THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES

Registered charity 1131850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6670742 · Wikipedia · also known as JEWS' COLLEGE

EDUCATION, TRAINING AND RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES

Objects

The Charity’s objects (the Objects) are: (i) the education, training and professional development of teachers, rabbis and community leaders for Jewish schools and communities; (ii) the delivery of Jewish education programmes; and (iii) the advancement of education generally, and in particular through collaboration with other organisations to improve educational outcomes within the UK Jewish community.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,819,817 against total expenditure of £1,791,342, resulting in a net surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,139,684, which the Trustees consider to be above their ideal target of £440,000, providing sufficient flexibility to cover temporary shortfalls and unforeseen emergencies.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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 31/07/2022 (received 26/07/2023, 56 days after the 31/05/2023 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 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (49% 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: 6.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• William Benjaminchair
• Claire Lemer · trustee of 3 other charities
• Hannah Goldstein
• Margaret Rothem
• Naomi Cohen
• Sara Gamsu
• Steven Michael Noe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Nyman

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.

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON ACADEMY OF JEWISH STUDIES.

• LONDON ACADEMY OF JEWISH STUDIES income £628k
• THE INDEPENDENT JEWISH DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £977k
• The Jewish Students Aid Trust income £186k
• THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL income £2.3m
• THE NEW LONDON SYNAGOGUE income £1.0m
• GATESHEAD JEWISH LEARNING SOCIETY income £200k

Side by side with its peers

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