Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association

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Property-backed Stamford Hill grant-maker that does not publish its grant list

Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association

Type Charitable company
Founded 1962-03-16 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 313121; company 00711566
Headquarters 23 Overlea Road, London, E5 9BG
Area served Israel, United States


Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association is a charitable company (00711566) registered on 16 March 1962; register areas are Israel and the United States, with a contact address of 23 Overlea Road, London E5 9BG.[1] The accounts for the year to 31 March 2025, audited by Harold Everett Wreford LLP, give the registered office as Hallswelle House, 1 Hallswelle Road, London NW11 0DH, and the trustees as S S Meyers, D Segal, D Feldman and S Feldman. It has four wholly owned property subsidiaries, and its funds "are derived ... from the subsidiary companies and from independent companies associated with the Trustees". Income was £550,234 (2024: £3,515,150), grants £1,617,059 and funds £2,824,236 (PDF p.2, 4, 10, 16, 20).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES ONLY AND (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING WORDS) IN PARTICULAR: 1. FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH; 2. FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To establish provide and carry on in the United Kingdom and/or elsewhere a school or schools providing education of the highest order and to provide religious instructions and training therein in accordance with the doctrines and principles of religious Judaism and generally to foster education and moral and religious training in accordance with the said principles."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Shulom Feldman not recorded Ahavas Shalom Trust (1056294); Beis Efraim (1155310); Birchas Moshe Trust (1083889); Friends of Wiznitz Limited (255685); North London Charities Ltd (312740); Suncroft Donations Trust (1147134); The Well Trust Limited (1180207); Yhf Trust (1084041)
Dwora Feldman not recorded Amhurst Park Education and Donations (1152424); Birchas Moshe Trust (1083889); Centurian Charities Limited (280880); Entwood Charities Limited (280555); North London Charities Ltd (312740); The Well Trust Limited (1180207)
Spencer Shalom Meyers 2022-07-01 Amhurst Park Education and Donations (1152424); Beis Efraim (1155310); Centurian Charities Limited (280880)
David Segal 2022-07-01 Amhurst Park Education and Donations (1152424); Beis Efraim (1155310); Centurian Charities Limited (280880); Hatzola Northwest Trust (1041441); Hatzola Northwest Trust Limited (1205904); Mead Charitable Trust (1112692); The Sherwood Foundation CIO (1176311)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-01-23 Heinrich Feldman Shulom Feldman; Dvora Feldman [3]
2012-05-03 Heinrich Feldman Shulom Feldman; Dvora Feldman [4]
2021-01-12 Heinrich Feldman (chair) – also trustee of The Well Trust Limited, North London Charities Ltd, The Schonfeld Square Foundation, Amhurst Park Education and Donations, Entwood Charities Limited, Beis Efraim, Birchas Moshe Trust, Suncroft Donations Trust, Keren Hatorah, Friends of Wiznitz Limited, The Viznitz (Keren Nitzchi) Foundation, Agudas Israel Organisation of Great Britain, Centurian Charities Limited; Shulom Feldman – also trustee of Yhf Trust, North London Charities Ltd, Beis Efraim, Birchas Moshe Trust, Suncroft Donations Trust, Friends of Wiznitz Limited; Dvora Feldman – also trustee of North London Charities Ltd, Amhurst Park Education and Donations, Entwood Charities Limited, Birchas Moshe Trust, Centurian Charities Limited [5]

Companies House records Spencer Shalom Meyers (director from 1 July 2022) as resident in Israel; Heinrich Feldman resigned on 22 March 2022.[6]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 6 current and former officers of the charitable company (00711566), 5 of them active.[7] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Spencer Shalom Meyers (Israel, active).[7]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £3,060,571 £1,531,841
2022-03-31 £1,972,420 £1,978,963
2023-03-31 £2,795,495 £2,986,178
2024-03-31 £3,515,150 £2,588,196
2025-03-31 £550,234 £1,626,314

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Mar 2005 1,003,760 1,721,046 [8]
31 Mar 2006 1,009,094 1,668,927 [8]
31 Mar 2007 3,129,015 3,479,338 [8]
31 Mar 2008 2,104,911 2,907,112 [8]
31 Mar 2010 2,318,045 2,399,365 [9]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2007[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2008[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[17]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[18]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to March 2025: grants of £1,617,059, listed only in a separate publication; the named family-linked grants total £411,500 (PDF p.16, 19).[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 grant list is not published and no place 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;[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]
  • Grant list not published. Note 6 says grants "are detailed in a separate publication which is available from the Registered office address" (PDF p.16).[2]
  • Large balances with trustee-linked charities. Other debtors include "loans amounting to £4,858,324 from UK charities in relation to which the trustees have significant control" [sic]; creditors include £651,552 owed to associate undertakings and £1,956,552 owed to "wholly related UK charities" (PDF p.18–19).[2]
  • Grants to family-linked charities. Note 19 lists donations "to charities where the Trustees are family members": Friends of Wiznitz £210,500, Birchas Moshe Trust £130,000, Berest Charities £25,000, YHF Trust £20,000, Millbrook Charities £16,000 and Mosart Trust £10,000 (PDF p.19).[2] S Feldman is recorded on the register as a trustee of Friends of Wiznitz Limited (255685) and Birchas Moshe Trust (1083889).[1]
  • Shared board. Meyers, Segal and D Feldman are also directors of Centurian Charities (280880); Companies House records Meyers as resident in Israel.[6][25] Heinrich Feldman (director until March 2022) and Shulom Feldman are officers of Mosdor Estate Agencies Limited, which shares its name with a subsidiary.[26]

