Chabad of UK Community Centre Ltd

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Chabad of UK Community Centre Ltd

Type Private company limited by guarantee (dormant)
Founded 2 October 2014 (as Chabad of UK)
Registration ID Company 09244977 (Companies House)
Headquarters 170 Osbaldeston Road, London N16 6NJ (registered office)
Key people Eliezer Bindiger (director)


Chabad of UK Community Centre Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales (number 09244977). It was incorporated on 2 October 2014 as Chabad of UK, a month after police raided Oldhill Street, Stamford Hill, in the Chabad UK money-laundering investigation, and took its present name on 9 September 2016.[1][2] It is one of three companies set up in the same eight days with the same directors. The others are Beis Menachem - Beis Moshiach UK (09243190) and a company named Havenpoint Limited (09234722).[3]

It is not to be confused with Chabad of UK Limited (06231876), the former name of the company of the charity Or Simcha, or with Chabad UK (charity 1118547, company 06058021). It is not part of Chabad Lubavitch UK (charity 227638) or the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement.[4]

Name history

Company Name Period
09244977 Chabad of UK 2 October 2014 – 9 September 2016
09244977 Chabad of UK Community Centre Ltd from 9 September 2016
06231876 (Or Simcha) Or Simcha 30 April 2007 – 9 September 2016
06231876 (Or Simcha) Chabad of UK Limited 9 September 2016 until dissolution (4 February 2025)

The members of 09244977 passed a special resolution on 31 August 2016 to change its name, and Companies House issued the certificate on 9 September 2016.[5] The Or Simcha company took the name Chabad of UK Limited on the same day.[6] Also on 31 August 2016, Jacob Josef Schnaidman resigned from Chabad UK (06058021) and from the Or Simcha company, and Benjamin Kaytel, Yehoshua Shenberger and an Isaac Taieb were appointed directors of both.[7][8]

Company

Companies House lists the company as an active private company limited by guarantee without share capital. Its nature of business is given as other education, social work for the elderly and disabled, other social work, and library activities.[1] It was formed with Nissim Bellalou as subscriber and first director, at a service address at Penhurst House, Battersea Park Road, London SW11. Bellalou's appointment was terminated on the day of incorporation.[9][10]

Every set of accounts it has filed, from the period to 31 October 2015 to the year to 30 September 2025, has been for a dormant company. In 2017 it shortened its accounting year to end on 30 September.[3] No person with significant control is registered. Since 27 July 2021 the company has filed a statement that it knows of no registrable person.[11]

Addresses

  • 2 October 2014: c/o Penhurst House, 352–356 Battersea Park Road, London SW11 3BY
  • 22 October 2014: 208 Brooke Road, Clapton, London E5 8AP
  • 9 September 2016: 53–55 Oldhill Street, London N16 6LU
  • 14 October 2019: moved by the registrar to the Companies House default address in Cardiff
  • 29 October 2024: 115 Craven Park Road, London N15 6BL
  • 31 January 2025: 170 Osbaldeston Road, London N16 6NJ

Since August 2023 its registers have been kept for inspection at 53 Oldhill Street.[3]

Officers

Name Role Appointed Resigned
Nissim Bellalou (born April 1990) Director 2 October 2014 2 October 2014
Isaac Dani Hay Taieb (born July 1959) Director 2 October 2014 20 October 2025
Benjamin Kaytel (born June 1975) Director 2 October 2014 15 January 2017
Yehoshua Shenberger (born December 1970) Director 2 October 2014 24 January 2017
Rabbi Eliezer Lippa Bindiger (born October 1963) Director 10 September 2020 –
Ovadia Menashe Anatian (born April 1982) Director 2 January 2024 1 October 2026

Source: Companies House.[10]

Several of these officers held parallel posts in the Chabad UK group. Kaytel, Shenberger and an Isaac Taieb (recorded with a birth year of 1957) were directors of Chabad UK (06058021) and of the Or Simcha company from 31 August 2016.[8][7] Bindiger was appointed a director of the Or Simcha company on 2 January 2024, the same day Anatian joined this company.[7] A Nissim Bellalou with the same birth month and year was briefly a director of Havenpoint Limited (09234722) on 25 September 2014. Companies House records a Nissim Bellalou with no birth date as company secretary of Pikuach Nefesh Limited and Worldwide Hatzala Ltd in 2006–07; whether this is the same person is not established.[12]

