Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue

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UK charity funding five Israeli youth villages for children at risk

Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue

Logo Youth Aliyah Child Rescue logo.png
Logo of Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue
Type Charitable company
Founded registered 23 October 1999
Registration ID Registered charity 1077913; company 03845916
Headquarters Youth Aliyah Child Rescue, 75 Maygrove Road, London, NW6 2EG
Area served Barnet, Israel
Website www.youthaliyah.org.uk


Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue (also listed as I Rescue) is a charitable company (03845916) registered on 23 October 1999; register areas are Barnet and Israel.[1] Its accounts give its address as 235 Regents Park Road, London N3 3LF; its chair is M F Robinson. It supports "2,600 children and youngsters currently residing in the five Youth Villages and two leadership programmes", children "designated 'at risk' by the authorities", and funds "general maintenance (bridging the deficit of the government subsidy)", dormitories and scholarships. In the year ended 31 March 2025 income was £1,096,077 (2024: £1,309,162) and grants to villages in Israel £673,393 (2024: £721,944).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1) TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL, PHYSICAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND IN PARTICULAR ( BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) AMONGST CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS PRACTISING OR ADHERING TO THE JEWISH RELIGION AND RESIDENT IN ISRAEL; 2) TO EDUCATE AND ASSIST CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED;3) TO RELIEVE NEED, HARDSHIP, DISTRESS OR SUFFERING AND IN PARTICULAR ( BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS WHO ARE OR INTEND TO BECOME RESIDENT IN ISRAEL;4) THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION;5) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Represents youth villages in Israel that offer a haven for under-privileged, deprived and needy immigrant, refugee and native Israeli children."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, Overseas Aid/famine Relief.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Melvin Robinson not recorded —
Anton David Curtis 2012-01-18 —
Steven Strauss 2012-01-19 —
Bettina Curtis 2014-06-01 —
Aron Joseph Taylor 2018-02-22 —
Harvey Murray Soning 2018-11-22 The Company of Chartered Surveyors Charitable Trust Fund (1992) (1012227)
Eran Eytan-Alvarez 2024-07-15 —
Nicholas Simon Winters 2024-07-15 —
Valery Kisilevsky 2024-07-15 The Charles Kalms, Henry Ronson Immanuel College (803179)
Jane Tenenbaum 2024-09-25 —
Tamara Davis 2024-11-25 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-06 Ella Latchman; Harvey Soning; Stephen Barry; Melvin Robinson [3]
2012-01-18 Ella Latchman; Harvey Soning; Stephen Barry; Melvin Robinson [4]
2021-01-12 Aron Joseph Taylor (from 22 February 2018); Anton David Curtis (from 18 January 2012); Philip Diamond (from 28 November 2019); Daniel Jeremy Polden (from 18 January 2012); Brian Leaver (from 18 December 2018); Anna Joy Shields (from 22 February 2018); Melvin Robinson; Steven Strauss (from 19 January 2012); Lorraine Robinson (from 18 November 2015); Harvey Murray Soning (from 22 November 2018) – also trustee of Presidents Club Charitable Trust; Bettina Curtis (from 01 June 2014) [5]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 36 current and former officers of the charitable company (03845916), 12 of them active.[6]

Appointments of these officers to overseas companies registered in the UK (FC) or on the Register of Overseas Entities (OE):

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £863,114 £1,142,368
2022-03-31 £667,608 £997,450
2023-03-31 £882,586 £970,300
2024-03-31 £1,309,162 £1,110,844
2025-03-31 £1,096,077 £1,099,307

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Mar 2005 904,183 1,209,828 [9]
31 Mar 2006 601,602 880,373 [9]
31 Mar 2010 1,231,642 1,105,026 [10]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2006[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2007[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2008[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2011[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[17]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[18]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[19]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[20]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[21]

Sources of funding

Also promoted by Jewish Legacy.

Funding in Israel

The synagogue of Yemin Orde Youth Village (2024), one of the five Israeli youth villages the charity funds
  • FY2025: grants to villages in Israel £673,393 (2024: £721,944) (PDF p.7). Villages named: Aloney Yitzhak, Talpiot, Neve Hadassah, TOM Youth Village and Yemin Orde; Village Way Educational Initiatives operate in over 70 educational settings across Israel.[2]

Israeli partners

Five youth villages "located across Israel".[22] Yemin Orde is "located atop Mount Carmel near Haifa";[23] Aloney Yitzchak is "located within the Aloney Yitzchak nature reserve".[24] The charity's pages for Talpiot give no location,[25] and the Neve Hadassah and TOM pages could not be retrieved.

Support for the Israeli military

Borderline (programme). The 2014 trustees' report says that the men's mechina at Hatzor "is doing very well" and that the ladies' mechina there was awarded an annual pledge of £20,000.[17] Pre-military academies (mechinot) combine religious or leadership study with preparation for service in the Israel Defense Forces. The charity's website says that 97% of graduates of Aloney Yitzchak go on to join the IDF,[24] and that Yemin Orde, "Founded in 1953 by the British Friends of Youth Aliyah", was named after Orde Wingate, "an influential force in the formation of the Israel Defence Force".[23] The 2024–25 accounts state no IDF funding; this concerns the villages' graduates and history, not funding of the military.[2]

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). The charity is not on the Powerbase page UK AWIS - supporters.

