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'''Beit Halochem UK''' is a charity (and company 07967938) dedicated to 'raising awareness and funds for Israel’s wounded veterans and victims of terror', by which they mean supporting the occupation forces which on a daily basis defend settlements and participate in ongoing ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
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{{short description|UK charitable company (1146950 / 07967938) raising funds for Beit Halochem IDF veteran centres}}
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{{Infobox organization
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| name          = Beit Halochem UK
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| other_name    = BHUK
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| type          = Charitable company
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| founded        = Company 28 February 2012; charity 19 April 2012
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| registration_id = Charity 1146950; Company 07967938
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| location      = Suite 3, One Bridge Lane, London NW11 0EA
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| website        = https://bhuk.org
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}}
  
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==People==
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'''Beit Halochem UK''' (working name '''BHUK''') is an English charitable company (no. 07967938) and registered charity (no. 1146950). It was incorporated on 28 February 2012 and registered on 19 April 2012. Gift Aid recognised. The register activity line is: raising money for the Beit Halochem Rehabilitation Centres in Israel “that provide facilities and lifelong support to disabled veterans and victims of terror,” and increasing awareness in the UK of those centres.<ref name="CC">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5026946 BEIT HALOCHEM UK], Charity Commission 1146950.</ref>
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===Trustees===
 
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*[[Andrew Wolfson]] Chair. Appointed 01 April 2017 | Also a trustee of [[The Music in Secondary Schools Trust]] | [[The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust]] | [[Benesco Charity Limited]]
 
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*[[David Tahan]] Trustee 02 February 2022
 
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*[[Daniel Kattan]] Trustee 01 December 2018
 
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*[[Orly Wolfson]] Trustee 01 September 2015
 
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*[[Susan Kahn]] Trustee 01 June 2015
 
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*[[Nathaniel Meyohas]] Trustee 19 December 2012
 
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*[[Daniel Naftalin]] Trustee 22 March 2012
 
  
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==Funders==
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Objects (governing document): to promote charitable purposes under English law and in particular “to relieve the adverse physical and mental effects suffered by individuals in Israel by reason of terrorist attacks and war by supporting and making donations to the Beit Halochem Rehabilitation Centres in Israel.” Area of operation on the register: Israel.<ref name="CCFull">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/about-the-register-of-charities/-/charity-details/5026946/full-print Full print], Charity Commission 1146950.</ref>
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*[[Family Foundations Trust]] | [[Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust]] | [[The Pears Family Charitable Foundation]] | [[Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation]] | [[Exilarch’s Foundation]] | [[Bluston Charitable Settlement]] | [[Denise Cohen Charitable Trust]] | [[Loftus Charitable Trust]] | [[The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation]]
 
  
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==Contact==
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Beit Halochem (“House of the Warriors”) is the rehabilitation network of the [[Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization]] ([[ZDVO]]). Centres named in UK reporting: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beer Sheva, with Ashdod as a fifth / PTSD hub. Membership figures used by BHUK have risen from about 51,000 before October 2023 to 70,000-plus, including tens of thousands added after Gaza and Lebanon operations. The charity is explicit that the beneficiaries are wounded [[Israel Defense Forces]] veterans and civilian terror victims.<ref name="JN2026">Justin Cohen, [https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/record-2m-raised-to-ease-israels-spiralling-ptsd-crisis/ Record £2m raised to ease Israel’s spiralling PTSD crisis], ''Jewish News'', 16 June 2026.</ref><ref name="JC2025">Daniel Ben-David, [https://www.thejc.com/news/community/british-jewry-raises-17-million-to-support-wounded-idf-veterans-pat5k4pm British Jewry raises £1.7 million to support wounded IDF veterans], ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 2 July 2025.</ref>
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*Web [https://bhuk.org/ bhuk.org]
 
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*Internet Archive holdings of [https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/bhuk.org bhuk.org]
 
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*Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/beithalochemuk facebook.com/beithalochemuk]
 
