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.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE JEWISH RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES OF PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM AS EXPRESSED IN THE TRADITIONS OF WORSHIP AND RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES TRANSMITTED BY THE FOUNDERS OF THE SYNAGOGUE.

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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Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net asset increase of £35,787 for the year, with total income rising to £1,467,858 and total expenditure at £1,432,071. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £1,243,873, which the trustees state is in line with their reserves policy. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees expressing comfort that the charity can continue to operate for the foreseeable future.

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.

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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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

Common questions

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LIBERAL SYNAGOGUE ELSTREE.

• THE LIBERAL SYNAGOGUE ELSTREE income £301k
• ADASS YESHURUN SYNAGOGUE income £162k
• WESTCLIFF CHAREDI SYNAGOGUE income £85k
• BEMOSH LTD income £305k
• THE LIBERAL JEWISH SYNAGOGUE income £1.9m
• OHR YERUSHALAYIM SYNAGOGUE income £143k

Side by side with its peers

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