THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Registered charity 1115343 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROVISION OF SERVICES TO THE JEWISH VOLUNTARY SECTOR.

Objects

6. THE OBJECTS (OBJECTS) FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:-(1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE JEWISH FAITH AND THECUSTOMS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL,(2) TO ADVANCE THE JEWISH FAITH,(3) TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) ENDEAVOURING TO CREATE AND SUSTAIN A CLIMATE IN WHICH RELIGIOUS,ETHNIC, CULTURAL AND OTHER FORMS OF DIVERSITY (IN PARTICULAR THOSERELATING TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY) CAN BE CELEBRATED WITHOUTFEAR OF PERSECUTION;(B) REPRESENTING A RANGE OF VIEWS INCLUDING THOSE OF THE JEWISHCOMMUNITY TO POLICYMAKERS, FUNDERS, SERVICE PROVIDERS ANDAGENCIES WORKING IN THE FIELD;(C) PROVIDING ADVICE AND INFORMATION OF SUFFICIENT QUALITY TO FULFIL ACHARITABLE PURPOSE,(4) TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS HARMONY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(A) EDUCATING CHRISTIANS, HINDUS, JEWS, MUSLIMS, AND SIKHS ANDADHERENTS TO OTHER RELIGIONS AND SYSTEMS OF BELIEF (AS RECOGNISEDFOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 9 OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ONHUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS), TO APPRECIATE EACHOTHER’S DISTINCTIVE BELIEFS AND PRACTICES; AND(B) PROMOTING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH LEADING TO RESPECT FORRELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FAITHS AND SYSTEMS OF BELIEF,(5) TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES CARRYING OUTCHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY BY:(A) CO-ORDINATING THE EFFORTS OF EXISTING CHARITABLE AND NONCHARITABLEAGENCIES THAT HAVE THE COMMON GOAL OF PROVIDING CHARITABLE SERVICES OR RELIEF TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY;(B) LIAISING WITH, AND ACTING AS A FORUM FOR THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION BETWEEN, AGENCIES WORKING TO PROVIDE CHARITABLE SERVICES OR RELIEF TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY GAPS IN THE SERVICES, OVERLAP OR DUPLICATION OF SERVICES, SO AS TO IMPROVE DELIVERY OF SUCH SERVICES TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY;(C) REPRESENTING THE VIEWS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY TO POLICY MAKERS, FUNDERS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS;(D) PROVIDING ADVICE AND INFORMATION TO AGENCIES WORKING IN THE FIELD;(E) PROVIDING DATABASES OR DIRECTORIES OR OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE OF SUFFICIENT QUALITY TO FULFIL A CHARITABLE PURPOSE,(6) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE BOARD SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · 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 (free) reserves rose to £890,760, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover approximately ten months of regular operational expenditure, meeting their policy target of at least six months. The charity reported a total net income surplus of £375,359 for the year, with unrestricted funds increasing from £630,130 to £889,760. The trustees and auditors confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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 31/12/2021 (received 03/11/2022, 3 days after the 31/10/2022 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 05742840

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.

• TAYLOR, Saul David — director, appointed 23/08/2026on trustee list
• BLOOM, Raphael Joseph — director, appointed 03/06/2026on trustee list
• BOGUSH, Carolyn Ruth — director, appointed 03/06/2026on trustee list
• NOE, Zvi — director, appointed 06/06/2025on trustee list
• LANGSFORD, Paul Anthony — director, appointed 10/08/2024on trustee list
• GOLDBERG, Uri Nathaniel — director, appointed 10/08/2024on trustee list
• ZENIOS, Jonathan — director, appointed 14/07/2022on trustee list
• JACOBS, Louise Sara — director, appointed 23/05/2019on trustee list
• BLACK, Keith — director, appointed 08/05/2019on trustee list
• DAVIS, Suzanne Lindsay — director, appointed 08/08/2018on trustee list
• MENDOZA, Claudia — secretary, appointed 17/12/2020

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Ruth Bogush
• David Joseph KC
• Jonathan Zenios · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Black
• Louise Sara Jacobs · trustee of 2 other charities
• Paul Langsford
• Raphael Joseph Bloom
• Saul David Taylor
• Suzanne Lindsay Davis
• Uri Goldberg
• William Benjamin
• Zvi Noe

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JEWISH VOLUNTEERING NETWORK.

• THE JEWISH VOLUNTEERING NETWORK income £426k
• S O CHARITABLE TRUST income £149k
• THE TRUST FOR THE PRESERVATION OF JEWISH CEMETERIES income £126k
• Commonwealth Jewish Council income £191k
• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• CHESED income £70k

Side by side with its peers

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