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Gateshead charitable company giving almost all its grants to individuals and investing in unnamed property syndicates

Brongate Ltd

Type Charitable company
Founded 1982-08-18 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 285062; company 01571944
Headquarters 92 Durham Road, Gateshead, NE8 4EL
Area served Throughout London, Gateshead, Israel


Brongate Ltd is a charitable company (01571944) registered on 18 August 1982; register areas are London, Gateshead and Israel.[1] The accounts for the year to 31 March 2025, examined by I Graff FCCA of Whiteside and Davies Ltd, Salford, give its registered office as 92 Durham Road, Gateshead NE8 4EL. Its objects are the Orthodox Jewish religion and the relief of poverty. Donations were £549,597 and investment income £95,264 (of which property syndicates £93,715); grants were £426,734, of which £412,393 (97%) went to individuals and £10,360 to Kollel Hakol; funds were £1,220,098 (PDF p.3–4, 13–14).[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: "Makes grants to institutions promoting the Orthodox Jewish Faith and running youth programs"[1]

Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Gateshead, Israel.[1]

Trustees

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

Trustees of Brongate Ltd (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Ezriel Mordechai Moscovitch 2018-05-15 —
Yehuda Chody 2019-01-05 —
Avrohom Yisroel Davies 2025-02-12 Shomrim North East (1219565)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-04 Yehuda Chody (from 05 January 2019); Ezriel Mordechai Moscovitch (from 15 May 2018); Hannah Abenson; Lionel Spitzer (from 15 May 2018) – also trustee of Baer Hatora Ltd, The Bolel Charitable Trust, Gateshead Jewish Boarding School, Haskel Society for Handicapped Children, Zayis Raanon, Gesher [3]

The accounts give A Y Davies as appointed and L Spitzer as resigned on 12 February 2025 (PDF p.3); Companies House records Lionel Spitzer's resignation on 30 October 2025 and lists no appointment for Avrohom Yisroel Davies, who is recorded on the register.[2][4][1]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 8 current and former officers of the charitable company (01571944), 2 of them active.[5]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-03-31 £477,584 £182,452
2022-03-31 £498,429 £254,920
2023-03-31 £539,186 £481,695
2024-03-31 £669,016 £442,402
2025-03-31 £644,861 £436,043

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 31/03/2019[6]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants £426,734: individuals £412,393; Kollel Hakol £10,360; grants under £2,000 £3,981 (PDF p.13–14). Israel is not mentioned in the accounts.[2]

Israeli partners

Not identified.[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 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;[7] 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.[8][9][10][11] 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.[12]
  • Unnamed property syndicates. The charity holds £1,100,454 in property syndicates (additions £260,947 in the year), with holdings of 1% to 10%; syndicate borrowings are secured on the properties and are not on its balance sheet. The report says details of five new syndicates are in the notes, but note 14 does not name them (PDF p.15).[2]
  • Land record inconsistency. The register records that the charity does not own or lease land,[1] but HM Land Registry's CCOD dataset lists a freehold title in its company name (see Land and property).[13]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 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

Apart from company filing lists, searches of The Gazette for "Brongate" returned 1983 lists naming Brongate Properties Limited, a different company; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

Grants received (360Giving data)
Date Funder Amount (£) Purpose
2019-04-04 The National Lottery Community Fund 9,950 The funding will provide workshops for members of the Jewish community, including advice on healthy eating and dealing with stress and anxie
2020-05-22 The National Lottery Community Fund 9,950 The funding will be used to support the Orthodox Jewish community in Gateshead over a period of six month with cultural food parcels activit
2022-01-21 The National Lottery Community Fund 10,000 The funding will be used to deliver a wellbeing project for young Jewish boys in Gateshead from low income households. It will provide emoti
2024-08-08 The National Lottery Community Fund 19,970 The funding will be used to establish a 'Weekend Hub' for young people from the Jewish community in Gateshead that will operate weekly on Fr

No grants made by the charity are published in 360Giving data, so flows between linked charities could not be traced there.[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. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[18]

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.[19] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[13]

  • Deneholme, Prince Consort Road, Gateshead NE8 4JB (title TY345449, freehold, price paid £86,000, proprietor added 15 May 2020) – CCOD match on company number 01571944 (proprietor BRONGATE LIMITED), although the register records that the charity does not own or lease land; the accounts show £1,100,454 invested in unnamed property syndicates (source: [13])

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Brongate Ltd', 'Brongate Limited', 'Brongate' returned 0 contributions in total.[20]

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 (25 days late)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

See also

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 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 Charity Commission, Brongate Ltd (285062): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 285062, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Companies House, Company 01571944 (Brongate Ltd): officers Find and update company information, viewed 14 October 2026.
  5. ↑ Company 01571944: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  6. ↑ Brongate Ltd accounts, year ended 2019-03-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ 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 every charity in batches 1–7 (175 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  8. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  11. ↑ 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), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  14. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-6 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-6 charity name returned zero results).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Brongate' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-285062 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-6 screening covered 429 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers and related persons named in the accounts read for this batch (including archived accounts); matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  19. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 14 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.
  20. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Brongate' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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