UK Friends of Tzohar

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Salford trust that passed £72,867 to Tikve Lechaim in 2024 and has received National Lottery and Sport England grants for local youth work

UK Friends of Tzohar

Type Trust
Founded 2014-06-10 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1157419
Headquarters Salford M7
Area served Manchester City, Salford City, Israel
Key people Berish Dresdner (chair)


UK Friends of Tzohar is a trust established by a deed of 2 December 2011 and registered on 10 June 2014; register areas are Manchester, Salford and Israel.[1] Its objects are general charitable purposes "primarily but not exclusively for the benefit of people of Israel", through Jewish religion and education.[1] The trustees, all appointed on 6 March 2014, are Berish Dresdner (chair), Isaac Fried and Schlame Stark, with a principal office in Salford, M7; the accounts were prepared by Haffner Hoff and examined by Howard Schwalbe of Prestwich (PDF p.1, 3).[1][2] In 2024 it received £100,110 and paid out £81,730, of which grants were £76,767; £72,867 went to Tikve Lechaim (PDF p.6, 13).[2] 360Giving data record grants to the charity from Sport England (£10,000, 2022) and The National Lottery Community Fund (£9,980 in 2022 and £19,960 in 2025) for work with Ultra-Orthodox young people in Salford.

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1 TO PROMOTE GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE OF ISRAEL THROUGH:(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION THROUGH FACILITATION OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES.(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF JEWISH TEXTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE 2 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: "1. To promote general charitable purposes primarily but not exclusively for the benefit of people of Israel through: (I) The advancement of the Jewish religion through facilitation or assisting in the provision of facilities. (II) The advancement of education of Jewish texts, culture and heritage."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Manchester City, Salford City, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of UK Friends of Tzohar (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Berish Dresdner 2014-03-06 Yes Friends of Torah V'emunah (1016943); UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed (1134987)
Schlame Stark 2014-03-06 —
Isaac Fried 2014-03-06 Binas Yisachar (1209002); Busy Buddies (1201565); Shemen Rokach (1198370)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-06 Isaac Fried (from 06 March 2014); Berish Dresdner (chair) (from 06 March 2014) – also trustee of UK Friends of Ahavas Chesed; Schlame Stark (from 06 March 2014) [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £40,462 £37,387
2021-12-31 £86,591 £73,689
2022-12-31 £142,959 £139,125
2023-12-31 £97,766 £113,998
2024-12-31 £100,110 £84,077

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 31/12/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2024 grants £76,767: Tikve Lechaim £72,867 (2023: £67,265), Chabira £2,000, Yagdil Torah £1,200 and grants under £1,000 totalling £700; youth activities and support £1,899 (2023: £35,944). No place is given for any grantee (PDF p.13).[2]

Israeli partners

Tikve Lechaim, not located in the accounts (PDF p.13).[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 place in Israel is named.[2] Not established

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;[8] 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.[9][10][11][12] 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.[13]
  • No Tzohar grant. Despite its name, the accounts show no grant to any body called Tzohar; the main grantee is Tikve Lechaim, which the accounts do not locate (PDF p.13).[2]
  • Fundraising costs. The accounts show fundraising expenses of £2,347 while stating that "There were no material fundraising costs" (PDF p.6).[2]
  • No trustee induction. "There are no policies and procedures for the induction or training of new trustees" (PDF p.4).[2]
  • Late filing. The register shows the latest accounts as received 18 days late.[8]

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).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists naming Tzohar Ltd, a separate company; no notice naming the charity was found.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2022-08-05 The National Lottery Community Fund 9,980 The funding will be used to support 50 young people aged 15-20 from the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community who are NEET. Activities will includ
2022-09-06 Sport England 10,000 This project will provide weekly swimming sessions for Ultra-Orthodox Jewish teenagers in Salford. The organisation will provide 50 swimming
2025-09-22 The National Lottery Community Fund 19,960 UK FRIENDS OF TZOHAR - Health & Wellbeing - National Lottery Awards for All England

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[17]

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.[18]

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.[19]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)

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

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "UK Friends of Tzohar", "Tzohar" returned 0 contributions in total.[20]

Web archive

  • tzohar.org.il: 26 yearly captures, first 2001-11-02, last 2026-01-01.[21]

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]

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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, UK Friends of Tzohar (1157419): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1157419, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ UK Friends of Tzohar accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  5. ↑ UK Friends of Tzohar accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  6. ↑ UK Friends of Tzohar accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ UK Friends of Tzohar accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 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-17 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Starscope Limited showed "up to date (23 days late)", UK Friends of Tzohar "up to date (18 days late)" and The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; BFON Trust showed no reporting-status line; Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Michoel, Friends of Reb Sender Dominitz, Emerald Benevolence Ltd and Academic Study Group showed "Removed charity".
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  12. ↑ 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).
  13. ↑ 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").
  14. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-17 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-17 charity names returned no matching charity).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Friends of Tzohar' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1157419 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-17 screening covered 231 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people and bodies 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 Rotenberg, Weiss, Levy and Cohen) or generic words such as "Ltd", "International", "Group" and "Team"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Friends of Tzohar" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  21. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for tzohar.org.il Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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