Meri Trust

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Salford charitable company funded mainly by a trustee and his company; its grants fell from £207,941 to £78,700 in 2024/25, £50,000 of them to Live and Learn

Meri Trust

Type Charitable company
Founded 2015-12-18 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1164928; company 08738056
Headquarters Salford M7
Area served Israel
Key people Jacob Adler (chair)


The Meri Trust is a charitable company (08738056) incorporated on 18 October 2013 and registered on 18 December 2015; its registered office is in Salford M7 (PDF p.4).[1][2] Its objects are the relief of poverty and sickness among "people living in the UK and Israel" (PDF p.5).[2] The trustees are Jacob Adler, Mark Jeremy Miller and Sarah Rubinfeld; day-to-day management is by Mr S Goldberg, the accountants are Haffner Hoff and the independent examiner is Howard Schwalbe ACA (PDF p.3–4).[2] In the year to 31 October 2025 donations were £79,250 (2024: £133,625) and grants £78,700 (2024: £207,941), including £50,000 to Live and Learn; the charity holds a 25% share in a property investment syndicate, carried at £24,969 (PDF p.6, 15–16).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UK AND ISRAEL BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES.2. THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UK OR ISRAEL.3. SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "As detailed in the Trust deed"[1]

Register classifications: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Meri Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Jacob Adler 2013-10-18 Yes Lehachzikom (1176141); New Marston Limited (1092751)
Mark Jeremy Miller 2013-10-18 —
Sarah Rubinfeld 2013-10-18 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-09 Mark Jeremy Miller (from 18 October 2013); Jacob Adler (chair) (from 18 October 2013) – also trustee of New Marston Limited, Ahavas Shalom Trust; Sarah Rubinfeld (from 18 October 2013) [3]

Companies House records Sarah Rubinfeld's appointment as a director as ended on 18 May 2026; she is still listed as a trustee on the register.[4][1]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 4 current and former officers of the charitable company (08738056), 2 of them active.[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-10-31 £363,700 £362,977
2022-10-31 £326,200 £328,931
2023-10-31 £155,584 £157,903
2024-10-31 £133,625 £209,032
2025-10-31 £79,250 £79,648

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/10/2017[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/10/2018[7]

Funding in Israel

  • No 2024/25 grant is placed in Israel by the accounts; the largest 2023/24 grant, £110,000 to "FOW", is not identified further (PDF p.15).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named.[2]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place in Israel is named.[2] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

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;[8] 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.[9][10][11][12] 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.[13]
  • Funding by a trustee. Trustee J Adler is a shareholder and director of MBH Investments Ltd, which donated £34,250; Mr Adler donated a further £36,000 (PDF p.17).[2]
  • Contradictory statements. The report says "The unrestricted fund is in deficit" and relies on "assurances from a local philanthropist", while the balance sheet shows funds of £24,191 and net current liabilities of £778; the grants note totals 2024 grants at £206,800 against £207,941 in the statement of financial activities (PDF p.7, 9, 15).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[17]

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.[18]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[19] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[20]

  • A 25% holding in a property investment syndicate, carried at £24,969; address not stated; the register records no land – Accounts (PDF p.7, 16) (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Meri Trust" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

Web archive

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".[3]

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Charity Commission, Meri Trust (1164928): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1164928, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Companies House, THE MERI TRUST (08738056) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Company 08738056: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Meri Trust accounts, year ended 2017-10-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ Meri Trust accounts, year ended 2018-10-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ 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 each of the 25 batch-19 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Twenty-two registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 1691 days"; Leibovici Charitable Trust and Friends of Bereaved Families Forum (1118221) showed "Removed charity".
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  12. ↑ 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).
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  14. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-19 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-19 charity names returned zero results).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Meri Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1164928 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-19 screening covered 358 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees and other people and bodies named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Miller, Gold) or generic words in organisation names (Trust, Ltd, Limited).
  19. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  20. ↑ HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on the company numbers of the eight charitable companies in this batch (06615331, 03328487, 02311243, 08463157, 04417664, 07804771, 08738056, 10117583) and on the charities' registered names and named related companies; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Meri Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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