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Registered charity 1091208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Youth Programmes, Adult Education, Bikur Cholim, Social Services, Holiday & Shabbat Activities, Publications

Objects

THE TRUST FUND FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES NAMELY THE SPREADING OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AND CULTURE BY THE FOLLOWING MEANS:-A) THE PUBLICATION OF BOOKS MONOGRAPHS PAMPHLETS AND OTHER READING MATERIALB) THE HOLDING OF SEMINARS WHETHER RESIDENTIAL OR OTHERWISEC) THE ESTABLISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF LIBRARIESD) THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES TO ENABLE AND ASSIST IN THE SPREADING OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE JEWISH RELIGIONE) SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stockport, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £23,256 for the year, yet net liabilities remain at £57,098 due to accumulated deficits. Per the trustees' report, the charity is dependent on securing future funding and has implemented a five-year plan with creditors to clear debts and restore positive reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2025 (received 13/07/2026, 13 days after the 30/06/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chabad Lubavitch UK Trustees Limited · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eliezer Simon · trustee of 2 other charities
• GARY GLICKMAN · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Manchester City · Stockport · Trafford

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHAREI CHAIM.

• SHAREI CHAIM income £904k
• BIKUR CHOLIM LIMITED income £4.6m
• ZAYTUNAH income £49k
• CHAZAK LIMITED income £1.9m
• CHAI-LIFELINE CANCER CARE income £4.2m
• CHABAD COMMUNITY CARE income £64k

Side by side with its peers

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