Chasdei Menashe Meir

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Stamford Hill CIO whose report denies related-party transactions while its notes record £175,000 of related-party donations

Chasdei Menashe Meir

Type CIO
Founded 2016-06-15 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1167664
Headquarters London N16
Area served Throughout England, Israel
Key people Jack Stern (chair)


Chasdei Menashe Meir (CMM) is a charitable incorporated organisation registered on 15 June 2016; register areas are England and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Jack Stern (chair), Sara Stern and Allan Frankel, with a principal office in London N16 (PDF p.3).[1][2] Its objects are the Orthodox Jewish faith, relief of poverty and relief of sickness, through grants to individuals and organisations (PDF p.4). In the year to 30 June 2025 income was £190,000, grants £176,550 and funds £230,088 (PDF p.7, 11).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECT OF THE CIO SHALL BE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO MAKING GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS AND TO CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity's principle activity throughout the year was the provision and distribution of donations and grants to charities. The charity aims to maximise its grants and donations on an annual basis."[1]

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Chasdei Menashe Meir (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Allan Frankel 2016-06-15 Finegrant Limited (1134930); U O B H Limited (802780)
Sara Stern 2016-06-15 —
Jack Stern 2016-06-15 Yes Finegrant Limited (1134930); Ts Trust (1136755); U O B H Limited (802780)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-17 Allan Frankel (from 15 June 2016) – also trustee of Finegrant Limited; Sara Stern (from 15 June 2016); Jack Stern (chair) (from 15 June 2016) – also trustee of Ts Trust, Finegrant Limited [3]

Jack Stern and Allan Frankel are also register trustees of U O B H Limited (802780) and Finegrant Limited (1134930); Jack Stern of TS Trust (1136755).[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-06-30 £84,913 £117,228
2022-06-30 £144,004 £105,570
2023-06-30 £146,000 £157,364
2024-06-30 £266,330 £185,995
2025-06-30 £190,000 £178,671

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 30/06/2017[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[5]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £176,550: Bnos Zion D'Bobov Limited £30,000, College for Higher Rabbinical Studies £19,000, Tchabe Kollel £16,000, Lehachzikom £13,000, Yad Shlomo Trust £13,000, Bais Kolshin £10,000, Blooming Blossoms £10,000, British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) £10,000 and sundry grants under £10,000 £55,550 (PDF p.11).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli organisation is paid directly. UK recipients that fund Israeli bodies include Lehachzikom and British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (Kollel Shomrei Hachomos) (see their profiles); Yad Shlomo Trust is a UK voucher charity.[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;[6] 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.[7][8][9][10] 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.[11]
  • Contradictory related-party disclosure. The trustees' report states "In the current year no such related party transactions were reported", but note 15 records that "the charity received donations of £175,000 from related parties" (PDF p.4, 12).[2]
  • Balances with connected charities. Debtors include £6,000 due from Harbo Charities Limited, of which a close family member of a trustee is a trustee, and £20,000 due from U O B H Limited, "a charity with common trustees" (PDF p.12).[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).[12] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[13]

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.[14]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[15]

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.[16]

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.[17]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Chasdei Menashe Meir" returned 0 contributions in total.[18]

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 1.9 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Chasdei Menashe Meir (1167664): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1167664, full print (capture of 20210117) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Chasdei Menashe Meir accounts, year ended 2017-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  5. ↑ Chasdei Menashe Meir accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  6. ↑ 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-13 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The 22 registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd, Trumfold Limited and The Naaman Trust showed "Removed charity".
  7. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  8. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  10. ↑ 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).
  11. ↑ 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").
  12. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-13 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-13 charity names returned zero results, except "J O Charitable", which returned only unrelated Northern Irish charities).
  14. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Chasdei Menashe Meir' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  15. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1167664 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  16. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-13 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the six charitable companies (including the removed Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd and Trumfold Limited), related companies named in the accounts (Cromwell Corporate Protector Limited, Salmino Limited, Bullion Properties Limited, Crewpride Limited, Wilkincroft Ltd and others), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts and fetched partner pages read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Ltd", "Foundation") and surname-only coincidences (Weiss, Friedman, Kish, Silver, James, Seal, Potash); lists downloaded October 2026.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Chasdei Menashe Meir" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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