MANCHESTER REFORM CONGREGATION

Registered charity 1118957 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CONGREGATION (THE “OBJECTS”) ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE THE JEWISH RELIGION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AS ORIENTED WITHIN THE REFORM AND PROGRESSIVE JEWISH TRADITION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) MAINTAINING AND OPERATING A SYNAGOGUE OR SYNAGOGUES FOR WORSHIP IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAID DOCTRINES;(B) PROVIDING JEWISH EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAID DOCTRINES; AND(C) UNDERTAKING SUCH OTHER ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING THOSE OF A RELIGIOUS AND/OR EDUCATIONAL NATURE, THAT EXCLUSIVELY FURTHER THE ABOVE CHARITABLE PURPOSES, AS THE COUNCIL MAY FROM TIME TO TIME ELECT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE GREATER MANCHESTER, CHESHIRE, LANCASHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased from £15,526,803 to £16,088,274 during the year. The charity generated a net movement in funds of £428,249, driven by total income of £15,117,484 against total expenditure of £14,689,235. Unrestricted funds rose to £178,997 while restricted funds stood at £1,867.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (74% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Weinstock
• David Leighton · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Lewis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Harold Weinstock · trustee of 2 other charities
• Elliot Cohen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eric Langer · trustee of 2 other charities
• Irene Gould
• Janet Langer
• Martin simons · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Rapaport · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MANCHESTER PENTECOSTAL CHURCH.

• MANCHESTER PENTECOSTAL CHURCH income £146k
• TOIMCHEI YOM TOV MANCHESTER income £394k
• MANCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE income £492k
• KAHAL CHASSIDIM LUBAVITCH MANCHESTER income £477k
• CHASSIDEI BELZ MANCHESTER income £530k
• SHA'AREI SHALOM, THE NORTH MANCHESTER REFORM CONGREGATION income £161k

Side by side with its peers

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