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Solev Co Limited

Logo Biu Aerial photograph of Bar-Ilan University (21004322376).jpg
Aerial view of Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan. The company's FY2025 grants included £35,000 to British Friends of Bar Ilan University
Type Charitable company
Founded 1968-01-01 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 254623; company 00923876
Headquarters Romeo House, 160 Bridport Road, London, N18 1SY
Area served Israel


Solev Co Limited is a charitable company (00923876) incorporated on 28 November 1967 and registered in 1968; Israel is its only register area.[1] Its registered office is Romeo House, 160 Bridport Road, London N18 1SY. The former trustees R Tager, S J Tager and J P Tager resigned in January and February 2025; M J Blake and P M Kremen were appointed on 15 December 2024 (PDF p.3).[2] Both new trustees are also register trustees of Hatzlocho Limited (1082076).[1] In the year to 31 March 2025 all income, £275,884, was investment income; spending was £148,541, of which grants £65,200 and support and governance costs £83,341 (legal fees £53,663), and funds were £6,271,072 (PDF p.10, 14).[2] The accounts state that "All grant giving has currently been paused" and that the trustees wrote to the Commission in October 2025 about transferring the assets to a donor-advised fund; the auditors drew attention to their preparation on a basis other than going concern (PDF p.5, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO FURTHER THOSE BOTH IN UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE BY ENGLISH LAW."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "General charitable purposes, but with particular reference to Jewish education and religious activities, and medical and relief of poverty."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Solev Co Limited (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Philip Michael Kremen 2024-12-15 Hatzlocho Limited (1082076)
Michael Julian Blake 2024-12-15 Hatzlocho Limited (1082076)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-01-26 Romie Tager; Chaim Frommer; Joseph Tager; Simon Tager [3]
2012-01-21 Romie Tager; Chaim Frommer; Joseph Tager; Simon Tager [4]
2021-01-07 Simon Jonathan Tager; Romie Tager QC (chair) – also trustee of The British Friends of the Bar-Ilan University; Joseph Peter Tager; Chaim Menachem Frommer – also trustee of The North West London Talmudical College Limited, Stahl Memorial Limited [5]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 15 current and former officers of the charitable company (00923876), 3 of them active.[6]


Directors and secretaries listed by Companies House (from the Jewish Charity Bot draft):

Directors and secretaries (Companies House)
Name Role Position Date of birth Appointed on Resigned on Nationality Country of residence Occupation
Chaim Menachem Frommer Active Secretary 9 January 2006 British Not disclosed
Michael Julian Blake Active Director June 1950 15 December 2024 British England Not disclosed
Philip Michael Kremen Active Director November 1949 15 December 2024 British England Not disclosed
Myer Grosskopf Resigned Secretary Appointed before 7 June 1991 13 September 1999 British Not disclosed
Esther Marianne Tager Resigned Secretary 1 April 2005 9 January 2006 British Not disclosed
Osias Tager Resigned Secretary 13 September 1999 26 March 2005 British Not disclosed
Chaim Saul Grosskopf Resigned Director April 1956 25 May 1998 13 September 1999 British England Not disclosed
Myer Grosskopf Resigned Director February 1927 Appointed before 7 June 1991 13 September 1999 British Not disclosed
Abraham Eliezer Perelman Resigned Director March 1931 Appointed before 7 June 1991 13 September 1999 British United Kingdom Not disclosed
Jonah Perelman Resigned Director August 1955 25 May 1998 13 September 1999 British England Not disclosed
Joseph Peter Tager Resigned Director October 1980 11 April 2005 17 January 2025 British United Kingdom Not disclosed
Osias Tager Resigned Director June 1914 25 May 1998 26 March 2005 British Not disclosed
Osias Tager Resigned Director June 1914 Appointed before 7 June 1991 10 September 1997 British Not disclosed
Romie Tager Resigned Director July 1947 3 February 1986 28 February 2025 British England Not disclosed
Simon Jonathan Tager Resigned Director October 1980 11 April 2005 17 January 2025 British United Kingdom Not disclosed

Source: Companies House officers register.[6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £283,520 £266,342
2022-03-31 £301,832 £435,084
2023-03-31 £317,972 £354,299
2024-03-31 £299,538 £79,314
2025-03-31 £275,884 £148,541

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
31 Mar 2006 2,907,995 799,363 [7]
31 Mar 2007 1,658,853 891,471 [7]
31 Mar 2008 1,630,856 895,523 [7]
31 Mar 2009 219,714 505,584 [7]
31 Mar 2010 704,359 855,476 [7]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2006[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2007[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2008[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2009[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2010[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2014[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2015[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2016[15]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2017[16]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/03/2018[17]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £65,200: British Friends of Bar Ilan University £35,000 (2024: £6,250), Tevini Ltd £5,500, Kehillat Nashira £3,000, Middle Temple 1573 Fund £3,000, Friends of Beis Soroh Schneirer £2,500, Norwood £2,500 and others under £2,500 £13,700 (PDF p.14).[2] The British Friends of the Bar-Ilan University (314139) was profiled in batch 7.[1]

Israeli partners

Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, through its British friends' charity.[2][18]

