THE UNION OF ORTHODOX HEBREW CONGREGATIONS

Registered charity 1158987 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q2893284 · Wikipedia · also known as UOHC

1. MAKES GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS2. MAKES GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS/ 3. PROVIDES HUMAN RESOURCES/ 4. PROVIDES BUILDINGS / FACILITIES / OPEN SPACE 5. PROVIDES SERVICES 6. PROVIDES ADVOCACY / ADVICE / INFORMATION 7. ACTS AS AN UMBRELLA OR RESOURCE BODY

Objects

1. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH IN GREAT BRITAIN AND TO ESTABLISH AND SUPPORT SUCH INSTITUTIONS AS WILL SERVE THIS OBJECT.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS CHARITABLE, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £73,955 for the year ended 31 December 2025, a significant improvement from the £212,195 deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £148,528, which the trustees consider adequate to support ongoing activities and maintain reserves equivalent to three to four months of core expenditure. The trustees confirmed adequate resources exist to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Landau Morley LLP. Discloses 4 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 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
• 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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 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 (88% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABRAHAM SCHREIBER · trustee of 4 other charities
• AHRON KLEIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• ARON GOLDMAN
• Ahron Rand
• BENJAMIN ROTH · trustee of 1 other charity
• BENJAMIN STERN · trustee of 5 other charities
• BENZION SCHALOM ELIEZER FRESHWATER · trustee of 7 other charities
• Chaim Solomon Goldman · trustee of 3 other charities
• Chaim Steinhart · trustee of 2 other charities
• DANIEL JOSHUA ALEXANDER OST · trustee of 5 other charities
• JACOB GOLDMAN · trustee of 5 other charities
• JOSEPH FELD · trustee of 1 other charity
• MOSES THEO BIBELMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• MYER BERNARD ROTHFELD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Just · trustee of 3 other charities
• Michael Lobenstein
• Mordechaj Jaakow Wind
• Moshe Getter · trustee of 1 other charity
• RABBI MORDECHAI STEREN · trustee of 2 other charities
• RABBI NATHAN BENJAMIN BINDINGER · trustee of 3 other charities
• ROBERT GRUSSGOTT · trustee of 8 other charities
• SHALOM SEIDENFELD · trustee of 4 other charities
• Sydney Samuel Sinitsky · trustee of 6 other charities
• Victor Brinner
• Yacov Friesel

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNITED HEBREW CONGREGATION LEEDS.

• UNITED HEBREW CONGREGATION LEEDS income £714k
• WHITEFIELD HEBREW CONGREGATION income £740k
• PRESTWICH HEBREW CONGREGATION income £427k
• BOURNEMOUTH HEBREW CONGREGATION income £1.9m
• UNITED SYNAGOGUE income £50.7m
• CONGREGATION OF ADEN JEWS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM income £297k

Side by side with its peers

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