BOREHAMWOOD TORAH CENTRE

Registered charity 1185533 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing educational activities in the advancement of Orthodox Judaism

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Latest income

£497k

Latest spending

£524k

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net movement in funds of £(27,642) for the year ended 31 August 2025, reducing its total unrestricted funds from £119,162 to £91,520. The trustees' reserves policy aims to retain funds equivalent to six months of expenditure, but the current unrestricted reserves of £91,520 appear insufficient to meet this target given total resources expended of £524,335 (approx. £262,168 per six-month period). 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

Highest-paid employee band: £20,400 — below the median for charities its size (£60k)

“The highest paid employee earned £20,400 (2024: £15,245).” — page 13

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: six months expenditure (held: £92k)

“Ideally, the trustees would aim to retain funds equivalent to six months expenditure to take account of any potential short fall in donations in future.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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 30/08/2021)

Total income

£659k

Total spending

£429k

Reserves (reported)

£274k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

MARC ROGOFFchair
Arieh Leib Levison
Benjamin Daniel Rosenberg · trustee of 2 other charities
JEROME ORMONDE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnet · Brent · Enfield · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/08/2025	£497k	£524k
30/08/2024	£470k	£478k
30/08/2023	£335k	£460k
30/08/2022	£388k	£411k
30/08/2021	£659k	£429k

Common questions

Is BOREHAMWOOD TORAH CENTRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a net movement in funds of £(27,642) for the year ended 31 August 2025, reducing its total unrestricted funds from £119,162 to £91,520. The trustees' reserves policy aims to retain funds equivalent to six months of expenditure, but the current unrestricted reserves of £91,520 appear insufficient to meet this target given total resources expended of £524,335 (approx. £262,168 per six-month period). The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

What does the highest-paid employee of BOREHAMWOOD TORAH CENTRE earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £20,400 band.

Who funds BOREHAMWOOD TORAH CENTRE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BOREHAMWOOD TORAH CENTRE as a grant recipient include ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED, SCHREIBER CHARITABLE TRUST, JEG TRUST LIMITED.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED	FY2023	£226k
ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED	FY2022	£208k
ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED	FY2025	£207k
SCHREIBER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£10k	Education
JEG TRUST LIMITED	FY2022	£10k
JEG TRUST LIMITED	FY2023	£9k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	02/09/2022	£10k	BWK Community Centre

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
SF FOUNDATION	2	£595k
COSMON (BELZ) LIMITED	2	£360k
BOURNEHEIGHTS LIMITED	2	£352k
BELZ ISRAEL CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£282k
CML - CHEVRAS MO'OZ LADOL	2	£263k
INVESTREAM CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£194k
MOISHE AND ESTHER ITZINGER FOUNDATION LIMITED	2	£11k
EZER VIZNITZ FOUNDATION	1	£2.7m

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TORAH AND CHESED (BH) LIMITED.

TORAH AND CHESED (BH) LIMITED income £224k
BINYEN TORAH LIMITED income £984k
MORESHET HATORAH LTD income £5.6m
MERKAZ HATORAH LIMITED income £237k
MERCAZ TORAH VECHESED LIMITED income £1.9m
TALMUD TORAH TORAH VEYIRAH D'SATMAR LONDON LIMITED income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BOREHAMWOOD TORAH CENTRE	£497k	£20,400	unclear	—	no doubt
TORAH AND CHESED (BH) LIMITED FY2025	£224k	—	within	—	no doubt
BINYEN TORAH LIMITED FY2025	£984k	—	below	—	no doubt
MORESHET HATORAH LTD FY2025	£5.6m	—	below	—	no doubt
MERKAZ HATORAH LIMITED FY2025	£237k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MERCAZ TORAH VECHESED LIMITED FY2025	£1.9m	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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