MERCAZ TORAH VECHESED LIMITED

Registered charity 1109212 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

advancement of orthodox jewish faith and relief of poverty amongst the jewish community

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE(I) TO ADVANCE THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD(II) TO ADVANCE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, AND(III) TO RELIEVE THE POOR, SICK, FEEBLE AND INFIRM AMONGST PERSONS OF THE JEWISH FAITH IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 deficit of £17,021 for the year ended 31 January 2025, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £56,603. The trustees consider the financial position to be satisfactory and the current level of funding adequate to support the continuation of its objects. No material uncertainties affecting the charity's ability to continue as a going concern were identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Martin + Heller. 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05336875 · 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.

• OSTREICHER, Joseph — director, appointed 19/01/2005on trustee list
• RAND, Mordche Dovid — director, appointed 19/01/2005on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 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: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOSEPH OSTREICHER · trustee of 1 other charity
• MORDCHE DOVID RAND · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnet · Hackney · Israel

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.

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 MERKAZ HATORAH LIMITED.

• MERKAZ HATORAH LIMITED income £237k
• MERCAZ CHASIDEI WIZNITZ TRUST income £1.4m
• MARBEH TORAH TRUST income £105k
• KUPAS TORAS CHESED LTD income £164k
• THE NETZACH CHARITABLE TRUST income £428k
• MORESHET HATORAH LTD income £5.6m

Side by side with its peers

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