Lingate Charitable Trust

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Zonszajn–Piller trust in Clapton funding Orthodox Jewish institutions from a £1.3 million property portfolio

Lingate Charitable Trust

Type Trust
Founded 2011-08-02 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1143210
Headquarters London E5
Area served Barnet, Hackney, Haringey, Israel


Lingate Charitable Trust was established by a trust deed of 24 March 2011, amended on 19 July 2011, and registered on 2 August 2011; register areas are Barnet, Hackney, Haringey and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Arthur Abraham Zonszajn, Rifka Zonszajn and Aron Piller, with a principal office in London E5; the independent examiner is Accshire Accountancy LLP of Clapton Common and the bankers are CAF Bank (PDF p.3).[1][2] It supports the Orthodox Jewish religion, education and welfare through grants, funded by an investment portfolio (PDF p.4). In the year to 31 March 2025 investment income was £121,658 (2024: £101,837), costs of raising funds £32,856, charitable spending £126,747 and grants £125,172 (2024: £182,291); funds were £1,863,804, including investment property of £1,329,312 – freehold £714,171 and long leasehold £615,141 – at the trustees' own annual valuation (PDF p.8–9, 11–12, 14).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Support Orthodox Jewish faith by making grants to Orthodox Jewish educational, religious and welfare institutions."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Lingate Charitable Trust (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Aron Piller 2011-04-05 H P Charitable Trust (278006); The Mk Charitable Trust (260439)
Arthur Abraham Zonszajn 2011-04-05 Bedetex Limited (1174314); Friends of Rachashei Lev (1085350); Gur Community Welfare Society (1098067); Myr Charitable Trust (1104406); T.d Seminary Ltd (1172027)
Rifka Zonszajn 2011-10-04 The S and Y Charitable Trust (1053284)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-13 Arthur Abraham Zonszajn (chair) (from 05 April 2011) – also trustee of The Rozac Charitable Trust, Myr Charitable Trust, T.d Seminary Ltd; Aron Piller (from 05 April 2011) – also trustee of M & B Charitable Trust, H P Charitable Trust, The Mk Charitable Trust; Rifka Zonszajn (from 04 October 2011) – also trustee of The S and Y Charitable Trust [3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £246,116 £189,450
2022-03-31 £123,164 £208,430
2023-03-31 £127,794 £90,338
2024-03-31 £107,674 £267,061
2025-03-31 £121,785 £159,603

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[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[9]

Funding in Israel

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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
  • Large balance due from another trust. Other debtors of £515,331 include £479,371 (2024: £479,913) due from The S and Y Charitable Trust, disclosed as a related party; in 2024 the charity also owed £18,202 to Bedetex Ltd (PDF p.14–15).[2]
  • Valuation by the trustees. The investment properties are carried at a fair value determined annually by the trustees (PDF p.11, 14).[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).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned Companies House filing lists and notices about Lingate House in Wigan (an HM Customs and Excise office named in 1990s winding-up petitions) and Lingate Management Limited, none of which was established to concern this charity; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]

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.[20]

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.[21] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[22]

  • Investment property £1,329,312 at the trustees' fair value – freehold £714,171 and long leasehold £615,141; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.9, 11, 14) (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Lingate Charitable Trust", "Lingate" returned 1 contribution in total; those not listed above were not established to concern this charity.[23]

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. ↑ 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 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Lingate Charitable Trust (1143210): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1143210, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Lingate Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  5. ↑ Lingate Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  6. ↑ Lingate Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ Lingate Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ Lingate Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  9. ↑ Lingate Charitable Trust accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200703).
  10. ↑ 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-16 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Halacha Lemoshe Trust showed "up to date (8 days late)", The Josh Charitable Trust "up to date (140 days late)" and The Pauline Aviges-Graham Foundation "up to date (34 days late)"; Songbrook Limited, Shekel Limited and Refeeah Trust showed "Removed charity".
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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).
  15. ↑ 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").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Lingate Charitable Trust' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1143210 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people 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 Miller, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ 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 the company numbers of the five charitable companies (01663511, 05791711, 08786769, 00803733, 07500030) and on the charities' registered and other names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Lingate Charitable Trust" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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