  
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==Notes==
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== Same Israeli partner as BFIWD; amalgamation ==
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[[The British Friends of the Israeli War Disabled Trust]] (269269, registered 1975) was the older UK friends body of the same ZDVO / Beit Halochem network. ZDVO’s international-partners page listed BFIWD as the UK “delegation” (bfiwd.org). BHUK is the later, larger dinner-and-grant company (2012). They ran in parallel: BFIWD as hospitality visits plus smaller grants; BHUK as the high-volume fundraiser.<ref name="ZDVO">[https://zdvo.org/international-partners/ International Partners], ZDVO.</ref><ref name="BFIWD">[[The British Friends of the Israeli War Disabled Trust]]</ref>
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On 27 July 2026 the Commission removed 269269 as amalgamated and recorded that [[Beit Halochem UK]] received its funds. A separate incoming transfer on the BHUK register entry is from [[The Hyam Sassoon Levi Charitable Trust]] (1090043) on 23 August 2024.<ref name="CCGov">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5026946/governance Governance], Charity Commission 1146950.</ref>
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Do not merge the historic numbers. Dennis Levine is named on ZDVO plaques as founder of Beit Halochem UK, not as a 269269 trustee.
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== People ==
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=== Current trustees (register, 2026) ===
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Six trustees. Chair: Honourable [[Andrew Daniel Wolfson]], appointed 1 April 2017. Other trusteeships on the register: [[Benesco Charity Limited]], [[The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust]], [[The Music in Secondary Schools Trust]].<ref name="CCTrust">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5026946/trustees Trustees], Charity Commission 1146950.</ref>
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Name
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! Role
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! Appointed
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! Other trusteeships on the register
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|-
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| [[Andrew Daniel Wolfson]]
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| Chair
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| 1 April 2017
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| [[Benesco Charity Limited]]; [[The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust]]; [[The Music in Secondary Schools Trust]]
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|-
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| [[Nathaniel Meyohas]]
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| Trustee
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| 19 December 2012
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| None listed
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|-
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| [[Susan Kahn]]
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| Trustee
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| 1 June 2015
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| None listed
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|-
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| [[Orly Wolfson]]
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| Trustee
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| 1 September 2015
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| None listed
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|-
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| [[Daniel Kattan]]
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| Trustee
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| 1 December 2018
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| None listed
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|-
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| [[Ronelle Arbib]]
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| Trustee
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| 4 February 2026
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| None listed
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|}
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=== Former trustees ===
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Name
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! Notes
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|-
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| [[Daniel Naftalin]]
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| On the 2022 and 2024/25 accounts boards (appointed 22 March 2012 on the Powerbase stub). Not on the live six-trustee register list.
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|-
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| [[David Tahan]]
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| Appointed 1 / 2 February 2022; resigned 30 June 2025 (2024/25 accounts).<ref name="Acc25">Report of the trustees, Beit Halochem UK, year ended 28 February 2025, Charity Commission accounts file.</ref>
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|}
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=== Staff ===
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Three employees; one in the £150k–£200k band (year to 28 February 2025). About 60 volunteers.<ref name="CC"/>
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Name
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! Role
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! Source
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|-
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| [[Spencer Gelding]]
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| Chief executive from February 2012
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| 2022 and 2025 TARs; public face at dinners and Veteran Games
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| [[Dina Kestenbaum]]
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| Operations manager from October 2022 (PR and marketing)
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| 2025 TAR
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|-
