Sellata Limited

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Stamford Hill charitable company that has lent £3.5 million – nearly all its assets – to a property company owned by a trustee and his wife

Sellata Limited

Type Charitable company
Founded 1982-09-29 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 285429; company 01474540
Headquarters London N16
Area served Brent, Hackney, Haringey, Israel


Sellata Limited is a charitable company (01474540, incorporated 22 January 1980) registered on 29 September 1982; register areas are Brent, Hackney, Haringey and Israel.[1][2] Its trustees and directors are Eliezer Benedikt, Aron Oberlander and Joseph Stern, with a principal office in London N16 (PDF p.3).[1][2] Its stated activity is "to receive income from property investments and to donate the remaining profit to charitable causes" (PDF p.4). In the year to 31 March 2026 its only income was interest of £158,346, grants were £413,948 and funds fell to £2,915,413 (PDF p.7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH. 2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Charitable donations from Investment income"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Religious Activities.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of Sellata Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Eliezer Benedikt not recorded Bear Mordechai Limited (286806)
Aron Oberlander 2019-02-04 Bikur Cholim Limited (1085965); Friends of Kehilath Yakov and Pupa (1003247)
Joseph Stern 2019-02-15 Achim Limited (1111090); Combined Funds Limited (1189209); Crownhost Limited (1081750); Keren Association Limited (313119); Possuk Limited (264592)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-13 Eliezer Benedikt – also trustee of Bear Mordechai Limited; Aron Oberlander (from 04 February 2019) – also trustee of Bikur Cholim Limited; Joseph Stern (from 15 February 2019) – also trustee of Crownhost Limited, Achim Limited, Keren Association Limited, Combined Funds Limited, Possuk Limited [3]

Eliezer Benedikt is also a register trustee of Bear Mordechai Limited (286806); Aron Oberlander of Bikur Cholim Limited (1085965) and Friends of Kehilath Yakov and Pupa (1003247); Joseph Stern of Achim Limited (1111090), Combined Funds Limited (1189209), Crownhost Limited (1081750), Keren Association Limited (313119) and Possuk Limited (264592).[1]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 8 current and former officers of the charitable company (01474540), 3 of them active.[4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2022-03-31 £187,042 £169,617
2023-03-31 £207,029 £322,256
2024-03-31 £179,203 £369,993
2025-03-31 £168,558 £311,567
2026-03-31 £158,346 £416,079

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

Funding in Israel

  • FY2026 grants £413,948: College for Higher Rabbinical Studies £37,400, Amud Hatzdokoh Trust £23,810, Chasdei Sholom £15,000, Success Stories £15,000, Toirem £14,830, Beis Aharon TT Activity Centre £14,000, Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust £13,000, Chevras Machzikei Mesifta £12,500, Lending Hope Ltd £12,500, British Friends of the Rabbi Meir Baal Haness (K.S.H.) £12,370, CML – Chevras Mo'oz Ladol £12,100, Start Upright £12,000, other grants under £12,000 £213,394 and individuals £6,044. No place in Israel is named (PDF p.14).[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli organisation is identified as such; most named recipients are UK charities, several with their own profiles.[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]
  • £3.5 million loan to a trustee's company. "On 13 Nov 2020 Sellata Limited made a £3,533,060 5-year long-term cash loan to Bestgreat Ltd" at a fixed 5%. Trustee E Benedikt is a director of Bestgreat Ltd, and he and his wife Mrs N Benedikt each own 50% of its shares. On 20 October 2025 the loan was extended to 13 November 2030, with an exit clause after 13 November 2028. Bestgreat paid £158,346 interest and £256,553 net repayments in the year, leaving £2,910,366 outstanding – almost all of the charity's £2,915,413 funds (PDF p.16–17).[2] Companies House lists Eliezer Shlomo Benedikt and Nechy Benedikt as officers of BESTGREAT LTD (04069384).[16] The related-party note does not mention Charity Commission authorisation (PDF p.17).[2]
  • Grants to charities named in the cheque-cashing inquiry. FY2026 grants include £13,000 to "Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust", and the 2025 comparatives include £13,000 to "Merkaz Hatorah Belz Macnivka" and £15,000 to "The Rehabilitation Trust (Wlodowa)" (PDF p.14).[2] These names match or are close to Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054), placed in the cheque-cashing class inquiry in September 2025, and Friends of Mercaz Hatorah Belz Macnivka (1126075) and The Rehabilitation Trust (288622), placed in it in May 2025.[11][12] The recipients' identity was not confirmed, and no finding has been made against Sellata.
  • Land record. The register records that the charity owns or leases land, and HM Land Registry's CCOD dataset lists a freehold title (6 Crewys Road, London NW2, proprietor since 1993) under the charity's company number, but the 2026 accounts show no property; its income is described as coming from "property investments" (PDF p.4).[1][17][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.[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):[17]

  • 6 Crewys Road, London (NW2 2AA) (title MX288286, freehold; proprietor added 14/04/1993) – CCOD match on the charity's own company number 01474540; the 2026 accounts show no property (source: [17])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Sellata Limited", "Sellata" returned 0 contributions in total.[24]

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. ↑ 1.00 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. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Charity Commission, Sellata Limited (285429): 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 285429, full print (capture of 20210113) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Company 01474540: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Sellata Limited accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  6. ↑ Sellata Limited accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  7. ↑ Sellata Limited accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  8. ↑ Sellata Limited accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  9. ↑ Sellata Limited accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200108).
  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-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".
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 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. ↑ Companies House, BENEDIKT, Eliezer Shlomo: appointments and BENEDIKT, Nechy: appointments Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026 (both list BESTGREAT LTD (04069384) and SELLATA LIMITED (01474540) among their appointments).
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 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.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ 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).
  20. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Sellata' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  21. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-285429 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ 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. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Sellata" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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