MEMORIAL SCROLLS TRUST

Registered charity 1196488 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CZECH MEMORIAL SCROLLS CENTRE (WORKING NAME)

The Memorial Scrolls Trust has allocated Czech scrolls to synagogues and organisations around the world. The scrolls are never sold or donated, but allocated on loan.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AND FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONSISTENT WITH THE PRACTICE OF JUDAISM AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £1,122,089, which exceeds its stated policy target of 3-6 months of expenditure. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with sufficient free reserves to cover two years of expenditure even without further donations.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~139.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (85% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Allan Weiner
• Andrew Keene
• DAVID GOLDBERG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Parlons
• JEFFREY DAVID OHRENSTEIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lois Roman
• Nick Stalbow
• Peter Barber
• Rachel Scott
• Sebastian Conran

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

Operates in: Argentina · Australia · Brazil · Canada · Czech Republic · Throughout London · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TRUST FOR THE PRESERVATION OF JEWISH CEMETERIES.

• THE TRUST FOR THE PRESERVATION OF JEWISH CEMETERIES income £126k
• SHEMTOV CHARITABLE TRUST income £738k
• CHASDEI SHLOMO income £109k
• THE SCS TRUST income £166k
• WAR MEMORIALS TRUST income £339k
• S C K CHARITABLE TRUST income £260k

Side by side with its peers

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