PARTNERSHIP FOR JEWISH SCHOOLS LIMITED

Registered charity 1168444 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JEWISH SCHOOLS NETWORK, JSN

To advance education in England and Wales including but without limitation for those of Jewish faith. And to promote efficiency and effectiveness of charities and the effective use of charitable resources for the benefit of the public by providing services for schools and other educational bodies to promote good practice and to improve their financial, commercial and procurement activities.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, FOR THOSE OF THE JEWISH FAITH; AND TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING SERVICES FOR SCHOOLS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL BODIES TO PROMOTE GOOD PRACTICE AND TO IMPROVE THEIR FINANCIAL, COMMERCIAL AND PROCUREMENT ACTIVITIES.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · 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 total income decreased to £1,312,624 from £1,622,487 in the prior year, primarily due to the non-recurrence of a large fellowship donation. Despite this reduction, the charity reported a net income surplus of £14,922 and increased its unrestricted reserves to £172,321. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BKL Audit 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

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

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09768676

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rabbi David Meyer OBE — CEO (source)
• Dov Black — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Sharon Radley — Assistant Director (Education) (source)
• Raisel Freedman — Assistant Director (Public Affairs) (source)
• Rachel Barbanel — Director of Leadership Programmes (source)
• Ian Stewart — Head of Finance and Operations (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• foundations and private donors — “The schools wellbeing project is generously supported by a number of foundations and private donors including” (source page)

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.

• NYMAN, Susan Annette — director, appointed 11/04/2022not on trustee list
• WAGERMAN, Anthony — director, appointed 25/08/2020on trustee list
• BLACK, Dov Barry — director, appointed 17/10/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 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 (86% 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

• DOV BARRY BLACKchair · trustee of 6 other charities
• ANTHONY WAGERMAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sue Nyman

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 HADERECH.

• HADERECH income £151k
• DUSHINSKY TRUST LIMITED income £479k
• SOCIETY FOR EDUCATION LIMITED income £420k
• THE BETH HA-TALMUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND income £164k
• LEHISVADA income £315k
• CHASDEI YITZOK CHARITIES LIMITED income £203k

Side by side with its peers

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