JW3 DEVELOPMENT

Registered charity 1156248 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

JW3 is the Jewish Community Centre in London NW3 operated by JW3 Trust (Company Registration Number 5679146; Charity Registration Number 1117644. The objects of JW3 Development are to support the aims and objectives of JW3 Trust and to further those aims by raising funds in support of the work of JW3 Trust

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO:(A)PROVIDE FINANCIAL AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE,ENCOURAGEMENT AND SUPPORT TO JW3 TRUST LIMITED IN FURTHERING ITS CHARITABLE PURPOSES;AND(B)ADVANCE PROMOTE OR CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT."CHARITABLE PURPOSES"MEANS THOSE PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME."JW3 TRUST LIMITED" MEANS THE CHARITABLE COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE REGISTERED WITH THE CHARITY COMMISSION WITH REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 1117644 AND WITH COMPANIES HOUSE WITH REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER 5679146.

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 accounts state that JW3 Development raised £2,775,169 in income and spent £585,388 on fundraising, resulting in a net income of zero as all funds were applied to charitable activities. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £50,000, which the trustees consider adequate against a policy target of three months of salary costs. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: JW3 TRADING LIMITED Companies House 07686352
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08747913

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.

• KERSHAW, David Andrew — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list
• DORFMAN, Amy — director, appointed 06/08/2020on trustee list
• HARRIS, Graham Andrew — director, appointed 31/07/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 20.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Dorfman · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Andrew Kershaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Harris

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 JW3 TRUST LIMITED.

• JW3 TRUST LIMITED income £4.4m
• BW3 income £30k
• S & J CHARITABLE TRUST income £67k
• PPC TRUST income £983k

Side by side with its peers

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