JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND CIO

Registered charity 1188268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the education of the public in the history of British Jews and Jewry and particularly Jewish communities connected with it through the course of British history.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF BRITISH JEWS AND JEWRY AND PARTICULARLY OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES CONNECTED WITH IT THROUGH THE COURSE OF BRITISH HISTORY (‘THE SUBJECT’), WHICH OBJECTS SHALL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES, AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME: (A) THE PROMOTION AND ORGANISATION OF RESEARCH INTO THE SUBJECT AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH; (B) THE TRANSCRIPTION OF DOCUMENTS AND THE COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATING TO THE SUBJECT; (C) THE PUBLICATION OF DOCUMENTS AND MATERIAL, AS WELL AS OF TREATISES, RELATING TO THE SUBJECT; (D) THE MAINTENANCE OF A LIBRARY AND MUSEUM (WHICH SHALL BE ACCESSIBLE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ON APPLICATION) FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ARCHIVES OF BRITISH JEWISH CONGREGATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS, AND OF DOCUMENTS, BOOKS, PRINTS, AND OTHER OBJECTS OF JEWISH HISTORICAL INTEREST; (E) THE ORGANISATION OF LECTURES AND THE PUBLICATION OF WORKS ON GENERAL JEWISH HISTORY AND LITERATURE; AND FURTHERMORE (F) THE ARCHIVES OF THE SOCIETY SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO LEARNED SOCIETIES AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES AND THE PUBLIC SHALL BE ENTITLED TO PURCHASE THE SOCIETY'S PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS AND TREATISES.

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

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Registered contact address: King's Lynn and West Norfolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a small surplus for the year, with unrestricted reserves exceeding the trustees' optimal target of £13,000. However, the Treasurer's report notes that this surplus was partly due to high-interest bank accounts which are now falling, and highlights a lack of growth in membership and subscription income as a primary financial risk.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/12/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Anthony Rabinchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dawn Waterman
• Gavin Schaffer
• LEWIS OSBOURNE
• Michael Wallace Jackson Crook
• Professor Antony Robin Jeremy Kushner
• Professor Merle Rubin
• Sasha KE Bolot

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY.

• THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY income £45k
• JEWISH SMALL COMMUNITIES NETWORK CIO income £80k
• PARTNERSHIP FOR JEWISH SCHOOLS LIMITED income £1.3m
• ST.MARY'S JACOBITE SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, HAMPSHIRE income £41k
• SOUTH HAMPSTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £934k
• IGO FOUNDATION LIMITED income £222k

Side by side with its peers

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