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{{Infobox organization
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| name = Yad Vochessed Association Limited
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| type = Charitable company (limited by guarantee)
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| founded = Incorporated 1 September 2004; registered as a charity 23 January 2006
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| registration_id = Company 05219183; charity 1112797
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| status = Active; statutory class inquiry opened May 2025
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| location = 86 Darenth Road, London N16 6ED
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}}
  
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See: [[Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator]]
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'''Yad Vochessed Association Limited''' (company 05219183; charity 1112797) is an Orthodox Jewish grant-making charitable company based in Stamford Hill, London. It was incorporated on 1 September 2004 and registered with the [[Charity Commission for England and Wales]] on 23 January 2006.<ref name="CCFull">[[Charity Commission for England and Wales]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4020751/full-print YAD VOCHESSED ASSOCIATION LIMITED full print], accessed 11 September 2026.</ref> The register activity line is “to reduce poverty suffered by the Jewish community in the UK and overseas.” Objects in the memorandum: to advance religion in accordance with the Orthodox Jewish faith; the relief of needy persons; and other purposes charitable in English law. Area of benefit is not defined; “in practice worldwide.”<ref name="CCGov">[[Charity Commission for England and Wales]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4020751/governing-document Governing document].</ref>
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==Funding==
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It makes grants to individuals and organisations, classified as religious activities helping other charities. Operations on the register: throughout England and Wales. Contact address: 86 Darenth Road, London N16 6ED; telephone 020 8800 8583. Companies House correspondence has also used Hallswelle House, 1 Hallswelle Road, London NW11 0DH. No trading subsidiaries. Not recognised issues aside, reporting on the live register is shown as up to date.<ref name="CCFull" />
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The Commission published an inquiry report on 25 April 2014 after the charity failed to file accounts with the Commission (while filing at Companies House). It was one of the first ten charities entered in the May 2025 statutory class inquiry into cashed cheques.<ref name="CC2014">[[Charity Commission for England and Wales]], [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7f651640f0b62305b86e2a/yad_vochessed_association_ltd.pdf Inquiry Report: Yad Vochessed Association Limited], published 25 April 2014.</ref><ref name="CCNews">[[Charity Commission for England and Wales]], [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], 14 May 2025.</ref>
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==People==
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===Directors===
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Name !! Role !! Date of Appointment !! Resigned on !! Date of Birth !! Nationality !! Other directorships
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|-
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| [[Joseph Lipschitz]] || Secretary || 01 September 2004 ||  || April 1957 || British || [[J & J Partners Limited]] (Director) | [[Bellamore Trading Limited]] (Director) | [[Organisation for the Support of Torah Education Limited]] (Director & Secretary) | [[Matonot Limited]] (Director) | [[Trumpeter Investments Limited]] (Director) | [[Grovepalm Limited]] (Director) | [[Parkring Limited]] (Director) | [[Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited]] (Director) | [[Continental Imports Limited]] (Director) | [[Zoncrest Limited]] (Secretary - Resigned)
