CHAI-LIFELINE CANCER CARE

Registered charity 1078956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHAI CANCER CARE

To promote the relief of persons suffering from cancer, and their families, within the Jewish community.To prevent sickness by promoting good health care and the provision of education and screening programmes for persons within the Jewish commumity, whether suffering from cancer or not.

Objects

TO CARRY OUT SUCH PURPOSES BEING CHARITABLE IN LAW AS WILL PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM CANCER AND THEIR FAMILIES FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND WILL PREVENT SICKNESS BY PROMOTING GOOD HEALTH CARE AND THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND SCREENING PROGRAMMES FOR PERSONS FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY WHETHER CANCER SUFFERERS OR NOT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £137,457 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £4,153,958 against total expenditure of £4,233,726. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £4,191,727, which exceeds the stated policy target of covering one year's future operational costs. The trustees confirmed that adequate resources exist to continue operations for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Landau Morley LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2024) to £140,001 - £150,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: CHAI-LIFELINE SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 02911125
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03640937

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chai Cancer Care (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SAVILLE, Rafael Aryeh — director, appointed 18/08/2023on trustee list
• HERTZ, Philip Lee — director, appointed 07/03/2022on trustee list
• SHELLEY, Leon — director, appointed 07/03/2022on trustee list
• MAURICE, Alexandra Leah Dorothy — director, appointed 06/09/2021on trustee list
• SEGAL, Richard Lawrence — director, appointed 07/03/2018on trustee list
• TOOKMAN, Adrian, Dr — director, appointed 20/12/2013on trustee list
• HAGER, Louise — director, appointed 16/12/1998on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 16.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LOUISE HAGERchair
• Alexandra Leah Dorothy Maurice
• Dr ADRIAN TOOKMAN
• LEON SHELLEY
• PHILIP HERTZ
• Rafael Aryeh Saville
• Richard Lawrence Segal
• SUSAN LESLEY ZUCKERBROD · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Barnet · Hackney · Leeds City · Liverpool City · Manchester City · Redbridge · Salford City · Scotland · Southend-on-sea · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACHEINU CANCER SUPPORT.

• ACHEINU CANCER SUPPORT income £1.4m
• SHORELINE CHURCH income £122k
• LIFELINE CHURCH income £1.2m
• CHAI NETWORK income £246k
• CHASDEI MEIR income £95k
• SHAREI CHESED (LONDON) income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.