GESHER

Registered charity 1142268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

RESIDENTIAL WEEKEND SEMINARS, TRIPS AND EVENTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS, WITH LECTURES/WORKSHOPS AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, STAFFED BY VOLUNTEER EDUCATORS AND YOUTH WORKERS.PROVISION OF GRANTS FOR STUDENTS AND OTHERS ON LOW INCOME.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH. 2) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE JEWISH FAITH FOR YOUNG ADULTS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. 3) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, OF PEOPLE ON LOW INCOME BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS SERVICES OR FACILITIES PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR PEOPLE OF THE JEWISH FAITH. 4) TO ADVANCE THE ORTHODOX JEWISH EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES (NOT REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY) FOR EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Recreation · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gateshead, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £37,018 for the year ended 31 January 2025, increasing its total funds to £202,930. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £73,939, which the trustees consider an acceptable level against their policy of maintaining six months of average annual expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention that would cause concern regarding the financial statements.

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 4 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 charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07505846 · 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.

• SPITZER, Lionel — director, appointed 15/09/2014on trustee list
• KAUFMAN, Chaim Jehuda Alexander — director, appointed 02/02/2011on trustee list
• SCHEIDER, Manuel — director, appointed 02/02/2011not on trustee list
• SCHLEIDER, David — director, appointed 02/02/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHAIM JEHUDA ALEXANDER KAUFMAN · trustee of 4 other charities
• DAVID SCHLEIDER · trustee of 10 other charities
• LIONEL SPITZER · trustee of 4 other charities
• MANUEL SCHLEIDER

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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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.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHEVES YOUTH ORGANISATION LIMITED.

• SHEVES YOUTH ORGANISATION LIMITED income £39k
• GHANSHYAM EDUCATION TRUST income £682k
• REFUGEE WORKERS' CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £199k
• MIND OF THE STUDENT income £209k
• KESSER CHARITIES LIMITED income £222k
• CHAVREI SHAS income £401k

Side by side with its peers

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