ST ALBANS MASORTI SYNAGOGUE

Registered charity 1118649 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education and training in religious activities

Objects

THE SUPPORT MAINTENANCE AND PROMOTION OF THE ST ALBANS MASORTI SYNAGOGUE ("THE SYNAGOGUE") AND THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE PRACTICE AND TEACHING OF MASORTI (TRADITIONAL) JUDAISM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS MEMORANDUM.

Area of benefit: ST ALBANS HERTFORDSHIRE

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £13,858 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £199,772. Per the trustees' report, these reserves remain above the charity's minimum reserves policy threshold of £90,000. The charity is currently in the final phase of its existing premises lease, which expires in June 2026, with negotiations for a lease extension expected to be finalised in July 2026.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06131892

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.

• LEIGH, David Ralph — director, appointed 14/05/2026not on trustee list
• JACOBS, Alison Ruth — director, appointed 16/06/2025on trustee list
• STARKEY, Lee — director, appointed 16/06/2025on trustee list
• LEVY, Howard — director, appointed 20/05/2025on trustee list
• SHAPIRO, Benjamin — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
• KEENE, Michelle Sara — director, appointed 30/06/2021on trustee list
• ROUKIN, Benjamin Darren — director, appointed 30/06/2020on trustee list
• HOFFBRAND, Paul — secretary, appointed 20/05/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michelle Keenechair
• Alison Ruth Jacobs
• Benjamin Darren Roukin
• Benjamin Shapiro
• Beverly Naomi Cohen
• Charlotte Schlosberg
• Debbie Esta Sissman
• Dr Jonathan Freedman
• Howard Levy
• Lee Starkey
• Lionel Taylor
• Moira Greta Hart
• Paul Hoffbrand
• Simon Samuels · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH HERTS AND EDGWARE MASORTI.

• SOUTH HERTS AND EDGWARE MASORTI income £238k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN WITH ST JULIAN, ST ALBANS income £227k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAUL'S, ST ALBANS income £935k
• ST ALBANS AND DISTRICT FOODBANK income £495k
• SOUTH WEST ESSEX & SETTLEMENT REFORM SYNAGOGUE income £462k
• HAMPSTEAD SEPHARDI COMMUNITY income £132k

Side by side with its peers

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