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| [[David Thrilling]]
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| Project manager from October 2023 (UK–Israel veteran links; fundraising)
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| 2025 TAR
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|-
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| [[Karina Shulman]]
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| Operations manager from January 2020 (Veteran Games; veteran-organisation links)
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| 2022 TAR; succeeded in the later structure
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|}
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Dinner chairs named in press: [[Katie Cutler]], [[Michaela Meyohas]]. Israeli president [[Isaac Herzog]] and Chief Rabbi [[Ephraim Mirvis]] have spoken or sent messages to BHUK dinners. Ambassador [[Tzipi Hotovely]] attended the 2024 Dorchester dinner.<ref name="JN2026"/><ref name="JN2024">Jenni Frazer, [https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/standing-ovation-for-idf-heroes-in-london/ Standing ovation for IDF heroes in London], ''Jewish News'', 19 September 2024.</ref>
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== Schools and “awareness” ==
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The 2022 trustees’ report stated:
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:We have taken wounded IDF and UK veterans to many primary and secondary schools to share their inspiring and resilient stories as well as taking over 2,000 students to visit one of the four Beit Halochem centres in Israel via their schools trips.<ref name="Acc22">Report of the trustees, Beit Halochem UK, year ended 28 February 2022, Charity Commission accounts file.</ref>
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A ZDVO wall plaque thanks “the Jewish Schools in London for their invaluable support to Beit Halochem UK.”<ref name="Wall">[https://zdvo.org/center_location/wall-of-honor/ Wall of Honor], zdvo.org.</ref>
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Named school activity:
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* [[JFS]] School, Harrow — annual “It’s a Knockout” family day (June 2026: 1,150 children, 700 adults, £46,000 for Beer Sheva PTSD clinics).<ref name="Knockout">Michelle Rosenberg, [https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/beit-halochem-uk-its-a-knockout-event-raises-46000/ Beit Halochem UK ‘It’s a Knockout’ event raises £46,000], ''Jewish News'', 10 June 2026.</ref>
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* JFS mental-health / veteran-speaker work with former Royal Marine Chris Hayes meeting “500 students” (''Jewish News'', 2023).<ref name="Hayes">Justin Cohen, Former Royal Marine meets 500 students in mental health drive, ''Jewish News'', 2 February 2023.</ref>
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The TAR does not publish a school-by-school list. The “many primary and secondary schools” line is the charity’s own; it is not limited on the face of the report to Jewish schools only. Israel school-trip volume (“over 2,000 students”) is likewise the charity’s figure, not a Department for Education table.
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== Veteran Games and UK visits ==
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BHUK runs and funds joint Veteran Games with British military veterans in Israel and brings Israeli veterans to London (sightseeing, host events, security contractors named in press). That is the same genre of hospitality as historic BFIWD visits, at larger scale.<ref name="Acc22"/><ref name="JNLondon">Five days in London with Beit Halochem veterans, ''Jewish News'', 16 April 2025.</ref>
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== Finances ==
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Year end late February. No government contracts or grants.<ref name="CCFin">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5026946/financial-history Financial history], Charity Commission 1146950.</ref>
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Year end
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! Income
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! Expenditure
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! Grants to institutions (where given)
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|-
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| 28 Feb 2021
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| £1.55m
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| £1.58m
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| £1.26m
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|-
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| 28 Feb 2022
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| £1.23m
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| £1.07m
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| £0.72m
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|-
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| 28 Feb 2023
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| £2.13m
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| £2.30m
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| £1.61m
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|-
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| 29 Feb 2024
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| £4.18m
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| £3.38m
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| £2.74m
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|-
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| 28 Feb 2025
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| £4.66m
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| £3.60m
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| £1.69m
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|}
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The 2025 TAR also records £1.65 million transferred by donors straight to the Israeli partner and therefore left out of the UK statements under Commission accounting rules. Dinner headlines: about £2.1 million (June 2026), £1.7 million (July 2025), £2 million-plus (September 2024). BHUK / dinner chairs have claimed cumulative UK fundraising of about £44–54 million over 13–14 years.<ref name="Acc25"/><ref name="JN2026"/>
