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{{short description|UK fundraising charity (1126755) for Leket Israel}}
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{{Infobox organization
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| name          = Leket UK
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| formation    = 2008
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| type          = Registered charity
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| registration_id = 1126755
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| purpose      = Grants to [[Leket Israel]]
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| location      = England and Wales (postal: Sofer & Co, Borehamwood)
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| key_people    = [[Paul Andrew Filer]] (chair); [[Joseph Gitler]]
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| website      = https://www.leket.org/en/uk/
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}}
  
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[[Leket UK]] is a  is a UK registered charity (no. 1126755). According to the UK Charity Commission, the charity's primary purpose is to raise funds for Leket Israel, an Israeli charity that provides food and other supplies to poor Israelis.<ref name ="framework">Charity Commission Website [http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1126755&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Charity Framework]. Accessed 8 July 2015.</ref> As well as operating inside Israel proper Leket Israel also operates in the illegal settlements of Dolev, Elkana and Ma'ale Adumim.<ref name ="Leket">Leket Israel Website [http://leket.org.il/english/text/782.aspx Charity Non-Profit Beneficiaries]. Accessed 8 July 2015.</ref> <ref name ="settlements">B'Tselem Website [http://www.btselem.org/settlements/statistics Settlements]. Accessed 8 July 2015.</ref>
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'''Leket UK''' is an England-and-Wales registered charity (no. 1126755). The Charity Commission objects are: “To raise funds for Leket Israel, an Israeli charity which aims to relieve poverty by providing food and other basic supplies to persons in need.” Reporting is recorded as up to date.<ref name="CC">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4042608 LEKET UK], Charity Commission, charity 1126755.</ref>
  
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==History==
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It is the British fundraising arm of [[Leket Israel]] (also styled לקט ישראל; formerly Table to Table), founded in 2003 by [[Joseph Gitler]] as a surplus-food rescue network. Leket Israel’s own 2025 report says it distributed about 33,939 tonnes of food through 346 partner non-profits to some 470,000 people in 121 towns, including cooked meals taken from catering and IDF bases.<ref name="LeketAR">[https://www.leket.org/en/annual-report-2025/ Annual Report 2025], Leket Israel.</ref><ref name="JNS">[https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/leket-israel-keeps-food-flowing-to-the-needy-through-nearly-three-years-of-war Leket Israel keeps food flowing], JNS.</ref>
  
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The organisation became a registered charity in 2008.<ref name ="framework">Charity Commission Website [http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1126755&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Charity Framework]. Accessed 8 July 2015.</ref>
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== History ==
  
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==Finances and Funding==
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Registered in 2008. Leket Israel’s UK page states Leket UK has been a partner since that year.<ref name="LeketUK">[https://www.leket.org/en/uk/ uk], Leket Israel.</ref>
  
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From 2010 to 2014 the charity spent £1,775,179.<ref name ="Overview">Charity Commission Website [http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1126755&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Charity Overview]. Accessed 8 July 2015.</ref>
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== Settlements ==
  
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==People==
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The 2015 Powerbase stub recorded that Leket Israel’s then English “non-profit beneficiaries” page listed activity in the West Bank settlements of [[Dolev]], [[Elkana]] and [[Ma'ale Adumim]], with [[B'Tselem]] cited for settlement status. That Leket URL (leket.org.il/english/text/782.aspx) is no longer live; keep the claim as a 2015 site snapshot, not as a current beneficiary list.<ref name="PB">[[Leket UK]], Powerbase (2015 stub).</ref><ref name="Btselem">[https://www.btselem.org/settlements/statistics Settlements], B'Tselem.</ref> Leket Israel’s later public reports list partner towns inside Israel (for example Netanya, Hadera, Ashkelon, Elad, Harish). Elad is not Elkana.<ref name="LeketAR"/>
  
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===Board of Directors circa July 2015===
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Cooked-meal rescue from IDF bases is stated by Leket Israel itself.<ref name="LeketAR"/><ref name="JPost">Ronnie Rosenman, [https://www.jpost.com/conferences/article-883360 Leket Israel CEO: Food rescue is national infrastructure], ''Jerusalem Post'', 15 January 2026.</ref>
  
