THE BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE

Registered charity 1144866 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE 1, THE BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE LIMITED

The Charity maintains the synagogue for public worship, conducts regular services, provides the services of a Rabbi and a Cantor, provides religious education of Jewish children, youth and adults. The synagogue also provides facilities for life cycle events.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £1,467,858 from £1,380,439 in the prior year, resulting in a net surplus of £35,787. The charity holds unrestricted general funds of £1,243,873, which the trustees confirm is in line with their reserves policy. The auditors concluded 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 Nyman Libson Paul LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rabbi Gabriel Botnick — Rabbi (source)
• Cantor Paul Heller — Cantor (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Ernest Anthony Strausschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ADAM DAVID NATHAN
• ADAM HURST · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANNETTE MARION NATHAN
• Adam David Davis
• Adam Philip Buchler
• Carol Cohen
• DILYS KIM TAUSZ
• David Michael Pollins
• Dr CLAIRE SUSAN WALFORD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr JOCELYN ASHER SIMON BROOKES
• FREDERICK ALLAN LEHMANN
• Francis Joseph
• JEANNIE COHEN
• JUSTYN JACOB TRENNER
• Jacqueline Ann Alexander
• James Rossiter
• Joseph Samuel Hacker
• MICHAEL HOROWITZ QC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nick Viner · trustee of 3 other charities
• Oliver Charles Jerome
• PATRICIA HIRSCHOVITS
• Peter Goodman
• RICHARD GERARD POLLINS
• ROBERT WALTER SIMON NOTHMAN
• Sarah Dorabella Percival
• Simon Alexander Cohen
• Tanya Anne Magasiner

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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