COLLEGE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES

Registered charity 803466 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLLEGE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES TCHABE KOLLEL, COLLEGE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES TIFERETH SHOLOM, TCHABE KOLLEL

Providing facilities to study Jewish law and ethics and making study grants to mature students at Tchabe Kollel.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE JEWISH RELIGION BY RELIGIOUS INSTUCTION AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN JEWISH CULTURE ETHICS AND CODES IN PARTICULAR BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ACADEMY FOR THE LEARNING OF HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES AND JEWISH LEARNING IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARDS AND RULES OF JEWISH LAW AS INTERPRETED BY THE UNION OF ORTHODOX HEBREW CONREGATIONS AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG MEN NORMALLY RESIDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AT SUCH AN ACADEMY IN LONDON ENGLAND TO BE CALLED "TIFERETH SHOLOM KOLLEL" IN MEMORY OF THE LATE RABBI S SCHNITZLER.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net increase in funds of £213,932 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total unrestricted funds carried forward reaching £3,656,730. The trustees state that free reserves were £353,433, which is significantly above their stated ideal target of approximately £15,000. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 3 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.

• 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.

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

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: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Avrohom Josefovitz · trustee of 1 other charity
• GERALD CONRAD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hershel Stroh · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Belgium · Canada · Hackney · Haringey · Israel · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TCHABE KOLLEL LIMITED.

• TCHABE KOLLEL LIMITED income £4.3m
• KOLEL TORAH VYIREH LTD income £429k
• INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES income £798k
• MANCHESTER MONTEFIORE KOLLEL income £80k
• HADERECH income £151k
• KOLLEL RABINOW (DIVRE SHIR) FOUNDATION income £337k

Side by side with its peers

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