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{{short description|'''Hackney trust supporting the Edah HaChareidis community in Jerusalem, run by a sole trustee with negative funds'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem
| type = Other
| registration_id = Registered charity 1096897
| founded = 2003-04-08 (registered)
| headquarters = London N16
| area_served = Hackney, Israel
| revenue = £214,547 (year to 2024-03-31)
| logo = [[File:Kikar_Zupnick_Jerusalem_2012.jpg|200px]]
| caption = Kikar Zupnick, Jerusalem (2012), described on Wikimedia Commons as the headquarters of the Edah HaChareidis. The trust's FY2025 direct charitable spending of £318,722 was for religious and poverty purposes "in Jerusalem"; no recipient is named
}}

'''[[Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem]]''' was registered on 8 April 2003; register areas are Hackney and Israel.<ref name="EXTRACT">[[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.</ref> Its aims are "advancement of the orthodox Jewish religion among members of the Jewish faith in Jerusalem" and "assisting those in poverty and financial hardship in Jersusalem [sic]" (PDF p.3). During the year to 31 March 2025 it had a sole trustee, [[Eliezer Shlesinger]], with an address in London N16 (PDF p.3);<ref name="ACC">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3996113/accounts-and-annual-returns Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem (1096897): accounts and annual returns] ''Register of Charities''; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).</ref> the register added [[Solomon Schlesinger]] as a trustee on 13 May 2026.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> Income was £315,255 (2024: £214,547), charitable spending £319,857 and funds negative at £(34,419) (PDF p.6).<ref name="ACC" />

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "1.THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION AMONG MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN JERUSALEM AND2.THE RELIEF OF THE POOR FEEBLE AND INFIRM IN THAT CITY"<ref name="EXTRACT" />

The register describes its activities as: "advancement of religion and relief of poverty in jerusalem"<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: Religious Activities.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Hackney, Israel.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Trustees ==
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:<ref name="EXTRACT" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Trustees of Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem (register, October 2026)
! Trustee !! Appointed !! Chair !! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[Eliezer Shlesinger]] || 2015-07-14 ||  || —
|-
| [[Solomon Schlesinger]] || 2026-05-13 ||  || —
|}

=== Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees shown in archived register pages
! Capture date !! Trustees listed !! Source
|-
| 2021-01-15 || [[Eliezer Shlesinger]] (from 14 July 2015); [[Solomon Schlesinger]] || <ref name="uf1f0dd2e">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210115203942/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/3996113/full-print Register entry 1096897, full print (capture of 20210115)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|}

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2021-03-31 || £413,160 || £446,911
|-
| 2022-03-31 || £299,533 || £302,056
|-
| 2023-03-31 || £196,398 || £193,081
|-
| 2024-03-31 || £214,547 || £220,218
|}
Source: register annual-return history.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

=== Archived accounts ===
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the [[UK Government Web Archive]]:
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014<ref name="u814db889">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200104052311/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends97/0001096897_AC_20140331_E_C.PDF Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2014-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200104).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015<ref name="u80733f37">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200104050812/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends97/0001096897_AC_20150331_E_C.PDF Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2015-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200104).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016<ref name="u87aa091b">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200104051658/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends97/0001096897_AC_20160331_E_C.PDF Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2016-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200104).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017<ref name="u1c9c2c76">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200104051657/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends97/0001096897_AC_20170331_E_C.PDF Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2017-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200104).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018<ref name="ua5d41f6c">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200104052310/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends97/0001096897_AC_20180331_E_C.PDF Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2018-03-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200104).</ref>

== Funding in Israel ==
* FY2025 direct charitable activities £318,722 for religious and poverty purposes "in Jerusalem"; no recipients or amounts per recipient are given (PDF p.3, 9).<ref name="ACC" />

=== Israeli partners ===
The Edah HaChareidis community in Jerusalem, by name only; no institution or address is given.<ref name="ACC" />

== 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.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
! Finding !! Confidence
|-
| Jerusalem, undifferentiated – no neighbourhood or institution is named.<ref name="ACC" /> || Not established
|}

'''Support for the IDF:''' No IDF or military funding is stated.<ref name="ACC" />

