FRIENDS OF ORCHOS TORAH

Registered charity 1178879 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO FURTHER EDUCATION BY SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS FOR THE RELIGIOUS TRAINING OF JEWISH YOUTH

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY MAKING GRANTS TO RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WHICH FURTHER THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH:- I. BY EDUCATING YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR RELIGIOUS OBLIGATIONS AND THUS ENABLING THEM TO FULFIL THEIR RELIGIOUS DUTIES ANDII. BY PROVIDING COURSES AND OTHER TRAINING TO LEAD TO RABBINICAL DIPLOMAS, TEACHER QUALIFICATIONS AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LEADERSAND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY TO THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONAL NETWORK IN ISRAEL KNOWN AS ORCHOS TORAH.

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: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased significantly from £12,633 to £38 due to grants exceeding donations. The trustees do not consider it necessary to keep excess money in reserves due to the grantmaking nature of its operation. There were no staff costs or trustee remuneration reported for the year.

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 3 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DANIEL THEODORE KLEINchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ARYEH YEHUDAH MELINEK · trustee of 9 other charities
• MENDEL SILBER
• MR LEIV LEVISON · trustee of 9 other charities

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

Operates in: Israel

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAH OHR.

• FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAH OHR income £311k
• THE FRIENDS OF OHR YECHIEL TRUST income £45k
• FRIENDS OF TORAH V'EMUNAH income £339k
• THE FRIENDS OF OHEL TORAH TRUST income £127k
• OHEL TORAH income £401k
• THE TORAH LEARNING CENTRE income £242k

Side by side with its peers

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