JNETICS

Registered charity 1134935 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JEWISH GENETIC DISORDERS UK

To improve the understanding and awareness of Jewish Genetic Disorders, to facilitate access to the best available information, expertise and support for those affected by Jewish Genetic Disorders and to facilitate and support research efforts to advance the understanding, treatment and prevention of Jewish Genetic Disorders.

Objects

"The relief of sickness and the protection and promotion of good health through research into the treatment and prevention of JGDs and the dissemination of the useful results of such research.To promote awareness and advance the education of the Jewish community about JGDs by the dissemination of information.To promote and protect the physical and mental health of the Jewish community by the organisation and/or operation of education, screening, testing and other programmes and techniques to manage, limit or reduce the impact, occurrence, prevalence or dissemination of JGDs.“JGDs” means Jewish Genetic Disorders; “Jewish Genetic Disorders” means genetic disorders or conditions which occur among people with Jewish ancestry."?

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hertsmere, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £6,744 for the year ended 31 December 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £779,537, which the Directors consider appropriate against a policy target of six months' operating expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Jnetics (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nicole Gordon — CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust — “Breaking Down Barriers (BDB) is a project run by Alstrom Syndrome UK and funded primarily by the Sylvia Adams Charitable Trust.” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 26.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Lionel Angelchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALLAN HAROLD FREINKEL
• Anthony Leon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Juliette Harris MSc, PhD
• Emma May
• JONATHAN ALEC ANGEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Michael Krell
• Leon Saul Blitz

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Anthony Leon — trustee here and at THE DR BENJAMIN ANGEL FOUNDATION
• Anthony Lionel Angel — trustee here and at THE DR BENJAMIN ANGEL FOUNDATION
• JONATHAN ALEC ANGEL — trustee here and at THE DR BENJAMIN ANGEL FOUNDATION

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JLE.

• JLE income £3.2m
• JEWISH LEGACY GIVING income £47k
• THE NETZACH CHARITABLE TRUST income £428k
• BETH ZILKA income £304k
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR CLINICAL GENOMIC SCIENCE income £57k
• LEEDS MIND income £3.7m

Side by side with its peers

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