Songbrook Limited
Removed Wechsler–Jacobs charitable company that reported £127,232 of income and £27 of spending in its last year
| Songbrook Limited
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company (removed) |
| Founded | 1983-09-07 (registered) |
| Dissolved | 2023-05-25 (removed from the register) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 287754; company 01663511 |
| Area served | Throughout England And Wales, Israel |
Songbrook Limited was a charitable company registered on 7 September 1983 and removed from the register on 25 May 2023; register areas were England and Wales and Israel.[1] The register gives no company number, but its governing document – memorandum and articles incorporated on 10 September 1982 – matches Songbrook Limited (01663511), a company limited by guarantee with its registered office at Fordgate House, 1 Allsop Place, London NW1, which was dissolved on 16 May 2023; the link rests on the name and the incorporation date.[1][2] Its objects were the Orthodox Jewish religion and the relief of poverty, and the register describes its activities as "Relief of poverty and education".[1] Archived register pages list Michael Wechsler and Simon Jacobs as trustees from 2010 to January 2021, and Michael Wechsler and Esther Michelle Wechsler (from 1 February 2021) in July 2021.[3][4] Its last reported year, to 31 August 2020, shows income of £127,232 and spending of £27; the year before shows nil income and spending.[1] No accounts were found on the live register or in the web archive.
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS CHARITABLE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Relief of poverty and education"[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England And Wales, Israel.[1]
Trustees
The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-07-21 | Michael Wechsler; Simon Jacobs | [5] |
| 2011-09-20 | Michael Wechsler; Simon Jacobs | [6] |
| 2021-01-12 | Michael Wechsler – also trustee of The Gertner Charitable Trust, Friends of the Sick (Chevrat Bikkur Cholim), Menorah Foundation; Simon Jacobs – also trustee of The Gertner Charitable Trust | [7] |
| 2021-07-04 | Esther Michelle Wechsler (from 01 February 2021); Michael Wechsler – also trustee of The Gertner Charitable Trust, Friends of the Sick (Chevrat Bikkur Cholim), Menorah Foundation | [8] |
At Companies House, Simon Jacobs was a director from 29 May 2002 to 1 February 2021 and secretary from 1 September 2002; Michael Wechsler was a director from 29 May 2002 to 12 December 2021, and Esther Michelle Wechsler from 1 February 2021. Earlier officers were Adrian Heller (director and secretary, 1 September 1993 to 31 August 2002), Joseph Heller (until 1 September 1993) and Eva Golda Engelstein and Marcel Engelstein (directors until 29 May 2002).[2] Simon Jacobs and Michael Wechsler hold 57 and 56 Companies House appointments respectively, mostly property companies; the company's registered office, Fordgate House, shares its name with Fordgate (City) Limited and Fordgate Midlands Properties Limited, two of Michael Wechsler's appointments.[9]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 10 current and former officers of the charitable company (01663511), 0 of them active.[10]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-31 | £0 | £0 |
| 2020-08-31 | £127,232 | £27 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Funding in Israel
- No accounts were found, so spending in Israel is not known; Israel was a register area of operation.[1]
Israeli partners
Not known.[1]
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 accounts or partner information were found.[1] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is recorded; no accounts were found.[1]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Charity Commission inquiry naming this charity was found; it is not named in the 2025–2026 cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements or statement of results, and the charities in the August 2026 settlements class inquiry have not been named.[11][12][13][14][15] The register shows it as "Removed charity" without giving a reason, and no archived register page giving a reason was found.[16]
- Income not spent. In its last reported year the charity spent £27 of £127,232 of income, and no accounts were found to show what became of the money before the company was dissolved on 16 May 2023, nine days before the charity was removed.[1][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).[17] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[18]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette returned Companies House filing lists naming Songbrook Limited and two 1975 lists of company names that pre-date the 1982 incorporation of company 01663511; no insolvency or winding-up notice was found. Companies House records the company as dissolved on 16 May 2023.[2][19]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[20]
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.[21]
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.[22]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Songbrook Limited", "Songbrook" returned 0 contributions in total.[23]
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".[7]
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 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 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 Companies House, SONGBROOK LIMITED (01663511) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026 (company limited by guarantee incorporated 10 September 1982; registered office Fordgate House, 1 Allsop Place, London NW1; last accounts made up to 31 August 2020; dissolved 16 May 2023).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register entry 287754, contact and trustees UK Government Web Archive, capture of 21/07/2010. (trustees Michael Wechsler and Simon Jacobs).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register entry 287754 (Songbrook Limited), full print UK Government Web Archive, capture of 04/07/2021. (trustees Esther Michelle Wechsler, from 1 February 2021, and Michael Wechsler; "This charity does not own and/or lease land or property"; registration history "07 September 1983: Standard registration").
- ↑ Register entry 287754, contact and trustees (capture of 20100721) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 287754, contact and trustees (capture of 20110920) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Register entry 287754, full print (capture of 20210112) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 287754, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Companies House, JACOBS, Simon: appointments and WECHSLER, Michael: appointments Find and update company information, viewed 16 October 2026 (57 and 56 appointments respectively, both including Rosefair Ltd, Jetrunner Ltd and Wyndham Road Limited; Michael Wechsler's include Fordgate (City) Limited and Fordgate Midlands Properties Limited).
- ↑ Company 01663511: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 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").
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, overview pages for the removed charities 287754, 1114548 (organisation 4023825) and 1169452 (organisation 5087045), retrieved 16 October 2026 (each marked "Removed charity"; no removal reason is shown).
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-16 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-16 charity names returned no matching charity).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Songbrook' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-287754 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-16 screening covered 247 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the five charitable companies, and trustees, examiners and other people 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, Shah, Weinberg and Rapoport) or the generic words "UK", "Ltd" and "Company Limited"; 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Songbrook" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).