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{{short description|'''English charitable trust (no. 1160938) supporting Orthodox Jewish education and poverty relief; trustees include [[Jacob Schreiber]] and [[Rifka Niederman]]'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                = Friends of WMSBG-Kolel Damesek Eliezer
| type                = Charitable trust
| registration_id     = 1160938
| formation           = 17 March 2015
| status              = Registered charity (England and Wales)
| headquarters        = Cohen Arnold, New Burlington House, 1075 Finchley Road, London NW11 0PU
| region_served       = England and Wales; France; Belgium; Israel; United States; the Netherlands; Switzerland
| key_people          = [[Jacob Schreiber]]<br />[[Rifka Niederman]]<br />[[Sarah Rosenfeld]]<br />[[Joel Kestenbaum]]
| affiliations        = [[The Schreib Trust]] (275240)
}}

'''Friends of WMSBG-Kolel Damesek Eliezer''' is an English charitable trust (Charity Commission number 1160938) registered on 17 March 2015. Its objects are the advancement of education, the prevention or relief of poverty, the promotion of the Orthodox Jewish religion, and any other purpose recognised as charitable under the law of England and Wales.<ref name="CC1160938">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429 FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER - 1160938], Charity Commission for England and Wales, retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref>

The Commission records the charity’s principal way of furthering those objects as making grants. It does not own or lease land or property, has no trading subsidiaries, is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid, and pays no remuneration to trustees.<ref name="CCGov">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429/governance FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Governance], Charity Commission, retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref>

Two of its four trustees, [[Jacob Schreiber]] and [[Rifka Niederman]], are also trustees of [[The Schreib Trust]] (275240), the Stamford Hill grant-making charity linked to the [[Schreiber family]] property network at [[147 Stamford Hill]].<ref name="CCTrustees">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429/trustees FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Trustees], Charity Commission, retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref><ref name="SchreibTrust">[[The Schreib Trust]], Powerbase.</ref>

== Objects and classification ==

The Charity Commission classifies the trust under general charitable purposes, education and training, the prevention or relief of poverty, and religious activities. Recorded beneficiaries are children and young people, elderly people, people with disabilities, and other charities or voluntary bodies. Help is given by grants to individuals and grants to organisations.<ref name="CCWhat">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429/what-who-how-where FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – What, who, how, where], Charity Commission, retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref>

Areas of operation listed on the register are England and Wales, France, Belgium, Israel, the United States, the Netherlands and Switzerland.<ref name="CCWhat"/>

The name refers to a ''kolel'' (advanced Torah-study institution) styled Damesek Eliezer. The Commission does not expand the initials WMSBG on the public register.

== People ==

=== Trustees ===

All four current trustees were appointed on 12 March 2015, five days before registration.<ref name="CCTrustees"/>

{| class="wikitable"
! Name
! Role
! Date of appointment
! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[Jacob Schreiber]]
| Trustee
| 12 March 2015
| [[The Schreib Trust]]
|-
| [[Rifka Niederman]] (Rivka Niederman)
| Trustee
| 12 March 2015
| [[The Schreib Trust]]
|-
| [[Sarah Rosenfeld]]
| Trustee
| 12 March 2015
| None on record
|-
| [[Joel Kestenbaum]]
| Trustee
| 12 March 2015
| None on record
|}

[[Jacob Schreiber]] (Companies House date-of-birth band January 1974) is a Stamford Hill property director with several hundred recorded appointments, many at 147 Stamford Hill.<ref name="PBJacob">[[Jacob Schreiber]], Powerbase.</ref> [[Rifka Niederman]] appears on Companies House and charity filings under multiple spellings; a 1999 Hackney marriage index records Rifka Schreiber marrying [[Joel Niederman]].<ref name="PBRifka">[[Rifka Niederman]], Powerbase.</ref>

== Finances ==

Year end 31 January. Headline figures as published on the Charity Commission register and Find that Charity.<ref name="CCFin">[https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/5050429/financial-history FRIENDS OF WMSBG-KOLEL DAMESEK ELIEZER – Financial history], Charity Commission, retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref><ref name="FtC">[https://findthatcharity.uk/orgid/GB-CHC-1160938 Friends of WMSBG-Kolel Damesek Eliezer], Find that Charity, retrieved 15 September 2026.</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! Year ended
! Income
! Expenditure
|-
| 31 January 2016
| £1,376,524
| £12,131
|-
| 31 January 2017
| £658,542
| £272,452
|-
| 31 January 2018
| £499,179
| £331,246
|-
| 31 January 2019
| £638,778
| £380,286
|-
| 31 January 2020
| £645,074
| £810,317
|-
| 31 January 2021
| £588,333
| £200,554
|-
| 31 January 2022
| £438,996
| £232,352
|-
| 31 January 2023
| £729,698
| £522,001
|-
| 31 January 2024
| £388,414
| £979,955
|-
| 31 January 2025
| £414,245
| £609,151
|}

Where the Commission publishes a Part B split, income has included both donations and investment income, and charitable expenditure has included grants to institutions. For the year ended 31 January 2021 donations and legacies were £383,950 and investment income £204,380; grants to institutions were £118,170. For the year ended 31 January 2023 donations and legacies were £594,120, investment income £135,580, and grants to institutions £439,280.<ref name="CCFin"/> Named grantees are not listed on the Commission’s online summary.

== Contact ==

* Address: Cohen Arnold, New Burlington House, 1075 Finchley Road, London NW11 0PU
* Telephone: 020 8731 0777

== See also ==

* [[The Schreib Trust]]
* [[Schreiber family]]
* [[Jacob Schreiber]]
* [[Rifka Niederman]]
* [[147 Stamford Hill, London, N16 5LG]]
* [[Midos Group]]

== References ==
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