Yamen Edward Nissim Foundation
Mayfair charitable company funded by companies controlled by a trustee; it gave £91,874 in 2024/25 to unnamed charities
| Yamen Edward Nissim Foundation
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2017-12-06 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1176117; company 10824802 |
| Headquarters | 3RD Floor, 107 Jermyn Street, London |
| Area served | Throughout England, Israel |
| Key people | David Yamin-Joseph (chair) |
The Yamen Edward Nissim Foundation is a charitable company (10824802) registered as a charity on 6 December 2017; it supports charities and individuals in England and Wales, particularly in central and greater London, for the relief of poverty and for health and wellbeing, including organisations focusing on people of the Jewish faith, and its register areas are England and Israel (PDF p.4).[1][2] The trustees are David Yamin-Joseph (chair), Yael Rebecca Salem and Veerasingham Ganeshan Jeyabavan; the registered office is 107 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y (PDF p.3).[1][2] In the year to 31 July 2025 income was £87,475 and grants £91,874; unexpended funds were £1,398 (PDF p.4, 8–9).[2] The examiner is Stephen Iseman FCA of Sopher + Co LLP (14 April 2026).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE OR CARRY OUT SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The objectives of the Foundation are to support and fund charities and individuals within England & Wales,particularly in the Central & Greater London area, primarily for the relief of poverty and to promote health andwellbeing. This will include (but shall by no means be limited to) benefiting organisations which choose to focustheir charitable activities on individuals of the Jewish faith."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Yamin-Joseph | 2017-06-19 | Yes | Friends of Ohr Aaron, David Cardozo Academy (1139439); J-Tv the Global Jewish Channel (1169364) |
| Yael Rebecca Salem | 2017-06-19 | Friends of Ohr Aaron, David Cardozo Academy (1139439) | |
| Veerasingham Ganeshan Jeyabavan | 2017-06-19 | Friends of Ohr Aaron, David Cardozo Academy (1139439) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-15 | Yael Rebecca Salem (from 19 June 2017) – also trustee of Friends of Ohr Aaron, David Cardozo Academy; David Yamin-Joseph (chair) (from 19 June 2017) – also trustee of J-Tv the Global Jewish Channel, Friends of Ohr Aaron, David Cardozo Academy; Veerasingham Ganeshan Jeyabavan (from 19 June 2017) – also trustee of Friends of Ohr Aaron, David Cardozo Academy | [3] |
At Companies House, all three directors were appointed on 19 June 2017; David Yamin-Joseph is recorded as Italian.[4]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 3 current and former officers of the charitable company (10824802), 3 of them active.[5]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-31 | £163,907 | £150,041 |
| 2022-07-31 | £241,544 | £243,162 |
| 2023-07-31 | £128,371 | £131,399 |
| 2024-07-31 | £114,000 | £118,736 |
| 2025-07-31 | £87,475 | £92,354 |
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 31/07/2018[6]
Funding in Israel
- No spending in Israel is identified; the objects are confined to England and Wales and the grants are not itemised (PDF p.4, 12).[2] Israel is a register area.[1]
Israeli partners
No partner is named.[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.
| 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;[7] 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.[8][9][10][11] 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.[12]
- Related-party donations exceed income. The accounts say donations of £88,500 came "from companies which are controlled or jointly controlled by a Trustee", more than the total income of £87,475 that they report (PDF p.5, 8).[2]
- Recipients not named. The £91,874 of grants is not itemised; the report describes the charity both as a company limited by guarantee and as "set up by a Trust deed" (PDF p.5, 12).[2]
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).[13] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[14]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[15]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[16]
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.[17]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[18]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Yamen Edward Nissim Foundation", "Yamen Edward Nissim" returned 0 contributions in total.[19]
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".[3]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, Yamen Edward Nissim Foundation (1176117): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1176117, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Companies House, THE YAMEN EDWARD NISSIM FOUNDATION (10824802) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Company 10824802: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Yamen Edward Nissim Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-07-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ 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-18 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Sixteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the Porter Foundation showed "up to date (1 day late)", The Persian Hebrew Community "up to date (48 days late)", Bernard Kahn Charitable Trust "up to date (33 days late)" and the Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; Jassiane Limited showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 623 days"; The Friends of Birzeit University, The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls and John Hagee Ministries 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-18 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-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Yamen Edward Nissim' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1176117 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-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries 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 Weiss, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Yamen Edward Nissim" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).