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
The largest grant supports Bar-Ilan University, whose campus is in Ramat Gan, inside the 1949 armistice lines.[18] Low – Ramat Gan

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated in the FY2025 accounts.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • Statutory inquiry. The Charity Commission opened an inquiry into Solev Co Limited on 13 December 2024, and a separate inquiry into Hatzlocho Limited on 19 December 2024. Its concerns are related-party transactions and conflicts of interest, "particularly given that the trustees were, until recently, all part of the same family". The inquiry also covers why the charity had not filed its accounts on time "for the past five years" and was "in default with their 2023 and 2024 accounts".[19] The register shows a regulatory alert for the inquiry.[20] The 2024 annual return was received 32 days late.[1]
  • Loan to a trustees' company. The charity lent money at 5% to Pidom Export Limited, of which the former trustees were directors; £5,700,038 was due from Pidom at 31 March 2024. The loan was guaranteed by Faircastle Ltd, which had the same common trustees and directors, and was "repaid by Faircastle Ltd under its guarantee in the financial year". Interest received from Pidom was £219,324 (2024: £276,951). Hatzlocho Limited is described as controlled by spouses of the Tager family (PDF p.16).[2][21] CCOD lists three titles registered to Faircastle (see Land and property).[22]
  • Grants to a trustee's other charity and an inquiry-named charity. FY2025 grants included £35,000 to British Friends of Bar Ilan University, of which R Tager is a trustee (PDF p.14, 16), and £2,500 to Friends of Beis Soroh Schneirer, close to the name of Friend of Beis Soroh Schneirer (1153647), which was named in the May 2025 cheque-cashing class inquiry. No charity number is given, so the identification is not confirmed.[2][23]
  • 1999 winding-up petition. The London Gazette carried a 1999 petition in the High Court to wind up Solev Co. Limited (No. 4894 of 1999); the company was not wound up.[24]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[25] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[26]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette for "Solev Co" returned Companies House filing lists and a 1999 notice of a petition to wind up SOLEV CO. LIMITED in the High Court (No. 4894 of 1999);[24] the company was not wound up and remains registered. No recent insolvency notice was found.[27]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[28]

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.[29]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[30] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[22]

  • Endeavour House, 107 Alexandra Road, Mutley (PL4 7EF) (title DN84634, freehold; proprietor added 10/08/1999); 4 Churchill Avenue and land on the north side of 5 Churchill Avenue, Maltby (title SYK422020, freehold; proprietor added 17/07/2000); 58 Duncan Street, Rotherham, (S60 5DE) (title SYK422030, freehold; proprietor added 17/07/2000) – 3 titles registered to Faircastle Limited (03683530), which guaranteed and repaid the Pidom Export loan and whose directors included former trustees; not charity property (source: [22][21])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Solev Co", "Solev" returned 1 contribution in total; those not listed above were not established to concern this charity.[31]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 4 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".[5]

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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Solev Co Limited (254623): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 254623, contact and trustees (capture of 20110126) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 254623, contact and trustees (capture of 20120121) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Register entry 254623, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Company 00923876: officers Companies House, viewed 15 October 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Register entry 254623, financial history (capture of 20110912) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2006-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  9. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2007-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  10. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2008-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  11. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2009-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  12. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2010-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110913).
  13. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2014-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  14. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2015-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  15. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2016-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  16. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2017-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  17. ↑ Solev Co Limited accounts, year ended 2018-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200105).
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Bar-Ilan University, Contact us biu.ac.il, viewed 15 October 2026 ("Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, 5290002 Israel").
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator investigates charities over conflicts of interest GOV.UK, 3 February 2025, retrieved 15 October 2026 ("The inquiry into Solev Co Limited (254623) opened on 13 December 2024. The separate inquiry into Hatzlocho Limited (1082076) opened on 19 December 2024.").
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Solev Co Limited (254623): charity overview Register of Charities, viewed 15 October 2026 ("Regulatory alerts The Charity Commission has opened an inquiry into the charity", linking to the GOV.UK announcement of 3 February 2025).
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Companies House, Company 00388051 (Pidom Export Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026. Companies House, Company 03683530 (Faircastle Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026. Companies House, Company 03963034 (Hatzlocho Limited): officers Find and update company information, viewed 15 October 2026.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 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, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  23. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Petitions to Wind Up (Companies): Solev Co. Limited The London Gazette, 11 August 1999 ("In the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) Companies Court. No. 4894 of 1999 In the Matter of SOLEV CO. LIMITED"), retrieved via the Gazette notice feed 15 October 2026.
  25. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-10 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  26. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-10 charity name returned no relevant result; the search for "Kosov" returned only an unrelated removed charity, Kosova Support Group, showing that the API was answering).
  27. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Solev' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  28. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-254623 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  29. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-10 screening covered 337 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 of related companies named in the accounts (including Pinlee Investments, Calvert Estates, Kendleville, Pidom Export, Faircastle, Hatzlocho, Localtrent, Ardina, Ridgesave, Portford, Wilkincroft and Pandor Estates), and trustees, lenders, donor companies and grant recipients named in the accounts 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 company words ("Services Limited" in the name of a corporate secretary) and surname-only coincidences; lists downloaded October 2026.
  30. ↑ 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.
  31. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Solev" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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