UK Friends of Nahar Deiah

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Middleton trust supporting Yeshivat Hesder Nahar Deiah in Nahariya, whose students combine Torah study with IDF service

UK Friends of Nahar Deiah

Logo Yeshivat Hesder Nahariya 2020.jpg
Type Other
Founded 2003-02-24 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1096177
Headquarters Brulimar House, Jubilee Road, Middleton, Manchester M24 2LX
Area served Israel
Key people Gary Andrew Harris (chair)


UK Friends of Nahar Deiah was established by a trust deed of 20 February 2003 and registered on 24 February 2003; its register address is Brulimar House, Jubilee Road, Middleton, Manchester M24 2LX.[1][2] Its object is to support "Yeshivat Hesdar Nahar Deiah situated in Naharlya [Nahariya] Israel" (PDF p.4).[2] The trustees are Howard Gordon and Gary Andrew Harris (chairman); the report says "All decisions made on behalf of the charity are made by the trustee" (PDF p.3).[2] In the year to 28 February 2026 donations were £75,115 (2025: £1,250) and donations to the yeshiva £70,000 (2025: £50,000) (PDF p.6).[2] The yeshiva describes itself as "a place where students integrate Traditional Torah study, service in the IDF and service to the community", founded in 1996 in Nahariya.[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN PARTICULAR BY THE SUPPORT AND FINANCE OF THE INSTITUTE OF HIGHER JEWISH LEARNING AND EDUCATION KNOWN AS YESHIVAT HESDAR NAHAR DEIAH SITUATE IN NAHARIYA ISRAEL AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The objective of the charity is to advance religious education in accordance with the doctrines and principles of the Jewish faith, in particular by the support and finance of the Institute of Higher Jewish Learning and Education known as Yeshivat Hesder Nahar Deiah, situated in Nahoriya in Israel and throughout the world."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of UK Friends of Nahar Deiah (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Howard Gordon 2012-05-03 Manchester and District Council of Synagogues (1136024); Manchester Great New & Central Synagogue (1135569)
Gary Andrew Harris 2017-02-14 Yes Community Arts (1162373)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-09-28 Simon a Lopian; Shalom Goldblatt Simon [4]
2021-01-07 Howard Gordon (from 03 May 2012) – also trustee of Manchester Great New & Central Synagogue, Manchester and District Council of Synagogues; Shalom Goldblatt Fbc Optom; Gary Harris (from 14 February 2017) – also trustee of Community Arts [5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2022-02-28 £29,500 £18,030
2023-02-28 £26,310 £21,715
2024-02-29 £50,975 £30,045
2025-02-28 £1,250 £50,030
2026-02-28 £75,219 £70,045

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Donors. The Steinberg Family Charitable Trust recorded in its accounts for the year ended 5 April 2024 a commitment of £75,000 over three years plus a further £15,000 to "Yeshiva Nahar Deiah", and its 2025 accounts, repeating these as 2024 comparatives, name the recipient of the £90,000 as UK Friends of Nahar Deiah (PDF p.21).[6] The charity's own income was £50,975 in the year to 29 February 2024, £1,250 in the year to 28 February 2025 and £75,115 in donations in the year to 28 February 2026, so the Steinberg commitment cannot be matched to particular years from the accounts.[1][2]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2006[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2007[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/02/2008[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2009[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2010[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 28/02/2015[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 29/02/2016[13]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to 28 February 2026: donations to the yeshiva £70,000 (2025: £50,000) (PDF p.4, 6).[2]

Israeli partners

Yeshivat Hesder Nahar Deiah, Nahariya, founded in 1996.[3] The Jewish Link describes it as a Bnei Akiva yeshiva of about 100 students with a campus in Kiryat Maor, whose students volunteer with Hashomer HaChadash and run a food centre for 120 needy families each week.[14]

Support for the Israeli military

Grants (programme). The charity's grants to the yeshiva are set out under Funding in Israel. Nahar Deiah is a hesder yeshiva whose students "integrate Traditional Torah study, service in the IDF and service to the community".[3] Hesder yeshivot combine religious study with service in the Israel Defense Forces. A 2023 report in the Jewish Link says its students are "trained as a response team for security events".[14] The UK accounts do not say that any funds were used for military purposes (PDF p.4, 6).[2] (Partner finding.)

Prior scrutiny. No Charity Commission inquiry or Official Warning, and no complaint or report by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, the Islamic Human Rights Commission or Declassified UK, concerning this charity's support for soldiers was found (checked October 2026).

Activity beyond the Green Line

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
The accounts and the yeshiva's own website place it in Nahariya; nothing in the sources places it beyond the Green Line (PDF p.4).[2][3] High

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;[15] 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.[16][17][18][19] 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.[20]
  • Outdated references. The independent examiner, Stacey Whiting FCCA, cites sections 43(2), 43(7)(b) and 41, the Charities Act 1993 numbering, as sections of the Charities Act 2011; her report's date is not legible (PDF p.5).[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).[21] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[22]

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.[23]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[24]

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.[25]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[26]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)

This US organisation shares the name of the UK charity's beneficiary; no financial flows between it and the UK charity were established.[2]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "UK Friends of Nahar Deiah", "Nahar Deiah" returned 0 contributions in total.[27]

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 9 days late" and "Other regulators: No information available".[5]

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 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 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, UK Friends of Nahar Deiah (1096177): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file). Latest accounts on the register (year to 28 February 2026): archived copy, Wayback Machine, 24 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Yeshivat Hesder Nahar Deiah, Main page (About Us) nahariya.co.il, Wayback Machine capture of 24 December 2025, viewed 16 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1096177, contact and trustees (capture of 20110928) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1096177, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ The Steinberg Family Charitable Trust (1045231), accounts for the years ended 5 April 2024 (note 9, PDF p.22) and 5 April 2025 (PDF p.21), Charity Commission register, accessed 14 and 29 October 2026.
  7. ↑ UK Friends of Nahar Deiah accounts, year ended 2006-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  8. ↑ UK Friends of Nahar Deiah accounts, year ended 2007-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  9. ↑ UK Friends of Nahar Deiah accounts, year ended 2008-02-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  10. ↑ UK Friends of Nahar Deiah accounts, year ended 2009-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  11. ↑ UK Friends of Nahar Deiah accounts, year ended 2010-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110928).
  12. ↑ UK Friends of Nahar Deiah accounts, year ended 2015-02-28 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  13. ↑ UK Friends of Nahar Deiah accounts, year ended 2016-02-29 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
  14. ↑ 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".
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  18. ↑ 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).
  19. ↑ 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").
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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).
  22. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Nahar Deiah' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  23. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1096177 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  24. ↑ 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).
  25. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  26. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Nahar Deiah" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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