Yad Eliezer Trust
UK fundraising company for the Jerusalem poverty charity Yad Eliezer
| Yad Eliezer Trust
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2006-07-19 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1115426; company 05686881 |
| Headquarters | 220 the Vale, London, NW11 8SR |
| Area served | Throughout London, Israel |
Yad Eliezer Trust is a UK-based charity (no. 1115426) which supports Yad Eliezer, an Israeli charity which provides resources to Israelis living in poverty. As well as its operations within Israel proper it has provided aid to the illegal settlement of Beitar Illit in the occupied West Bank.[1] [2]
History
The organisation became a registered charity in 2006.[3] However from 1986 to 2005 an organisation by the name of The Yad Eliezer Trust (no. 294612) was registered with the Charity Commission until its voluntary removal in 2005. It appears that the two organisations are one and the same.[4]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST THE ELDERLY OR PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS WITHIN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION.3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ACCORDING TO THE TENETS OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION.4) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY."[5]
The register describes its activities as: "Receiving donations and applying for the relief of poverty"[5]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[5]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel.[5]
Finances and Funding
Between 2010 and 2014 the charity spent £1,807,726.[6]
Latest figures (Charity Commission register)
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-31 | £2,443,994 | £2,277,192 |
| 2022-01-31 | £1,354,063 | £1,377,404 |
| 2023-01-31 | £809,405 | £925,210 |
| 2024-01-31 | £782,931 | £831,078 |
| 2025-01-31 | £270,562 | £281,998 |
Source: register annual-return history.[5]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2015[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2016[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2017[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2018[10]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2019[11]
People
Board of Directors circa July 2015
Mendl Averbuch | Benjamin Chontow | Pinchas Benedikt
Current trustees (Charity Commission register, October 2026)
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[5]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zvi Menachem Mendl AVERBUCH | not recorded | — | |
| Pinchas Benedikt | not recorded | Gabai Tzedokoh Limited (1129844); Meirim Illuminating Ltd (1201029); North London Cost Shop (1188028); The Chicken Soup Shelter (1119905); Tomchei Yotzei Anglia (1111333); Tzedokah Vchesed (1147686) | |
| benjamin Chontow | not recorded | Friends of B'ezri (1203939); The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust (265804); The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust (266098); UK Friends of Keren Tzlach (1110715) | |
| David Halibard | 2020-06-22 | Friends of B'ezri (1203939) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-13 | Pinchas Benedikt – also trustee of The Chicken Soup Shelter, Tomchei Yotzei Anglia, Tzedokah Vchesed, Gabai Tzedokoh Limited, Keren Hachesed Trust, North London Cost Shop; Benjamin Chontow – also trustee of UK Friends of Keren Tzlach, The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust, The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust; Zvi Menachem Mendl AVERBUCH; David Halibard (from 22 June 2020) | [12] |
| 2021-07-04 | Pinchas Benedikt – also trustee of The Chicken Soup Shelter, Tomchei Yotzei Anglia, Tzedokah Vchesed, Gabai Tzedokoh Limited, Keren Hachesed Trust, North London Cost Shop; benjamin Chontow – also trustee of UK Friends of Keren Tzlach, The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust, The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust; Zvi Menachem Mendl AVERBUCH; David Halibard (from 22 June 2020) | [13] |
Pinchas Benedikt is recorded on the register as a trustee of Tomchei Yotzei Anglia (1111333, profiled in batch 4), Gabai Tzedokoh Limited, Meirim Illuminating Ltd, North London Cost Shop, The Chicken Soup Shelter and Tzedokah Vchesed; Benjamin Chontow of Friends of B'ezri, The Friends of Bnei Torah Movement Trust, The Friends of Neve Yerushalayim Seminary Trust and UK Friends of Keren Tzlach.[5] Companies House records Zvi Menachem Mendl Averbuch as resident in Israel (see below).
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 7 current and former officers of the charitable company (05686881), 5 of them active.[14] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Zvi Menachem Mendl Averbuch (Israel, active).[14]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants: Yad Eliezer Israel £242,000 (2024: £155,500); FY2024 also B'ezri Israel £622,000 (PDF p.13).[15]
Israeli partners
Yad Eliezer in Israel and, in FY2024, B'ezri Israel; no addresses are given.[15] Trustees Benjamin Chontow and David Halibard are also register trustees of Friends of B'ezri (1203939).[5]
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 site of either recipient is named in the accounts.[15] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[15]
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;[16] 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.[17][18][19][20] 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.[21]
- Overseas travel and thin reserves. One trustee's travel expenses of £2,986 were paid for "essential charity business overseas"; the charity has no reserves policy and ran a deficit of £11,436 (PDF p.4, 14).[15]
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).[22] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[23]
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.[24]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[25]
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.[26]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[5] No title registers were purchased.[27]
US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)
| Organisation | EIN | Latest filing year | Revenue (US$) | Expenses (US$) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends Of Yad Eliezer Inc[28] | 113459952 | 2023 | 37,644,971 | 33,778,923 |
| Yad Eliezer Usa Inc[29] | 873467861 | 2023 | 13,055,396 | 12,663,089 |
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 "Yad Eliezer Trust", "Yad Eliezer" returned 0 contributions in total.[30]
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".[12]
Contact
Address circa July 2015:
- A. Heller
- 5 North End Road
- London
- NW11 7RJ
- Phone: 020 8455 6789
- Email: avrumi@martin-heller.com
Notes
- ↑ Yad Eliezer Website Thank you letter from Beitar community. Accessed 10 July 2015.
- ↑ B'Tselem Website Settlements. Accessed 10 July 2015.
- ↑ Charity Commission Website Charity Framework. Accessed 10 July 2015.
- ↑ Charity Commission Website Charity Overview. Accessed 10 July 2015.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 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.
- ↑ Charity Commission Website Charity Overview. Accessed 10 July 2015.
- ↑ Yad Eliezer Trust accounts, year ended 2015-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Yad Eliezer Trust accounts, year ended 2016-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Yad Eliezer Trust accounts, year ended 2017-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Yad Eliezer Trust accounts, year ended 2018-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Yad Eliezer Trust accounts, year ended 2019-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Register entry 1115426, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 1115426, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Company 05686881: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 Charity Commission, Yad Eliezer Trust (1115426): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 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-11 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 (for example "Charity reporting is up to date (39 days late)" for British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre, "(4 days late)" for British Friends of Aleh and "(11 days late)" for Urgent Projects).
- ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ 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-11 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names such as J R Gibb Charitable Trust and Boleskine Community Care).
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-11 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Yad Eliezer' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1115426 360Giving, queried 15 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-11 screening covered 386 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (GS Property Management Services, Igerville, Housefresh, Vitalina, Rochester Developments and Delapage), 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", "Fund", "Israel", "Republic") and surname-only coincidences (Cohen, Levy, Friedman, Green, Said); 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.
- ↑ American Friends Of Yad Eliezer Inc – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Yad Eliezer Usa Inc – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 15 October 2026.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Yad Eliezer" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).