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[[Friends of Yad Sarah UK]] (Charity number: 294801) is a UK based charity raising funds fo [[Yad Sarah]] based in 'Israel', but also operating a a myriad of illegal settlements.
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{{short description|UK fundraising trust (294801) for Yad Sarah in 'Israel', including illegal settlement branches}}
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{{Infobox organization
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| name          = Friends of Yad Sarah
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| logo = [[File:Imgpsh fullsize anim.png]]
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| type          = Unincorporated charitable trust
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| registration_id = Charity 294801
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| founded        = Trust deed 6 November 1985; registered 16 July 1986
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| location      = Harcourt House, 341 Regents Park Road, London N3 1DP
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| area_served    = 'Israel' (registered area of operation)
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| purpose        = To raise funds for [[Yad Sarah]]
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| key_people    = [[S. D. Kibel]]; [[Sam Pearlman]]; [[Adam Max Caplin]]; [[Alistair Jay Marks]]
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| website        = [https://www.yadsarah.org.uk yadsarah.org.uk]
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| remarks = Supports multiple illegal settlements on stolen land.
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}}
  
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Yad Sarah operates in the settlements of [[Ariel]], [[Betar Illit]], Efrat, Givat Ze’ev, Har Homa, [[Kiryat Arba]], Kiryat Sefer, [[Ma’ale Adumim]], Ma’ale Ephraim, Mevo Horon, Modi’in, Neve Yaakov, Pisgat Ze’ev, Psagot, Halamish, Ramot and Ramat Shlomo.<ref>‘[https://web.archive.org/web/20170825073941/http://www.yadsarah.org.il/Branches/?nodeId=495 Branches]’, Yad Sarah.  Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 25 August 2017. </ref>
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'''Friends of Yad Sarah''' (Charity Commission number 294801; often styled '''Friends of Yad Sarah UK''') is an unincorporated English charitable trust. Its registered activity is to raise funds for [[Yad Sarah]], the Israeli volunteer organisation that lends medical and rehabilitative equipment and runs homecare services.<ref name="CC">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/294801 FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH], Charity Commission, 294801.</ref>
  
