British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem
Hendon trust that has filed nothing since its accounts for 2015; the register shows it as overdue by 1,691 days
| British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Other |
| Founded | 1988-04-12 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 299010 |
| Headquarters | London NW4 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
| Key people | D Halpern (chair) |
British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem is a charity established by a declaration of trust of 24 February 1988 and registered on 12 April 1988; its contact address is in London NW4.[1][2] The register lists as trustees Rabbi D Halpern (chair), Rose Sarah Halpern and Joseph Gutstein, and describes its purposes as general charitable purposes, relief of poverty, overseas aid and the advancement of religion.[1] The register states that "Charity reporting is overdue by 1691 days": the latest financial information is for the year ended 30 April 2015 (income £80,557, spending £71,730), and the annual returns and accounts for later years are shown as overdue.[1] The archived 2015 accounts, a receipts and payments account signed by Rabbi David Halpern as chairman, give its objects as relief of poverty in England and Wales and Israel and the advancement of the Jewish religion and education; they record charitable donations of £71,730 and "Loans – London Gemach" of £40,000, and were examined by Simon Stern, London NW11, on 13 December 2016.[3]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION."[2]
The register describes its activities as: "General charitable purposes Relief of Poverty - Overseas Aid - Advancement of religion"[2]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities.[2]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[2]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[2]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Gutstein | not recorded | The Meir Golda Trust (1041256) | |
| D Halpern | not recorded | Yes | Friends of Mosdos Sanz of Safad (292396); Jewish Rescue & Relief Committee of Agudas Israel World Organisation (1120311); Kolel Pardes Trust (1085850); Torah Centre Tshebin Association (1070421) |
| Rose Sarah Halpern | not recorded | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-06 | Rose Sarah Halpern; D Halpern (chair) – also trustee of Torah Centre Tshebin Association, Kolel Pardes Trust, Friends of Mosdos Sanz of Safad, Jewish Rescue & Relief Committee of Agudas Israel World Organisation; Joseph Gutstein – also trustee of The Meir Golda Trust | [4] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-30 | £80,557 | £71,730 (latest figures held in the charity record; no annual-return history in the extract) |
Source: register annual-return history.[2]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
Funding in Israel
- Year to 30 April 2015: charitable donations £71,730 (2014: £102,143); no recipient or Israeli institution is named.[3]
Israeli partners
No Israeli partner is named in the 2015 accounts.[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 place in Israel is named in the 2015 accounts or the register; the location of any activity cannot be established from the charity's name.[3][1] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated in the 2015 accounts.[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;[7] 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.[8][9][10][11] 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.[12]
- About ten years without filing. The register shows the charity as overdue by 1,691 days, with no financial information after April 2015 and returns and accounts for the years to 2025 not received.[1][7]
- Loan from charitable funds. The 2015 accounts show £40,000 paid as "Loans – London Gemach" under asset and investment purchases; the borrower's status and terms are not stated, and the accounts were signed more than 19 months after the year end.[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).[13] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[14]
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.[15]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[16]
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.[17]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[2] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[18]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem", "Ramoth Jerusalem" returned 0 contributions in total.[19]
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 overdue by 1589 days" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Charity Commission, British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem (299010): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 ("Charity reporting is overdue by 1691 days"; latest financial data for the year ending 30 April 2015; annual returns and accounts for 2021–2025 overdue).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Charity Commission, British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem: accounts for the year ended 30 April 2015 UK Government Web Archive, capture of 05/01/2020. (independent examiner Simon Stern, report dated 13 December 2016).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 299010, full print (capture of 20210706) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2014-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem accounts, year ended 2015-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 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-19 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Twenty-two registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 1691 days"; Leibovici Charitable Trust and Friends of Bereaved Families Forum (1118221) 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-19 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-19 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-299010 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-19 screening covered 358 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, grantees 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 Miller, Gold) or generic words in organisation names (Trust, Ltd, Limited).
- ↑ 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 "British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).