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|-
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| [[Dov Krautwirt]] || Director || 01 September 2004 ||  || February 1969 || British ||
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|-
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| [[Freida Lipschitz]] || Director || 01 September 2004 ||  || August 1958 || British || [[Matonot Limited]] (Secretary) | [[Trumpeter Investments Limited]] (Secretary) | [[Maplecroft Consultants Limited]] (Director & Secretary) | [[Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited]] (Secretary) | [[J & J Partners Limited]] (Secretary) | [[Bellamore Trading Limited]] (Secretary) | [[Hazlemount Limited]] (Director & Secretary) | [[Parkring Limited]] (Secretary) | [[Grovepalm Limited]] (Director & Secretary) | [[Continental Imports Limited]] (Secretary)
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| [[Joseph Lipschitz]] || Director || 01 September 2004 ||  || April 1957 || British || [[J & J Partners Limited]] (Director) | [[Bellamore Trading Limited]] (Director) | [[Organisation for the Support of Torah Education Limited]] (Director & Secretary) | [[Matonot Limited]] (Director) | [[Trumpeter Investments Limited]] (Director) | [[Grovepalm Limited]] (Director) | [[Parkring Limited]] (Director) | [[Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited]] (Director) | [[Continental Imports Limited]] (Director) | [[Zoncrest Limited]] (Secretary - Resigned)
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|-
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| [[Temple Secretaries Limited]] || Nominee Secretary || 01 September 2004 || 01 September 2004 ||  ||  ||
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|-
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| [[Company Directors Limited]] || Nominee Secretary || 01 September 2004 || 01 September 2004 ||  ||  ||
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|}
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Persons with significant control notified at Companies House include Joseph Lipschitz, Freida Lipschitz and Dov Krautwirt (PSC notices from 2018–19). A PSC04 for Mrs Freida Lipschitz was filed 25 May 2026.<ref name="CH">[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05219183/filing-history YAD VOCHESSED ASSOCIATION LIMITED filing history], company 05219183.</ref>
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===Trustees===
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Name !! Role !! Date of Appointment !! Other trusteeships (register)
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| [[Joseph Lipschitz]] || Trustee || (longstanding; date blank on register) || [[Grovepalm Limited]]; [[Matonot Limited]]
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|-
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| [[Freida Lipschitz]] / Frieda Lipschitz || Trustee || 25 May 2026 on live register (director since 2004) || [[Hazlemount Limited]] (existing page); none on live CC snapshot
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|-
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| [[Dov Krautwirt]] || Trustee || (longstanding) || Also trustee of [[One Heart - Lev Echod]]
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|}
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Joseph and Freida Lipschitz are also director and secretary of [[Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited]] (charity 1010420), another of the first ten 2025 inquiry charities.
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==Finances==
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===Funding===
 