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==Notes==
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The UK trust does not itself run clinics. Money raised in Britain is granted to Yad Sarah in Israel. Yad Sarah’s own branch map has included equipment-lending points inside Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem as well as inside the Green Line.<ref name="Branches">‘[https://web.archive.org/web/20170825073941/http://www.yadsarah.org.il/Branches/?nodeId=495 Branches]’, Yad Sarah, Internet Archive capture 25 August 2017.</ref>
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It is distinct from the New York corporation '''[[Friends of Yad Sarah, Inc.]]''' (EIN 13-3106175), which raises funds in the United States and represents Yad Sarah at the UN.<ref name="USFYS">[https://friendsofyadsarah.org/about-us?id=24 About Us], Friends of Yad Sarah, Inc.</ref>
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== History and objects ==
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The governing document is a trust deed dated 6 November 1985. The charity was entered on the Register of Charities on 16 July 1986.<ref name="Fundraiso">[https://www.fundraiso.com/en/organisations/friends-of-yad-sarah FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH], Fundraiso (Charity Commission extract: trust deed 6 November 1985).</ref><ref name="NGO">[https://ngoexplorer.org/charity/294801 Friends of Yad Sarah], NGO Explorer.</ref>
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Registered objects: the furtherance of the charitable purposes of the organisation known as Yad Sarah, and subject thereto such other charitable purposes as the trustees determine.<ref name="Fundraiso"/> The Commission activity line is: “To raise funds for Yad Sarah, a charitable organisation in Israel, which lends medical and rehabilitative equipment free of charge as well as providing a variety of homecare support services.” Area of operation on the register: Israel.<ref name="CC"/>
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The 2020 trustees’ report described the same purpose and recorded donations of £731,937 that year and grants to Yad Sarah in Israel of £554,000 (2019: donations £366,803; grants £223,251). The charity is unincorporated. Principal address then, and still used on aggregator listings: Harcourt House, 341 Regents Park Road, London N3 1DP. Independent examiner: David Passey, Greenford.<ref name="Acc2020">Friends of Yad Sarah, Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2020, Charity Commission accounts file.</ref>
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== Yad Sarah ==
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[[Yad Sarah]] (Hebrew: “Memorial to Sarah”) was founded in Jerusalem in 1976 by [[Uri Lupolianski]] (1951–2026), later the first Haredi mayor of Jerusalem (2003–2008). It began as a household ''gemach'' lending vaporizers and grew into a national volunteer network. It is named for Lupolianski’s grandmother, killed in the Holocaust. The organisation says it operates 120-plus branches and several thousand volunteers, lending wheelchairs, beds, oxygen equipment and other short-term medical kit, and running emergency call lines, accessible transport and day-rehabilitation centres. It received the Israel Prize in 1994 and consultative status with UN ECOSOC in 2005. It states that it takes no ongoing Israeli government grant and is funded by donations, most of them raised inside Israel.<ref name="WPYS">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yad_Sarah Yad Sarah], Wikipedia.</ref><ref name="WPUri">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Lupolianski Uri Lupolianski], Wikipedia.</ref>
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Headquarters: Yad Sarah House, 124 Herzl Boulevard, Jerusalem.<ref name="WPYS"/>
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=== Settlement branches ===
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Yad Sarah presents itself as serving “every corner of Israel.” Its published branch list has included lending points in settlements in the occupied West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem. An August 2017 capture of the organisation’s own branches page named:<ref name="Branches"/>
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[[Ariel]], [[Betar Illit]], Efrat, [[Givat Ze’ev]], Har Homa, [[Kiryat Arba]], Kiryat Sefer (Modi’in Illit), [[Ma’ale Adumim]], Ma’ale Ephraim, Mevo Horon, Modi’in, Neve Yaakov, Pisgat Ze’ev, Psagot, Halamish (Neve Tzuf), Ramot and Ramat Shlomo.
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Those sites sit beyond the 1949 Armistice Line. Israeli civilian settlements in occupied territory are illegal under international humanitarian law (Fourth Geneva Convention, art. 49(6); UN Security Council resolution 2334). UK grants to Yad Sarah therefore support an organisation whose service map includes the settlement infrastructure, even where individual grants are not earmarked branch by branch. Yad Sarah’s own social channels have separately announced a centre in [[Ma’ale Adumim]].<ref name="Branches"/>
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The UK register does not itemise which Yad Sarah branches receive Friends of Yad Sarah money.
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== People ==
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=== Current trustees ===
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Four trustees on the Charity Commission card:<ref name="CCTrus">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/294801/trustees Trustees], Friends of Yad Sarah, Charity Commission.</ref>
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Name
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! Appointed
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! Other Commission trusteeships on the card
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|-
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| [[S. D. Kibel]] (Mr S D Kibel)
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| (long-serving; no appointment date on the live card)
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| None on record
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|-
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| [[Sam Pearlman]] (S. D. Pearlman)
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| 16 February 2017
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| [[The Joseph and Sarah Pearlman Jewish Charitable Trust]] (232082)
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|-
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| [[Adam Max Caplin]]
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| 5 December 2019
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| None on record
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|-
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| [[Alistair Jay Marks]]
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| 31 March 2022
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| None on record
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|}
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No trustee remuneration is recorded. The 2020 report said none of the trustees had a beneficial interest in the charity.<ref name="Acc2020"/>
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=== Former trustees (from the 2020 accounts) ===
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* [[Anthony Yadgaroff]] — resigned 12 July 2019
