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{{short description|'''Registered English charity Colel Chabad (327485), the legal body of Eshel UK Friends of Colel Chabad'''}}
:''This page covers the registered charity. For the fundraising body, see [[Eshel UK Friends of Colel Chabad]]. For the Jerusalem-based organisation it funds, see [[Colel Chabad]].''
{{Infobox organization
| name            = Colel Chabad
| logo            = 
| image_size      = 200px
| type            = Registered charity (trust)
| founded         = {{Start date|1987|05|20}} (trust deed); {{Start date|1987|06|30}} (registered charity)
| registration_id = 327485 ([[Charity Commission for England and Wales|Charity Commission]])
| status          = Registered; reporting up to date (register, 13 November 2026)
| headquarters    = 5 Spring Villa Road, Edgware, HA8 7EB (register address); 68 Lingwood Road, London, E5 9BN (principal address in the 2025 accounts)
| registration    = England and Wales
| key_people      = [[Menachem Salek]] (chair); [[Daniel Meyer Wolffe]] (managing trustee); Rabbi [[Yitzchok Sufrin]] (trustee)
| remarks         = Campaigns as [[Eshel UK Friends of Colel Chabad]] (also Eshel UK)
}}
'''Colel Chabad''' (charity 327485) is the English registered charity through which [[Eshel UK Friends of Colel Chabad]] (also '''Eshel UK''') is governed.<ref name="CC">[[Charity Commission for England and Wales]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/327485/full-print COLEL CHABAD – 327485] ''Register of Charities'', accessed 13 November 2026.</ref> It is a trust, governed by a deed dated 20 May 1987 and registered on 30 June 1987. The register records no other names for it.<ref name="CC" /> There is no Companies House entry, because it is not a company.

== Governance ==
The register lists three trustees.<ref name="CC" />

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees (Charity Commission register, 13 November 2026)
! Name !! Role !! Appointed !! Other trusteeships on the register
|-
| [[Menachem Salek]] || Chair || not given || None on record
|-
| [[Daniel Meyer Wolffe|Daniel Wolffe]] || Trustee || 28 May 2020 || [[Mitzvah Tank Society]]; [[Lubavitch Synagogue]]
|-
| Rabbi [[Yitzchok Sufrin]] || Trustee || not given || None on record
|}
<ref name="CC" />

The 2025 trustees' report calls Daniel Meyer Wolffe the managing trustee and Rabbi Yitzchock Sufrin the third trustee, and says that the charity has one full-time fundraiser and no other employees.<ref name="AccCC2025p3">Colel Chabad, ''Trustees' annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025'' (approved 25 August 2026), as filed with the Charity Commission, obtained from the register's [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/327485/full-print register entry], accessed 13 November 2026, p. 3.</ref> The register shows one employee, no employee paid over £60,000 and no payments to trustees.<ref name="CC" /> Staff costs were £36,000 in both 2025 and 2024, and the accounts record no related party transactions.<ref name="AccCC2025p14">Colel Chabad, trustees' annual report and financial statements 2025, p. 14.</ref><ref name="AccCC2025p15">Colel Chabad, trustees' annual report and financial statements 2025, p. 15.</ref>

In August 2015 the board of directors included Rabbi [[Menachem Salek]] and Rabbi [[Yitzchok Sufrin]], and the charity's contact address was Mr [[Stephen Chevern]] FCA, 98 Mowbray Road, Edgware HA8 8JH, telephone 020 8951 0333.<ref name="charity comm">Charity Commission Website [http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=327485&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Charity Overview]. Accessed 25 August 2015.</ref> The register still gives the telephone number 020 8951 0333 and the address 5 Spring Villa Road, Edgware, HA8 7EB.<ref name="CC" />

== Filings ==
The Charity Commission register records that reporting is up to date. The latest accounts, for the year ended 31 December 2025, were approved on 25 August 2026 and were received, with the annual return, on 16 September 2026 (due 31 October 2026).<ref name="CC" /><ref name="AccCC2025p3" /><ref name="CCExtAR">Charity Commission for England and Wales, [https://ccewuksprdoneregsadata1.blob.core.windows.net/data/txt/publicextract.charity_annual_return_history.zip Register of Charities public data extract: annual return history] (extract dated 11 November 2026), accessed 13 November 2026.</ref> In the five years 2021 to 2025, each annual return and set of accounts in the public extract was received on or before the due date.<ref name="CCExtAR" />

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Colel Chabad (327485): income and expenditure
! Year ended !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 31 December 2021 || £1,444,307 || £1,399,842
|-
| 31 December 2022 || £1,102,979 || £1,112,048
|-
| 31 December 2023 || £1,980,698 || £1,975,991
|-
| 31 December 2024 || £4,723,736 || £4,713,518
|-
| 31 December 2025 || £1,089,228 || £1,028,239
|}
<ref name="CCExtAR" />

The register records spending of £1,407,610 between 2009 and 2013.<ref name="charity comm" /> In 2025 donations were £1,082,563, the cost of raising funds was £51,075, and reserves at 31 December 2025 were £114,356 (2024: £53,367), all of it cash less small creditors.<ref name="AccCC2025p3" /><ref name="AccCC2025p8">Colel Chabad, trustees' annual report and financial statements 2025, p. 8.</ref><ref name="AccCC2025p9">Colel Chabad, trustees' annual report and financial statements 2025, p. 9.</ref> Almost all expenditure is grants, mainly to Eshel Jerusalem; the grant figures are on the [[Eshel UK Friends of Colel Chabad]] page.<ref name="AccCC2025p14" />

== See also ==
* [[Eshel UK Friends of Colel Chabad]]
* [[Colel Chabad]]
* [[Chabad Lubavitch charities in the UK]]

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Chabad-Lubavitch organisations]]
[[Category:Charities in England and Wales]]