SCHIFFSHUL LTD

Registered charity 1071348 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The upkeep of a synagogue and arranging adult educational and leisure activities. The charity also provides grants for the poor and needy.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH FAITH BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING A SYNAGOGUE FOR RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE COMPANY MAY DETERMINE. 2) FOR THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF YOUNG PERSONS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO MAY ATTEND THE SYNAGOGUE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND SO THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED. 3) FOR THE RELIEF OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, YOUTH, INFIRMITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED BY PROVIDING LOANS, MEALS, ADVICE AND COUNSELING AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE COMPANY MAY DETERMINE; AND 4) FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £67,627 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling significantly from £71,957 to £4,330. The trustees note that the charity does not have a specific reserve policy and plans to continue activities subject to satisfactory income. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts comply with applicable requirements and no matters were identified that would cause concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2024 (received 13/08/2025, 74 days after the 31/05/2025 due date); year ending 31/07/2023 (received 06/11/2024, 159 days after the 31/05/2024 due date); year ending 31/07/2021 (received 08/08/2022, 69 days after the 31/05/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03508665 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• STERN, Benjamin — director, appointed 22/10/2009not on trustee list
• SPITZER, Richard — director, appointed 12/02/1998on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR B STERN · trustee of 5 other charities
• RICHARD SPITZER · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RAYONHILLS.

• RAYONHILLS income £84k
• AGHOSH UK income £2.2m
• ICHTHUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £1.5m
• SHAYKEL ESUH income £996k
• SPRINGFIELD SYNAGOGUE income £27k
• ZICHRON BARUCH income £444k

Side by side with its peers

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