Beis Aharon of Olesk
Stamford Hill property-owning charitable company whose filed accounts lack a report of activities
| Beis Aharon of Olesk
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2004-05-25 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1103927; company 04398313 |
| Headquarters | London N15 |
| Area served | Throughout London, Israel |
Beis Aharon of Olesk is a charitable company (04398313, incorporated 19 March 2002) registered on 25 May 2004; register areas are London and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Simon Dankowitz, Rivka Eichenstein (also company secretary) and Alexander Lippa Eichenstein, and its registered office is in London N15 (PDF p.4).[2] In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £253,348 (donations £81,399; investment income £171,949, of which rents £114,743 and "interest receivable-trading" £57,206), expenditure £137,014 (charitable £110,753) and funds £2,415,548 (PDF p.6, 9).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ACCORDING TO THE TENENTS OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH"[1]
The register describes its activities as: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION.THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ACCORDING TO THE TENANTS OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH.RELIEF OF POVERTY"[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Dankowitz | not recorded | — | |
| Rivka Eichenstein | not recorded | — | |
| Mr A. Eichenstein | not recorded | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-09 | Simon Dankowitz; Rivka Eichenstein; A. Eichenstein | [3] |
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 6 current and former officers of the charitable company (04398313), 4 of them active.[4]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £162,970 | £119,024 |
| 2022-03-31 | £142,385 | £48,376 |
| 2023-03-31 | £123,571 | £122,341 |
| 2024-03-31 | £141,326 | £136,518 |
| 2025-03-31 | £253,348 | £137,014 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[10]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 charitable expenditure £110,753, including donations of £109,827; the accounts name no recipients and the accounts do not mention Israel (PDF p.6, 10).[2]
Israeli partners
Not named.[2]
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 is named. | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]
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;[11] 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.[12][13][14][15] 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.[16]
- Incomplete accounts. The filed PDF contains no description of objects or activities, no list of grant recipients and no independent examiner's report, although an examiner (Versa Tax Solutions Ltd) is named; the trustees' report is dated 13 May 2025 and the responsibilities statement 19 September 2025 (PDF p.4–5).[2]
- Arithmetic and template errors. Notes 4 and 5 show totals of £34,348 and £220,580 against £17,187 and £110,753 in the statement of financial activities (sub-totals counted twice), and the accounting policies refer to "Concert fees" and "Membership fees" (PDF p.6, 10).[2]
- Unexplained debtors. Other debtors are £775,284 (2024: £718,078), alongside freehold property of £1,500,000; the nature of the debtors and of the "trading" interest is not explained (PDF p.9, 11).[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).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]
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.[19]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]
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.[21]
Land and property
The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[22] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[23]
- Freehold land and buildings £1,500,000 at 31 March 2025 (rents received £114,743); addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.9, 11) (source: [2])
- 71 Camberwell Church Street, London and passage at back (SE5 8TR) (title 302498, freehold; proprietor added 10/12/2009, price paid £415,800) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 04398313 (proprietor BEIS AHARON OF OLESK) (source: [23])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Beis Aharon of Olesk", "Olesk" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]
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 up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]
See also
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Beis Aharon of Olesk (1103927): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1103927, full print (capture of 20210109) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Company 04398313: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Beis Aharon of Olesk accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Beis Aharon of Olesk accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Beis Aharon of Olesk accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Beis Aharon of Olesk accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Beis Aharon of Olesk accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Beis Aharon of Olesk accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
- ↑ 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-11 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status (for example "Charity reporting is up to date (39 days late)" for British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre, "(4 days late)" for British Friends of Aleh and "(11 days late)" for Urgent Projects).
- ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-11 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names such as J R Gibb Charitable Trust and Boleskine Community Care).
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-11 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Olesk' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1103927 360Giving, queried 15 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-11 screening covered 386 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (GS Property Management Services, Igerville, Housefresh, Vitalina, Rochester Developments and Delapage), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Fund", "Israel", "Republic") and surname-only coincidences (Cohen, Levy, Friedman, Green, Said); 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.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 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 charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Olesk" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).