Venosnu Limited
Vorhand family charitable company in Golders Green with £1.5 million of property and £775,200 of bank loans, giving £44,231 to unnamed recipients
| Venosnu Limited
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2006-08-02 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1115656; company 05628065 |
| Headquarters | London NW11 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel, United States |
Venosnu Limited is a charitable company (05628065) incorporated on 18 November 2005 and registered on 2 August 2006; register areas are England and Wales, Israel and the United States.[1][2] Its object is to advance the Jewish religion worldwide through prayer meetings, lectures and literature.[1] The trustees are Mark Vorhand and Idit Cohen, with a register address in London NW11; the examiner is Michael Weissbraun of Weissbraun Emanuel, whose office in London NW11 is also the company's registered office (PDF p.2).[1][3][2] In the year to 30 November 2025 income was £96,376, of which rents were £77,075, and spending £94,226; investment properties were valued at £1,538,000 by the trustees and bank loans were £775,200, both unchanged from 2024 (PDF p.7–8, 11, 13).[3]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE THE JEWISH RELIGION WORLDWIDE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES PRODUCING AND DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON JUDAISM TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE JEWISH RELIGION"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The objectives of the projects, as established, continued unchanged, is that of to advance the Jewish religion worldwide for the benefit of the public through the holding of prayer meetings, lectures producing and distributing literature on Judaism to enlighten others about the Jewish religion."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel, United States.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Vorhand | not recorded | Beis Yaakov Primary School Foundation (1125487); Torath Chaim Veahavas Chesed (802825) | |
| Idit Cohen | 2022-04-01 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-08 | Mark Vorhand – also trustee of Beis Yaakov Primary School Foundation, Torath Chaim Veahavas Chesed; Allen Cohen | [4] |
At Companies House, Mark Vorhand has been a director since 18 November 2005 and Idit Cohen since 25 March 2021 (the register dates her appointment from 1 April 2022); Allen Cohen was a director and secretary from 18 November 2005 to 1 April 2022. Mark Vorhand holds 33 appointments and Allen Cohen 23. The company's nature of business is recorded as "development of building projects".[2][1]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 6 current and former officers of the charitable company (05628065), 2 of them active.[5]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-30 | £86,408 | £90,954 |
| 2022-11-30 | £89,119 | £84,139 |
| 2023-11-30 | £83,504 | £119,008 |
| 2024-11-30 | £93,887 | £91,155 |
| 2025-11-30 | £96,376 | £94,226 |
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 30/11/2014[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2015[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2016[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2017[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/11/2018[10]
Funding in Israel
- No spending in Israel is identified; FY2025 charitable payments of £44,231 are not itemised, and the accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.12).[3] Israel is a register area.[1]
Israeli partners
No partner is named.[3]
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 |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named.[3] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]
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]
- Property costs counted as charitable spending. Of the £94,226 reported as charitable spending, £48,403 was rental expenses, mostly loan interest and refinancing costs (£42,636), and £44,231 charitable payments, whose recipients are not named (PDF p.12).[3]
- A chief executive with no employees. The report says day-to-day management is delegated to "the Chief Executive", while the accounts state that "There were no employees during the year" (PDF p.4, 12).[3]
- Trustee valuation. The £1,538,000 property value rests on "a valuation carried out by trustees", and debtors, creditors and loans are unchanged from the previous year (PDF p.8, 13).[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.[21]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[22] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[23]
- Investment properties £1,538,000 at the trustees' valuation, producing rents of £77,075; bank loans of £775,200 secured by fixed charges – Accounts (PDF p.8, 11, 13) (source: [3])
- Freehold property, Edgware HA8 (title MX54961, freehold; proprietor added 24/05/2006, price paid £245,000) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 05628065 (source: [23])
- Leasehold property and garage, London NW4 (title NGL688446, leasehold; proprietor added 24/03/2016, price paid £427,500) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 05628065 (source: [23])
- Leasehold flat and garage, Golders Green Road, London NW11 (title NGL740168, leasehold; proprietor added 21/02/2007, price paid £250,000) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 05628065 (source: [23])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Venosnu Limited", "Venosnu" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]
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 1.11 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 Companies House, VENOSNU LIMITED (05628065) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026 (incorporated 18 November 2005; registered office 220 The Vale, London NW11; nature of business 41100 development of building projects).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Charity Commission, Venosnu Limited (1115656): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1115656, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Company 05628065: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Venosnu Limited accounts, year ended 2014-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Venosnu Limited accounts, year ended 2015-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Venosnu Limited accounts, year ended 2016-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Venosnu Limited accounts, year ended 2017-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Venosnu Limited accounts, year ended 2018-11-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ 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".
- ↑ 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-17 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-17 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Venosnu' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1115656 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-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.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on the company numbers of the eight charitable companies (01359053, 03753983, 14462057, 08290018, 08287696, 05628065, 05229139, 11091095) and on the charities' registered and other names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Venosnu" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).