FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH HERITAGE

Registered charity 1162111 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q110723902

The objects of the Foundation for Jewish Heritage are:* to promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection and improvement of the built Jewish heritage including synagogues, monuments, cemeteries, communal buildings and sites of religious, historical, architectural, social or cultural significance* to advance the education of the public regarding Jewish heritage

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BUILT JEWISH HERITAGE INCLUDING SYNAGOGUES, MONUMENTS, CEMETERIES, COMMUNAL BUILDINGS AND SITES OF SUFFICIENT RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, SOCIAL OR CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC REGARDING JEWISH HERITAGE

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 ended the year with a surplus and unrestricted reserves of £254,682. The trustees maintain a policy to hold unrestricted funds at a level they deem appropriate to meet current and foreseeable commitments. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified that would suggest the accounts do not comply with applicable regulations.

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.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £436k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (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: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAME Helen Hyde DBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Daniel Peltz · trustee of 6 other charities
• David Bearman · trustee of 3 other charities
• Lord Daniel Finkelstein
• Professor David Latchman CBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• RICKIE BURMAN
• STEPHEN GOLDMAN
• STUART RODEN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Sir SIMON SCHAMA CBE
• THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JIM MURPHY

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

Operates in: Austria · France · Germany · Hungary · Poland · Slovakia · Spain · Throughout England And Wales · Turkey

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.

• Professor David Latchman CBE — trustee here and at THE MAURICE WOHL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SF FOUNDATION.

• SF FOUNDATION income £7.7m
• THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• HIDAH SYNAGOGUE AND BETH MIDRASH income £132k
• Jewish Literary Foundation income £462k
• GATESHEAD KEHILLA BUILDING FOUNDATION income £376k
• THE JEWISH YOUTH FUND income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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