THE NEW LONDON SYNAGOGUE

Registered charity 1133578 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

House of worship, social and educational centre servicing the Jewish religion.

Objects

THE CONTINUANCE SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE NEW LONDON SYNAGOGUE SITUATE AT THE DATE OF THE MEMORANDUM AT ABBEY ROAD ST JOHN'S WOOD AND OTHERWISE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF THE PRACTICE AND TEACHING OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM IN THE MANNER OF THE MASORTI MOVEMENT OR IN SUCH OTHER MANNER AS THE MEMBERS OF THE SYNAGOGUE MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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.

Causes: Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £184,526 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,037,497 against total resources expended of £977,938. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted cash reserves of £293,469 were maintained, which is in line with the policy of holding sufficient cash to meet three months of expected liabilities.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nagler Simmons. Discloses 6 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 19/12/2023, 49 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 28/02/2022 (received 22/02/2023, 56 days after the 28/12/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: FLANPROP CO. LIMITED Companies House 00796621 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07030491 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rabbi Jeremy Gordon — Rabbi (source)
• Rabbi Natasha Mann — Rabbi (source)
• David Djemal — Cantorial lead (source)
• Yoav Oved — Cantorial lead (source)
• Miriam Lennard — Chair (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.

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.

• SERENE, Rachel — director, appointed 17/11/2025on trustee list
• MCAULEY CHRISTOPHER, Tamika — director, appointed 17/11/2025not on trustee list
• LENNARD, Miriam — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• SZASZ-FRANK, Emilie — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• NORTON, Anthony — director, appointed 05/02/2024on trustee list
• FUTERMAN, David — director, appointed 05/02/2024on trustee list
• OTTOLENGHI, Michael — director, appointed 08/02/2023not on trustee list
• BARON, Richard — director, appointed 08/02/2023on trustee list
• HIRSCH, Andrew — director, appointed 11/01/2021on trustee list
• CARLEBACH, Joe — director, appointed 07/09/2020not on trustee list
• LINDEN, Brian Andrew — director, appointed 02/07/2018on trustee list
• ASHLEIGH, Phillip — secretary, appointed 09/05/2019

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~23.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Norton
• Brian Linden
• Emilie Szasz-Frank
• Michael Ottolengjhi
• Miriam Lennard
• Rachel Serene
• Richard Baron
• Rosemary Barlow
• Stephen Kosmin
• Tamika McAuley Christopher

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORTH HENDON SYNAGOGUE.

• NORTH HENDON SYNAGOGUE income £209k
• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• NEW NORTH LONDON SYNAGOGUE income £2.2m
• THE OXFORD SYNAGOGUE AND JEWISH CENTRE LIMITED income £255k
• NORTH SALFORD SYNAGOGUE income £141k
• THE HENDON FAMILIES SYNAGOGUE LIMITED income £287k

Side by side with its peers

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