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* Mrs A. Zinkin — resigned 12 November 2019
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* [[L. F. Harding]] — still on the board at 30 June 2020 / 8 December 2020 sign-off; not on the later four-trustee card<ref name="Acc2020"/>
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== Finances ==
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Charity Commission headline figures, years ended 30 June:<ref name="CCFin">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/294801/financial-history Financial history], Friends of Yad Sarah, Charity Commission.</ref>
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Year ended 30 June
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! Income
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! Expenditure
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|-
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| 2025
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| £418,558
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| £404,486
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|-
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| 2024
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| £599,347
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| £612,007
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|-
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| 2023
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| £608,160
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| £586,390
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|-
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| 2022
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| £531,410
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| £536,110
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|-
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| 2021
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| £258,210
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| £248,850
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|}
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Almost all expenditure is grants onward to Yad Sarah plus a thin cost of generating funds. There is no trading subsidiary and no staff pay band above £60,000 on the register card.<ref name="CC"/>
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== UK funders ==
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UK grant-makers named as donors to Friends of Yad Sarah or to Yad Sarah in published trust lists include:<ref name="Funders">Donor lists compiled from published accounts of the named UK trusts, including the [[Schreiber Charitable Trust]] notes for years ended 5 April 2021–2022.</ref>
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* [[A. M. Charitable Trust]]
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* [[David and Ruth Lewis Family Charitable Trust]]
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* [[Denise Cohen Charitable Trust]]
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* [[Lawson Beckman Charitable Trust]]
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* [[R and S Cohen Foundation]]
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* [[Schreiber Charitable Trust]]
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* [[Sheila and Denis Cohen Charitable Trust]]
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* [[The Locker Foundation]]
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* [[The Phillips & Rubens Charitable Trust]]
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The [[Schreiber Charitable Trust]] (264735, Wembley — the Chaim / [[David Abraham Schreiber]] furniture-family trust, not the Stamford Hill Midos line) named Friends of Yad Sarah among institutions receiving grants in its 2021–22 notes, together with [[Torah Live UK]], [[UK Toremet Ltd]], [[The Work Avenue Foundation]] and [[Aish Hatorah UK Ltd]]. Those notes do not print a line amount for Yad Sarah.<ref name="Funders"/>
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=== Listed as Funders/Patrons ===
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Patrons of Friends of Yad Sarah UK:{{cite web |url=https://yadsarah.org.uk/our-patrons/ |title=Our Patrons |publisher=Friends of Yad Sarah UK |access-date=25 September 2026}}
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[[The Leo and Betty Gruss Charitable Trust]] | [[Kirsh Foundation]] | [[The Maurice Ezra Bekhor Charitable Fund]] | [[Elizabeth and George Gatty]] | [[Harbour Charitable Trust]] | [[Locker Foundation]] | [[Loftus Charitable Trust]] | [[Dyna & Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust]] | [[Esher House Charitable Trust]] | [[Park Lane Charitable Trust]] | [[The Goldstein Family]] | [[Stewart Roden]] | [[Steinberg Family Charitable Trust]] | [[Lois Peltz]] | [[Wolfson Foundation]] | [[Mr and Mrs Charles Wigoder]] ([[Wigoder Family Foundation]]) | [[Cecil & Hilda Lewis Charitable Trust]] | [[Archie Sherman Cardiff Foundation]] | [[Nigel Gee Charitable Trust]] | [[The Denholme Charitable Trust]] | [[The Doughty Charitable Trust]]
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== Related bodies ==
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* [[Yad Sarah]] — Israeli operating NGO
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* [[Friends of Yad Sarah, Inc.]] — US 501(c)(3), New York
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* Canadian Friends of Yad Sarah and other national “Friends” chapters
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* [[Schreiber Charitable Trust]]
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* [[Uri Lupolianski]]
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== Contact ==
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: Harcourt House 
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: 341 Regents Park Road 
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: London N3 1DP 
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Website listed on aggregator files: [https://www.yadsarah.org.uk www.yadsarah.org.uk]<ref name="TG">[https://www.totalgiving.co.uk/charity/friends-of-yad-sarah Friends Of Yad Sarah], TotalGiving.</ref>
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== See also ==
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* [[Israeli settlement]]
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* [[British Jewish charities investigated by the Charity Commission]]
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* [[Schreiber Charitable Trust]]
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* [[Friends of Nahalat Moshe]]
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== External links ==
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* [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/294801 Charity Commission file]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20170825073941/http://www.yadsarah.org.il/Branches/?nodeId=495 Yad Sarah branches (archived 2017)]
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== Notes ==
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<references />
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[[Category:Charities based in London]]
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[[Category:Israel]]
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[[Category:Israeli settlements]]
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[[Category:Organisations with links to Israel]]
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[[Category:Jewish charities of the United Kingdom]]

