FRIENDS OF YESHIVA LUZERN

Registered charity 1118086 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To further both in the United Kingdom and abroad those purposes recognised as charitable by English Law with the particular purpose of raising funds for Yeshiva Luzern and affiliated Charities.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE 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 · 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's financial position is satisfactory, with unrestricted reserves of £384,988 at the year end. The charity reported a net expenditure of £47,618, resulting in a decrease in reserves from the previous year. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue its operations.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 31/03/2022 (received 06/06/2023, 126 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~12.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR JACOB FRANKEL · trustee of 3 other charities
• MR MOSHE KERNKRAUT · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR SHALOM SEIDENFELD · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 FRIENDS OF EZRA.

• FRIENDS OF EZRA income £737k
• UK FRIENDS OF TZOHAR income £79k
• LONDON FRIENDS OF KAMENITZER YESHIVA JERUSALEM income £32k
• FRIENDS OF MIR income £1.3m
• FRIENDS OF TASHBAR CHAZON ISH income £28k
• YATZIV TRUST income £184k

Side by side with its peers

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