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Edgware charitable company whose accounts describe all spending as UK educational events, with no breakdown

ETC Youth

Type Charitable company
Founded 2006-06-06 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1114581; company 05703580
Headquarters 78 St. Margarets Road, Edgware, HA8 9UU
Area served Throughout London, Israel


ETC Youth is a charitable company (05703580) registered on 6 June 2006; register areas are London and Israel, with a contact address of 78 St Margarets Road, Edgware HA8 9UU.[1] The accounts for the year to 28 February 2025, independently examined by Ankur Shah of MAP Accounting, give the principal address as 26 Oakfield Avenue, Harrow (the examiner's address) and name Rephoel Zev Godlewsky as the only trustee. Voluntary income was £578,172 (2024: £835,214) and spending on "Educational events and lectures / United Kingdom" £509,409; funds were £161,371 (PDF p.3, 5–6).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1. TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPACITY AND SKILLS, WITH A VIEW TO ENABLING THEM TO ENHANCE THEIR PROSPECTS OF EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;2. FOR THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH PROVISION BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;3. FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY;4. THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES SUCH AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "THE CHARITY WAS SET UP TO SUPPORT, PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPACITY AND SKILLS, WITH A VIEW TO ENABLING THEM TO ENHANCE THEIR PROSPECTS OF EMPLOYMENT AND CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN THE SOCIETY. FOR THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of ETC Youth (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Rabbi Rephoel Zev Godlewsky 2012-01-18 Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust (1044458)
Zeev Chaim Polias 2025-03-13 —
Eli Miller 2025-03-19 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-05 David Miller (from 18 January 2012); Rephoel Godlewsky Rabbi (chair) (from 18 January 2012) [3]

The accounts name only Rephoel Zev Godlewsky as a trustee (PDF p.3).[2] Companies House lists Zeev Chaim Polias (from 13 March 2025) and Eli Miller (from 19 March 2025) as directors, and former directors including Alan Weisz (14 July 2023 – 1 June 2024) and Avi Ifergan (Israeli, 2015–2018).[4]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 10 current and former officers of the charitable company (05703580), 3 of them active.[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-02-28 £77,908 £103,128
2022-02-28 £237,208 £290,495
2023-02-28 £814,242 £807,712
2024-02-29 £835,243 £805,843
2025-02-28 £578,207 £509,409

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 28/02/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to February 2025: £509,409 on "Educational events and lectures" in the United Kingdom, mostly "Other Direct cost" of £492,759 (PDF p.5, 9).[2]

Israeli partners

Not identified.[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
The accounts label all spending as in the United Kingdom and name no place in Israel.[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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
  • Unexplained costs. The detailed accounts show "Other Direct cost" of £492,759 (2024: £785,404) without explanation; the accounts do not mention Israel or name any recipient (PDF p.9).[2]
  • Governance description. The report describes the charity as governed by "a deed of trust" and as "an unincorporated charity", although it is a registered company, and refers to superseded reporting frameworks (PDF p.3, 7).[2][4]
  • Shared trustees. Godlewsky and Polias are also the trustees of Keren Hayeled Charitable Trust (1044458), which has the same register address.[1]

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, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

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.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2025-05-14 Sport England 9,990 This project will provide 52 weeks of weekly swimming sessions for Orthodox Jewish men and boys. Funding is towards the pool hire.

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[19]

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.[20]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[21]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'ETC Youth' returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

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]

See also

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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, ETC Youth Ltd (1114581): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 (the PDF is a scan and was read by OCR, with key figures checked against the page images; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1114581, full print (capture of 20210105) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Companies House, Company 05703580 (ETC Youth Ltd): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Company 05703580: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  6. ↑ ETC Youth accounts, year ended 2015-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ ETC Youth accounts, year ended 2016-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ ETC Youth accounts, year ended 2017-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  9. ↑ ETC Youth accounts, year ended 2018-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  10. ↑ 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 1–7 (175 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 – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ 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).
  17. ↑ 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).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'ETC Youth' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1114581 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'ETC Youth' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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