BEREST CHARITIES

Registered charity 1123148 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of the orthodox jewish faithThe advancement of orthodox jewish religious educationThe relief of poverty, sickness and infirmity amongst members of the jewish faithOther charitable activities

Objects

1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION3 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH AND4 SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE 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 held unrestricted reserves of £6,548 at the year end, having spent £212,801 against incoming resources of £213,548. The trustees reviewed the charity's needs for reserves and concluded that the general reserves are sufficient to maintain day-to-day running and achieve objectives. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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 05/04/2023 (received 21/05/2024, 106 days after the 05/02/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR B FELDMANchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Ephraim GOTTESFELD · trustee of 4 other charities
• MALCOLM STERN · trustee of 1 other charity
• MS E FELDMAN · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ELSTREE SHTIEBEL TRUST.

• THE ELSTREE SHTIEBEL TRUST income £431k
• M.L.T. BELZ income £477k
• MOSART CHARITABLE TRUST income £575k
• BEFORE TRUST income £219k
• MILLBROOK CHARITIES income £238k
• BETHEL PRAYER FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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