*[[Mayfair Charities Limited]]
 
*[[Mayfair Charities Limited]]
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Register income is donations and legacies. Grants to institutions in the year to 1 October 2024: £2.50 million. Other assets at that date: £21,150.<ref name="CCFin">[[Charity Commission for England and Wales]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4020751/financial-history Financial history].</ref>
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===Income===
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Income !! 2014 !! 2015 !! 2016 !! 2017 !! 2018 !! 2019 !! 2020 !! 2021 !! 2022 !! 2023 !! Total
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|-
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| Donations received || 794,258 || 571,090 || 598,417 || 882,431 || 977,657 || 1,445,038 || 1,508,166 || 1,155,319 || 2,313,953 || 2,354,855 || '''12,601,184'''
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| '''Total:''' || '''794,258''' || '''571,090''' || '''598,417''' || '''882,431''' || '''977,657''' || '''1,445,038''' || '''1,508,166''' || '''1,155,319''' || '''2,313,953''' || '''2,354,855''' || '''12,601,184'''
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|}
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'''Note:''' Data from Yad Vochessed Association Limited financial statements 2014–2023. Register figure for year to 1 October 2024: income £2,768,705; expenditure £2,851,119.
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===Donations given===
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{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="12" | Grant recipients of the Yad Vochessed Association Limited in £ sterling
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! Recipient !! 2014 !! 2015 !! 2016 !! 2017 !! 2018 !! 2019 !! 2020 !! 2021 !! 2022 !! 2023 !! Total
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| [[Admor Shlita]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 29,279 || '''29,279'''
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|-
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| [[Beis Aharon Nursery]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 24,700 ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''24,700'''
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|-
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| [[Beis Aharon Trust]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 72,650 || 193,700 || '''266,350'''
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|-
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| [[Beis Brocho Ezer Leyoledes]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 28,020 || 20,150 ||  ||  || '''48,170'''
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|-
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| [[Beis Brocho]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 24,659 ||  || '''24,659'''
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|-
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| [[Beis Hamedrash Keap Street]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 19,650 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''19,650'''
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|-
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| [[Beis Hamedrash Kedushas Aharon]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 37,816 || 25,500 || '''63,316'''
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|-
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| [[Beis Shemesh Mosdos]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 20,850 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''20,850'''
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|-
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| [[Beis Vaad Jerusalem]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 40,180 || 42,502 || 16,930 ||  ||  || '''99,612'''
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|-
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| [[Beis Vaad]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 45,000 || 39,746 || '''84,746'''
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|-
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| [[Beitar Mikva Building Project]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 25,000 || 32,675 || 40,000 || 19,490 ||  ||  || '''117,165'''
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|-
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| [[Beitar Mikva]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 39,790 || 30,000 || '''69,790'''
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|-
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| [[Belz Shul]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 22,821 || 29,230 || '''52,051'''
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|-
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| [[Beth Shemesh Building Fund]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 20,000 || 34,040 || 68,882 || 20,000 || 43,473 ||  || '''186,395'''
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|-
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| [[Building Fund 117]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 36,285 || 29,605 || '''65,890'''
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|-
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| [[Chaburas Habachurim Israel]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 60,820 || 22,000 || 46,600 ||  || '''129,420'''
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|-
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| [[Elad Mosdos]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 28,700 || '''28,700'''
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|-
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| [[Ezer Leyoldos Machnovke]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 31,555 || '''31,555'''
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|-
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| [[Ezer Leyoldos]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 18,800 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''18,800'''
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|-
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| [[Heichalei Hakodesh]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 41,423 || 37,000 || 71,653 || 66,448 || 120,003 || 40,000 || '''376,527'''
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|-
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| [[Hogei Torah]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 30,155 ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''30,155'''
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|-
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| [[Hotzous Yom Tov]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 16,020 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''16,020'''
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|-
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| [[Kimchas Detishrei]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 21,000 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''21,000'''
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|-
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| [[Kolel Beis Aharon]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 39,100 ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''39,100'''
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|-
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| [[Kolel Boker Beth Shemesh]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 24,400 ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''24,400'''
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|-
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| [[Kolel Erev 117]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 25,000 ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''25,000'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel Antwerp]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 24,462 ||  || '''24,462'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel Belz]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 42,202 ||  || '''42,202'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel Boker Belz]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 55,000 || 30,000 || 14,651 ||  ||  || '''99,651'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel Boker]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 40,000 || '''40,000'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel Erev Elad]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 24,151 ||  || '''24,151'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel Erev Maharshal]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 52,259 || 36,237 || 11,490 ||  ||  || '''99,986'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel Heichal Aharon]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 32,350 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''32,350'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel in Yeshiva Bene Brak]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 32,060 || 12,127 ||  ||  || '''44,187'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel Yeshiva Bene Berak]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 23,186 ||  || '''23,186'''
