SASSOV BEIS HAMEDRASH

Registered charity 1102303 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SUPPORT OF CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS PROFESSING AND TEACHING PRINCIPLES OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISMADVANCE OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH JEWISH FAITHPHILANTHROPIC AID TO THE JEWISH NEEDY

Objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT AND FURTHERANCE OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION AND ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.(B) SPECIFICALLY TO MAINTAIN AND DEVELOP THE SYNAGOGUE KNOWN AS SASSOV BEIS HAMERDRASH AND ITS CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES.(C) THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY AMONG THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.(D) OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, PROVIDED THEY ARE NOT IN CONFLICT WITH THE PREVIOUS CLAUSES.

Area of benefit: THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · 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 unrestricted funds increased to £2,838,754, supported by a significant rise in donations and investment income. The trustees report that incoming resources were sufficient to cover expenses, and the charity maintains a reserves policy based on future commitments and administrative costs rather than a fixed target.

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 4 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 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 (89% 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: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BENZION SCHALOM ELIEZER FRESHWATER · trustee of 7 other charities
• GRAHAM SHUREK MORRIS · trustee of 5 other charities
• Israel Rubin
• LUZER ROKACH · trustee of 2 other charities
• MOSHE BRONER · trustee of 4 other charities
• Robert Vorhand · trustee of 3 other charities
• SOLOMON ISRAEL FRESHWATER · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• BENZION SCHALOM ELIEZER FRESHWATER — trustee here and at MAYFAIR CHARITIES LIMITED
• MOSHE BRONER — trustee here and at SHELLIX CO LIMITED
• SOLOMON ISRAEL FRESHWATER — trustee here and at MAYFAIR CHARITIES LIMITED

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.

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 BEIS HAMEDRASH NISHMAS YISROEL LIMITED.

• BEIS HAMEDRASH NISHMAS YISROEL LIMITED income £981k
• BEIS HAMEDRASH CANVEY income £500k
• FUNDD income £5.0m
• BAIS HAMEDRASH OHEL YAKOV LTD income £210k
• SOUTH HAMPSTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £934k
• BEIS HAMEDRASH IMREI SHEFER LIMITED income £187k

Side by side with its peers

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