MACCABI GB

Registered charity 1098206 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's objective is to provide, for youth in the United Kingdom,facilities for recreation and other leisuretime occupation; such facilities to be provided in the interests of social welfare within the meaning and subjectto the conditions of the Recreational Charities Act 1958; also to promote the education of the public and theadvancement of religion among youth in the United Kingdom.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE ALL PURPOSES RECOGNISED AS BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY: (A) THE PROMOTION OF, AND PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR, PARTICIPATION IN SPORTING AND/OR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO BE RUN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION; (B) ADVANCING THE JEWISH RELIGION, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) BY ENGAGING ALL SECTIONS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ACTIVITIES WHICH COMBINE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN SPORTS AND/OR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH: (I) EDUCATION ON, AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE IN THE PRACTICE OF, THE JEWISH RELIGION; AND/OR (II) EDUCATION ON JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE; (C) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF (IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, YOUNG) PEOPLE, IN RELATION TO SELF-RESPECT, TOLERANCE, HEALTHY LIVING, PERSONAL SAFETY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION; AND (D) WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AND PREJUDICE ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE AND/OR RELIGION AND PROMOTING RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL HARMONY BY ENCOURAGING MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING, TOLERANCE, AND RESPECT BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND MEMBERS OF OTHER RELIGIOUS AND/OR RACIAL GROUPS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SPORTING, RECREATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES WHICH SEEK TO ADDRESS DISCRIMINATION AND PREJUDICE. 2.2 THE OBJECTS MAY BE AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION BUT ONLY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £276,980 for the year ended 31 December 2025, a significant improvement from the previous year's excess expenditure. Free reserves totalled £138,853, which the trustees consider adequate to meet day-to-day working capital requirements and ongoing commitments. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of between three and six months' expenditure, with a specific minimum target of £100,000 set in 2016.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nyman Libson Paul LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04759599
• Trading subsidiary: MACCABI GB (2021) LTD Companies House 13384201 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: EMYG 2024 LTD Companies House 15128439 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Maccabi GB (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michael Ziff — President (source)
• Jonathan Prevezer — Chairman (source)
• Ashley Lerner — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• JACOBSON, Joseph Mark — director, appointed 18/12/2025on trustee list
• KALMS, Brian Geoffrey — director, appointed 31/03/2025on trustee list
• HILDEBRAND, Jonathan James — director, appointed 08/11/2024on trustee list
• WAGNER, Amy — director, appointed 16/04/2024on trustee list
• KENTON, Natalie — director, appointed 15/09/2022on trustee list
• KESTENBAUM, Deborah Jane, Lady — director, appointed 15/09/2022on trustee list
• NATHAN, Joel — director, appointed 26/09/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 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 (53% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Wagner
• Brian Kalms · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Bradley Aarons
• JONATHAN WARREN PREVEZER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Joel Nathan
• Jonathan James Hildebrand
• Joseph Jacobson
• Lady Deborah Kestenbaum
• Marc Levy
• Michael Ziff
• Natalie Kenton

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GLEBE RECREATIONAL CHARITY (274960).

• THE GLEBE RECREATIONAL CHARITY (274960) income £32k
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• OAC BUILDINGS income £182k
• Berkshire Youth LTD income £1.4m
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• THE CABIN CHARITY income £31k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.