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|-
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| [[Kollel]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 43,320 || 26,429 || 58,950 || 47,055 || '''175,754'''
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|-
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| [[Kupas Hakohol]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 25,415 || 53,000 || 60,872 || 40,000 || '''179,287'''
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|-
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| [[London Gemach]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 19,400 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''19,400'''
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|-
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| [[Maamodos]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 48,700 || 37,560 || '''86,260'''
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|-
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| [[Machnovke Bene Berak]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 24,500 ||  || '''24,500'''
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|-
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| [[Machzikei Lomdei Torah Jerusalem]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 46,965 || 24,870 ||  ||  ||  || '''71,835'''
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|-
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| [[Machzikei Lomdei Torah]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 34,800 || 64,465 || '''99,265'''
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|-
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| [[Mechon Shemn Rokeach]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 20,000 || 27,163 || '''47,163'''
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|-
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| [[Mesifta]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 43,203 || 52,317 || 34,620 ||  || '''130,140'''
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|-
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| [[Mosdos Belz Machnovke Beitar]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 20,000 ||  || '''20,000'''
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|-
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| [[Mosdos Belz]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 37,710 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''37,710'''
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|-
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| [[Mosdos Beth Shemesh]]  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 34,250 ||  ||  ||  || 28,000 || '''62,250'''
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|-
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| [[Mosdos Dzikov Givat Zeev]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 20,000 ||  || '''20,000'''
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|-
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| [[Mosdos Shotz]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 19,738 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''19,738'''
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|-
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| [[Mosdos Tschechnov Jerusalem]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 22,863 || 27,491 || '''50,354'''
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|-
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| [[Rabbi of Strikov Bene Berak]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 30,000 || 35,000 || '''65,000'''
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|-
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| [[Reshet Hakollelim]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 32,742 || 29,813 || 28,065 || 35,100 || 30,000 || '''155,720'''
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|-
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| [[Satmar]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 99,493 || 171,592 || '''271,085'''
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| [[Talmud Torah Beis Aharon]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 42,847 || 48,550 ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''91,397'''
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| [[Talmud Torah Bene Aharon Jerusalem]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 28,070 || 20,288 || 29,982 || 86,470 || '''164,810'''
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|-
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| [[Talmud Torah Bene Aharon]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 20,000 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''20,000'''
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|-
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| [[Talmud Torah Heichal Aharon Bene Berak]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 40,000 || 45,000 || 21,894 ||  || '''106,894'''
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|-
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| [[Talmud Torah]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 48,000 ||  || '''48,000'''
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|-
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| [[Vaad Hasimchos]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 29,550 ||  ||  ||  || 30,000 || 40,000 || '''99,550'''
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|-
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| [[Viznitz London]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 20,000 ||  || '''20,000'''
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|-
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| [[Yeshiva Gedola Bene Berak]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 52,466 || 30,000 || '''82,466'''
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|-
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| [[Yeshiva Gedola D'London]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 27,483 || '''27,483'''
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|-
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| [[Yeshiva Gedolah Bnei Brak]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 25,000 || 55,970 || 19,250 ||  ||  || '''100,220'''
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|-
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| [[Yeshiva Ketana Elad]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 16,481 ||  ||  ||  || 31,000 || 29,513 || '''76,994'''
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|-
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| [[Yeshiva Ketane Rav Asi]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 15,000 || 21,000 || 45,000 || 35,892 || 34,749 ||  || '''151,641'''
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|-
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| [[Yeshiva Meirim]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 20,556 ||  || '''20,556'''
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|-
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| [[Yeshiva Zichron Shmuel]] ||  ||  ||  ||  || 15,900 ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || '''15,900'''
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|-
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| [[Yeshivas Mesifta]] ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 32,455 ||  ||  ||  || '''32,455'''
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|-
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| Other  ||  ||  ||  ||  || 206,744 || 508,505 || 455,481 || 546,007 || 675,784 || 833,365 || '''3,225,886'''
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|-