Latest revision as of 10:07, 25 September 2026

UK fundraising trust (294801) for Yad Sarah in 'Israel', including illegal settlement branches

Friends of Yad Sarah
Type Unincorporated charitable trust
Logo Imgpsh fullsize anim.png
Founded Trust deed 6 November 1985; registered 16 July 1986
Founder(s)
Dissolved
Registration ID Charity 294801
Status
Headquarters
Location Harcourt House, 341 Regents Park Road, London N3 1DP
Area served 'Israel' (registered area of operation)
Services
Registration
Key people S. D. Kibel; Sam Pearlman; Adam Max Caplin; Alistair Jay Marks
Website yadsarah.org.uk
Remarks Supports multiple illegal settlements on stolen land.


Friends of Yad Sarah (Charity Commission number 294801; often styled Friends of Yad Sarah UK) is an unincorporated English charitable trust. Its registered activity is to raise funds for Yad Sarah, the Israeli volunteer organisation that lends medical and rehabilitative equipment and runs homecare services.[1]

The UK trust does not itself run clinics. Money raised in Britain is granted to Yad Sarah in Israel. Yad Sarah’s own branch map has included equipment-lending points inside Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem as well as inside the Green Line.[2]

It is distinct from the New York corporation Friends of Yad Sarah, Inc. (EIN 13-3106175), which raises funds in the United States and represents Yad Sarah at the UN.[3]

History and objects

The governing document is a trust deed dated 6 November 1985. The charity was entered on the Register of Charities on 16 July 1986.[4][5]

Registered objects: the furtherance of the charitable purposes of the organisation known as Yad Sarah, and subject thereto such other charitable purposes as the trustees determine.[4] The Commission activity line is: “To raise funds for Yad Sarah, a charitable organisation in Israel, which lends medical and rehabilitative equipment free of charge as well as providing a variety of homecare support services.” Area of operation on the register: Israel.[1]

The 2020 trustees’ report described the same purpose and recorded donations of £731,937 that year and grants to Yad Sarah in Israel of £554,000 (2019: donations £366,803; grants £223,251). The charity is unincorporated. Principal address then, and still used on aggregator listings: Harcourt House, 341 Regents Park Road, London N3 1DP. Independent examiner: David Passey, Greenford.[6]

Yad Sarah

Yad Sarah (Hebrew: “Memorial to Sarah”) was founded in Jerusalem in 1976 by Uri Lupolianski (1951–2026), later the first Haredi mayor of Jerusalem (2003–2008). It began as a household gemach lending vaporizers and grew into a national volunteer network. It is named for Lupolianski’s grandmother, killed in the Holocaust. The organisation says it operates 120-plus branches and several thousand volunteers, lending wheelchairs, beds, oxygen equipment and other short-term medical kit, and running emergency call lines, accessible transport and day-rehabilitation centres. It received the Israel Prize in 1994 and consultative status with UN ECOSOC in 2005. It states that it takes no ongoing Israeli government grant and is funded by donations, most of them raised inside Israel.[7][8]

Headquarters: Yad Sarah House, 124 Herzl Boulevard, Jerusalem.[7]

Settlement branches

Yad Sarah presents itself as serving “every corner of Israel.” Its published branch list has included lending points in settlements in the occupied West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem. An August 2017 capture of the organisation’s own branches page named:[2]

Ariel, Betar Illit, Efrat, Givat Ze’ev, Har Homa, Kiryat Arba, Kiryat Sefer (Modi’in Illit), Ma’ale Adumim, Ma’ale Ephraim, Mevo Horon, Modi’in, Neve Yaakov, Pisgat Ze’ev, Psagot, Halamish (Neve Tzuf), Ramot and Ramat Shlomo.