Registered charity of the same name

A charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) called Chabad of UK Community Centre (charity 1202560) was registered on 30 March 2023, with its contact address given as "Chabad of UK, 53 Oldhill Street". A CIO is a separate legal entity with no company number, and the register does not link it to company 09244977. Its trustees are Rabbi Eliezer Bindiger (chair, appointed 10 September 2020) and Isaac Taieb (appointed 2 October 2014). These are the dates on which Bindiger and Taieb became directors of 09244977, and both predate the charity's registration.[13]

The register gives the CIO's previous name as "Universal Relief Alliance Charity". "Universal Relief Alliance" was a working name of Or Simcha (charity 1119522), one of the eight charities in the Charity Commission's class inquiry.[13][14] A company called Universal Relief Alliance (08508154) was incorporated in April 2013. Its first director was recorded as Chaim Cohen, born March 1952, at 26 Paget Road, London N16, and he remained a director until 1 May 2023. Bindiger became a director on 1 January 2023, and the company was struck off on 4 March 2025.[15]

The CIO's stated activity is "Soliciting donations for the advancement of religion in accordance with the Orthodox Jewish Faith and the relief of poverty", and it lists England and Wales and Israel as areas of operation. It reported nil income and expenditure for the years ending 29 February 2024 and 28 February 2025. Its trustees' reports, signed by Bindiger, say the charity "has been inactive".[13][16]

Relation to Chabad-Lubavitch

The company's name uses the word "Chabad", but no institutional link to Chabad Lubavitch UK was found. No officer of this company appears among the officers of Lubavitch (UK) Limited, the corporate trustee of Chabad Lubavitch UK.[17] The centre at Oldhill Street did not appear in the London directories of Chabad Lubavitch UK or of the Lubavitch World Headquarters checked on 6 November 2026.[18][19] In 2014 Chabad-Lubavitch described Chabad UK, which was run from the same street, as "an entirely separate organisation from us with important theological differences".[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Companies House, CHABAD OF UK COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD (09244977), accessed 6 November 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Charity accused of 'misleading' community over name", Jewish News, 3 September 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Companies House, CHABAD OF UK COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD – filing history, accessed 6 November 2026.
  4. ↑ Charity Commission, "'Unscrupulous pattern of dishonesty' at 8 charities used to launder proceeds of crime from the sale of counterfeit medication", 16 March 2020 (withdrawn 14 November 2023).
  5. ↑ Companies House, CHABAD OF UK COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD – filing history, change of name by resolution (NM01) and certificate of incorporation on change of name, 9 September 2016, accessed 6 November 2026.
  6. ↑ Companies House, CHABAD OF UK LIMITED (06231876), accessed 6 November 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Companies House, CHABAD OF UK LIMITED (06231876) – officers, accessed 6 November 2026.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Companies House, CHABAD UK (06058021) – officers, accessed 6 November 2026.
  9. ↑ Companies House, CHABAD OF UK COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD – filing history, incorporation documents (NEWINC) filed 2 October 2014, accessed 6 November 2026.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Companies House, CHABAD OF UK COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD – officers, accessed 6 November 2026.
  11. ↑ Companies House, CHABAD OF UK COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD – persons with significant control, accessed 6 November 2026.
  12. ↑ Companies House, Nissim Bellalou – appointments, accessed 6 November 2026.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Chabad of UK Community Centre – 1202560, accessed 6 November 2026.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, OR SIMCHA – 1119522, accessed 6 November 2026.
  15. ↑ Companies House, UNIVERSAL RELIEF ALLIANCE (08508154) – officers, accessed 6 November 2026.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for England and Wales, Chabad of UK Community Centre (1202560), annual report and accounts to 2025 (received 17 September 2025), accessed 6 November 2026.
  17. ↑ Companies House, Lubavitch (UK) Limited – officers, accessed 6 November 2026.
  18. ↑ Chabad Lubavitch UK, "London and Regions", accessed 6 November 2026.
  19. ↑ Lubavitch World Headquarters, "London – Centers", accessed 6 November 2026.
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