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| '''Total grants to institutions:''' || '''766,138''' || '''571,090''' || '''599,260''' || '''801,923''' || '''638,463''' || '''1,111,521''' || '''1,233,771''' || '''1,029,534''' || '''2,077,427''' || '''2,072,472''' ||
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'''Note:''' Data from Yad Vochessed Association Limited financial statements 2014–2023. Named lines are as printed in those accounts; many are short labels, not full legal names.
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==Related party disclosures==
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===2018===
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Donations without conditions were received from related parties as follows:
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:From trustees: £2,000
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:From companies in which a trustee is also a director: £385,050<ref>Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2018, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.</ref>
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===2019===
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Donations without conditions were received from related parties as follows:
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:From trustees: £2,000
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:From companies in which a trustee is also a director: £385,050<ref>Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2019, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.</ref>
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===2020===
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Donations without conditions were received from related parties as follows:
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:From companies in which a trustee is also a director: £407,000<ref>Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2020, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.</ref>
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===2021===
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The total donations without conditions received from related parties, in which a trustee of the company is also a director, was £283,500 (2020: £407,000).<ref>Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2021, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.</ref>
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===2022===
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The total donations without conditions received from related parties, in which a trustee of the company is also a director, was £365,700 (2020: £283,500).<ref>Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2022, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.</ref>
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===2023===
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The total donations without conditions received from related parties, in which a trustee of the company is also a director, was £102,469 (2020: £365,700).<ref>Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2023, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.</ref>
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==Alleged or apparent misdeed==
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===2013–14 double-defaulter inquiry===
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On 20 September 2013 the Commission opened a statutory class inquiry into charities that had failed to file annual documents for two or more years in five and met income criteria. Yad Vochessed was included. Missing returns for years ending 30 September 2011 and 2012 were filed on 3 September 2013 and 4 December 2013. The published report (25 April 2014) found mismanagement and misconduct and a breach of legal duties: the company had filed accounts at Companies House but not with the Commission. Two sets of accounts brought more than £3.2 million of income onto the register. The charity left that inquiry once filings were complete. The GOV.UK publication was withdrawn on 13 March 2019 as older than two years; the PDF remains available.<ref name="CC2014" /><ref name="TS2014">[https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/charity-commission-sends-final-warnings-72-double-defaulting-charities/finance/article/1291594 Charity Commission sends final warnings to 72 double-defaulting charities], ''Third Sector''.</ref>
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===2025 cashed-cheques class inquiry===
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On 14 May 2025 the Commission opened a new statutory class inquiry after an unannounced HMRC visit to a company in Hackney found that 105 charities had cashed cheques there worth £22 million between December 2021 and March 2023. Yad Vochessed Association Limited was one of the first ten charities entered. The Commission issued an immediate order temporarily stopping charities under inquiry from issuing cheques without prior consent. The inquiry examines transfer of funds, trustee oversight of cash, and whether cash was used for charitable purposes.<ref name="CCNews" /> A class inquiry is not a finding of guilt. As of 9 September 2026 four other charities in later tranches had been closed out of the inquiry; this charity was not among them. The live register still shows a regulatory alert that an inquiry is open.<ref name="CCSept">[[Charity Commission for England and Wales]], [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], 9 September 2026.</ref>
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==Relations to Jewish communal organisations, Israel lobby groups, and Israel and the occupied territories==
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Accounts name grants to UK Orthodox institutions ([[Beis Aharon Trust]], [[Viznitz London]], [[Yeshiva Gedola D'London]], [[London Gemach]]) and to institutions labelled Jerusalem, Bnei Brak / Bene Berak, Beit Shemesh / Beth Shemesh, Elad, Beitar, Givat Zeev, Antwerp, Satmar, Belz and Shotz. Beitar Illit and Givat Ze’ev are Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank; Elad, Beit Shemesh and Bnei Brak are cities in Israel. Lines such as [[Beitar Mikva Building Project]], [[Mosdos Belz Machnovke Beitar]], [[Mosdos Dzikov Givat Zeev]], [[Yeshiva Ketana Elad]] and [[Talmud Torah Bene Aharon Jerusalem]] are therefore grants described, in the charity’s own accounts, as going to bodies in Israel or the occupied territories. No published inquiry statement retrieved for this profile records a grant to the Israeli government or to a named UK Israel-lobby organisation such as [[BICOM]] or [[Labour Friends of Israel]].
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Shared officers link the company to [[Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited]] and, through Dov Krautwirt, to [[One Heart - Lev Echod]], both in the same 2025 inquiry tranche. [[Heichalei Hakodesh]] appears both as a large grant recipient here and as another trusteeship of [[Shaul Krautwirt]] at [[Friends of Beis Soroh Schneirer]].
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==Contact==
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* 86 Darenth Road, London N16 6ED
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* Telephone 020 8800 8583
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==See also==
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* [[British Jewish charities investigated by the Charity Commission]]
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* [[Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited]]
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* [[One Heart - Lev Echod]]
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* [[Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator]]
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==Resources==
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* [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4020751 Charity Commission register]
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* [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/05219183 Companies House]
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* [https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7f651640f0b62305b86e2a/yad_vochessed_association_ltd.pdf 2014 inquiry report PDF]
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* [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/yad-vochessed-association-limited-inquiry-report Withdrawn GOV.UK inquiry page]
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==Notes==
 
