CHANA CHARITY LTD

Registered charity 1172957 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHANA, CHANA TRUST LIMITED

CHANA is a non-profit organisation set up to provide support and up-to-date medical information to couples in the Jewish Community and their extended families who experience difficulties with fertility. CHANA aims to raise awareness in the community and help reduce the stigma and isolation so often felt by those challenged with infertility.

Objects

1) THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF JEWISH INDIVIDUALS OR COUPLES EXPERIENCING ACTUAL OR SUSPECTED INFERTILITY THROUGH PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND EDUCATION, COUNSELLING AND ADVICE AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF INFERTILITY, AS WELL AS DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT OPTIONS, FROM BOTH A MEDICAL AND JEWISH LAW VIEWPOINT.

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

Causes: 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 unrestricted cash reserves of £307,750 were held at year-end, which the trustees confirm covers three months of running costs and exceeds their stated policy target. The charity reported a net income surplus of £65,783 for the year, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £1,545,830. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Melinek Fine LLP. Discloses 4 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chana Charity Limited (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Carolyn Cohen — Honorary Executive Director (source)
• Ari Blair — Chief Operating Officer (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 01/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (50% 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: 22.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bernard Groszman · trustee of 4 other charities
• DAVID RABSON · trustee of 8 other charities
• Elisabeth Morris
• MARTIN STIMLER · trustee of 3 other charities
• URI GOLDBERG · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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