Sadie Smulovitch Children's Trust Ltd
Gateshead charitable company with a £280,000 investment property, an unexplained £200,000 creditor and unnamed grants of £77,800 in 2024/25
| Sadie Smulovitch Children's Trust Ltd
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 2016-08-30 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1168968; company 10117583 |
| Headquarters | Gateshead NE8 |
| Area served | Israel, Throughout England And Wales |
| Key people | Ephraim Meir Pearlman (chair) |
Sadie Smulovitch Children's Trust Ltd (also registered as "SSCT") is a charitable company (10117583) registered on 30 August 2016; its registered office is on the Team Valley Trading Estate and its contact address is in Gateshead NE8.[1][2] The trustees are Ephraim Meir Pearlman, Michael Dunner and Jacob Dunner; the independent examiner is Meir Rosenthal FCA of Rosenthal & Co., Gateshead, whose report is dated 2 January 2026 (PDF p.3, 7).[2] In the year to 30 June 2025 donations were £76,457 and grants to institutions £77,800 (2024: £188,234); the investment property was revalued down by £65,372 to £280,000, and funds fell from £159,550 to £91,527 (PDF p.4, 8–9, 14).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROVIDING GRANTS, CLOTHING, SHOES OR OTHER ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED OR TO CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROVIDING GRANTS, CLOTHING, SHOES OR OTHER ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED OR TO CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES."[1]
Register classifications: Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Throughout England And Wales.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ephraim Meir Pearlman | 2016-04-11 | Yes | — |
| Michael Dunner | 2024-04-05 | — | |
| Jacob Dunner | 2024-04-05 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-03 | Jacob Kaufman (from 11 April 2016) – also trustee of Gateshead Jewish High School for Girls Limited, Rabbi Z Michael Memorial Fund, Gjhs Property Company Limited; Sidney Mortimer Rutenberg (from 11 April 2016) – also trustee of Gateshead Jewish Primary School, Gateshead Hatzola, Jewish Community Council of Gateshead, The Gateshead Jewish Family Service; Ephraim Meir Pearlman (chair) (from 11 April 2016) | [3] |
At Companies House, J Kaufman was a director from 2016 to 2022 and Dr S M Rutenberg from 2016 to 2024.[4]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 5 current and former officers of the charitable company (10117583), 3 of them active.[5]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-30 | £86,321 | £81,258 |
| 2022-06-30 | £221,651 | £100,214 |
| 2023-06-30 | £159,895 | £144,064 |
| 2024-06-30 | £59,290 | £188,935 |
| 2025-06-30 | £76,457 | £79,108 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
Funding in Israel
- No spending in Israel is identified; grants of £77,800 are not attributed to any recipient (PDF p.13–14).[2]
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.
| 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;[8] 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.[9][10][11][12] 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.[13]
- Unexplained creditor and unnamed grants. Other creditors of £200,000 (unchanged from 2024) are not explained, leaving net current liabilities of £188,473; the report says grants were made "as set out at note 10", but note 10 is the examiner's fee and no grantee is named (PDF p.4, 9, 13, 15).[2]
- Inconsistencies. 2024 income is shown as £99,290 in the statement of financial activities and £59,290 on the register; 2024 grants appear as £188,234, £188,935, £189,935 and £189,340 in different places; the company number is misprinted and a note calls the charity "Sadie Smulovitch Charitable Trust"; the approval dates are blank (PDF p.4–5, 8, 13–14).[2][1]
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).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]
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.[16]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[17]
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.[18]
Land and property
The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[19] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[20]
- Investment property revalued to £280,000 (2024: £345,372); address not stated; no CCOD title was found under the charity's company number – Accounts (PDF p.9, 14) (source: [2])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Sadie Smulovitch Children's Trust", "Sadie Smulovitch" returned 0 contributions in total.[21]
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 (on time)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]
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 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, Sadie Smulovitch Children's Trust Ltd (1168968): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1168968, full print (capture of 20210703) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Companies House, SADIE SMULOVITCH CHILDREN'S TRUST LTD (10117583) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Company 10117583: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Sadie Smulovitch Children's Trust Ltd accounts, year ended 2017-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
- ↑ Sadie Smulovitch Children's Trust Ltd accounts, year ended 2018-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20190903).
- ↑ 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-19 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Twenty-two registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 1691 days"; Leibovici Charitable Trust and Friends of Bereaved Families Forum (1118221) 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-19 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-19 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Sadie Smulovitch' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1168968 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-19 screening covered 358 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees and other people and bodies 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, Gold) or generic words in organisation names (Trust, Ltd, Limited).
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 eight charitable companies in this batch (06615331, 03328487, 02311243, 08463157, 04417664, 07804771, 08738056, 10117583) and on the charities' registered names and named related companies; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Sadie Smulovitch" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).