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).[27] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[28]

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.[29]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[30]

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.[31]

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.[32] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[33]

  • 6 Beehive Lane, Ilford, (IG1 3RD) (title EGL8578, freehold, proprietor added 09/12/1983) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 12 Beehive Lane, Ilford, (IG1 3RD) (title EGL8579, freehold, proprietor added 09/12/1983) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 1 to 35 Heyford Avenue, Morden (title SY68217, leasehold, proprietor added 08/05/2002) – CCOD record for proprietor TOWHAVEN LIMITED (company 01549325), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 150, 150a to 166, 166a (even numbers) St Albans Avenue, Hartshead (title LA81067, freehold, proprietor added 09/12/1983) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (no company number in the record), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 29, 29a, 31, 31a, 33, 33a Eversleigh Road, London (N3 1HY) (title MX96476, freehold, proprietor added 28/04/1976) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 54 to 76 (even numbers) Shirley Drive and 1 to 12 and 14 to 29 Shirley Close, Worthing (title SX5832, freehold, proprietor added 02/03/1981) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 499 Upper Brentwood Road, Romford (title EGL57007, leasehold, proprietor added 09/12/1982) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (no company number in the record), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 186 and 188 Dawes Road, Fulham, (SW6 7RQ) (title LN123803, freehold, proprietor added 09/12/1983) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 478 and 482 Lady Margaret Road, Southall (UB1 2NW) (title MX240048, freehold, proprietor added 09/12/1983) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 476 Lady Margaret Road, Southall (UB1 2NW) (title MX223235, freehold, proprietor added 09/12/1983) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 235 to 275 (Odd Numbers inclusive) Kingsbury Road, Kingsbury (NW9 8UG) (title NGL369616, leasehold, proprietor added 22/02/1983) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (no company number in the record), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 1 to 15 and 17 to 20 Heyford Avenue, London (SW20 9JT) (title SGL273249, leasehold, proprietor added 08/05/2002) – CCOD record for proprietor TOWHAVEN LIMITED (company 01549325), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 16 Heyford Avenue, London (SW19 9JT) (title SGL656195, leasehold, proprietor added 02/08/2004) – CCOD record for proprietor TOWHAVEN LIMITED (company 01549325), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 114 VILLIERS AVENUE, SURBITON KT5 8BH (title SGL150757, leasehold, proprietor added 14/12/1983) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • Church Garth, Pemberton Gardens, London (N19 5RN) (title NGL480325, freehold, proprietor added 06/02/1984) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])
  • 497, 497a, 499 and 499a Upper Brentwood Road and 1, 1a, 3 and 3a Compton Avenue, Romford (title EGL519565, leasehold, proprietor added 30/03/2007) – CCOD record for proprietor ALONAVILLE LIMITED (company 01223395), the name of a wholly owned subsidiary listed in note 20 of the accounts (PDF p.20); the charitable company itself (00711566) has no CCOD record (source: [33])

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Ahavath Chessed', 'Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association' returned 0 contributions in total.[34]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 5 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".[5]

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, Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association (313121): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 313121, contact and trustees (capture of 20110123) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 313121, contact and trustees (capture of 20120503) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 313121, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Companies House, Company 00711566 (Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Company 00711566: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Register entry 313121, financial history (capture of 20110123) UK Government Web Archive.
  9. ↑ Register entry 313121, financial history (capture of 20120503) UK Government Web Archive.
  10. ↑ Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association accounts, year ended 2007-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120503).
  11. ↑ Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association accounts, year ended 2008-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120503).
  12. ↑ Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120503).
  13. ↑ Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120503).
  14. ↑ Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  15. ↑ Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  16. ↑ Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  17. ↑ Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  18. ↑ Ahavath Chessed Charitable Association accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
  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 1–7 (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).
  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. ↑ Companies House, Company 01472614 (Centurian Charities Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026.
  26. ↑ Companies House, Heinrich Feldman: appointments and Shulom Feldman: appointments (the lists include FRIENDS OF WIZNITZ LIMITED, 00929964, and MOSDOR ESTATE AGENCIES LIMITED, 00743552) Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026.
  27. ↑ 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).
  28. ↑ 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).
  29. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Ahavath Chessed' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  30. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-313121 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  31. ↑ 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.
  32. ↑ 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.
  33. ↑ 33.00 33.01 33.02 33.03 33.04 33.05 33.06 33.07 33.08 33.09 33.10 33.11 33.12 33.13 33.14 33.15 33.16 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 charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  34. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Ahavath Chessed' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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