Kupat Chaim V'Chesed
Young Stamford Hill CIO spending nearly £1m a year on direct charitable activities, with an unreconciled cash flow
| Kupat Chaim V'Chesed
| |
|---|---|
| Type | CIO |
| Founded | 2022-11-17 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1201050 |
| Headquarters | 51 Castlewood Road, London, N16 6DJ |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel, Belgium, United States |
Kupat Chaim V'Chesed is a CIO registered on 17 November 2022 (governing document of the same date), at 51 Castlewood Road, London N16 6DJ; trustees are Adam Schonfeld, Moishe Halberstam and Avraham Davidoviz, and register areas are England and Wales, Israel, Belgium and the United States.[1][2] In the year ended 31 August 2025 income was £973,942 (2024: £758,455) and charitable activities £780,428; funds were £206,514 and other debtors £180,000.[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROMOTION OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH FOR ORTHODOX JEWS AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND WORLDWIDE IN PARTICULAR BY: A) SUPPORTING AND FUNDING ANY SCHOOL OR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH. B) SUPPORTING AND FUNDING ANY SYNAGOGUE OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH.2. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND WORLDWIDE BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The advancement of education and the promotion of the Jewish faith in accordance with the orthodox Jewish faith for orthodox Jews and for the benefit of the public throughout the United Kingdom and Worldwide in particular by: a) Supporting and funding any school or educational institution of the orthodox Jewish faith. b) Supporting and funding any Synagogue of the orthodox Jewish faith"[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel, Belgium, United States.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moishe Halberstam | 2022-11-17 | — | |
| Avraham Yehoshua Davidoviz | 2022-11-17 | — | |
| Adam Schonfeld | 2022-11-17 | — |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-31 | £343,788 | £334,892 |
| 2024-08-31 | £758,455 | £754,351 |
| 2025-08-31 | £973,942 | £780,428 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No recipients or countries are named in the FY2025 accounts.[2]
Israeli partners
No partner organisation 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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Not established.[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;[3] 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.[4][5][6][7] 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.[8]
- Cash-flow inconsistency. The FY2025 cash-flow statement gives cash at the beginning of the year as £13,900, whereas the prior year's closing cash is £5,004 (PDF p.8); the difference is not explained. The independent examiner is Brindley Goldstein Ltd of Waltham Cross.[2]
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).[9] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[10]
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.[11]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[12]
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.[13]
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.[14]
Parliament
Hansard searches for 'Kupat Chaim V'chesed', 'Kupat Chaim' returned 0 contributions in total.[15]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 0 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile; none were found for this charity number.
See also
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, Kupat Chaim V'Chesed (1201050): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Kupat Chaim' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1201050 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Kupat Chaim' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).