Friends of Yad Sarah UK

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

Friends of Yad Sarah

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


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

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

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

History and objects

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

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

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

Yad Sarah

Yad Sarah House, Jerusalem (2016), described on Wikimedia Commons as Yad Sarah's main headquarters. The trust raises funds for Yad Sarah; its FY2025 grant to Yad Sarah was £231,197

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

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

Settlement branches

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

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

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

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

People

Current trustees

Four trustees on the Charity Commission card:[9]

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

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

Former trustees (from the 2020 accounts)

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

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2018-01-04 Samuel Dan Pearlman; S Simmonds; Ann Zinkin; S D Kibel [10]
2021-01-11 Sam PEARLMAN (from 16 February 2017) – also trustee of The Joseph and Sarah Pearlman Jewish Charitable Trust; Lawrence Frank Harding (from 25 June 2018); Adam Max Caplin (from 05 December 2019); S D Kibel [11]

Finances

Charity Commission headline figures, years ended 30 June:[12]

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

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

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2014[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2016[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[17]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grant £231,197 (2024: £428,406) to Yad Sarah, Israel; no other institutional grants (PDF p.11).[18]

Israeli partners

Yad Sarah, Israel.[18]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[19] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[20][21][22][23] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[24]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[25] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[26]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name returned no notices.[27]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[28]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[29]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[30] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[31]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Friends of Yad Sarah', 'Yad Sarah' returned 0 contributions in total.[32]

Web archive

  • yadsarah.org.uk: 13 yearly captures, first 2013-04-16, last 2026-01-09.[33]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[11]

UK funders

UK grant-makers named as donors to Friends of Yad Sarah or to Yad Sarah in published trust lists include:[34]

The Schreiber Charitable Trust (264735, Wembley — the Chaim / David Abraham Schreiber furniture-family trust, not the Stamford Hill Midos line) named Friends of Yad Sarah among institutions receiving grants in its 2021–22 notes, together with Torah Live UK, UK Toremet Ltd, The Work Avenue Foundation and Aish Hatorah UK Ltd. Those notes do not print a line amount for Yad Sarah.[34]

Listed as Funders/Patrons

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

Related bodies

Contact

Harcourt House
341 Regents Park Road
London N3 1DP

Website listed on aggregator files: www.yadsarah.org.uk[35]

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH, Charity Commission, 294801.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 ‘Branches’, Yad Sarah, Internet Archive capture 25 August 2017.
  3. ↑ About Us, Friends of Yad Sarah, Inc.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 FRIENDS OF YAD SARAH, Fundraiso (Charity Commission extract: trust deed 6 November 1985).
  5. ↑ Friends of Yad Sarah, NGO Explorer.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Friends of Yad Sarah, Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June 2020, Charity Commission accounts file.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Yad Sarah, Wikipedia.
  8. ↑ Uri Lupolianski, Wikipedia.
  9. ↑ Trustees, Friends of Yad Sarah, Charity Commission.
  10. ↑ Register entry 294801, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Register entry 294801, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  12. ↑ Financial history, Friends of Yad Sarah, Charity Commission.
  13. ↑ Friends of Yad Sarah accounts, year ended 2014-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  14. ↑ Friends of Yad Sarah accounts, year ended 2015-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  15. ↑ Friends of Yad Sarah accounts, year ended 2016-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  16. ↑ Friends of Yad Sarah accounts, year ended 2017-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  17. ↑ Friends of Yad Sarah accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Charity Commission, Friends of Yad Sarah (294801): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for every charity in batches 1–8 (200 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102), The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust (299687) and Kollel Mishkon Yakov (1170620).
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  21. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  22. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  23. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  24. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  25. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the batch-7 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Lieutenancy of Scotland, is a separate Scottish body).
  26. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-7 charity name returned zero results).
  27. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Yad Sarah' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  28. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-294801 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  29. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-7 screening covered 428 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers, lenders, subsidiaries and related bodies named in the accounts read for this batch (including Ambertown International Ltd); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. The single forename-and-surname candidate (a former Wimbledon and District Synagogue director against a UK counter-terrorism designation) has different middle names and was not treated as a match; all other candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps; lists downloaded October 2026.
  30. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  31. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  32. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Yad Sarah' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
  33. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for yadsarah.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Donor lists compiled from published accounts of the named UK trusts, including the Schreiber Charitable Trust notes for years ended 5 April 2021–2022.
  35. ↑ Friends Of Yad Sarah, TotalGiving.
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