Israel Charity Bot: New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 13)

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New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 13)

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{{short description|'''Stamford Hill trust with negative funds that names no grantees'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Zichron Nachum (Europe) Trust
| type = Other
| registration_id = Registered charity 1085059
| founded = 2001-02-16 (registered)
| headquarters = London N16
| area_served = Hackney, Israel
| revenue = £193,877 (year to 2025-12-31)
}}

'''[[Zichron Nachum (Europe) Trust]]''' was registered on 16 February 2001; 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.</ref> Its trustees are [[Asher Brecher]], [[Samuel Warhaftig]] and [[Shlomo Yankovitch]], with a principal address in London N16 (PDF p.3).<ref name="EXTRACT" /><ref name="ACC">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/3978128/accounts-and-annual-returns Zichron Nachum (Europe) Trust (1085059): accounts and annual returns] ''Register of Charities''; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).</ref> Its objects are the Orthodox Jewish religion and education, education in general and the relief of poverty, sickness and infirmity (PDF p.4). In the year to 31 December 2025 donations were £193,877 and expenditure £194,623, leaving funds of minus £695 and cash of £205 (PDF p.7–8).<ref name="ACC" />

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION2) THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH OF THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE INCLUDING PAYMENTS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION OR THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION BY WAY OF GIFT OR LOAN (WITH OR WITHOUT INTEREST) TO INDIVIDUAL PERSONS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSONS QUALIFY AS OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES IN THE COLLEGE PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FOR THE PERIOD OF 21 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THIS DEED INSTEAD OF APPLYING THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN ANY YEAR ACCUMULATE ALL OR ANY PART OF SUCH INCOME AT COMPOUND INTEREST BY INVESTING THE SAME AND THE RESULTING INCOME IN ANY OF THE AUTHORISED INVESTMENTS AND HOLD THE SAME AS AN ACCRETION TO AND AS PART OF THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THEIR RIGHT TO APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF SUCH ACCUMULATED INCOME IN ANY SUBSEQUENT YEAR AS IF THE SAME WERE INCOME OF THE CHARITY ARISING IN THE THEN CURRENT YEAR"<ref name="EXTRACT" />

The register describes its activities as: "grants in support of Jewish religios education, and promotion of orthodox Jewish religion"<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: Education/training, 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 Zichron Nachum (Europe) Trust (register, October 2026)
! Trustee !! Appointed !! Chair !! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[Asher Brecher]] || not recorded || || [[Merkaz Hatorah Limited]] (1181702); [[Nezer Hatalmud]] (1204317)
|-
| [[Samuel Warhaftig]] || not recorded || || [[Shalheves]] (1155424)
|-
| [[Shlomo Yankovitch]] || not recorded || || —
|}

=== Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees shown in archived register pages
! Capture date !! Trustees listed !! Source
|-
| 2021-01-14 || [[Samuel Warhaftig]] – also trustee of [[Shalheves]], [[Friends of Beth Abraham (Slonim) Limited]]; [[Shlomo Yankovitch]]; [[Asher Brecher]] – also trustee of [[Merkaz Hatorah Limited]] || <ref name="u2c17863c">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210114014502/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/3978128/full-print Register entry 1085059, full print (capture of 20210114)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|}

Asher Brecher is also a register trustee of Merkaz Hatorah Limited (1181702) and Nezer Hatalmud (1204317); Samuel Warhaftig of Shalheves (1155424).<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2021-12-31 || £136,100 || £136,658
|-
| 2022-12-31 || £180,080 || £170,271
|-
| 2023-12-31 || £161,827 || £171,661
|-
| 2024-12-31 || £156,739 || £156,264
|-
| 2025-12-31 || £193,877 || £194,623
|}
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 30/11/2014<ref name="uf487645a">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200103113904/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001085059_AC_20141130_E_C.PDF Zichron Nachum (Europe) Trust accounts, year ended 2014-11-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200103).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016<ref name="u41d00cfd">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200103115041/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001085059_AC_20161231_E_C.PDF Zichron Nachum (Europe) Trust accounts, year ended 2016-12-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200103).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017<ref name="u53721957">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200103115947/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001085059_AC_20171231_E_C.PDF Zichron Nachum (Europe) Trust accounts, year ended 2017-12-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200103).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018<ref name="uafb73a4d">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200103115229/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001085059_AC_20181231_E_C.PDF Zichron Nachum (Europe) Trust accounts, year ended 2018-12-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200103).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2019<ref name="u4c399854">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200702230306/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends59/0001085059_AC_20191231_E_C.PDF Zichron Nachum (Europe) Trust accounts, year ended 2019-12-31] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200702).</ref>

== Funding in Israel ==
* FY2025 charitable expenditure ("General Fund") £193,723; the accounts name no recipients and the accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.7).<ref name="ACC" /> Israel appears only as a register area of operation.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

=== Israeli partners ===
Not named.<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
|-
| No place 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-13 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The 22 registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd, Trumfold Limited and The Naaman Trust showed "Removed charity".</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).</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 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").</ref>
* '''Negative funds and no activity report.''' Funds were negative at the end of 2025 (–£695) and 2023 (–£424); the trustees' report describes no activities beyond the accounts and refers to "the company" although the charity is a trust (PDF p.4, 7).<ref name="ACC" />

== 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-13 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=Ridgesave&pageNumber=1 Register of charities search API] ''CCNI'', searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-13 charity names returned zero results, except "J O Charitable", which returned only unrelated Northern Irish charities).</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="u8aaf6946">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=Zichron%20Nachum The Gazette: notices matching 'Zichron Nachum'] ''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="ueef39570">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-1085059/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1085059] ''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-13 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the six charitable companies (including the removed Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd and Trumfold Limited), related companies named in the accounts (Cromwell Corporate Protector Limited, Salmino Limited, Bullion Properties Limited, Crewpride Limited, Wilkincroft Ltd and others), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts and fetched partner pages 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", "Ltd", "Foundation") and surname-only coincidences (Weiss, Friedman, Kish, Silver, James, Seal, Potash); 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>

=== US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer) ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Organisation !! EIN !! Latest filing year !! Revenue (US$) !! Expenses (US$)
|-
| [[American Friends Of Zichron Nachum]]<ref name="ud675f8b4">[https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/472626018 American Friends Of Zichron Nachum – Nonprofit Explorer] ''ProPublica'', viewed 15 October 2026.</ref> || 472626018 || 2019 || 0 || 0
|}
These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

=== Parliament ===
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Zichron Nachum" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22Zichron%20Nachum%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Zichron Nachum"] ''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="u2c17863c" />

== See also ==

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

==Notes==
<references/>

[[Category:Orthodox Jewish charities]]
[[Category:Jewish charities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Charities based in London]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Stamford Hill]]
[[Category:Charities]]

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