Chaim Charitable Company Limited
Stamford Hill Matyas family company whose grants include Chinuch Jerusalem and Toirem
| Chaim Charitable Company Limited
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Charitable company |
| Founded | 1997-02-28 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1061008; company 03210216 |
| Headquarters | London N16 |
| Area served | Hackney, Haringey, Israel, United States, Canada |
Chaim Charitable Company Limited is a charitable company (03210216) registered on 28 February 1997; register areas are Hackney, Haringey, Israel, the United States and Canada.[1] Its trustees and directors are Alexander Matyas (company secretary), Miriam Matyas and Abraham Stern (appointed September 2024, replacing M Landau); the registered office is its accountants' address in Stamford Hill, London N16 (PDF p.3).[1][2] Its objects are the Orthodox Jewish religion and the relief of poverty (PDF p.4). In the year to 30 June 2025 donations were £173,207 (2024: £245,843), grants £170,935 and funds £61,024 (PDF p.7).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH (2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY (3) FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS CHARITABLE."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "Making grants to institutions and individuals in accordance with the charity's objects."[1]
Register classifications: Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Hackney, Haringey, Israel, United States, Canada.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miriam Matyas | not recorded | — | |
| Alexander Matyas | not recorded | Satmar Limited (1115025); The Yonah and Reisel Reiner Memorial Trust (1158769) | |
| Abraham Stern | 2024-09-03 | Kalev Gemach Limited (293792); Parkwill Limited (1096158); Zichron Yecheskel Trust (Zyt) (1084429) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-08 | Alexander Matyas – also trustee of The Yonah and Reisel Reiner Memorial Trust, Satmar Limited; Moshe Landau (from 15 March 2011); Miriam Matyas | [3] |
Alexander Matyas is also a register trustee of Satmar Limited (1115025) and The Yonah and Reisel Reiner Memorial Trust (1158769); Abraham Stern of Kalev Gemach Limited (293792), Parkwill Limited (1096158) and Zichron Yecheskel Trust (1084429).[1]
Companies House officers
Companies House lists 6 current and former officers of the charitable company (03210216), 4 of them active.[4] Officers recorded as resident outside the UK: Moshe Landau (Israel, resigned).[4]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-30 | £297,349 | £321,526 |
| 2022-06-30 | £169,321 | £188,532 |
| 2023-06-30 | £191,777 | £202,882 |
| 2024-06-30 | £245,843 | £227,356 |
| 2025-06-30 | £173,207 | £174,184 |
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 30/06/2014[5]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015[6]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2016[7]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017[8]
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[9]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants to institutions £150,640: Chinuch Jerusalem £15,500, Yeshivas Ohr Yoseph £11,331, College for Higher Rabbinical Studies £9,000, Kollel Damesek Eliezer £7,937, Toirem £6,950, Congregation Sharei Sholem Tchabe Ltd £6,000 and others under £6,000 £93,922; grants to individuals for poverty £20,295 (PDF p.10).[2]
Israeli partners
No Israeli organisation is identified as such. "Chinuch Jerusalem" suggests a Jerusalem body, but no address is given; Toirem is a UK charity with its own profile.[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.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named; the grantee "Chinuch Jerusalem" is not located.[2] | 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;[10] 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.[11][12][13][14] 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.[15]
- Unexplained debtors. Other debtors of £51,260, unchanged from 2024, are not explained (PDF p.8, 11).[2]
- Trustee donations. A trustee donated £33,500 (the comparative is misprinted as "2043: £80,500"); no grants went to charities in which a trustee has an interest in 2025 (2024: £7,720) (PDF p.12).[2] The report says it is "not the intention" to appoint new trustees (PDF p.4).[2]
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.[18]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]
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.[20]
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.[21]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Chaim Charitable Company" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]
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".[3]
See also
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Charity Commission, Chaim Charitable Company Limited (1061008): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1061008, full print (capture of 20210108) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Company 03210216: officers Companies House, viewed 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Chaim Charitable Company Limited accounts, year ended 2014-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Chaim Charitable Company Limited accounts, year ended 2015-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Chaim Charitable Company Limited accounts, year ended 2016-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Chaim Charitable Company Limited accounts, year ended 2017-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ Chaim Charitable Company Limited accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200107).
- ↑ 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-14 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Nineteen registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Friends of the Israel Cancer Association showed "up to date (13 days late)" and The Bertie Black Foundation "up to date (82 days late)"; British Friends of Neve Shalom, Mesila UK, The Friends of Ohr Akiva Institutions and Etz Chaim Foundation showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-14 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-14 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Chaim Charitable Company' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1061008 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-14 screening covered 282 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, directors of the dissolved Etz Chaim Foundation company and of Mesila UK Limited, related companies and charities named in the accounts (including Bestgreat Ltd, Jonvan Properties, One Shakespeare Limited, Beauland Limited, Tifereth Benevolent Fund Limited and Torah Temimah Trust) and trustees, examiners and donors named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person or company was found; the only token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Cohen and Jones); lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Chaim Charitable Company" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).