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[[Joseph Gitler]] | [[Gerald Bichunsky]] | [[Paul Andrew Filer]] | [[Liz Lightstone]]
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== Finances ==
  
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==Funding==
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Charity Commission five-year history (year ended 31 December):<ref name="CCfin">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4042608/financial-history Financial history], LEKET UK, Charity Commission.</ref>
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*[[Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation]] £18,941 (2018);£40,063 (2020)
 
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*[[Goldberg Family Charitable Trust]]
 
  
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==Contact==
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{| class="wikitable"
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!
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! 31/12/2020
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! 31/12/2021
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! 31/12/2022
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! 31/12/2023
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! 31/12/2024
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|-
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| Total gross income
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| £535.20k
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| £926.88k
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| £349.28k
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| £878.08k
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| £772.60k
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|-
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| Total expenditure
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| £622.93k
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| £569.00k
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| £696.04k
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| £780.94k
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| £836.89k
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|-
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| Income from government contracts
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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|-
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| Income from government grants
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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| N/A
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|}
  
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Address circa July 2015:
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Year to 31 December 2024: income £772,604 (donations and legacies £734.49k; other £38.12k); expenditure £836,889 (charitable activities £800.96k; raising funds £35.93k). No trading subsidiary. Trustees unpaid.<ref name="CC"/> The 2015 stub figure of £1,775,179 spent 2010–14 is the old Commission overview total, not restated here.<ref name="PB"/>
  
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:Leket UK
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Named UK grant-makers on the existing stub: [[Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation]] £18,941 (2018) and £40,063 (2020); [[Goldberg Family Charitable Trust]]. Re-check those figures in the donor trusts’ own accounts before treating them as current.
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:CP House
 
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:Otterspool Way
 
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:Watford
 
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:WD25 8HP
 
  
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:Phone: 020 834 62890
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== Trustees ==
  
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:Email: info@leket.org
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Charity Commission card (five trustees):<ref name="CCtr">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4042608/trustees Trustees], LEKET UK, Charity Commission.</ref>
  
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:Website: www.leket.org
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Name
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! Role
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! Appointed
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! Other CC trusteeships on this card
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|-
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| [[Paul Andrew Filer]]
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| Chair
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| (founder trustee; date blank on card)
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| None on record
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|-
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| [[Deborah Leigh Finkler]]
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| Trustee
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| 29 June 2026
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| [[The Bridge Group]]
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| [[Jeremy Nicholas Apfel]]
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| Trustee
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| 9 December 2022
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| None on record
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|-
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| [[Joseph Gitler]]
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| Trustee
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| (blank)
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| None on record (founder/chair of Leket Israel)
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|-
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| [[Gerald Bichunsky]]
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| Trustee
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| (blank)
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| None on record
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|}
  
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==Notes==
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The July 2015 board on the old Powerbase page was Gitler, Bichunsky, Filer and [[Liz Lightstone]]. Lightstone is not on the current Commission card.<ref name="PB"/><ref name="CCtr"/> Leket’s UK page describes Filer as a founder trustee and finance director of a UK multinational, and Apfel as a corporate-affairs specialist.<ref name="LeketUK"/>
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== Contact ==
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Postal address given by Leket Israel (not the 2015 Watford CP House listing):
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: Leket UK 
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: Sofer & Co 
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: 5 Elstree Gate, Elstree Way 
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: Borehamwood 
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: Herts WD6 1JD 
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UK coordinator named on that page: Robby Hoffman, robby@leket.org. Site: https://www.leket.org/ (and /en/uk/).<ref name="LeketUK"/>
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== See also ==
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* [[Leket Israel]]
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* [[Joseph Gitler]]
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* [[Friends of Yad Sarah UK]]
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* [[British Jewish charities investigated by the Charity Commission]]
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== External links ==
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* [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4042608 Charity Commission]
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* [https://www.leket.org/en/uk/ Leket UK page on leket.org]
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== Notes ==
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<references />
  
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<references/>
 
 
[[Category:Israel]]
 
[[Category:Israel]]
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[[Category:Jewish charities of the United Kingdom]]
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[[Category:Organisations with links to Israel]]
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[[Category:Charities based in England]]