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Raising-funds spend jumped to £1.60 million in 2024/25 (from £0.32 million the year before).
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=== 2025 transfer fraud ===
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In May 2025 chair Andrew Wolfson and CEO Spencer Gelding wrote to donors that a “sophisticated” fraud by a third-party FX firm they had used for three years had hit a single UK-to-Israel transfer, reported in the region of £1 million (under 10 per cent of sums raised since 7 October 2023). Police and the Commission were notified; at least two other organisations were said to have been targeted.<ref name="JNFraud">Daniel Sugarman, [https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/uk-charity-supporting-idf-veterans-hit-by-1-million-transaction-fraud/ UK charity supporting IDF veterans hit by £1 million transaction fraud], ''Jewish News'', 20 May 2025.</ref>
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== Donors ==
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The Commission register does not publish a donor list. Named funders below combine the BHUK “Supporters” page, 360Giving / Pears disclosures, and Charity commission data. Amounts only where a public grant line exists.
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'''On bhuk.org supporters (Founder Benefactor / Benefactor / Chai Patron bands):''' [[Lyall Cresswell|Lyall and Candice Cresswell]]; [[Barbara Cohen]] z”l; [[Ty and Caprice Comfort]]; [[The Erica Lawson Charitable Trust]]; [[Future Directions Foundation]]; [[Charles Gourgey]]; [[The Harris Family Charitable Trust]]; [[Alan and Caroline Howard]]; the [[Jaffe family]]; [[John and Sandra Joseph]]; the [[Kattan family]]; [[Justin and Judith Keller]]; the [[Kirsh Family Office]]; [[The Parasol Foundation]]; [[The Pershing Square Foundation]]; [[Rachel Charitable Trust]]; [[Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation]]; [[Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation]]; [[The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust]]; [[The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust]]; [[Yael Foundation]]; [[Edward and Rebecca Barnett]]; [[The Bluston Charitable Settlement]]; [[Stephen and Valerie Davis]]; [[Graham and Georgina Edwards]]; [[The Exilarch's Foundation]]; [[Israel Lazarus Charitable Trust]]; [[Neville and Susie Kahn]]; [[Nathaniel and Michaela Meyohas]]; [[David and Karine Morris]]; [[Daniel and Faye Naftalin]]; [[Pears Foundation]]; [[Anthony and Sally Ann Thwaites]]; [[The Paul E Singer Foundation]]; [[David and Yael Zisser]]; [[Shraga and Janet Cohen]]; [[Simon and Annette Dalah]]; [[FourSixThree Capital LP]]; [[Allen and Caroline Hanouka]]; [[Phillip and Michelle Hertz]]; [[Mark and Abbie Joseph]]; [[David and Sally Kattan]]; [[Marc and Lydia Lauer]]; [[Loftus Charitable Trust]]; [[Maurice and Rochelle Miller]]; [[Rosemarie Nathanson Charitable Trust]]; [[The Ralph Trust]]; [[Gary and Lindsay Sacks]].<ref name="Supp">[https://admin.bhuk.org/pages/supporters Supporters], Beit Halochem UK.</ref>
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[[Family Foundations Trust]]; [[Denise Cohen Charitable Trust]]; Pears grants including £50,000 (Jan 2024–Jan 2026), £60,000 Veteran Games 2023, £25,000 (2022), £50,000 (2020), £25,000 (2019).<ref name="GiG">[https://givingisgreat.org/database/charity-factsheet/?regNo=1146950 Beit Halochem UK], Giving is Great.</ref>
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Related-party overlay: [[Charles Wolfson]] / [[Andrew Wolfson]]; Kattan and Meyohas / Naftalin families appear both as trustees or dinner chairs and as named benefactors.
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== UK Friends of AWIS — different charity ==
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[[UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers]] (UK-AWIS / UK Friends of AWIS, 1084272, company 04094203) is a '''separate''' IDF-facing UK charity. Objects: serving and discharged Israeli soldiers — education, leisure, relief of need. It is not ZDVO / Beit Halochem.
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The Commission opened a compliance case in December 2023 after reporting that UK-AWIS fundraising material supported serving IDF units and after a video on its site/YouTube that appeared to show a killing (the Commission later said it did not depict a killing but was “distressing”). Trustees were found to have outsourced the website to a former executive. Official warning under s.75A, 9 June 2025: misconduct/mismanagement; review of content by 9 December 2025. Transfers to Israel were paused then resumed. BHUK has '''not''' had an equivalent published official warning on the live register.<ref name="MEE">[https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-charity-warned-regulator-over-fundraising-video-israeli-soldiers UK charity warned by regulator over fundraising video for Israeli soldiers], ''Middle East Eye'', 24 July 2025.</ref><ref name="Warn">Official warning, UK Friends of AWIS (1084272), 9 June 2025.</ref>
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== See also ==
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* [[The British Friends of the Israeli War Disabled Trust]]
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* [[Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization]]
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* [[UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers]]
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* [[Loftus Charitable Trust]]
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* [[Pears Foundation]]
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* [[The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust]]
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== Contact ==
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* Web: [https://bhuk.org/ bhuk.org]
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* Internet Archive: [https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/bhuk.org bhuk.org]
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* Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/beithalochemuk facebook.com/beithalochemuk]
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* Address: Suite 3, One Bridge Lane, London NW11 0EA
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== Notes ==
 
