Yeshivas Beis Dovid
Salford charitable company funding a yeshiva of the same name
| Yeshivas Beis Dovid
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2020-01-28 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1187631; company 12036014 |
| Headquarters | 37C Waterpark Road, Salford, M7 4FT |
| Area served | Israel |
| Key people | Benjamin Jacob Cohen (chair) |
Yeshivas Beis Dovid is a charitable company (12036014) incorporated on 6 June 2019 and registered on 28 January 2020; Israel is its only register area.[1] Its registered office is 37c Waterpark Road, Salford M7 4FT, and its trustees are Y Fulda, B J Cohen and Mrs M Mozes (PDF p.3–4).[2] The register lists Benjamin Jacob Cohen (chair), Yehoshua Fulda and Miriam Fulda.[1] In the year to 30 June 2025 donations were £278,683 (2024: £435,541) and spending £289,416; free reserves were £2,401, and "All other office costs are borne by the trustees" (PDF p.6).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AROUND THE WORLD IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING AWARDING TO SUCH PERSONS SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS, OR BY GRANTS TO CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORLDWIDE THAT PROVIDE EDUCATION"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "as described in the charity objects"[1]
Register classifications: Education/training.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Jacob Cohen | 2019-11-14 | Yes | Dnc C.i.o. (1183044); Our Youth Matter Ltd (1204779) |
| Yehoshua Fulda | 2019-11-14 | — | |
| MIRIAM Fulda | 2019-11-14 | UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd (1140596) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-06 | Yehoshua Fulda (from 14 November 2019); Benjamin Jacob Cohen (chair) (from 14 November 2019) – also trustee of Kinyan Hatorah UK, Dnc C.i.o.; Miriam Mozes (from 14 November 2019) – also trustee of UK Friends of Tiferes Chaim Ltd | [3] |
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 3 current and former officers of the charitable company (12036014), 3 of them active.[4]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-30 | £246,832 | £254,646 |
| 2022-06-30 | £447,336 | £447,753 |
| 2023-06-30 | £492,201 | £441,766 |
| 2024-06-30 | £435,541 | £477,382 |
| 2025-06-30 | £278,683 | £289,416 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants to Yeshivas Beis Dovid £208,000 (2024: £405,310), with £74,667 spent directly on educational activity; the yeshiva's location is not stated (PDF p.14).[2]
Israeli partners
Yeshivas Beis Dovid; no address is given.[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 |
|---|---|
| The yeshiva's location is not stated. | 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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]
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.[13]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[14]
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.[15]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[16]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Yeshivas Beis Dovid" returned 0 contributions in total.[17]
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 "Recently registered" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]
See also
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 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Charity Commission, Yeshivas Beis Dovid (1187631): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1187631, full print (capture of 20210106) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Company 12036014: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 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-10 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; alerts were shown only for Solev Co Limited (254623) and Lehachyos (1170523).
- ↑ 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-10 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-10 charity name returned no relevant result; the search for "Kosov" returned only an unrelated removed charity, Kosova Support Group, showing that the API was answering).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Beis Dovid' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1187631 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-10 screening covered 337 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 (including Pinlee Investments, Calvert Estates, Kendleville, Pidom Export, Faircastle, Hatzlocho, Localtrent, Ardina, Ridgesave, Portford, Wilkincroft and Pandor Estates), and trustees, lenders, donor companies 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 company words ("Services Limited" in the name of a corporate secretary) and surname-only coincidences; 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 "Beis Dovid" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).