TCHABE KOLLEL LIMITED

Registered charity 1116598 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objectives of the Tchabe Kollel are: To advance the Jewish Faith and Jewish Religious education for the benefit of the public and to manage the College of Higher Rabbinical Studies Tiferes Shalom known as the "Tchabe Kollel"To provides grants to qualifying institutions and busaries to qualifying needy families who are involved in the furtherance of the Jewish Faith

Objects

(I) TO ADVANCE THE JEWISH FAITH AND JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC; AND (II) IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING OBJECT) TO TAKE OVER AND TO CONTINUE CARRY ON MANAGE AND ADMINISTER THE COLLEGE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES TIFERETH SHOLOM ("THE COLLEGE") GENERALLY KNOWN AS THE "TCHABE KOLLEL" WHICH HAD FOR MANY YEARS PREVIOUSLY BEEN CARRIED ON AT 37 CRAVEN WALK LONDON N16 BY THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION KNOWN AS THE COLLEGE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES TIFERETH SHOLOM AND WHICH IS NOW SITUATE AT 23 PORTLAND AVENUE LONDON N16(III) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY(IV) THE RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS

Area of benefit: HACKNEY, GREATER LONDON

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 · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £4,302,468 with a net surplus of £32,773, resulting in unrestricted funds of £101,835. However, free reserves of £38,396 are below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £100,000. The financial statements include a material uncertainty regarding going concern due to a potential substantial tax liability from an HM Revenue and Customs investigation.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2025) → material uncertainty (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 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.

• 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
• 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

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05947238 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Grand Rabbi Alter Elimelech Schwartz — Tchabe Rov / Head of programs (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• SCHWARTZ, Nicha — director, appointed 21/02/2024on trustee list
• BARZESKY, Josef — director, appointed 27/06/2022not on trustee list
• CONRAD, Gerald Raymond — director, appointed 01/03/2012on trustee list
• CONRAD, Gerald — secretary, appointed 26/09/2006

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gerald Raymond CONRAD · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOSEPH BARZESKY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicha Schwartz · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Canada · Germany · Hungary · Israel · Throughout England And Wales · Ukraine · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Nicha Schwartz — trustee here and at CONGREGATION SHAREI SHOLOM TCHABE LIMITED
• Nicha Schwartz — trustee here and at START UPRIGHT

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KOLEL BELZ MACHNOVKEH LIMITED.

• KOLEL BELZ MACHNOVKEH LIMITED income £79k
• COLLEGE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES income £7.6m
• CONGREGATION SHAREI SHOLOM TCHABE LIMITED income £2.6m
• KOLEL IYUN income £25k
• WHITEFIELD COMMUNITY KOLLEL income £120k
• KOLEL TORAH VYIREH LTD income £429k

Side by side with its peers

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