Jassiane Limited

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Lewis family charitable company funded by its property subsidiary; it went into creditors' voluntary liquidation in 2025 and was dissolved in October 2026, but is still shown as registered

Jassiane Limited

Type Charitable company
Founded 2003-11-13 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1100680; company 04952955
Headquarters Cohen Arnold, New Burlington House, 1075 Finchley Road, London, NW11 0PU
Area served Throughout London, Israel


Jassiane Limited (formerly Edgware Charities Limited, renamed 16 April 2008) is a charitable company (04952955) registered as a charity on 13 November 2003; its objects are the Jewish religion and education and the relief of poverty, and its register areas are London and Israel (PDF p.3–4).[1][2] Its trustees were Richard Simon Lewis, Joshua Ephraim Lewis and Shirley Lewis; in July 2025 they were replaced as directors by Aaron Joseph Lewis, now the register's only trustee.[3][4] Its latest accounts, for the year to 31 March 2023, show income of £90,750, all donated by its subsidiary Site Manage Ltd, "a property development and trading Company", grants of £106,775 and negative reserves of £68,369 (PDF p.3–4, 7–8, 13).[2] The company went into creditors' voluntary liquidation on 29 September 2025 and was dissolved on 3 October 2026.[4]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND(III) THE RELIEF OF THE POOR, FEEBLE AND INFIRM AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH"[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The provision of grants to organisations and individuals for charitable purposes."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, 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]

Trustees of Jassiane Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Aaron Lewis 2025-07-27 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-11 Richard Simon Lewis (from 04 November 2003); Joshua Ephraim Lewis (from 06 December 2013); Shirley Lewis (from 06 December 2013) [5]

At Companies House, Richard Simon Lewis was a director from 4 November 2003 to 29 July 2025; Joshua Ephraim Lewis and Shirley Lewis were directors from 15 April 2008 to 31 March 2024 and again from 17 to 29 July 2025; Aaron Joseph Lewis became a director on 29 July 2025. The joint liquidators were Martin Armstrong of Turpin Barker Armstrong, Sutton, and Andrew Bailey.[4][6]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 9 current and former officers of the charitable company (04952955), 0 of them active.[7]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £3,505 £28,877
2022-03-31 £0 £29,101
2023-03-31 £90,750 £110,768

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 31/03/2015[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[11]

Funding in Israel

  • 2022/23 grants £106,775: The Rehabilitation Trust £51,750; Shir Chesed Beis Yisroel £34,300; Tevini Limited £10,000; Kahal Chassidim Bobov £8,000; Reb Shayale's Tzeduke £2,500; Kef Kids £225. No grantee is identified as Israeli (PDF p.11).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is 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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place in Israel is named.[2] 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;[12] 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.[13][14][15][16] 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.[17]
  • Liquidation. The statement of affairs at 15 September 2025 listed book debts of £198,750 with nothing expected to be realised and unsecured creditors of £76,730.24, including Barclays Bank £36,376.24, Site Manage Limited £28,724 and Richard Simon Lewis £8,400 (OCR).[6] The liquidators' final account says "The debtors represented commitments of charitable donations, which were not capable of being pursued", that the subsidiary "was insolvent and placed into liquidation", that claims of £40,354 were received and no dividend was paid, and that there were "no matters that justified further investigation" (OCR).[18]
  • Register not updated. Although the company has been dissolved, the register still shows the charity as registered with the reporting status "Submission Double Default", reporting overdue by 623 days and the accounts for 2024/25 overdue by 258 days.[3][1]
  • Earlier strike-off notice. A first Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off was published on 4 March 2025 and the action was suspended later that month.[4]

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).[19] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[20]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists. Companies House records a first Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off on 4 March 2025 (suspended), a resolution to wind up on 29 September 2025 and "Final Gazette dissolved following liquidation" on 3 October 2026.[4][21]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[22]

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.[23]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[24]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Jassiane", "Edgware Charities" returned 0 contributions in total.[25]

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".[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 Charity Commission, Jassiane Limited (1100680): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts on the register (year ended 31 March 2023) downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Charity Commission, Jassiane Limited (1100680): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026 (one trustee, Aaron Lewis, appointed 27 July 2025; "Charity reporting is overdue by 623 days"; accounts and trustees' annual report for the year ended 31 March 2025 overdue by 258 days; previous name Edgware Charities Limited).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Companies House, JASSIANE LIMITED (04952955): filing history Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026 (first Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off 4 March 2025, action suspended 21 March 2025; directors' changes July 2025; resolution to wind up 29 September 2025; liquidator's final account (LIQ14) 3 July 2026; "Final Gazette dissolved following liquidation" 3 October 2026).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 1100680, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Companies House, Jassiane Limited: statement of affairs (form LIQ02) as at 15 September 2025 filed 6 October 2025, viewed 16 October 2026 (scanned document, read by OCR).
  7. ↑ Company 04952955: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  8. ↑ Jassiane Limited accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ Jassiane Limited accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  10. ↑ Jassiane Limited accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  11. ↑ Jassiane Limited accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  12. ↑ 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-18 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Sixteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; the Porter Foundation showed "up to date (1 day late)", The Persian Hebrew Community "up to date (48 days late)", Bernard Kahn Charitable Trust "up to date (33 days late)" and the Rabbi Yisroel Yehudah Peritz Charitable Trust "up to date (3 days late)"; Jassiane Limited showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 623 days"; The Friends of Birzeit University, The Friends of the Or Hachaim Educational Centre for Girls and John Hagee Ministries showed "Removed charity".
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  16. ↑ 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).
  17. ↑ 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").
  18. ↑ Companies House, Jassiane Limited: liquidators' final account (form LIQ14) to 23 April 2026 filed 3 July 2026, viewed 16 October 2026 (scanned document, read by OCR).
  19. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-18 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-18 charity names returned no matching charity).
  21. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Jassiane' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1100680 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  23. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-18 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the seven charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees, subsidiaries 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 Weiss, Cohen, Salem and Tauber) or generic words such as "Foundation", "Aid" and "People"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  24. ↑ 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.
  25. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Jassiane" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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