Commission inquiry into charity that hasn't filed for five years

24 Jan 2017 News

Fergus Burnett

The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into a Jewish charity that has not filed its annual return for five years.  

The Beth Yosef Foundation has not submitted an annual return for the last five years. Its annual income for the year ending in July 2011, filed in early 2012, stated that it had an income and expenditure of exactly of £1,106. 

It was established in 1998 and its objects include the advancement of Orthodox Judaism as practised by Sephardi Jews. 

The regulator carried out a compliance visit at the end of last year and said it “identified a number of serious regulatory concerns relating to the administration and financial management”. It opened the inquiry in December 2016.

Other concerns include “whether the charity has any validly appointed trustees, loan agreements entered into by the charity and the sale of property owned by the charity”.

The charity has no contact details listed on the commission’s website. 
 

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