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{{short description|UK Satmar girls’ school charity, Stamford Hill (281371)}}
{{Infobox organization
|name=The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust
|type=Registered charity
|founded=8 January 1981 (registered as a charity)
|registration=Charity Commission for England and Wales
|registration_id=Charity 281371
|status=Registered
}}
'''The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust''' (also styled Bais / Beis Rochel D’Satmar) is a UK unincorporated charity (no. [[281371]]). Declaration of trust 19 August 1980; registered 8 January 1981. Organisation type: Other. Ofsted is listed as another regulator. Owns or leases land. Not recognised for Gift Aid. No trading subsidiary. Trustees unpaid.<ref name="CC">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/281371 THE BAIS ROCHEL DSATMAR CHARITABLE TRUST], Charity Commission, 281371.</ref><ref name="Gov">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/281371/governing-document Governing document], Charity Commission 281371.</ref>

The charity runs a Hasidic school for pupils aged 2 to 19. Objects: religious and secular education of Jewish youth in the United Kingdom, in particular by maintaining a school or schools; and a synagogue or other place of worship. Area of benefit: national. Register “where it operates”: Hackney.<ref name="Gov"/><ref name="Where">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/281371/what-who-how-where What, who, how, where], Charity Commission 281371.</ref>

Principal address in the 2024 accounts: 51–57 Amhurst Park, London N16 5DL. Auditors: Venitt and Greaves, 115 Craven Park Road, N15 6BL.<ref name="Acc2024">The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust, Report of the Trustees and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.</ref>

== The school ==

The 2024 trustees’ report describes '''Beis Rochel D’Satmar Girls’ School''' as an independent day school for girls aged 2 to 19 in Hackney, owned and maintained by the trust “on behalf of the Satmar Chassidic community,” serving Stamford Hill and Stoke Newington. Majority Satmar; other Hasidic courts also send girls. 378 staff at 31 December 2024; none paid over £60,000. Five volunteers.<ref name="Acc2024"/><ref name="CC"/>

A separate Ofsted file, '''Beis Ruchel D’Satmar London''' (URN 137505), is at 117 Stamford Hill, N16 5RS — girls, ages listed 2–11 on the current card, 1,108 pupils, capacity 1,150. Latest standard inspection 17 June 2025: Requires Improvement. The ''Jewish Chronicle'' reported an Inadequate judgement in 2021 over missing statutory RSE, reproduction omitted from GCSE science, and a historic DfE ban on new admissions (late 2019, lifted July 2020). Do not merge the URN with the trust number without an accounts note that they are the same legal school.<ref name="Ofsted">[https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/27/137505 Beis Ruchel D'Satmar London], Ofsted, URN 137505.</ref><ref name="JC2021">Simon Rocker, [https://www.thejc.com/family-and-education/inadequate-chasidic-school-avoids-rse-yo3vqbv1 'Inadequate' Chasidic school avoids RSE], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 12 October 2021.</ref>

== Finance ==

Year to 31 December 2024: income £6,976,785 (donations and legacies £6.74m; investments / rent £240.37k); expenditure £6,963,520. Government grant income appears in some years on the register (£2.70m in 2021; £2.97m in 2023). Own-use assets about £9.65m. Funds carried at end-2023 were about £10.2m.<ref name="Fin">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/281371/financial-history Financial history], Charity Commission 281371.</ref><ref name="Acc2024"/>

{| class="wikitable"
! 
! 31/12/2020
! 31/12/2021
! 31/12/2022
! 31/12/2023
! 31/12/2024
|-
| Total gross income
| £4.65m
| £4.63m
| £4.27m
| £5.75m
| £6.98m
|-
| Total expenditure
| £4.01m
| £4.82m
| £4.52m
| £5.70m
| £6.96m
|-
| Income from government contracts
| N/A
| N/A
| N/A
| £0
| £0
|-
| Income from government grants
| N/A
| £2.70m
| N/A
| £2.97m
| N/A
|}

=== Related-party notes, 2024 accounts ===

* Childcare fees received from a trustee: £15,600 (2023: £6,500).
* Donations received from [[Beis Rochel D’Satmar Ltd]] (company [[12037637]]): £55,000. Shared management personnel.
* Donations paid to [[Talmud Torah Torah Veyirah D'Satmar London Limited]]: £653,894 (2023: £302,482). Shared management personnel.
* Supplier payments to [[Satmar Meats & Poultry Ltd]] / [[Samar Meats]]: £29,730 (2023: £18,216).<ref name="Acc2024"/>

[[Beis Rochel D’Satmar Ltd]] is a guarantee company at 26 Clapton Common, E5 9BA (child day-care SIC). PSC: [[Solomon Berkowitz]] (January 1973), from 1 December 2019.<ref name="BRLtd">[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12037637 BEIS ROCHEL D’SATMAR LTD], Companies House, 12037637.</ref>

