WESTMINSTER SYNAGOGUE

Registered charity 1133190 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7989223 · Wikipedia

The objects of the charity are to provide a centre for Jewish worship and study and tofurther religious and charitable undertakings appropriate to this; the charity is based in the City of Westminster in London but is not limited to this area in the sphere of its charitable activity.

Objects

TO PROVIDE A CENTRE FOR JEWISH WORSHIP AND STUDY AND TO FURTHER RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE UNDERTAKINGS APPROPRIATE TO SUCH A CENTRE

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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Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities and does not contain financial data regarding reserves, income, or expenditure. Consequently, an assessment of the charity's financial health cannot be derived from this text.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: KENT HOUSE (KNIGHTSBRIDGE) LIMITED Companies House 00620748 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rabbi Kamila Kopřivová — Rabbi (source)
• Rabbi Rose Prevezer — Rabbi (source)
• Thomas Salamon — Rabbi Emeritus (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 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 (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: 13.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward Douglas Gloverchair
• Daniel Hollis
• David Appleton
• David Connick
• Dena Merson
• Dr Clare Rees · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ellen Miller
• Harriet Alexander
• Leah Ansel
• Orit Schreiber

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

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 WEST LONDON SYNAGOGUE OF BRITISH JEWS.

• THE WEST LONDON SYNAGOGUE OF BRITISH JEWS income £4.1m
• SOUTH MANCHESTER SYNAGOGUE income £587k
• THE JACOB BENJAMIN ELIAS SYNAGOGUE ASSOCIATION income £70k
• UNITED SYNAGOGUE income £50.7m
• THE OXFORD SYNAGOGUE AND JEWISH CENTRE LIMITED income £255k
• THE JERUSALEM AND THE MIDDLE EAST CHURCH ASSOCIATION income £268k

Side by side with its peers

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