British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz

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Stamford Hill trust giving poverty relief and grants within the Viznitz Hasidic community in the UK and Israel

British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz

Type Trust
Founded 2013-07-22 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1153006
Headquarters 28 Walsham Close, London, N16 6QF
Area served Throughout London, Israel, United States, Belgium
Key people Nachman Taub (chair)


British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz is a charitable trust registered on 22 July 2013, with an address in London N16; register areas are London, Israel, the United States and Belgium.[1] Its objects are relief of poverty "in particular but not exclusively in Israel", and grants are "primarily associated with the Viznitz community". In the year ended 31 October 2025 income was £997,723 and expenditure £1,003,888, comprising direct costs of £330,057 (including food provision £71,511) and grants of £662,264 (institutions £441,481; individuals £220,783).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN ISRAEL BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.2. TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES 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: "Makes grants to institutions and provides food for needy families."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Recreation.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Chaim Israel Sharf 2013-06-06 —
Nachman Taub 2013-06-06 Yes Keren Habinyan Limited (1144177); Keren Yedidei Beis Viznitz Ltd (1195033)
Leah Ganz 2022-02-09 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-17 Yisroel Leiber (chair) (from 06 June 2013); Chaim Israel Sharf (from 06 June 2013); Nachman Taub (from 06 June 2013) [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £396,995 £384,149
2022-12-31 £624,555 £565,798
2023-12-31 £933,905 £1,039,962
2024-10-31 £966,974 £985,514
2025-10-31 £997,723 £1,003,888

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 31/12/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 named grants: Chasdai Yitczhak £112,664; Kollel Tzemach Tzedek Chaim Bechesed £101,549; Friends of Tiferet Beit Wiznitz £99,500 (column alignment unclear in the PDF); Chaim Lechag £44,559; Keila Kadisha Parmislan £25,000; Kupat Hamalchus £22,200; Mercaz Briut Kehilatim Jerusalem £10,000. FY2024 included Shalom Bnaieha Bet Shemesh £18,901.[2]

Israeli partners

Israeli-named recipients include Mercaz Briut Kehilatim Jerusalem and Shalom Bnaieha Bet Shemesh; addresses are not given.[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
Not established – the Jerusalem recipient is not located more precisely; no settlement is named.[2] Low

Support for the IDF: No IDF 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;[9] 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.[10][11][12][13] 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.[14]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[17]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2015-11-11 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 The group will use the funding to deliver a community event that will focus upon meeting the needs of people who are experiencing the effect
2019-03-27 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 The project will deliver a series of activities for parents and children from low income families. The aim is to strengthen relationships an

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[18]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages 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.[19]

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.[20]

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz', 'Chatzer Hakodesh' 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]

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 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 Charity Commission, British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz (1153006): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1153006, full print (capture of 20210117) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  5. ↑ British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  6. ↑ British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ British Friends of Chatzer Hakodesh Viznitz accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ 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).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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").
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-4 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-4 charity name returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Chatzer Hakodesh' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1153006 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-4 screening covered 354 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive) and Companies House officers of the 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  20. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 14 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.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Chatzer Hakodesh' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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