MENORAH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1044649 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q66228115 · also known as MENORAH FOUNDATION SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST, MFS

Objectives of Menorah Foundation are:- To advance Orthodox Jewish Education, including, in particular, but without prejudice, as to the generality of the aforegoing, providing financial support support to the Menorah Foundation School- To advance the religion of the Jewish Faith in accordance with Orthodox practice- Other purposes as recognised by the law of England and Wales as charitable

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE ORTHODOX JEWISH EDUCATION INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE AS TO THE GENERALITY OF THE AFOREGOING PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE MENORAH FOUNDATION SCHOOL OF FINCHLEY ROAD LONDON NW11 (2) TO ADVANCE THE RELIGIOUS OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX PRACTICE (3) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS CHARITABLE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £332,365 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total funds carried forward reaching £2,949,358. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient reserves to continue its activities and services at a meaningful level, noting that additional funds have been raised to ensure operation for the foreseeable future. The financial position is described as satisfactory, with unrestricted cash reserves of £511,448 held at year-end.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Melinek Fine LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2022 (received 10/10/2023, 102 days after the 30/06/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Mark Jacobs BEMchair · trustee of 6 other charities
• ALAN KORMAN
• Benjamin Mark Finger
• Brendan Martin Stern · trustee of 1 other charity
• DANIEL WULWICK
• NATHAN BARUCH JACKSON

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MENORAH PRIMARY SCHOOL.

• THE MENORAH PRIMARY SCHOOL income £1.8m
• THE MENORAH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS FOUNDATION TRUST income £1.1m
• THE LEEDS MENORAH SCHOOL TRUST income £153k
• YESODEY HATORAH SCHOOLS income £2.0m
• HADERECH income £151k
• MERKAZ HATORAH LIMITED income £237k

Side by side with its peers

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