<references/>
 
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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 supporting the Israeli military]]

Revision as of 10:31, 28 September 2026

UK charitable company (1146950 / 07967938) raising funds for Beit Halochem IDF veteran centres

Beit Halochem UK
Type Charitable company
Logo
Founded Company 28 February 2012; charity 19 April 2012
Founder(s)
Dissolved
Registration ID Charity 1146950; Company 07967938
Status
Headquarters
Location Suite 3, One Bridge Lane, London NW11 0EA
Area served
Services
Registration
Key people
Website https://bhuk.org
Remarks


Beit Halochem UK (working name BHUK) is an English charitable company (no. 07967938) and registered charity (no. 1146950). It was incorporated on 28 February 2012 and registered on 19 April 2012. Gift Aid recognised. The register activity line is: raising money for the Beit Halochem Rehabilitation Centres in Israel “that provide facilities and lifelong support to disabled veterans and victims of terror,” and increasing awareness in the UK of those centres.[1]

Objects (governing document): to promote charitable purposes under English law and in particular “to relieve the adverse physical and mental effects suffered by individuals in Israel by reason of terrorist attacks and war by supporting and making donations to the Beit Halochem Rehabilitation Centres in Israel.” Area of operation on the register: Israel.[2]

Beit Halochem (“House of the Warriors”) is the rehabilitation network of the Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization (ZDVO). Centres named in UK reporting: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beer Sheva, with Ashdod as a fifth / PTSD hub. Membership figures used by BHUK have risen from about 51,000 before October 2023 to 70,000-plus, including tens of thousands added after Gaza and Lebanon operations. The charity is explicit that the beneficiaries are wounded Israel Defense Forces veterans and civilian terror victims.[3][4]

Same Israeli partner as BFIWD; amalgamation

The British Friends of the Israeli War Disabled Trust (269269, registered 1975) was the older UK friends body of the same ZDVO / Beit Halochem network. ZDVO’s international-partners page listed BFIWD as the UK “delegation” (bfiwd.org). BHUK is the later, larger dinner-and-grant company (2012). They ran in parallel: BFIWD as hospitality visits plus smaller grants; BHUK as the high-volume fundraiser.[5][6]

On 27 July 2026 the Commission removed 269269 as amalgamated and recorded that Beit Halochem UK received its funds. A separate incoming transfer on the BHUK register entry is from The Hyam Sassoon Levi Charitable Trust (1090043) on 23 August 2024.[7]

Do not merge the historic numbers. Dennis Levine is named on ZDVO plaques as founder of Beit Halochem UK, not as a 269269 trustee.

People

Current trustees (register, 2026)

Six trustees. Chair: Honourable Andrew Daniel Wolfson, appointed 1 April 2017. Other trusteeships on the register: Benesco Charity Limited, The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, The Music in Secondary Schools Trust.[8]

Name Role Appointed Other trusteeships on the register
Andrew Daniel Wolfson Chair 1 April 2017 Benesco Charity Limited; The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust; The Music in Secondary Schools Trust
Nathaniel Meyohas Trustee 19 December 2012 None listed
Susan Kahn Trustee 1 June 2015 None listed
Orly Wolfson Trustee 1 September 2015 None listed
Daniel Kattan Trustee 1 December 2018 None listed
Ronelle Arbib Trustee 4 February 2026 None listed

Former trustees

Name Notes
Daniel Naftalin On the 2022 and 2024/25 accounts boards (appointed 22 March 2012 on the Powerbase stub). Not on the live six-trustee register list.
David Tahan Appointed 1 / 2 February 2022; resigned 30 June 2025 (2024/25 accounts).[9]

