GATESHEAD KEHILLA BUILDING FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1161835 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of the charity are: (i) to advance the orthodox Jewish religion in the North of England for the benefit of the public by building, providing and maintaining communal building or buildings for religious purposes for the Jewish community; (ii) to promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community as the trustees may decide from time to time determine.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net operating surplus of £55,692 for the year, with unrestricted reserves standing at £1,365,775. The trustees consider the balance of the Fund to be an acceptable level of reserves given the nature of revenue receipts against grants payable. The accounts were prepared 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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09391498

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.

• SCHECHTER, Pinchos Zvi — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• DAVIS, Bernard — director, appointed 16/01/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~151.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Leslie Bambergerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ABRAHAM HENRY ZAHN · trustee of 1 other charity
• BERNARD DAVIS · trustee of 4 other charities
• PINCHOS ZVI SCHECHTER

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

Operates in: Gateshead

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 GATESHEAD KEHILLA (G.H.C) LIMITED.

• THE GATESHEAD KEHILLA (G.H.C) LIMITED income £530k
• GATESHEAD ACADEMY FOR TORAH STUDIES LIMITED income £104k
• GATESHEAD JEWISH LEARNING SOCIETY income £200k
• GATESHEAD YESHIVA ALUMNI LIMITED income £198k
• GATESHEAD KEHILLA KOLLEL LTD income £875k
• Jewish Learning Exchange Building Limited income £541k

Side by side with its peers

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