==Notes==
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<references />
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[[Category:UK]]
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[[Category:Jewish organisations]]
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[[Category:Hackney]]
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Latest revision as of 15:40, 11 September 2026

Yad Vochessed Association Limited
Type Charitable company (limited by guarantee)
Logo
Founded Incorporated 1 September 2004; registered as a charity 23 January 2006
Founder(s)
Dissolved
Registration ID Company 05219183; charity 1112797
Status Active; statutory class inquiry opened May 2025
Headquarters
Location 86 Darenth Road, London N16 6ED
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Yad Vochessed Association Limited (company 05219183; charity 1112797) is an Orthodox Jewish grant-making charitable company based in Stamford Hill, London. It was incorporated on 1 September 2004 and registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales on 23 January 2006.[1] The register activity line is “to reduce poverty suffered by the Jewish community in the UK and overseas.” Objects in the memorandum: to advance religion in accordance with the Orthodox Jewish faith; the relief of needy persons; and other purposes charitable in English law. Area of benefit is not defined; “in practice worldwide.”[2]

It makes grants to individuals and organisations, classified as religious activities helping other charities. Operations on the register: throughout England and Wales. Contact address: 86 Darenth Road, London N16 6ED; telephone 020 8800 8583. Companies House correspondence has also used Hallswelle House, 1 Hallswelle Road, London NW11 0DH. No trading subsidiaries. Not recognised issues aside, reporting on the live register is shown as up to date.[1]

The Commission published an inquiry report on 25 April 2014 after the charity failed to file accounts with the Commission (while filing at Companies House). It was one of the first ten charities entered in the May 2025 statutory class inquiry into cashed cheques.[3][4]

People

Directors

Name Role Date of Appointment Resigned on Date of Birth Nationality Other directorships
Joseph Lipschitz Secretary 01 September 2004 April 1957 British J & J Partners Limited (Director) | Bellamore Trading Limited (Director) | Organisation for the Support of Torah Education Limited (Director & Secretary) | Matonot Limited (Director) | Trumpeter Investments Limited (Director) | Grovepalm Limited (Director) | Parkring Limited (Director) | Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited (Director) | Continental Imports Limited (Director) | Zoncrest Limited (Secretary - Resigned)
Dov Krautwirt Director 01 September 2004 February 1969 British
Freida Lipschitz Director 01 September 2004 August 1958 British Matonot Limited (Secretary) | Trumpeter Investments Limited (Secretary) | Maplecroft Consultants Limited (Director & Secretary) | Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited (Secretary) | J & J Partners Limited (Secretary) | Bellamore Trading Limited (Secretary) | Hazlemount Limited (Director & Secretary) | Parkring Limited (Secretary) | Grovepalm Limited (Director & Secretary) | Continental Imports Limited (Secretary)
Joseph Lipschitz Director 01 September 2004 April 1957 British J & J Partners Limited (Director) | Bellamore Trading Limited (Director) | Organisation for the Support of Torah Education Limited (Director & Secretary) | Matonot Limited (Director) | Trumpeter Investments Limited (Director) | Grovepalm Limited (Director) | Parkring Limited (Director) | Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited (Director) | Continental Imports Limited (Director) | Zoncrest Limited (Secretary - Resigned)
Temple Secretaries Limited Nominee Secretary 01 September 2004 01 September 2004
Company Directors Limited Nominee Secretary 01 September 2004 01 September 2004

Persons with significant control notified at Companies House include Joseph Lipschitz, Freida Lipschitz and Dov Krautwirt (PSC notices from 2018–19). A PSC04 for Mrs Freida Lipschitz was filed 25 May 2026.[5]

Trustees

Name Role Date of Appointment Other trusteeships (register)
Joseph Lipschitz Trustee (longstanding; date blank on register) Grovepalm Limited; Matonot Limited
Freida Lipschitz / Frieda Lipschitz Trustee 25 May 2026 on live register (director since 2004) Hazlemount Limited (existing page); none on live CC snapshot
Dov Krautwirt Trustee (longstanding) Also trustee of One Heart - Lev Echod

Joseph and Freida Lipschitz are also director and secretary of Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited (charity 1010420), another of the first ten 2025 inquiry charities.

Finances

Funding

Register income is donations and legacies. Grants to institutions in the year to 1 October 2024: £2.50 million. Other assets at that date: £21,150.[6]

Income

Income 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total
Donations received 794,258 571,090 598,417 882,431 977,657 1,445,038 1,508,166 1,155,319 2,313,953 2,354,855 12,601,184
Total: 794,258 571,090 598,417 882,431 977,657 1,445,038 1,508,166 1,155,319 2,313,953 2,354,855 12,601,184

Note: Data from Yad Vochessed Association Limited financial statements 2014–2023. Register figure for year to 1 October 2024: income £2,768,705; expenditure £2,851,119.