Staff

Three employees; one in the £150k–£200k band (year to 28 February 2025). About 60 volunteers.[1]

Name Role Source
Spencer Gelding Chief executive from February 2012 2022 and 2025 TARs; public face at dinners and Veteran Games
Dina Kestenbaum Operations manager from October 2022 (PR and marketing) 2025 TAR
David Thrilling Project manager from October 2023 (UK–Israel veteran links; fundraising) 2025 TAR
Karina Shulman Operations manager from January 2020 (Veteran Games; veteran-organisation links) 2022 TAR; succeeded in the later structure

Dinner chairs named in press: Katie Cutler, Michaela Meyohas. Israeli president Isaac Herzog and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis have spoken or sent messages to BHUK dinners. Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely attended the 2024 Dorchester dinner.[3][10]

Schools and “awareness”

The 2022 trustees’ report stated:

We have taken wounded IDF and UK veterans to many primary and secondary schools to share their inspiring and resilient stories as well as taking over 2,000 students to visit one of the four Beit Halochem centres in Israel via their schools trips.[11]

A ZDVO wall plaque thanks “the Jewish Schools in London for their invaluable support to Beit Halochem UK.”[12]

Named school activity:

  • JFS School, Harrow — annual “It’s a Knockout” family day (June 2026: 1,150 children, 700 adults, £46,000 for Beer Sheva PTSD clinics).[13]
  • JFS mental-health / veteran-speaker work with former Royal Marine Chris Hayes meeting “500 students” (Jewish News, 2023).[14]

The TAR does not publish a school-by-school list. The “many primary and secondary schools” line is the charity’s own; it is not limited on the face of the report to Jewish schools only. Israel school-trip volume (“over 2,000 students”) is likewise the charity’s figure, not a Department for Education table.

Veteran Games and UK visits

BHUK runs and funds joint Veteran Games with British military veterans in Israel and brings Israeli veterans to London (sightseeing, host events, security contractors named in press). That is the same genre of hospitality as historic BFIWD visits, at larger scale.[11][15]

Finances

Year end late February. No government contracts or grants.[16]

Year end Income Expenditure Grants to institutions (where given)
28 Feb 2021 £1.55m £1.58m £1.26m
28 Feb 2022 £1.23m £1.07m £0.72m
28 Feb 2023 £2.13m £2.30m £1.61m
29 Feb 2024 £4.18m £3.38m £2.74m
28 Feb 2025 £4.66m £3.60m £1.69m

The 2025 TAR also records £1.65 million transferred by donors straight to the Israeli partner and therefore left out of the UK statements under Commission accounting rules. Dinner headlines: about £2.1 million (June 2026), £1.7 million (July 2025), £2 million-plus (September 2024). BHUK / dinner chairs have claimed cumulative UK fundraising of about £44–54 million over 13–14 years.[9][3]

Raising-funds spend jumped to £1.60 million in 2024/25 (from £0.32 million the year before).

2025 transfer fraud

In May 2025 chair Andrew Wolfson and CEO Spencer Gelding wrote to donors that a “sophisticated” fraud by a third-party FX firm they had used for three years had hit a single UK-to-Israel transfer, reported in the region of £1 million (under 10 per cent of sums raised since 7 October 2023). Police and the Commission were notified; at least two other organisations were said to have been targeted.[17]

Donors

The Commission register does not publish a donor list. Named funders below combine the BHUK “Supporters” page, 360Giving / Pears disclosures, and Charity commission data. Amounts only where a public grant line exists.

