UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd
Prestwich charitable company supporting the Tiferes Chaim institution in Jerusalem, reporting its £121,305 of spending as direct activity
| UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2011-02-25 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1140596; company 07500030 |
| Headquarters | Prestwich M25 |
| Area served | Israel |
| Key people | Yehoshua Yosef Fulda (chair) |
UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd is a charitable company (07500030) incorporated on 20 January 2011 and registered on 25 February 2011; its only register area is Israel.[1][2] Its directors are Yehoshua Yosef Fulda (chair, who runs it day to day), Miriam Fulda and Simcha Wells, all appointed on 20 January 2011; the accounts list a Mrs M Mozes in place of Miriam Fulda (PDF p.3–4).[1][3][2] Its registered and principal office, on the second floor of Parkgates, Bury New Road, Prestwich M25, is also the office of its independent examiner, Howard Schwalbe ACA (PDF p.3).[2] Its object is "to advance the charitable and educational work of the institution for religious studies known as Tiferes Chaim Jerusalem".[1] In the year to 31 January 2026 donations were £114,770 (2025: £101,962) and payments £122,961, of which £121,305 is shown as "activities undertaken directly"; staff wages were £10,140 for one employee, and funds fell to £1,679 (2025: £9,870) (PDF p.5, 12–13).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE THE CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE INSTITUTION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES KNOWN AS TIFERES CHAIM JERUSALEM"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The objects of the charity are to advance the charitable and educational work of the institution for religious studies known as Tiferes Chaim Jerusalem."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, 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]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yehoshua Yosef Fulda | not recorded | Yes | Manchester Charitable Trust Ltd (1148853) |
| Miriam Fulda | not recorded | Yeshivas Beis Dovid (1187631) | |
| Simcha Wells | not recorded | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-16 | Yehoshua Yosef Fulda (chair); Simcha Wells; Miriam Mozes – also trustee of Yeshivas Beis Dovid | [4] |
Simcha Yehuda Wells holds 10 Companies House appointments, mostly property companies, including Prestwich Park Estates Limited and Samyo Estates Limited.[5]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 3 current and former officers of the charitable company (07500030), 3 of them active.[6]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-31 | £10,205 | £11,591 |
| 2023-01-31 | £45,763 | £41,239 |
| 2024-01-31 | £61,455 | £61,375 |
| 2025-01-31 | £101,962 | £95,788 |
| 2026-01-31 | £114,770 | £122,961 |
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 31/01/2014[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2018[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2019[9]
Funding in Israel
- FY2026 charitable activities £121,305 (2025: £93,873), described as "activities undertaken directly"; no grant to an Israeli body is identified (PDF p.12).[2]
Israeli partners
"Tiferes Chaim Jerusalem", named in the objects.[1] A US body, American Friends of Yeshiva Tiferes Chaim, gives the Israel branch of a Yeshiva Tiferes Chaim as 18 King David St, Jerusalem; that this is the institution the UK charity supports rests on the name only.[10]
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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| A Yeshiva Tiferes Chaim gives its Israel branch address as 18 King David St, Jerusalem; the link to this charity rests on the name, and no activity beyond the Green Line is stated.[10] | 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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
- Spending reported as direct activity; recipient not named. A UK company with one employee reports £121,305 of "activities undertaken directly" without saying where they took place or naming Tiferes Chaim as a recipient (PDF p.12–13).[2]
- Director names differ. The accounts list Mrs M Mozes as a trustee, while Companies House and the register list Miriam Fulda (PDF p.3).[2][3]
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).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[19]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]
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.[21]
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.[22]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim", "Tiferes Chaim" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]
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".[4]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd (1140596): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Companies House, UK FRIENDS OF TIFERES CHAIM LTD (07500030): officers Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1140596, full print (capture of 20210116) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Companies House, WELLS, Simcha Yehuda: appointments Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026 (10 appointments, mostly property companies, including Prestwich Park Estates Limited and Samyo Estates Limited).
- ↑ Company 07500030: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd accounts, year ended 2014-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
- ↑ UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd accounts, year ended 2018-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
- ↑ UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd accounts, year ended 2019-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 American Friends of Yeshiva Tiferes Chaim, Contact Us tifereschaim.org, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("Israel Branch: 18 King David St, Jerusalem Israel P.O.B. 5577, Jerusalem 9105402"; Lakewood branch in New Jersey).
- ↑ 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-16 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)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Tiferes Chaim' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1140596 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Tiferes Chaim" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).