Those sites sit beyond the 1949 Armistice Line. Israeli civilian settlements in occupied territory are illegal under international humanitarian law (Fourth Geneva Convention, art. 49(6); UN Security Council resolution 2334). UK grants to Yad Sarah therefore support an organisation whose service map includes the settlement infrastructure, even where individual grants are not earmarked branch by branch. Yad Sarah’s own social channels have separately announced a centre in Ma’ale Adumim.[2]

The UK register does not itemise which Yad Sarah branches receive Friends of Yad Sarah money.

People

Current trustees

Four trustees on the Charity Commission card:[9]

Name Appointed Other Commission trusteeships on the card
S. D. Kibel (Mr S D Kibel) (long-serving; no appointment date on the live card) None on record
Sam Pearlman (S. D. Pearlman) 16 February 2017 The Joseph and Sarah Pearlman Jewish Charitable Trust (232082)
Adam Max Caplin 5 December 2019 None on record
Alistair Jay Marks 31 March 2022 None on record

No trustee remuneration is recorded. The 2020 report said none of the trustees had a beneficial interest in the charity.[6]

Former trustees (from the 2020 accounts)

  • Anthony Yadgaroff — resigned 12 July 2019
  • Mrs A. Zinkin — resigned 12 November 2019
  • L. F. Harding — still on the board at 30 June 2020 / 8 December 2020 sign-off; not on the later four-trustee card[6]

Finances

Charity Commission headline figures, years ended 30 June:[10]

Year ended 30 June Income Expenditure
2025 £418,558 £404,486
2024 £599,347 £612,007
2023 £608,160 £586,390
2022 £531,410 £536,110
2021 £258,210 £248,850

Almost all expenditure is grants onward to Yad Sarah plus a thin cost of generating funds. There is no trading subsidiary and no staff pay band above £60,000 on the register card.[1]

UK funders

UK grant-makers named as donors to Friends of Yad Sarah or to Yad Sarah in published trust lists include:[11]

The Schreiber Charitable Trust (264735, Wembley — the Chaim / David Abraham Schreiber furniture-family trust, not the Stamford Hill Midos line) named Friends of Yad Sarah among institutions receiving grants in its 2021–22 notes, together with Torah Live UK, UK Toremet Ltd, The Work Avenue Foundation and Aish Hatorah UK Ltd. Those notes do not print a line amount for Yad Sarah.[11]

Listed as Funders/Patrons

Patrons of Friends of Yad Sarah UK:Our Patrons.  Friends of Yad Sarah UK. The Leo and Betty Gruss Charitable Trust | Kirsh Foundation | The Maurice Ezra Bekhor Charitable Fund | Elizabeth and George Gatty | Harbour Charitable Trust | Locker Foundation | Loftus Charitable Trust | Dyna & Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust | Esher House Charitable Trust | Park Lane Charitable Trust | The Goldstein Family | Stewart Roden | Steinberg Family Charitable Trust | Lois Peltz | Wolfson Foundation | Mr and Mrs Charles Wigoder (Wigoder Family Foundation) | Cecil & Hilda Lewis Charitable Trust | Archie Sherman Cardiff Foundation | Nigel Gee Charitable Trust | The Denholme Charitable Trust | The Doughty Charitable Trust

Related bodies

Contact

Harcourt House
341 Regents Park Road
London N3 1DP

Website listed on aggregator files: www.yadsarah.org.uk[12]

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH, Charity Commission, 294801.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 ‘Branches’, Yad Sarah, Internet Archive capture 25 August 2017.
  3. ↑ About Us, Friends of Yad Sarah, Inc.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH, Fundraiso (Charity Commission extract: trust deed 6 November 1985).
  5. ↑ Friends of Yad Sarah, NGO Explorer.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Friends of Yad Sarah, Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2020, Charity Commission accounts file.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Yad Sarah, Wikipedia.
  8. ↑ Uri Lupolianski, Wikipedia.
  9. ↑ Trustees, Friends of Yad Sarah, Charity Commission.
  10. ↑ Financial history, Friends of Yad Sarah, Charity Commission.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Donor lists compiled from published accounts of the named UK trusts, including the Schreiber Charitable Trust notes for years ended 5 April 2021–2022.
  12. ↑ Friends Of Yad Sarah, TotalGiving.
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