On bhuk.org supporters (Founder Benefactor / Benefactor / Chai Patron bands): Lyall and Candice Cresswell; Barbara Cohen z”l; Ty and Caprice Comfort; The Erica Lawson Charitable Trust; Future Directions Foundation; Charles Gourgey; The Harris Family Charitable Trust; Alan and Caroline Howard; the Jaffe family; John and Sandra Joseph; the Kattan family; Justin and Judith Keller; the Kirsh Family Office; The Parasol Foundation; The Pershing Square Foundation; Rachel Charitable Trust; Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation; Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Philanthropic Foundation; The Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust; The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust; Yael Foundation; Edward and Rebecca Barnett; The Bluston Charitable Settlement; Stephen and Valerie Davis; Graham and Georgina Edwards; The Exilarch's Foundation; Israel Lazarus Charitable Trust; Neville and Susie Kahn; Nathaniel and Michaela Meyohas; David and Karine Morris; Daniel and Faye Naftalin; Pears Foundation; Anthony and Sally Ann Thwaites; The Paul E Singer Foundation; David and Yael Zisser; Shraga and Janet Cohen; Simon and Annette Dalah; FourSixThree Capital LP; Allen and Caroline Hanouka; Phillip and Michelle Hertz; Mark and Abbie Joseph; David and Sally Kattan; Marc and Lydia Lauer; Loftus Charitable Trust; Maurice and Rochelle Miller; Rosemarie Nathanson Charitable Trust; The Ralph Trust; Gary and Lindsay Sacks.[18]

Family Foundations Trust; Denise Cohen Charitable Trust; Pears grants including £50,000 (Jan 2024–Jan 2026), £60,000 Veteran Games 2023, £25,000 (2022), £50,000 (2020), £25,000 (2019).[19]

Related-party overlay: Charles Wolfson / Andrew Wolfson; Kattan and Meyohas / Naftalin families appear both as trustees or dinner chairs and as named benefactors.

UK Friends of AWIS — different charity

UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers (UK-AWIS / UK Friends of AWIS, 1084272, company 04094203) is a separate IDF-facing UK charity. Objects: serving and discharged Israeli soldiers — education, leisure, relief of need. It is not ZDVO / Beit Halochem.

The Commission opened a compliance case in December 2023 after reporting that UK-AWIS fundraising material supported serving IDF units and after a video on its site/YouTube that appeared to show a killing (the Commission later said it did not depict a killing but was “distressing”). Trustees were found to have outsourced the website to a former executive. Official warning under s.75A, 9 June 2025: misconduct/mismanagement; review of content by 9 December 2025. Transfers to Israel were paused then resumed. BHUK has not had an equivalent published official warning on the live register.[20][21]


See also

Contact

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 BEIT HALOCHEM UK, Charity Commission 1146950.
  2. ↑ Full print, Charity Commission 1146950.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Justin Cohen, Record £2m raised to ease Israel’s spiralling PTSD crisis, Jewish News, 16 June 2026.
  4. ↑ Daniel Ben-David, British Jewry raises £1.7 million to support wounded IDF veterans, The Jewish Chronicle, 2 July 2025.
  5. ↑ International Partners, ZDVO.
  6. ↑ The British Friends of the Israeli War Disabled Trust
  7. ↑ Governance, Charity Commission 1146950.
  8. ↑ Trustees, Charity Commission 1146950.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Report of the trustees, Beit Halochem UK, year ended 28 February 2025, Charity Commission accounts file.
  10. ↑ Jenni Frazer, Standing ovation for IDF heroes in London, Jewish News, 19 September 2024.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Report of the trustees, Beit Halochem UK, year ended 28 February 2022, Charity Commission accounts file.
  12. ↑ Wall of Honor, zdvo.org.
  13. ↑ Michelle Rosenberg, Beit Halochem UK ‘It’s a Knockout’ event raises £46,000, Jewish News, 10 June 2026.
  14. ↑ Justin Cohen, Former Royal Marine meets 500 students in mental health drive, Jewish News, 2 February 2023.
  15. ↑ Five days in London with Beit Halochem veterans, Jewish News, 16 April 2025.
  16. ↑ Financial history, Charity Commission 1146950.
  17. ↑ Daniel Sugarman, UK charity supporting IDF veterans hit by £1 million transaction fraud, Jewish News, 20 May 2025.
  18. ↑ Supporters, Beit Halochem UK.
  19. ↑ Beit Halochem UK, Giving is Great.
  20. ↑ UK charity warned by regulator over fundraising video for Israeli soldiers, Middle East Eye, 24 July 2025.
  21. ↑ Official warning, UK Friends of AWIS (1084272), 9 June 2025.
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