Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar

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Stamford Hill grant-maker whose trustee also sits on two charities in the cheque-cashing inquiry

Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar

Type Other
Founded 2005-04-22 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1109192
Headquarters 167 Kyverdale Road, London, N16 6PS
Area served Throughout England And Wales, Belgium, Israel, United States


Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar was established by declaration of trust on 18 March 2005 and registered on 22 April 2005; register areas are England and Wales, Belgium, Israel and the United States.[1] The accounts for the year to 31 March 2025 give its principal address as 167 Kyverdale Road, London N16 6PS, and its trustees as S Seidenfeld (resigned 9 December 2025), B Berger, L Weiss and O Y Herzog. Its objects cover Orthodox Jewish religion and education and the relief of poverty, "in particular but not exclusively amongst members of the Jewish Faith residing in New York USA". Donations were £713,048 and grants £634,239; funds were –£4,745 (PDF p.3–4, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE (I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH (II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND (III) THE RELIEF OF THE POOR SICK FEEBLE AND FRAIL THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH RESIDING IN NEW YORK USA.3.2 THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OR SUCH PARTS OF THE CAPITAL AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH OF THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME AT THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Grants to instiutions"[1]

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

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Berish Berger not recorded Aldentower Limited (292585); Ardenlink Limited (297004); Educational Academies Support (1201856); Palmcourt Limited (1070679); Satmar Nursery Trust (292614); Talmud Torah Education Limited (1037631); The Palmtree Foundation Trust Limited (1141101); Utry (1154569); Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054); Yeshiva Gedoilah Torah Veyirah Limited (1141035)
Lipot Weiss not recorded Keren Hatzolo (289761)
Osher Yizchok Herzog 2023-05-05 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2014-09-04 Berish Berger; S Seidenfeld; Lipot Weiss [3]
2021-01-06 Lipot Weiss – also trustee of Keren Hatzolo, Zichri Toiras Moishe; S Seidenfeld – also trustee of The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Congregation Vyoel Moshe D'satmer Charitable Trust, Palmcourt Limited, United Talmudical Associates Ltd, Friends of Yeshiva Luzern; Berish Berger – also trustee of Yeshiva Gedoilah Torah Veyirah Limited, Satmar Nursery Trust, Talmud Torah Education Limited, Palmcourt Limited, Aldentower Limited, The Palmtree Foundation Trust Limited, Utry, Ardenlink Limited, Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust [4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £765,276 £677,553
2022-03-31 £741,666 £826,407
2023-03-31 £784,050 £833,582
2024-03-31 £657,421 £712,392
2025-03-31 £713,048 £662,456

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 31/03/2009[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2011[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2012[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2013[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[14]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants to institutions £633,739: United Talmudical Seminary £373,041; Keren Habinyan £63,765; Tzidkas Remo £56,446; Mosdos Vayoel Moshe D'Satmar £42,000; Yetev Lev London Jerusalem Trust £24,555; Bnos Jerusalem School £12,982; Kollel Erev £10,163; others £50,787 (PDF p.12). No country or place is given for any recipient.[2]

Israeli partners

Not identified; recipients are named without locations.[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 is named for any recipient.[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;[15] 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.[16][17][18][19] 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.[20]
  • Trustee also trustee of inquiry charities. Berish Berger is recorded on the register as a trustee of Satmar Nursery Trust (292614) and Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054),[1] both of which entered the cheque-cashing class inquiry in the September 2025 tranche.[17] The release makes no finding about this charity.
  • Grant with a similar name to an inquiry charity. FY2025 grants include £12,982 to "Bnos Jerusalem School" (PDF p.12),[2] a name similar to Bnois Jerusalem Schools (312568), which entered the cheque-cashing class inquiry in September 2025;[17] the match is by name only. The Commission concluded its investigation into Bnois Jerusalem Schools on 9 September 2026, finding that it had issued open cheques and making "a finding of misconduct and/or mismanagement"; it was "satisfied that each charity was undertaking charitable activities in line with their charitable purposes".[19]
  • Negative funds. Funds were –£4,745 at 31 March 2025 (2024: –£55,337) (PDF p.7).[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).[21] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[22]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name returned no notices.[23]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2022-06-17 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 Funding will be used to deliver a 12 week cooking workshop programme for fathers in the local community. Project aims to equip fathers to bu
2024-08-28 The National Lottery Community Fund 20,000 The funding will be used to continue and expand delivery of weekly cooking sessions for fathers. The project aims to encourage and equip fat

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[24]

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.[25]

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.[26]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Yeshiva Gedola Seminar', 'YGS Yeshiva' returned 0 contributions in total.[27]

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]

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 1.8 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 Charity Commission, Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar (1109192): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1109192, contact and trustees (capture of 20140904) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1109192, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  6. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  7. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2011-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  8. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2012-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  9. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2013-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20140904).
  10. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  11. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  12. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  13. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  14. ↑ Y G S Yeshiva Gedola Seminar accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  15. ↑ 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).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 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).
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 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.
  20. ↑ 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").
  21. ↑ 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-6 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  22. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-6 charity name returned zero results).
  23. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Yeshiva Gedola Seminar' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  24. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1109192 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  25. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-6 screening covered 429 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); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  26. ↑ 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.
  27. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Yeshiva Gedola Seminar' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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