TAG Foundation for Social Development

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North London charitable company, run largely through its American arm, which owes £1,267,765 to that arm, holds a freehold carried at £1,318,335 and approved funding for a youth centre in Ashkelon for young people from Ukraine

TAG Foundation for Social Development

Logo Eade Road Seven Sisters 2025.jpg
Eade Road, London N4 (2025); the TAG Foundation's registered office is the office of its accountants on this road
Type Charitable company
Founded 2010-07-22 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1137017; company 07219378
Headquarters London N4 (office of the charity's accountants)
Area served Throughout London, Israel, Kenya, Burma
Key people Ricardo Leiman (chair)
Website www.tagdevelopment.org


TAG Foundation for Social Development (registered as The TAG Foundation for Social Development) is a charitable company (07219378) registered with the Charity Commission on 22 July 2010; its registered office is the office of its accountants, DAS Accounting, in London N4.[1][2][3] The accounts for the year to 31 December 2025 name the trustees as Richard Bellau, Rabbi Y Ives, R Leiman and M Radinsky; the register lists Dr Yosef Ives, Ricardo Leiman (chair), Richard Bellau and Maria Radinsky, and Companies House records Yosef Ives as resident in the United States and Ricardo Leiman as Brazilian.[3][4][2] The report describes reducing overheads in the UK "and therefore subcontracting these functions to the US charity".[3] It says "our partner from Zhytomyr decided to transfer their entire orphanage to Israel", which TAG has supported, and that "we approved funding to assist in the establishment of a permanent youth center in Ashkelon for youth who have come to Israel from Ukraine as young children"; it also mentions "a potential innovation center in the centre of Jerusalem".[3] Its website names its work in "Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Vinnytsia, Odessa, and Dnipro".[5] Income was £44,276, including donations of £44,252; grants were £84,132 – Chabad Lubavitch of South London £65,650, Big Brothers Dnipro £7,380, Chabad Hammersmith £6,200 and European Center for Jewish Students £4,902 – and support costs £24,870, and funds fell from £117,633 to £52,907.[3] The balance sheet shows freehold property at £1,318,335, which is not depreciated and is provided "by way of a licence to occupy, to another charitable organisation"; other creditors of £1,271,065 include "an amount of £1,267,765 owed to (2024: £10,868 owed by) the American arm of the Tag Foundation".[3] The accounts were examined by Pesach Davidoff on 29 May 2026 and signed by Rabbi Y Ives.[3]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF JEWISH SOCIAL VALUES, IN PARTICULAR BY FURTHERING RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATING JEWISH SOCIAL VALUES AMONGST THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND OTHER COMMUNITIES GENERALLY.2. TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILTY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, BOTH IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS."[4]

The register describes its activities as: "To provide relief to those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, both in the UK and overseas"[4]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment.[4]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel, Kenya, Burma.[4]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[4]

Trustees of TAG Foundation for Social Development (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Yosef Ives not recorded —
Ricardo Leiman not recorded Yes —
Richard Bellau 2014-07-22 —
Maria Radinsky 2023-12-11 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-15 Natalie Elias (from 09 March 2020); Yosef Ives; Ricardo Leiman (chair); Richard Bellau (from 22 July 2014); Hirsh Cashdan (from 26 July 2017) [6]
2021-07-05 Natalie Elias (from 09 March 2020); Yosef Ives; Ricardo Leiman (chair); Hirsh Cashdan (from 26 July 2017); Richard Bellau (from 22 July 2014) [7]

Companies House lists eleven former directors.[2]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 14 current and former officers of the charitable company (07219378), 3 of them active.[8] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Yosef Ives (United States, active).[8]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-12-31 £172,141 £165,955
2022-12-31 £439,939 £396,768
2023-12-31 £133,565 £159,686
2024-12-31 £115,194 £37,952
2025-12-31 £44,276 £109,002

Source: register annual-return history.[4]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2015[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 30/04/2016[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[13]

