THE PAPERWEIGHT TRUST

Registered charity 1146302 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The relief of financial hardship and emotional stress by the provision of free practical advice and assistance primarily to persons who are members of the Jewish Community resident in the UK who through lack of means, knowledge or as a result of circumstances such as bereavement, divorce or any other circumstances are unable to access and/ or obtain such advice.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND EMOTIONAL STRESS BY THE PROVISION OF FREE PRACTICAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE PRIMARILY TO PERSONS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY RESIDENT IN THE UK WHO THROUGH LACK OF MEANS, KNOWLEDGE OR AS A RESULT OF CIRCUMSTANCES SUCH AS BEREAVMENT, DIVORCE OR ANY OTHER PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES ARE UNABLE TO ACCESS AND/OR OBTAIN SUCH ADVICE

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £9,729 for the year ended 31 July 2025, reversing a previous deficit. Total unrestricted reserves stood at £404,965, which the trustees aim to maintain at a level sufficient to meet three months' basic operating costs. The charity operates on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 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
• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Paperweight Trust awarded grant from Garfield Weston Foundation jewishnews.co.uk · 07/01/2026

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Paperweight Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~17.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BENJAMIN CONWAYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALAN JACOB PERRIN
• DOV BARRY BLACK · trustee of 6 other charities
• David Eliezer Posen
• JONATHAN CHARLES MARRIOTT
• Talia Greenbaum

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• DOV BARRY BLACK — trustee here and at MOLE CHARITABLE TRUST

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.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PAPER WORKS (HARROGATE) LIMITED.

• PAPER WORKS (HARROGATE) LIMITED income £491k
• PPC TRUST income £983k
• AREIVIM MANCHESTER income £78k
• CHESED income £70k
• JMRD TRUST income £59k
• THE PERSIAN HEBREW COMMUNITY income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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