Kupas Toras Chesed Ltd
Babad and Kornbluh charitable company giving grants to individuals, whose report and accounts disagree
| Kupas Toras Chesed Ltd
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2022-02-11 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1197880; company 12531445 |
| Headquarters | London N16 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
| Key people | Jacob Kornbluh (chair) |
Kupas Toras Chesed Ltd is a charitable company (12531445, incorporated 24 March 2020) registered on 11 February 2022; register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1][2] Its trustees and directors are Jacob Kornbluh (chair on the register), Chaim Babad and Claire Babad; its registered office is its accountants' address in Woodford Green (PDF p.4).[1][2] Its objects are Orthodox Jewish education, including scholarships, and the relief of poverty "in the United Kingdom and abroad", and the Jewish religion (PDF p.3). In the year to 31 March 2025 donations were £163,717, grants £155,525 – £150,525 to individuals – and funds were negative at –£569 (PDF p.7, 10).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, ORTHODOX JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING THE AWARDING TO SUCH PERSONS, SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD BY PROVIDING GRANTS OR LOANS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP. TO ADVANCE THE JEWISH RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPALS OF THE CODE OF JEWISH LAW AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT. SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "To promote the education of, particularly but not exclusively, orthodox Jewish people in the United Kingdom and abroad, The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship in the United Kingdom and abroad by providing grants or loans to individuals in needs"[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Kornbluh | 2020-03-24 | Yes | Alte Feiga Trust (1126587); Shining Stars London (1186702) |
| Claire Babad | 2020-03-24 | Regentbrook Limited (294850); Yeshivas Toras Chesed (1168328) | |
| Chaim Babad | 2020-03-24 | — |
Jacob Kornbluh is also a register trustee of Alte Feiga Trust (1126587) and Shining Stars London (1186702); Claire Babad of Regentbrook Limited (294850) and Yeshivas Toras Chesed (1168328).[1]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 3 current and former officers of the charitable company (12531445), 3 of them active.[3]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-31 | £113,797 | £122,498 |
| 2024-03-31 | £117,866 | £113,154 |
| 2025-03-31 | £163,717 | £167,902 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants to individuals £150,525 (2024: £96,005) and to Gateshead Talmudical College £5,000; the individuals' location is not stated (PDF p.10).[2] Israel appears as a register area of operation.[1]
Israeli partners
No recipient organisation in Israel 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 |
|---|---|
| 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;[4] 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.[5][6][7][8] 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.[9]
- Report contradicts the accounts. The trustees' report gives total expenditure of £169,132, a deficit of £5,415 and negative reserves of £1,799; the statement of financial activities shows expenditure of £167,902, a deficit of £4,185 and funds of –£569. The report also says the charity "does not maintain a reserve policy" while describing reserves as "below the target figure" (PDF p.3, 7).[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).[10] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[11]
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.[12]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[13]
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.[14]
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.[15]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Kupas Toras Chesed" returned 0 contributions in total.[16]
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
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Kupas Toras Chesed Ltd (1197880): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Company 12531445: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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-14 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Friends of the Israel Cancer Association showed "up to date (13 days late)" and The Bertie Black Foundation "up to date (82 days late)"; British Friends of Neve Shalom, Mesila UK, The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions and Etz Chaim Foundation showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-14 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-14 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Kupas Toras Chesed' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1197880 360Giving, queried 16 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-14 screening covered 282 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, directors of the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation company and of Mesila UK Limited, related companies and charities named in the accounts (including Bestgreat Ltd, Jonvan Properties, One Shakespeare Limited, Beauland Limited, Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited and Torah Temimah Trust) and trustees, examiners and donors named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person or company was found; the only token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Cohen and Jones); 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 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Kupas Toras Chesed" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).