MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT COUNCIL OF SYNAGOGUES

Registered charity 1136024 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The council operates the burial service for most of the Orthodox Jewish Community in the region as well as the Scan Levy Scheme and co-ordinates and contributes to the maintenance and improvement of the Jewish cemeteries.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE JEWISH RELIGION BY PROMOTING THE TEACHING AND PRACTICE OF THE RIGHTSAND RITUALS OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH, PARTICULARLY IN RESPECT OF THE PERIODIMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO, DURING AND AFTER DEATH, INCLUDING THE ARRANGEMENT OF JEWISHBURIALS AND MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF JEWISH CEMETERIES IN THE GREATERMANCHESTER AREA.

Area of benefit: THE GREATER MANCHESTER AREA.

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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity produced a surplus of £34,528 for the period, increasing its total unrestricted reserves to £116,536. The trustees consider these reserves to be adequate to cover approximately 4½ months of outgoing resources. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• HOWARD GORDONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• PHILIP LANGER

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SOUTH MANCHESTER SYNAGOGUE income £587k
• MANCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE income £492k
• JEWISH JOINT BURIAL SOCIETY income £2.6m
• NEW CENTRAL VILNA SYNAGOGUES income £566k
• SHA'AREI SHALOM, THE NORTH MANCHESTER REFORM CONGREGATION income £161k
• CHASSIDEI BELZ MANCHESTER income £530k

Side by side with its peers

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