org.il, retrieved 15 October 2026 ("Beit Issie Shapiro – Israel, Registered Charity #580071850, Address 1 Issie Shapiro Street PO Box 29 Ra'anana 4310001 ISRAEL"; lists UK Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro, 1185443, and American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro, EIN 13-3434-781).
  5. ↑ 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-12 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status – "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" for 22 charities, "Removed charity" for Mifal Tzedukas and Keren Yaacov Limited, and "Charity reporting is up to date (256 days late)" for Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem.
  6. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  7. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  8. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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").
  11. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-12 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names: Madrasatul Imam Mohammad Zakariya and Harris Kaufman Trust).
  12. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-12 charity names returned zero results).
  13. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Beit Issie Shapiro' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  14. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1185443 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  15. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-12 screening covered 390 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived accounts (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the six charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (Millage Limited, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (United Kingdom) Limited and Ezer Bekovoid Limited), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Foundation", "Society", "International") and surname-only coincidences (Green, Anderson, Weiss, Frank, Grace, Friedman, Fox, Ward); lists downloaded October 2026.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ The American Friends Of Beit Issie Shapiro Inc – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 15 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Beit Issie Shapiro" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  19. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for beitissie.org.il Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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