Ploiest Estates Limited
Szoffer family charitable company holding a £1.37 million property, funded entirely by trustee-linked entities
| Ploiest Estates Limited
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2023-05-17 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1203108; company 13808277 |
| Headquarters | London N16 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, United States, Israel |
| Key people | Shulamit Szoffer (chair) |
Ploiest Estates Limited is a charitable company (13808277, incorporated 20 December 2021) registered on 17 May 2023; register areas are England and Wales, the United States and Israel.[1] Its trustees and directors are Ervin Szoffer, Shulamit Szoffer (chair on the register) and B Kwadrat (appointed July 2025 per the accounts), with a registered office in London N16 (PDF p.2, 4).[1][2] It makes grants for "educational and relief of poverty purposes" (PDF p.4). In 2025 income was £151,587 – investment income £101,032 and donations £50,555 – and funds were £1,523,944, including investment property of £1,369,000 held at cost in a designated endowment fund (PDF p.4, 7).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE CHARITIES 'OBJECTS' ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "General charitable purposes such as provide funds to other charities for relief of poverty, education and medical purposes."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, United States, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ervin Szoffer | 2021-12-20 | Moinest Foundation (1177217) | |
| Shulamit Szoffer | 2021-12-20 | Yes | Moinest Foundation (1177217) |
Ervin and Shulamit Szoffer are also register trustees of Moinest Foundation (1177217).[1]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 3 current and former officers of the charitable company (13808277), 3 of them active.[3]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £18,350 | £7,807 |
| 2024-12-31 | £118,350 | £73,480 |
| 2025-12-31 | £151,587 | £52,056 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants: Kupat Chaim V'Chesed £15,000 (2024: £15,000) and other grants £600; no place is named (PDF p.12).[2]
Israeli partners
"Kupat Chaim V'Chesed" is not further identified; the name matches the UK charity profiled as Kupat Chaim V'Chesed (1201050), but the identity is not confirmed.[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 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;[4] 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.[5][6][7][8] 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.[9]
- All donations from trustee-linked entities. The £50,555 of donations came "from entities that some of the trustees of the charity are also directors / trustees of"; in 2024 £25,697 was owed to the charity by such entities (PDF p.14, 16).[2]
- Property at transfer cost; small grants. The investment property is carried at cost "since they were transferred to the charity", with no revaluation; investment management costs were £33,860, against grants of £15,600 (PDF p.7, 12–13).[2] The trustees' report carries no approval date (PDF p.5).[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).[10] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[11]
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.[12]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[13]
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.[14]
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.[15] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[16]
- Investment property £1,369,000 at cost, "transferred to the charity", held in a designated endowment fund; addresses not stated (CCOD lists four freeholds under the charity's company number) – Accounts (PDF p.7, 13) (source: [2])
- 76 Bellevue Road, Southend-On-Sea (SS2 4JF) (title EX303169, freehold; proprietor added 14/09/2023) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 13808277 (source: [16])
- 284a Cambridge Heath Road, London (E2 9DA) (title LN80538, freehold; proprietor added 13/05/2024) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 13808277 (source: [16])
- 6 Craven Park Road, London (N15 6AB) (title MX236285, freehold; proprietor added 23/11/2023) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 13808277 (source: [16])
- 32 West Green Road, London (N15 5NP) (title NGL17786, freehold; proprietor added 23/11/2023) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 13808277 (source: [16])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Ploiest Estates" returned 0 contributions in total.[17]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 0 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile; none were found for this charity number.
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 1.8 1.9 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, Ploiest Estates Limited (1203108): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Company 13808277: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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-14 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)"; Friends of the Israel Cancer Association showed "up to date (13 days late)" and The Bertie Black Foundation "up to date (82 days late)"; British Friends of Neve Shalom, Mesila UK, The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions and Etz Chaim Foundation showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-14 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-14 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Ploiest Estates' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1203108 360Giving, queried 16 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-14 screening covered 282 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, directors of the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation company and of Mesila UK Limited, related companies and charities named in the accounts (including Bestgreat Ltd, Jonvan Properties, One Shakespeare Limited, Beauland Limited, Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited and Torah Temimah Trust) and trustees, examiners and donors named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person or company was found; the only token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Cohen and Jones); 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.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 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 (including the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation, 04773267) and on the charities' registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Ploiest Estates" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).