RABBI SACKS LEGACY TRUST

Registered charity 1152781 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE COVENANT AND CONVERSATION TRUST

Since its establishment in July 2013, the Trustees have sought to advance the mission, vision and teachings of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks as a reflection of, and in order to promote, the charitable objectives of the Covenant & Conversation Trust. These are based on the articulation and promotion of a Judaism that is connected to its rich heritage whilst simultaneously engaged with the world.

Objects

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY, EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):(A) THE PROVISION OF A TORAH VOICE BOTH NATIONALLY WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND INTERNATIONALLY;(B) THE PROMOTION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE TEACHING AND INTERPRETATION OF JEWISH THOUGHT AND ETHICAL VALUES;(C) THE PROMOTION OF INSPIRATIONAL LEADERSHIP WHETHER RABBINICAL, EDUCATIONAL OR LAY FOR THE BENEFIT NOT ONLY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY BUT OF SOCIETY AT LARGE;(D) THE PROMOTION OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN FAITH WITH A PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVE FOCUS UPON THE ROLE AND EXPRESSION OF MORALITY IN CIVIL SOCIETY; AND(E) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC AND WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS STATED ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · 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 all funds are unrestricted, with total net assets of £80,415 at the end of the year. The charity reported a surplus of £13,059 for the year, funded primarily by donations and a grant from a related US entity. The trustees confirm the charity is prepared on a going concern basis.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £140,000-£150,000 (FY2024) to £90,001-£100,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELLIOTT BENJAMIN GOLDSTEINchair
• ALAN SACKS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Daniel Sacker
• Daniel Taub
• Dayan Ivan Binstock
• Eliot Kaye
• Gary Phillips · trustee of 3 other charities
• Gila Sacks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joshua Sacks
• Julia Chain
• MICHAEL HOWARD GOLDSTEIN · trustee of 2 other charities
• MIchal Cotler
• STUART RODEN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Terri Kirshner-Herenstein

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Israel · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales · United States

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.

• ALAN SACKS — trustee here and at THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF MASAT MOSHE
• ALAN SACKS — trustee here and at THE MILLENNIUM 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.

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 THE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN RABBIS.

• THE CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN RABBIS income £43k
• CATFORD & BROMLEY SYNAGOGUE TRUST income £740k
• S K CHARITABLE TRUST income £232k
• SOUTH HAMPSTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £934k
• JEWISH LEGACY GIVING income £47k
• BOARD OF DEPUTIES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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