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
All five villages funded are inside the 1949 armistice line: Yemin Orde (Mount Carmel, near Haifa); Aloney Yitzchak (near Binyamina); Talpiot (Hadera); Neve Hadassah (beside Tel Yitzhak, near Netanya); TOM Youth Village (Herev Le'et, near Netanya). No settlement is named in the accounts.[23][2] [26][27][28] None found


Controversies and regulatory action

  • No regulatory action concerning the charity was found in the register extract or the sources searched. 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.[29]
  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[30] 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.[31][32][33][34] 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.[29]
  • 7 October. The accounts report that a Talpiot "house father" was killed in the initial Hamas attack and another a year later, and record a Jake Marlowe Memorial Scholarship of £5,000 in memory of a victim of the Nova festival attack.[2]
  • Parliament. Two Commons contributions by Emma Nicholson (1991 and 1993) mention Youth Aliyah; both predate this company's 1999 registration.[35]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[36] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[37]

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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[38]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[39]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found.[40]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[41] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[42]

  • 2 Portland Road, Hove BN3 5DJ (title ESX379728, freehold, proprietor added 28 December 2016) – CCOD match on company 03845916 (source: [42])
  • Investment properties of £950,000 shown for the prior year in the FY2025 accounts (PDF p.28); addresses not stated – Accounts (source: accounts)

Parliament

Selected Hansard references
Date House Member Debate
1991-01-23 Commons Miss Emma Nicholson Israel (Missile Attack)[35]
1993-05-12 Commons Miss Emma Nicholson Donations From Companies And Individuals[35]

Hansard searches for 'Youth Aliyah - Child Rescue', 'Youth Aliyah', 'I Rescue' returned 2 contributions in total.[35]

Web archive

  • youthaliyah.org.uk: 17 yearly captures, first 2008-05-14, last 2026-01-06.[43]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 5 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".[5]

Contact

Register address (October 2026):

Youth Aliyah Child Rescue, 75 Maygrove Road, London NW6 2EG[1]

See also

External links

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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Charity Commission, Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue (1077913): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 (the PDF is a scanned copy; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1077913, contact and trustees (capture of 20100706) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1077913, contact and trustees (capture of 20120118) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1077913, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Company 03845916: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 CURTIS, Anton David: appointments Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  8. ↑ SONING, Harvey Murray: appointments Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Register entry 1077913, financial history (capture of 20100706) UK Government Web Archive.
  10. ↑ Register entry 1077913, financial history (capture of 20120118) UK Government Web Archive.
  11. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2006-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110920).
  12. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2007-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110920).
  13. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2008-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110920).
  14. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110920).
  15. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110920).
  16. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2011-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20120127).
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  18. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  19. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  20. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  21. ↑ Youth Aliyah – Child Rescue accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  22. ↑ Youth Aliyah Child Rescue, Our villages youthaliyah.org.uk, viewed 14 October 2026 (five youth villages "located across Israel": Aloney Yitzchak, Neve Hadassah, Talpiot, TOM, Yemin Orde).
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Youth Aliyah Child Rescue, Yemin Orde Youth Village youthaliyah.org.uk, viewed 14 October 2026 ("located atop Mount Carmel near Haifa"; "Founded in 1953 by the British Friends of Youth Aliyah").
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Youth Aliyah Child Rescue, Aloney Yitzchak Youth Village youthaliyah.org.uk, viewed 14 October 2026 ("located within the Aloney Yitzchak nature reserve since 1948"; "97% of graduates go on to join IDF").
  25. ↑ Youth Aliyah Child Rescue, Talpiot youthaliyah.org.uk, viewed 14 October 2026 (no location given on the page).
  26. ↑ TOM, viewed 31 October 2026 (Youth Aliyah Child Rescue, youthaliyah.org.uk; "Located near to Moshav Herev Le'et").
  27. ↑ About Talpiot, viewed 31 October 2026 (Talpiot, talpiot.net; Neve Chaim neighbourhood of Hadera).
  28. ↑ Neve Hadassah Youth Village, viewed 31 October 2026 (nhadassa.co.il; beside Tel Yitzhak).
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  30. ↑ 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 175 charities checked together ( all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  31. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  32. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  33. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  34. ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Youth Aliyah' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
  36. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of 25 charity names checked together found no matching Scottish registration.
  37. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of 25 charity names returned zero results).
  38. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Youth Aliyah' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  39. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1077913 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  40. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Screening covered 354 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive) and Companies House officers of the 8 charitable companies; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic company-word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  41. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 14 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.
  42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  43. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for youthaliyah.org.uk Wayback Machine, queried 14 October 2026.
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