Donations given

Grant recipients of the Yad Vochessed Association Limited in £ sterling
Recipient 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Total
Admor Shlita 29,279 29,279
Beis Aharon Nursery 24,700 24,700
Beis Aharon Trust 72,650 193,700 266,350
Beis Brocho Ezer Leyoledes 28,020 20,150 48,170
Beis Brocho 24,659 24,659
Beis Hamedrash Keap Street 19,650 19,650
Beis Hamedrash Kedushas Aharon 37,816 25,500 63,316
Beis Shemesh Mosdos 20,850 20,850
Beis Vaad Jerusalem 40,180 42,502 16,930 99,612
Beis Vaad 45,000 39,746 84,746
Beitar Mikva Building Project 25,000 32,675 40,000 19,490 117,165
Beitar Mikva 39,790 30,000 69,790
Belz Shul 22,821 29,230 52,051
Beth Shemesh Building Fund 20,000 34,040 68,882 20,000 43,473 186,395
Building Fund 117 36,285 29,605 65,890
Chaburas Habachurim Israel 60,820 22,000 46,600 129,420
Elad Mosdos 28,700 28,700
Ezer Leyoldos Machnovke 31,555 31,555
Ezer Leyoldos 18,800 18,800
Heichalei Hakodesh 41,423 37,000 71,653 66,448 120,003 40,000 376,527
Hogei Torah 30,155 30,155
Hotzous Yom Tov 16,020 16,020
Kimchas Detishrei 21,000 21,000
Kolel Beis Aharon 39,100 39,100
Kolel Boker Beth Shemesh 24,400 24,400
Kolel Erev 117 25,000 25,000
Kollel Antwerp 24,462 24,462
Kollel Belz 42,202 42,202
Kollel Boker Belz 55,000 30,000 14,651 99,651
Kollel Boker 40,000 40,000
Kollel Erev Elad 24,151 24,151
Kollel Erev Maharshal 52,259 36,237 11,490 99,986
Kollel Heichal Aharon 32,350 32,350
Kollel in Yeshiva Bene Brak 32,060 12,127 44,187
Kollel Yeshiva Bene Berak 23,186 23,186
Kollel 43,320 26,429 58,950 47,055 175,754
Kupas Hakohol 25,415 53,000 60,872 40,000 179,287
London Gemach 19,400 19,400
Maamodos 48,700 37,560 86,260
Machnovke Bene Berak 24,500 24,500
Machzikei Lomdei Torah Jerusalem 46,965 24,870 71,835
Machzikei Lomdei Torah 34,800 64,465 99,265
Mechon Shemn Rokeach 20,000 27,163 47,163
Mesifta 43,203 52,317 34,620 130,140
Mosdos Belz Machnovke Beitar 20,000 20,000
Mosdos Belz 37,710 37,710
Mosdos Beth Shemesh 34,250 28,000 62,250
Mosdos Dzikov Givat Zeev 20,000 20,000
Mosdos Shotz 19,738 19,738
Mosdos Tschechnov Jerusalem 22,863 27,491 50,354
Rabbi of Strikov Bene Berak 30,000 35,000 65,000
Reshet Hakollelim 32,742 29,813 28,065 35,100 30,000 155,720
Satmar 99,493 171,592 271,085
Talmud Torah Beis Aharon 42,847 48,550 91,397
Talmud Torah Bene Aharon Jerusalem 28,070 20,288 29,982 86,470 164,810
Talmud Torah Bene Aharon 20,000 20,000
Talmud Torah Heichal Aharon Bene Berak 40,000 45,000 21,894 106,894
Talmud Torah 48,000 48,000
Vaad Hasimchos 29,550 30,000 40,000 99,550
Viznitz London 20,000 20,000
Yeshiva Gedola Bene Berak 52,466 30,000 82,466
Yeshiva Gedola D'London 27,483 27,483
Yeshiva Gedolah Bnei Brak 25,000 55,970 19,250 100,220
Yeshiva Ketana Elad 16,481 31,000 29,513 76,994
Yeshiva Ketane Rav Asi 15,000 21,000 45,000 35,892 34,749 151,641
Yeshiva Meirim 20,556 20,556
Yeshiva Zichron Shmuel 15,900 15,900
Yeshivas Mesifta 32,455 32,455
Other 206,744 508,505 455,481 546,007 675,784 833,365 3,225,886
Total grants to institutions: 766,138 571,090 599,260 801,923 638,463 1,111,521 1,233,771 1,029,534 2,077,427 2,072,472

Note: Data from Yad Vochessed Association Limited financial statements 2014–2023. Named lines are as printed in those accounts; many are short labels, not full legal names.