Revision as of 11:07, 25 September 2026

UK fundraising charity (1126755) for Leket Israel

Leket UK

Type Registered charity
Registration ID 1126755
Location England and Wales (postal: Sofer & Co, Borehamwood)
Key people Paul Andrew Filer (chair); Joseph Gitler
Website https://www.leket.org/en/uk/


Leket UK is an England-and-Wales registered charity (no. 1126755). The Charity Commission objects are: “To raise funds for Leket Israel, an Israeli charity which aims to relieve poverty by providing food and other basic supplies to persons in need.” Reporting is recorded as up to date.[1]

It is the British fundraising arm of Leket Israel (also styled לקט ישראל; formerly Table to Table), founded in 2003 by Joseph Gitler as a surplus-food rescue network. Leket Israel’s own 2025 report says it distributed about 33,939 tonnes of food through 346 partner non-profits to some 470,000 people in 121 towns, including cooked meals taken from catering and IDF bases.[2][3]

History

Registered in 2008. Leket Israel’s UK page states Leket UK has been a partner since that year.[4]

Settlements

The 2015 Powerbase stub recorded that Leket Israel’s then English “non-profit beneficiaries” page listed activity in the West Bank settlements of Dolev, Elkana and Ma'ale Adumim, with B'Tselem cited for settlement status. That Leket URL (leket.org.il/english/text/782.aspx) is no longer live; keep the claim as a 2015 site snapshot, not as a current beneficiary list.[5][6] Leket Israel’s later public reports list partner towns inside Israel (for example Netanya, Hadera, Ashkelon, Elad, Harish). Elad is not Elkana.[2]

Cooked-meal rescue from IDF bases is stated by Leket Israel itself.[2][7]

Finances

Charity Commission five-year history (year ended 31 December):[8]

31/12/2020 31/12/2021 31/12/2022 31/12/2023 31/12/2024
Total gross income £535.20k £926.88k £349.28k £878.08k £772.60k
Total expenditure £622.93k £569.00k £696.04k £780.94k £836.89k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Year to 31 December 2024: income £772,604 (donations and legacies £734.49k; other £38.12k); expenditure £836,889 (charitable activities £800.96k; raising funds £35.93k). No trading subsidiary. Trustees unpaid.[1] The 2015 stub figure of £1,775,179 spent 2010–14 is the old Commission overview total, not restated here.[5]

Named UK grant-makers on the existing stub: Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation £18,941 (2018) and £40,063 (2020); Goldberg Family Charitable Trust. Re-check those figures in the donor trusts’ own accounts before treating them as current.

Trustees

Charity Commission card (five trustees):[9]

Name Role Appointed Other CC trusteeships on this card
Paul Andrew Filer Chair (founder trustee; date blank on card) None on record
Deborah Leigh Finkler Trustee 29 June 2026 The Bridge Group
Jeremy Nicholas Apfel Trustee 9 December 2022 None on record
Joseph Gitler Trustee (blank) None on record (founder/chair of Leket Israel)
Gerald Bichunsky Trustee (blank) None on record

The July 2015 board on the old Powerbase page was Gitler, Bichunsky, Filer and Liz Lightstone. Lightstone is not on the current Commission card.[5][9] Leket’s UK page describes Filer as a founder trustee and finance director of a UK multinational, and Apfel as a corporate-affairs specialist.[4]

Contact

Postal address given by Leket Israel (not the 2015 Watford CP House listing):

Leket UK
Sofer & Co
5 Elstree Gate, Elstree Way
Borehamwood
Herts WD6 1JD

UK coordinator named on that page: Robby Hoffman, robby@leket.org. Site: https://www.leket.org/ (and /en/uk/).[4]

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 LEKET UK, Charity Commission, charity 1126755.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Annual Report 2025, Leket Israel.
  3. ↑ Leket Israel keeps food flowing, JNS.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 uk, Leket Israel.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Leket UK, Powerbase (2015 stub).
  6. ↑ Settlements, B'Tselem.
  7. ↑ Ronnie Rosenman, Leket Israel CEO: Food rescue is national infrastructure, Jerusalem Post, 15 January 2026.
  8. ↑ Financial history, LEKET UK, Charity Commission.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Trustees, LEKET UK, Charity Commission.
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