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{{short description|'''UK trust for an Israeli girls' school, removed from the register in 2013 as ceased to exist'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls
| type = Other (removed)
| registration_id = Registered charity 328648
| founded = 1990-05-24 (registered)
| dissolved = 2013-02-16 (removed from the register: Ceased to exist)
| area_served = Israel
| revenue = £92,320 (year to 2005-05-31)
}}

'''[[Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls|The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls]]''' was a trust established by a declaration of trust of 11 May 1990 and registered on 24 May 1990; its object was the "FURTHERANCE OF THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE OR HACHAIM EDUCATIONAL CENTRE FOR GIRLS IN ISRAEL", and Israel was its only register area.<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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.</ref> Its last reported accounts, for the year to 31 May 2005, showed income of £92,320 and expenditure of £93,081.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> A 2010 archived register page named the trustees as [[Albert Bendahan]] and [[Benno Salem]]. The charity was removed on 16 February 2013 ("Ceased to exist").<ref name="FP_ORH">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/328648/full-print The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls (328648): full print] ''Register of Charities'', retrieved 16 October 2026 ("24 May 1990: Standard registration 16 February 2013: Removed (Ceased to exist)").</ref>

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "FURTHERANCE OF THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE OR HACHAIM EDUCATIONAL CENTRE FOR GIRLS IN ISRAEL."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: Education/training, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

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

== Trustees ==
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

=== Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees shown in archived register pages
! Capture date !! Trustees listed !! Source
|-
| 2010-07-16 || [[Albert Bendahan]]; [[Benno Salem]] || <ref name="u35b0d59b">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100716024642/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/SHOWCHARITY/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=328648&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 328648, contact and trustees (capture of 20100716)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|}

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2005-05-31 || £92,320 || £93,081 (latest figures held in the charity record; no annual-return history in the extract)
|}
Source: register annual-return history.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Funding in Israel ==
* No accounts were found. The last register figures (year to 31 May 2005) show income of £92,320 and expenditure of £93,081; the objects concern the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls in Israel.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

=== Israeli partners ===
The Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls, "in Israel" (no town given).<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== 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
|-
| The objects say only that the centre is "in Israel"; no place is named.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> || Not established
|}

'''Support for the IDF:''' No IDF or military funding is recorded; no accounts were found.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Controversies and regulatory action ==
* No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.<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).</ref><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 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").</ref> The register shows it as removed, giving the reason "Ceased to exist".<ref name="FP_ORH" />

== 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; keyword search of the 25 batch-18 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.</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=Kishorit&pageNumber=1 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).</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="u716a51b6">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Or%20Hachaim The Gazette: notices matching 'Or Hachaim'] ''The Gazette'', searched 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== Grants recorded by 360Giving ===
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.<ref name="u12badc48">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-328648/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-328648] ''360Giving'', queried 16 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.<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-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.</ref>

=== Land and property ===
The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).<ref name="EXTRACT" /> No title registers were purchased.<ref name="HLRWEB">[[HM Land Registry]], [https://search-property-information.service.gov.uk/ 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 [[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 "Or Hachaim Educational Centre", "Or Hachaim" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22Or%20Hachaim%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Or Hachaim"] ''Hansard'', queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).</ref>

== Web archive ==

The [[UK Government Web Archive]] holds 1 archived [[Charity Commission]] register page used in this profile (cited in the sections above).
The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".<ref name="u683423a9">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210112011712/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/328648/full-print Register entry 328648, full print (capture of 20210112)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>

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

==Notes==
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[[Category:Jewish charities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Defunct charities based in England]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Charities]]