Related party disclosures

2018

Donations without conditions were received from related parties as follows:

From trustees: £2,000
From companies in which a trustee is also a director: £385,050[7]

2019

Donations without conditions were received from related parties as follows:

From trustees: £2,000
From companies in which a trustee is also a director: £385,050[8]

2020

Donations without conditions were received from related parties as follows:

From companies in which a trustee is also a director: £407,000[9]

2021

The total donations without conditions received from related parties, in which a trustee of the company is also a director, was £283,500 (2020: £407,000).[10]

2022

The total donations without conditions received from related parties, in which a trustee of the company is also a director, was £365,700 (2020: £283,500).[11]

2023

The total donations without conditions received from related parties, in which a trustee of the company is also a director, was £102,469 (2020: £365,700).[12]

Alleged or apparent misdeed

2013–14 double-defaulter inquiry

On 20 September 2013 the Commission opened a statutory class inquiry into charities that had failed to file annual documents for two or more years in five and met income criteria. Yad Vochessed was included. Missing returns for years ending 30 September 2011 and 2012 were filed on 3 September 2013 and 4 December 2013. The published report (25 April 2014) found mismanagement and misconduct and a breach of legal duties: the company had filed accounts at Companies House but not with the Commission. Two sets of accounts brought more than £3.2 million of income onto the register. The charity left that inquiry once filings were complete. The GOV.UK publication was withdrawn on 13 March 2019 as older than two years; the PDF remains available.[3][13]

2025 cashed-cheques class inquiry

On 14 May 2025 the Commission opened a new statutory class inquiry after an unannounced HMRC visit to a company in Hackney found that 105 charities had cashed cheques there worth £22 million between December 2021 and March 2023. Yad Vochessed Association Limited was one of the first ten charities entered. The Commission issued an immediate order temporarily stopping charities under inquiry from issuing cheques without prior consent. The inquiry examines transfer of funds, trustee oversight of cash, and whether cash was used for charitable purposes.[4] A class inquiry is not a finding of guilt. As of 9 September 2026 four other charities in later tranches had been closed out of the inquiry; this charity was not among them. The live register still shows a regulatory alert that an inquiry is open.[14]

Relations to Jewish communal organisations, Israel lobby groups, and Israel and the occupied territories

Accounts name grants to UK Orthodox institutions (Beis Aharon Trust, Viznitz London, Yeshiva Gedola D'London, London Gemach) and to institutions labelled Jerusalem, Bnei Brak / Bene Berak, Beit Shemesh / Beth Shemesh, Elad, Beitar, Givat Zeev, Antwerp, Satmar, Belz and Shotz. Beitar Illit and Givat Ze’ev are Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank; Elad, Beit Shemesh and Bnei Brak are cities in Israel. Lines such as Beitar Mikva Building Project, Mosdos Belz Machnovke Beitar, Mosdos Dzikov Givat Zeev, Yeshiva Ketana Elad and Talmud Torah Bene Aharon Jerusalem are therefore grants described, in the charity’s own accounts, as going to bodies in Israel or the occupied territories. No published inquiry statement retrieved for this profile records a grant to the Israeli government or to a named UK Israel-lobby organisation such as BICOM or Labour Friends of Israel.

Shared officers link the company to Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited and, through Dov Krautwirt, to One Heart - Lev Echod, both in the same 2025 inquiry tranche. Heichalei Hakodesh appears both as a large grant recipient here and as another trusteeship of Shaul Krautwirt at Friends of Beis Soroh Schneirer.

Contact

  • 86 Darenth Road, London N16 6ED
  • Telephone 020 8800 8583

See also

Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charity Commission for England and Wales, YAD VOCHESSED ASSOCIATION LIMITED full print, accessed 11 September 2026.
  2. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Governing document.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Inquiry Report: Yad Vochessed Association Limited, published 25 April 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Serious concerns over use of £22 million, 14 May 2025.
  5. ↑ YAD VOCHESSED ASSOCIATION LIMITED filing history, company 05219183.
  6. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Financial history.
  7. ↑ Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2018, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.
  8. ↑ Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2019, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.
  9. ↑ Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2020, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.
  10. ↑ Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2021, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.
  11. ↑ Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2022, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.
  12. ↑ Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 30 September 2023, Yad Vochessed Association Limited.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission sends final warnings to 72 double-defaulting charities, Third Sector.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues, 9 September 2026.
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