== People ==

=== Trustees ===

{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Role
! Date of appointment
! Other trusteeships
! Reporting status of other trusteeships
|-
| [[Solomon Berkowitz]]
| Trustee
| 11 May 2020
| [[Yeitev Lev Eretz Israel Ltd]], [[Just Kidding]], [[Talmud Torah Torah Veyirah D'Satmar London Limited]]
| All received: on time
|-
| [[Abraham Schreiber]]
| Trustee
| 11 May 2020
| None on record
|
|-
| [[Victor Langberg]]
| Trustee
| ?
| None on record
|
|-
| [[Jacob Frankel]]
| Trustee
| ?
| [[Friends of Yeshiva Luzern]], [[Nextgrant Limited]], [[Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust]]
| All received: on time
|}
<ref name="beisrocheltrustees">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/281371/trustees Trustees], Charity Commission 281371.</ref>

Working identification on this project: the Satmar-school [[Abraham Schreiber]] is the Klein-line man born 1981 ([[Abraham Schreiber (born 1981)]]), not [[Abraham Schreiber]] (Rumpler, October 1979, TTD Gur / UOHC). The Commission print for this charity lists no other trusteeships against the name. Confirm on the next accounts signatory block before merging pages.<ref name="beisrocheltrustees"/>

[[Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust]] takes the name of Satmar rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum (Vayoel Moshe). [[Yeitev Lev Eretz Israel Ltd]] is a separate Satmar-titled company; “Eretz Israel” is the name, not proof of West Bank operations.

===Historic trustees===
Trustees as listed in archived snapshots of the Charity Commission register (first and last snapshot in which each name appears; not a record of actual appointment or resignation dates).
{| class="wikitable"
! Name !! First seen !! Last seen !! Snapshots listing name
|-
| [[Jacob Frankel]] || 18 February 2009 || 2 January 2019 || 4 <ref name="ARC281371_1">UK Government Web Archive, [https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20090218141006/http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ShowCharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=281371&SubsidiaryNumber=0 The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust – register entry (18 February 2009)], archived snapshot of the Charity Commission register dated 18 February 2009, accessed 14 October 2026.</ref><ref name="ARC281371_2">UK Government Web Archive, [https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20190102200815/http://beta.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=281371&subid=0 The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust – register entry (2 January 2019)], archived snapshot of the Charity Commission register dated 2 January 2019, accessed 14 October 2026.</ref>
|-
| [[J I Low]] || 18 February 2009 || 2 January 2019 || 4 <ref name="ARC281371_1" /><ref name="ARC281371_2" />
|-
| [[William Low (trustee, The Bais Rochel Dsatmar Charitable Trust)|William Low]] || 18 February 2009 || 18 February 2009 || 1 <ref name="ARC281371_1" />
|-
| [[Jacob Ostreicher]] || 18 February 2009 || 2 January 2019 || 4 <ref name="ARC281371_1" /><ref name="ARC281371_2" />
|-
| [[Israel Scher]] || 18 February 2009 || 18 February 2009 || 1 <ref name="ARC281371_1" />
|-
| [[Victor Langberg]] || 18 February 2009 || 2 January 2019 || 4 <ref name="ARC281371_1" /><ref name="ARC281371_2" />
|}

== Contact ==

:51–57 Amhurst Park  
:London N16 5DL  

Ofsted listing for Beis Ruchel D’Satmar London: 117 Stamford Hill, N16 5RS; 020 8809 9636.
==Controversies and conflicts==
*'''Filing compliance:''' All 5 annual returns and accounts on the Charity Commission record were received by their due dates, and the register states "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)".<ref name="Fin" /><ref name="CC" />
*'''Overlapping trusteeships:''' [[Jacob Frankel]] is also a trustee of [[Friends Of Yeshiva Luzern]] (1118086), [[Nextgrant Limited]] (292305), [[Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust]] (327054).<ref name="beisrocheltrustees" />

== See also ==

* [[Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)]]
* [[Satmar in the UK]]
* [[Talmud Torah Torah Veyirah D'Satmar London Limited]]
* [[Just Kidding]]
* [[Samar Meats]]
* [[Abraham Schreiber (born 1981)]]
* [[Solomon Berkowitz]]
* [[Jewish Schools in the UK]]

== External links ==

* [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/281371 Charity Commission]
* [https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/27/137505 Ofsted, URN 137505]

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Orthodox Jewish charities]]
[[Category:Satmar]]
[[Category:Stamford Hill]]
[[Category:Independent schools]]
[[Category:Charities]]
[[Category:Jewish charities in the United Kingdom]]