Riosan Limited
Stamford Hill synagogue company that owns its Ravensdale Road properties and doubled its grant-making in 2025
| Riosan Limited
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 1976-05-11 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 271172; company 01249592 |
| Headquarters | London N16 |
| Area served | Hackney, Haringey, Israel |
Riosan Limited is a charitable company (01249592, incorporated 17 March 1976) registered on 11 May 1976; register areas are Hackney, Haringey and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Norman Grunbaum, Semmy Heimann, Alan Lewin, Gershon Mannes, Ephraim Zalman Rabinowitz (company secretary), Gabriel Schleider and Sholom Springer; the registered office is in London N16 (PDF p.3).[1][2] Its object is to advance religion in accordance with the Orthodox Jewish faith; it runs a synagogue and makes grants (PDF p.4). In the year to 31 March 2025 income was £188,808 (donations £108,992), expenditure £208,030 – grants £117,850 (2024: £48,900) and synagogue costs £87,771 – and funds £515,013, including freehold property at a cost of £528,696 (PDF p.6, 11).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "TO ADVANCE RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS CHARITABLE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Running a synagogue, and charitable grants"[1]
Register classifications: Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Hackney, Haringey, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semmy Heimann | not recorded | The Learning Net (1136221) | |
| Ephraim Zalman Rabinowitz | not recorded | Crewpride Limited (272178); Mazkereth Gittel Limited (292476); Yesodey Hatorah Nursery (292611) | |
| Gabriel Schleider | not recorded | — | |
| Norman Grunbaum | 2012-02-20 | The N & R Grunbaum Charitable Trust (1068524) | |
| Sholom Springer | 2012-02-20 | — | |
| Alan Lewin | 2018-03-28 | Arachim Limited (803088); Crewpride Limited (272178); Gloucester Haven Limited (1103869); Koach Parenting (1166394); The Edith and Manfred Lewin Memorial Fund (1076986) | |
| Gershon Mannes | 2021-03-24 | Crewpride Limited (272178); Side by Side (Children) Limited (1135723) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
Ephraim Zalman Rabinowitz, Alan Lewin and Gershon Mannes are also register trustees of Crewpride Limited (272178); Rabinowitz of Mazkereth Gittel Limited and Yesodey Hatorah Nursery; Lewin of Arachim Limited, Gloucester Haven Limited, Koach Parenting and The Edith and Manfred Lewin Memorial Fund; Mannes of Side by Side (Children) Limited; Norman Grunbaum of The N & R Grunbaum Charitable Trust; Semmy Heimann of The Learning Net.[1]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 10 current and former officers of the charitable company (01249592), 8 of them active.[6]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £134,869 | £164,004 |
| 2022-03-31 | £218,041 | £209,734 |
| 2023-03-31 | £157,349 | £153,034 |
| 2024-03-31 | £166,584 | £139,790 |
| 2025-03-31 | £188,808 | £208,030 |
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[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[9]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[10]
- Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2019[11]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants to institutions: Teshuvoh Tefiloh Tzedokoh £50,000 (relief of poverty); grants to individuals £67,850 (religion £22,750, poverty £24,100, education £21,000). No place in Israel is named (PDF p.9).[2]
Israeli partners
Not named beyond the UK recipient above.[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;[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]
- Donations from a connected charity. £67,500 (2024: £21,744) was received from Crewpride Limited, "a charity with trustees in common" (PDF p.13).[2] Three Riosan trustees are also register trustees of Crewpride Limited (272178).[1]
- Deficit funded from reserves. Overall expenditure rose 49% and the deficit was met from reserves (PDF p.4).[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).[18] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[19]
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. The insolvency feed returned only notices of 12 April 2021 for an unrelated company, Riosan Computing Solutions Ltd.[20]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[21]
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.[22]
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.[23] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[24]
- Freehold property £528,696 at cost; addresses not stated (CCOD lists 53, 55 and 57 Ravensdale Road under the charity's company number) – Accounts (PDF p.3, 11) (source: [2])
- 53 Ravensdale Road, London (N16 6TJ) (title EGL441671, freehold; proprietor added 16/01/1986) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 01249592 (proprietor RIOSAN LIMITED) (source: [24])
- 57 Ravensdale Road, (N16 6TJ) (title LN162917, freehold; proprietor added 11/11/1985) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 01249592 (proprietor RIOSAN LIMITED) (source: [24])
- 55 Ravensdale Road, (N16 6TJ) (title LN220427, freehold; proprietor added 13/05/1981) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 01249592 (proprietor RIOSAN LIMITED) (source: [24])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Riosan Limited", "Riosan" 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".[4]
See also
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 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 Charity Commission, Riosan Limited (271172): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ Register entry 271172, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 271172, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 271172, full print (capture of 20210706) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Company 01249592: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Riosan Limited accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Riosan Limited accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Riosan Limited accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Riosan Limited accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ Riosan Limited accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
- ↑ 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-13 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The 22 registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd, Trumfold Limited and The Naaman Trust 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-13 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-13 charity names returned zero results, except "J O Charitable", which returned only unrelated Northern Irish charities).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Riosan' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-271172 360Giving, queried 15 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-13 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the six charitable companies (including the removed Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd and Trumfold Limited), related companies named in the accounts (Cromwell Corporate Protector Limited, Salmino Limited, Bullion Properties Limited, Crewpride Limited, Wilkincroft Ltd and others), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts and fetched partner pages 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 words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Ltd", "Foundation") and surname-only coincidences (Weiss, Friedman, Kish, Silver, James, Seal, Potash); 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.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 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 and numbers of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Riosan" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).