Funding in Israel

  • 2025: funding approved for a permanent youth centre in Ashkelon (no amount given); support for the orphanage from Zhytomyr relocated to Israel (no amount or place given). The accounts do not describe any of the listed grant recipients as Israeli.[3]

Israeli partners

No Israeli organisation is named. The report refers to a partner from Zhytomyr whose orphanage moved to Israel and to a youth centre in Ashkelon.[3]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Ashkelon (2007); TAG's 2025 report says it approved funding for a permanent youth centre in Ashkelon

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 report names Ashkelon as the site of an approved youth centre, without an address or amount; no other place in Israel is named for spending.[3] High (city named for approved funding; amount not given)

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[3]

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;[14] 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.[15][16][17][18] 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.[19]
  • Departure from accounting standards. The accounts say that "In a departure from generally accepted accounting standards, the Charity has not depreciated the building element of the freehold property".[3]
  • Large debt to the American arm. The charity owes £1,267,765 to the American arm of the Tag Foundation, against funds of £52,907; the licensee of its freehold is not named.[3]
  • Properties in Land Registry data. HM Land Registry's corporate ownership data list three freehold titles in the company's name and number (London SW19, Richmond TW9 and London N16), two of them with the proprietor added in November and December 2025; the accounts for 2025 show freehold property at an unchanged cost of £1,318,335 at 1 January and 31 December 2025, without an address.[20][3]

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).[21] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[22]

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.[23]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[24]

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.[25]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[4] No title registers were purchased.[26] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[20]

  • Freehold property of £1,318,335 at cost, not depreciated, provided by licence to another charitable organisation; address not stated – Accounts (note 11) (source: [3])
  • Freehold property, Northfield Road, London N16 (title NGL404120, freehold; proprietor added 27/11/2025) – CCOD record in the name The TAG Foundation for Social Development with the charity's company number (07219378); proprietor added on 27 November 2025, within the year covered by the latest accounts; no price given; candidate title, not purchased (source: [20])
  • Freehold property, South Park Road, London SW19 (title SGL443853, freehold; proprietor added 24/03/2017, price paid £1,300,000) – CCOD record in the name The TAG Foundation for Social Development with the charity's company number (07219378); candidate title, not purchased (source: [20])
  • Freehold property, Pagoda Avenue, Richmond TW9 (title SGL71980, freehold; proprietor added 16/12/2025, price paid £675,000) – CCOD record in the name The TAG Foundation for Social Development with the charity's company number (07219378); proprietor added on 16 December 2025, within the year covered by the latest accounts; candidate title, not purchased (source: [20])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "TAG Foundation for Social Development", "The TAG Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[27]

Web archive

  • tagdevelopment.org: 16 yearly captures, first 2010-04-23, last 2026-01-20.[28]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 3 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".[6]

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ Charity Commission, The TAG Foundation for Social Development (1137017): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Companies House, THE TAG FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (07219378) Find and update company information, overview and officers, viewed 16 October 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 Charity Commission, TAG Foundation for Social Development (1137017): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 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.
  5. ↑ Tag International Development, Home page tagdevelopment.org, viewed 16 October 2026.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 1137017, full print (capture of 20210115) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Register entry 1137017, full print (capture of 20210705) UK Government Web Archive.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Company 07219378: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
  9. ↑ TAG Foundation for Social Development accounts, year ended 2015-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  10. ↑ TAG Foundation for Social Development accounts, year ended 2016-04-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  11. ↑ TAG Foundation for Social Development accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  12. ↑ TAG Foundation for Social Development accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  13. ↑ TAG Foundation for Social Development accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200103).
  14. ↑ 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-23 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none was shown.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  18. ↑ 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).
  19. ↑ 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").
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 20.4 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 charitable companies in this batch and searched for distinctive charity-name keywords; no title registers were purchased.
  21. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-23 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  22. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-23 charity names returned zero results).
  23. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'TAG Foundation' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  24. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1137017 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  25. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-23 screening covered 249 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Company Limited" in the name of a corporate formation agent, and ".com") and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  26. ↑ 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.
  27. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "TAG Foundation" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  28. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for tagdevelopment.org Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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