BCH TRUST

Registered charity 1138652 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity receives donations and pays out grants mainly educational.

Objects

(I) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, AMONGST THE ELDERLY OR IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS WITHIN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS SERVICES OR FACILITIES OR PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GOODS OR SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS; (II) TO ADVANCE THE JEWISH RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, STUDY SESSIONS, LECTURES, PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION; (III) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF JEWISH PUPILS ACCORDING TO THE TENETS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF APPROPRIATE FACILITIES NEEDED FOR SUCH PURPOSES;(IV) TO PROMOTE ANY PURPOSE THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE AND THAT IS LEGALLY CONSIDERED CHARITABLE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bury, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £65,139 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £730,524 to £665,385. The trustees maintain that the current free reserves of £137,255 are an acceptable level given the charity's limited financial obligations and seasonal donation profile. The filing confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07374174 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• STONE, Benny — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• BOWDEN, Yossef — director, appointed 03/07/2012on trustee list
• BERNSTEIN, Charles — director, appointed 04/10/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BENNY STONE
• CHARLES BERNSTEIN
• YOSSEF BOWDEN

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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Side by side with its peers

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