Chai Institute

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Edgware trust making small family-support grants and charitable loans

Chai Institute

Type Other
Founded 1998-04-07 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1069064
Headquarters 62 the Grove, Edgware, HA8 9QB
Area served Barnet, Haringey, Harrow, Hertfordshire, Israel, United States


Chai Institute is a trust (declaration of trust of 10 March 1998) registered on 7 April 1998; register areas are Barnet, Haringey, Harrow, Hertfordshire, Israel and the United States.[1] Its trustees are C Hoch, Z Lieberman and R Rubin, and its address is 62 The Grove, Edgware HA8 9QB. In the year to 31 August 2025 income was £283,217 and grants £183,287 (2024: £269,257); funds were £186,915 (PDF p.3, 8).[2] Emergency poverty grants go only to residents of Edgware and the surrounding area (PDF p.11).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION (B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND EDUCATION GENERALLY (C) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND (D) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The charity's objects are (a) the advancement of the Orthodox Jewish religion, (b) the advancement of Orthodox Jewish religious education and education generally, (c) the relief of poverty, and (d) such other purposes as the trustees consider to be for the public benefit and are charitable according to English law. These objects are carried out through the provision of grants, donations and loan"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Barnet, Haringey, Harrow, Hertfordshire, Israel, United States.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of Chai Institute (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Zvi Lieberman not recorded —
Raymond Rubin not recorded —
Chaim Hoch 2026-01-08 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2011-01-11 Raymond Rubin; Yitchug Hertz; Zvi Lieberman [3]
2011-01-11 Raymond Rubin; Yitchug Hertz; Zvi Lieberman [4]
2013-09-03 Raymond Rubin; Yitchug Hertz; Zvi Lieberman [5]
2021-01-08 Raymond Rubin; Zvi Lieberman; Yitchug Hertz [6]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-08-31 £197,356 £210,431
2022-08-31 £162,733 £161,155
2023-08-31 £216,929 £203,613
2024-08-31 £310,632 £272,273
2025-08-31 £283,217 £183,681

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2008[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2009[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2010[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2011[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2014[11]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2015[12]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2016[13]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2017[14]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/08/2018[15]

Funding in Israel

  • FY2025 grants: family support (101 grants, £86,640), religious organisations (34, £39,654), welfare (26, £39,388), educational organisations (5, £13,805) and one academic grant (£3,800); the accounts name no recipients (PDF p.12).[2]

Israeli partners

Not named.[2]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place in Israel is named. Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[16] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[17][18][19][20] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[21]
  • Rising charitable loans. Debtors, all charitable loans, rose to £178,538 (2024: £9,160); the report says "most of these have been repaid since the year end" (PDF p.4, 13).[2]
  • Recipients withheld. The grants note gives only categories and numbers of grants and states that "Details of material grants are available on request" (PDF p.12).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 15 October 2026, downloaded 15 October 2026 and searched by name).[22] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[23]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[24]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[25]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[26]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[27]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Chai Institute" returned 0 contributions in total.[28]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[6]

See also

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Charity Commission, Chai Institute (1069064): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1069064, contact and trustees (capture of 20110111) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 1069064, contact and trustees (capture of 20110111) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Register entry 1069064, contact and trustees (capture of 20130903) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Register entry 1069064, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Chai Institute accounts, year ended 2008-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130903).
  8. ↑ Chai Institute accounts, year ended 2009-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130903).
  9. ↑ Chai Institute accounts, year ended 2010-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130903).
  10. ↑ Chai Institute accounts, year ended 2011-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20130903).
  11. ↑ Chai Institute accounts, year ended 2014-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  12. ↑ Chai Institute accounts, year ended 2015-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  13. ↑ Chai Institute accounts, year ended 2016-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  14. ↑ Chai Institute accounts, year ended 2017-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  15. ↑ Chai Institute accounts, year ended 2018-08-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-10 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; alerts were shown only for Solev Co Limited (254623) and Lehachyos (1170523).
  17. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  18. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  19. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  20. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  21. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  22. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-10 charity names and their other names found no matching Scottish registration.
  23. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-10 charity name returned no relevant result; the search for "Kosov" returned only an unrelated removed charity, Kosova Support Group, showing that the API was answering).
  24. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Chai Institute' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  25. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1069064 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  26. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-10 screening covered 337 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (including Pinlee Investments, Calvert Estates, Kendleville, Pidom Export, Faircastle, Hatzlocho, Localtrent, Ardina, Ridgesave, Portford, Wilkincroft and Pandor Estates), and trustees, lenders, donor companies and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic company words ("Services Limited" in the name of a corporate secretary) and surname-only coincidences; lists downloaded October 2026.
  27. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  28. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Chai Institute" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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