Lakechance Limited

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Stroh family charitable company funded by a property-trading subsidiary

Lakechance Limited

Type Charitable company
Founded 1985-05-07 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 291522; company 01828545
Headquarters 357 City Road, London, EC1V 1LR
Area served Throughout England, Israel, United States
Key people Bernard Dov Stroh (chair)


Lakechance Limited is a charitable company (01828545) incorporated on 28 June 1984 and registered on 7 May 1985; register areas are England, Israel and the United States.[1] Its trustees are B D Stroh (chair), S B Stroh, Mrs T Stroh and Mrs A C Stroh, and its registered office is 357 City Road, London EC1V 1LR. In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £281,310, of which donations £269,000, and grants were £361,580 (2024: £588,675); funds were £581,080, including £322,000 of expendable endowment (PDF p.3–4, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH. (II) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY. (III) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS CHARITABLE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Makes donations to the charitable organisations set out under A8 (a), (b), and (c)."[1]

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

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England, Israel, United States.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Lakechance Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Benjamin Sydney Stroh not recorded Yehuda & Moshe Limited (1112319)
Anna Caroline Stroh not recorded Yehuda & Moshe Limited (1112319)
Bernard Dov Stroh not recorded Yes Entosa Limited (292754); Shimon Yehuda Limited (1111194); Tzedokoh Ltd (1060147)
Tilly Stroh not recorded Shimon Yehuda Limited (1111194)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-09-12 Bernard Dov Stroh; Anna Caroline Stroh; Benjamin Sydney Stroh; Tilly Stroh [3]
2012-01-21 Bernard Dov Stroh; Anna Caroline Stroh; Benjamin Sydney Stroh; Tilly Stroh [4]
2021-01-15 Benjamin Sydney Stroh – also trustee of Yehuda & Moshe Limited; Tilly Stroh – also trustee of Shimon Yehuda Limited; Anna Caroline Stroh – also trustee of Yehuda & Moshe Limited; Bernard Dov Stroh (chair) – also trustee of Shimon Yehuda Limited, Entosa Limited, The Beis Hatalmid Learning Centre Ltd, Tzedokoh Ltd [5]
2021-07-05 Benjamin Sydney Stroh – also trustee of Yehuda & Moshe Limited; Tilly Stroh – also trustee of Shimon Yehuda Limited; Bernard Dov Stroh (chair) – also trustee of Shimon Yehuda Limited, Entosa Limited, The Beis Hatalmid Learning Centre Ltd, Tzedokoh Ltd; Anna Caroline Stroh – also trustee of Yehuda & Moshe Limited [6]

Bernard Dov Stroh is also a register trustee of Entosa Limited (292754), Shimon Yehuda Limited (1111194) and Tzedokoh Ltd (1060147); Sidney Benjamin Stroh and Anna Caroline Stroh of Yehuda & Moshe Limited (1112319).[1]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 6 current and former officers of the charitable company (01828545), 5 of them active.[7]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £346,377 £208,562
2022-03-31 £963,376 £932,379
2023-03-31 £1,280,551 £1,142,946
2024-03-31 £330,348 £591,420
2025-03-31 £281,310 £374,664

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 2006 462,491 303,438 [8]
31 Mar 2007 772,151 774,151 [8]
31 Mar 2008 746,014 674,393 [8]
31 Mar 2009 615,304 558,509 [8]
31 Mar 2010 646,893 1,086,804 [8]

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[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2007[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2008[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[17]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[18]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £361,580; the accounts name no recipients (PDF p.4).[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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No recipient or 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;[19] 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.[20][21][22][23] 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.[24]
  • Recipients not disclosed. The accounts state only that "a list of these grants is available on request" (PDF p.4).[2]
  • Property-trading subsidiary. The charity is funded by its wholly owned property-trading subsidiary, Kendleville Limited, which donated £226,000 (2024: £257,000), had capital and reserves of £369,105 and owes the charity £187,420 at 4% (PDF p.4, 13–15).[2][25] CCOD lists ten titles registered to Kendleville, including land in City Road, Finsbury (see Land and property).[26] The accounts also record a £10,000 bad debt (PDF p.12).[2]
  • Shared address. 357 City Road is also given as the principal address in the accounts of Ponevez Institutions Bnei-Braq Israel (1123051), of which B D Stroh is a trustee.[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[27] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[28]

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.[29]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[30]

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.[31]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[32] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[26]

  • 194 to 196 (even), Stamford Hill, London (N16 6RA) (title AGL460895, leasehold; proprietor added 15/11/2018); 79 Moundfield Road, Moundfield Estate, Hackney, (N16 6TD) (title EGL251911, leasehold; proprietor added 06/03/2001, price paid £85,200); 89 to 93 (odd numbers) Turners Hill, Cheshunt (EN8 9BD) (title HD256988, freehold; proprietor added 31/01/1997); 65 High Street, Walthamstow, London (E17 7AD) (title NGL181511, freehold; proprietor added 31/01/1997); land on the South Side of City Road, Finsbury, London (title NGL701055, freehold; proprietor added 22/02/2005); Part of 340 City Road, London (title NGL767478, freehold; proprietor added 22/02/2005); 35 Camden High Street, London (NW1 7JE) (title NGL8856, freehold; proprietor added 13/09/2002); 214 Gipsy Road, (SE27 9RB) (title SGL228140, freehold; proprietor added 15/12/1998, price paid £15,000); 214 Gipsy Road, Upper Norwood, (SE27 9RB) (title SGL499815, leasehold; proprietor added 13/03/2000, price paid £72,000); 7-9 Wrekenton Row, Gateshead (title TY308680, freehold; proprietor added 17/02/1997) – 10 titles registered to Kendleville Limited (01802649), the charity's wholly owned property-trading subsidiary (source: [26][25])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Lakechance" returned 0 contributions in total.[33]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 4 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]

See also

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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Lakechance Limited (291522): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 291522, contact and trustees (capture of 20110912) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 291522, contact and trustees (capture of 20120121) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 291522, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 291522, full print (capture of 20210705) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Company 01828545: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Register entry 291522, financial history (capture of 20110912) UK Government Web Archive.
  9. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2006-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  10. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2007-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  11. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2008-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  12. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  13. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  14. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  15. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  16. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  17. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  18. ↑ Lakechance Limited accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  19. ↑ 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-10 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; alerts were shown only for Solev Co Limited (254623) and Lehachyos (1170523).
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  21. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  22. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ 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").
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Companies House, Company 01802649 (Kendleville Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 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.
  27. ↑ 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-10 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  28. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-10 charity name returned no relevant result; the search for "Kosov" returned only an unrelated removed charity, Kosova Support Group, showing that the API was answering).
  29. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Lakechance' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  30. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-291522 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  31. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-10 screening covered 337 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 (including Pinlee Investments, Calvert Estates, Kendleville, Pidom Export, Faircastle, Hatzlocho, Localtrent, Ardina, Ridgesave, Portford, Wilkincroft and Pandor Estates), and trustees, lenders, donor companies 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 company words ("Services Limited" in the name of a corporate secretary) and surname-only coincidences; lists downloaded October 2026.
  32. ↑ 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.
  33. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Lakechance" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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