== 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;<ref name="ALERTS">[[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-12 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 – "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" for 22 charities, "Removed charity" for Mifal Tzedukas and Keren Yaacov Limited, and "Charity reporting is up to date (256 days late)" for Friends of Eidah Chareidis Orthodox Council of Jerusalem.</ref> 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.<ref name="CC_CHEQUE1">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/serious-concerns-over-use-of-22-million-triggers-investigation-by-charity-regulator Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator] ''GOV.UK'', 14 May 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE2">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-opens-next-phase-of-investigation-into-105-charities-connected-to-company-cashing-cheques Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques] ''GOV.UK'', 1 September 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE3">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-announces-next-charities-to-be-investigated-as-part-of-inquiry-connected-to-company-cashing-cheques Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques] ''GOV.UK'', 4 December 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE4">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-concludes-investigation-into-4-charities-as-class-inquiry-continues Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues] ''GOV.UK'', 9 September 2026, with [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-the-results-of-a-class-inquiry/statement-of-the-results-of-a-class-inquiry Statement of the results of a class inquiry] (same date), both retrieved 15 October 2026.</ref> 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.<ref name="CC_SETTLE">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/charity-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-charities-working-in-illegal-israeli-settlements 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").</ref>
* '''Sole trustee, negative funds and bank borrowing.''' "The trustee presents his report"; funds were negative at £(34,419) (2024: £(29,817)) and bank loans totalled £38,955 (£2,878 and £36,077), with interest of £475 (PDF p.3, 6, 9–10).<ref name="ACC" />
* '''Recipients not named.''' Direct charitable spending of £318,722 is not broken down by recipient (PDF p.9).<ref name="ACC" />
* '''Late filing.''' The FY2024 return was received on 17 February 2025, 17 days after its 31 January deadline;<ref name="EXTRACT" /> the register overview describes the latest filing as "256 days late".<ref name="ALERTS" />

== Other registers and records ==
=== Scotland and Northern Ireland ===
No entry was found on the [[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator|Scottish Charity Register]] for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).<ref name="OSCR">[[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator]], [https://www.oscr.org.uk/download/charity-register Scottish Charity Register download] ''OSCR'', export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-12 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names: Madrasatul Imam Mohammad Zakariya and Harris Kaufman Trust).</ref> No entry was found on the [[Charity Commission for Northern Ireland]] register (API name searches returned zero results).<ref name="CCNI">[[Charity Commission for Northern Ireland]], [https://www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/api/charity-search/results?searchText=Alyn&pageNumber=1 Register of charities search API] ''CCNI'', searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-12 charity names returned zero results).</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="ub44cf538">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Eidah%20Chareidis The Gazette: notices matching 'Eidah Chareidis'] ''The Gazette'', searched 15 October 2026.</ref>

=== Grants recorded by 360Giving ===
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.<ref name="uaf3d3e5e">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-1096897/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1096897] ''360Giving'', queried 15 October 2026.</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="SANC">[[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]], ''UK Sanctions List'' (CSV); [[Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation]], ''Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets'' (ConList.csv). Batch-12 screening covered 390 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived accounts (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the six charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (Millage Limited, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (United Kingdom) Limited and Ezer Bekovoid Limited), 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", "Limited", "Foundation", "Society", "International") and surname-only coincidences (Green, Anderson, Weiss, Frank, Grace, Friedman, Fox, Ward); lists downloaded October 2026.</ref>

=== Land and property ===
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> No title registers were purchased; the [[HM Land Registry]] interactive search blocked automated access.<ref name="HLRWEB">[[HM Land Registry]], [https://search-property-information.service.gov.uk/ Search for land and property information] ''GOV.UK'' – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free [[Corporate and Commercial Ownership Data|CCOD]] / [[Overseas Companies Ownership Data|OCOD]] datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.</ref>

=== Parliament ===
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Eidah Chareidis", "Edah Haredit", "Edah HaChareidis" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22Eidah%20Chareidis%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Eidah Chareidis"] ''Hansard'', queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).</ref>

== 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".<ref name="uf1f0dd2e" />

== See also ==

== External links ==
* No current official website.

==Notes==
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[[Category:Hasidic Judaism in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Orthodox Jewish charities]]
[[Category:Jewish charities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Hackney]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Haredi Judaism]]
[[Category:Jerusalem]]
[[Category:Charities]]