Kosov Congregation
Canvey Island charitable company that received a donated property in 2025 but had not yet begun any charitable activity
| Kosov Congregation
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2023-09-01 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1204559; company 14462057 |
| Headquarters | Canvey Island SS8 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
| Key people | Abraham Yehuda Tambur (chair) |
Kosov Congregation is a charitable company (14462057) incorporated on 4 November 2022 and registered on 1 September 2023; register areas are England and Wales and Israel.[1][2] Its objects are financial support for Jewish religious adult educational institutions in the UK and Israel and the relief of poverty and need in the UK and Israel.[1] The trustees, all appointed on 4 November 2022, are Abraham Yehuda Tambur (chair), Joseph Stern and Pinchas Schwimmer; the registered office is in Canvey Island, SS8, and the examiner is J Silver of Precision Ltd, London N16 (PDF p.2).[1][3] In the year to 30 November 2025 the charity received donations of £101,141, including a donated property valued at £90,141, and rent of £5,345; it spent £2,575, and "has not undertaken any charity activities during the current period" (PDF p.4, 7, 11).[3]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR JEWISH RELIGIOUS ADULT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UK AND ISRAEL.2. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGHOUT THE UK AND ISRAEL BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.3. THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED IN THE UK AND ISRAEL BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "The object is to promote the advancement of Education and Learning of the Jewish Religion, and the relief of poverty, and assisstance for the aged, vulnerable and infirm, and such other purposes as recognised by English Law as charitable."[1]
Register classifications: Disability, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Yehuda Tambur | 2022-11-04 | Yes | Beir Mordechai (1089977) |
| Joseph Stern | 2022-11-04 | A T.i.m.e. Limited (1128756); Linas Hachesed (1173165); The S. B. & C. CIO (1167365) | |
| Pinchas Schwimmer | 2022-11-04 | — |
Pinchas Schwimmer holds 27 Companies House appointments and Joseph Stern 11.[2]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 3 current and former officers of the charitable company (14462057), 3 of them active.[4]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-30 | £0 | £705 |
| 2025-11-30 | £106,486 | £2,575 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No spending in Israel; the charity reports no charitable activities in FY2025, and its £737 of charitable costs were governance costs (PDF p.4, 7).[3]
Israeli partners
No partner is named.[3]
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 activity in Israel is reported.[3] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]
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;[5] 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.[6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
- Unsigned and undated accounts. In the filed copy the trustees' report, the examiner's report and the balance-sheet approval are all left undated and unsigned (PDF p.5, 6, 8).[3]
- Property figures do not agree. The donated property is recorded as income of £90,141 but as an investment-property addition of £92,986, and the register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property (PDF p.8, 11, 13).[3][1]
- Donor not named. The accounts do not say who donated the property (PDF p.4).[3]
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).[11] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[12]
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.[13]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[14]
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.[15]
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.[16] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[17]
- Donated investment property £92,986 at the trustees' fair value, producing rent of £5,345; address not stated – Accounts (PDF p.8, 11, 13) (source: [3])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Kosov Congregation" returned 0 contributions in total.[18]
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.
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 Companies House, KOSOV CONGREGATION (14462057) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026 (incorporated 4 November 2022; directors Pinchas Schwimmer, Joseph Stern and Abraham Yehuda Tambur, all from 4 November 2022).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 Charity Commission, Kosov Congregation (1204559): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Company 14462057: 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-17 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Seventeen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Starscope Limited showed "up to date (23 days late)", UK Friends of Tzohar "up to date (18 days late)" and The Mr W and Mrs I Carrant Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; BFON Trust showed no reporting-status line; Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Michoel, Friends of Reb Sender Dominitz, Emerald Benevolence Ltd and Academic Study Group 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-17 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-17 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Kosov Congregation' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1204559 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-17 screening covered 231 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people and bodies named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Rotenberg, Weiss, Levy and Cohen) or generic words such as "Ltd", "International", "Group" and "Team"; 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.
- ↑ 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 the company numbers of the eight charitable companies (01359053, 03753983, 14462057, 08290018, 08287696, 05628065, 05229139, 11091095) and on the charities' registered and other names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Kosov Congregation" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).