Newpier Charity

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Margulies-family property charity with net liabilities, funded by a £4.45 million loan from a British Virgin Islands company

Newpier Charity

Type Charitable company
Founded 1986-03-20 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 293686; company 01898590
Headquarters 186 Lordship Road, London, N16 5ES
Area served Throughout London, Israel


Newpier Charity is a charitable company (01898590) registered on 20 March 1986; register areas are London and Israel.[1] The accounts for the year to 30 June 2025, audited by Lopian Gross Barnett, give its office as 186 Lordship Road, London N16 5ES, and its trustees as C Margulies (also secretary), R Margulies, M Just, H Freudenberger and B Stern. It holds four commercially let investment properties and stakes in UK property syndicates. Income was £578,934 and charitable spending £469,576, including grants of £337,692; funds were –£422,978 (PDF p.2, 4–5, 11–12).[2]

Objects and activities

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

The register describes its activities as: "The Advancement of religion in accordance with Orthodox Jewish FaithThe relief of povertyAny other activities recongnided by English Law as charitable"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, 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 Newpier Charity (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Rachel Marguiles not recorded —
Charles Mark Margulies not recorded Marg Fleet Limited (1161562); Premishlaner Charitable Trust (1046945); Side by Side (Children) Limited (1135723)
Bernard Stern 2023-01-30 —
Harvey Charles Freudenberger 2023-03-10 Beis Hatalmud Trust (1168216); Imrei Menachem Trust Limited (1202437); R S Charitable Trust (1053660)
Michael Just 2023-03-10 Cprm Management Ltd (1209707); The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (1158987); Uohc Properties Ltd (1164379)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-03 Helen Knopfler – also trustee of Marg Fleet Limited, Beis Hillel Trust, North West Hachnosas Kalloh; Rachel Marguiles; Charles Mark Marguiles [3]

Companies House lists Michael Just and Harvey Charles Freudenberger as directors from 10 March 2023 and Bernard Stern from 30 January 2023; Helen Knopfler resigned on 15 March 2022.[4]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 9 current and former officers of the charitable company (01898590), 6 of them active.[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-06-30 £630,634 £622,206
2022-06-30 £677,000 £618,946
2023-06-30 £588,547 £694,249
2024-06-30 £565,849 £517,884
2025-06-30 £578,934 £469,576

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 30/06/2014[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2016[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[10]

Funding in Israel

  • Year to June 2025 grants of £337,692 included Achisomoch £52,500, Yesmach Levav £51,000, TNRST £44,900, VHLT £36,000, Ohr Emes £28,082, Mifal Tzedoko V'Chesed £28,000, Mosdos Hatorah Pnei Menachem £25,000 and Children Ahead £20,000; no locations are given (PDF p.18).[2]

Israeli partners

Not identified; recipients are named without locations.[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 is named for any recipient.[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;[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]
  • Offshore related-party loan. Note 18 records an interest-free loan of £4,450,784 from Ambertown International Ltd, "a company registered in the British Virgin Islands" of which C Margulies is a director, and a £35,000 loan from David Margulies (PDF p.21).[2] Ambertown was not found on the UK sanctions lists.[17]
  • Net liabilities. Creditors due after more than one year total £4,930,372, leaving net liabilities of £422,978; the investment properties (£1,655,000) are at trustee valuation without external valuation, and a bank loan is secured on two of them (PDF p.12, 19–20).[2]
  • Creditor petition. In 2008 the charity and the Chasodim Fund petitioned to wind up Ross Hall Limited (t/a Winkworth), 269 Chiswick High Road, as creditors.[18] CCOD records the charity as proprietor of 257 and 259 Chiswick High Road (see Land and property).[19]

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, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[20] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[21]

The Gazette

Apart from Companies House filing lists, the only Gazette notice naming the charity is a winding-up petition against Ross Hall Limited (t/a Winkworth), 269 Chiswick High Road, presented on 29 April 2008 by "Newpier Charity Ltd" and the Chasodim Fund (1083443), "claiming to be Creditors of the Company".[18] No insolvency notice against the charity itself was found.[22]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[23]

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.[17]

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.[24] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[19]

  • 171 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3AL (title LN71668, freehold, proprietor added 3 August 1999) – CCOD match on company number 01898590 (proprietor NEWPIER CHARITY LIMITED); the accounts describe four commercially let investment properties at a trustee valuation of £1,655,000 without addresses (PDF p.12, 19). CCOD also records MARG MANAGEMENT LIMITED (02591238), a company of which Charles Margulies is an officer, as leaseholder of Flat 4, 171 Farringdon Road (title NGL760672, price paid £395,000, added 6 October 2025) (source: [19])
  • 92 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3EA (title NGL96123, freehold, proprietor added 28 July 2016) – CCOD match on company number 01898590 (source: [19])
  • 257 and 259 Chiswick High Road, London W4 4PU (title AGL72314, freehold, proprietor added 28 July 2016) – CCOD match on company number 01898590 (source: [19])
  • 59 High Street, Alton GU34 1AB (title HP478698, freehold, proprietor added 8 August 2001); land on the south side of High Street, Alton (title HP504853, freehold, added 8 August 2001) – CCOD match on company number 01898590 (source: [19])
  • 57/57A High Street, Alton GU34 1AB (title HP559425, freehold, added 23 September 1998) and a 12-inch strip of land south-west of 57 and 57A High Street (title HP566087, leasehold, added 10 February 1999) – CCOD match on proprietor name NEWPIER CHARITY LIMITED only (no company number in the record) (source: [19])
  • 2 Ivatt Road, Dartmouth TQ6 9LE (title DN185441, freehold, proprietor added 13 May 1999) – CCOD match on company number 01898590 (source: [19])

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Newpier Charity', 'Newpier' 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 overdue by 64 days" 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 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 Charity Commission, Newpier Charity (293686): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 293686, full print (capture of 20210703) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Companies House, Company 01898590 (Newpier Charity Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Company 01898590: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Newpier Charity accounts, year ended 2014-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ Newpier Charity accounts, year ended 2015-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ Newpier Charity accounts, year ended 2016-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ Newpier Charity accounts, year ended 2017-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  10. ↑ Newpier Charity accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  11. ↑ 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 every charity in batches 1–7 (175 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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").
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-7 screening covered 428 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 trustees, officers, lenders, subsidiaries and related bodies named in the accounts read for this batch (including Ambertown International Ltd); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. The single forename-and-surname candidate (a former Wimbledon and District Synagogue director against a UK counter-terrorism designation) has different middle names and was not treated as a match; all other candidates were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps; lists downloaded October 2026.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 The Gazette, Petitions to Wind Up (Companies): Ross Hall Limited (t/a Winkworth) notice dated 1 July 2008, viewed 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 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.
  20. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the batch-7 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Lieutenancy of Scotland, is a separate Scottish body).
  21. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-7 charity name returned zero results).
  22. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Newpier' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  23. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-293686 360Giving, queried 15 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 'Newpier' Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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