LEO BAECK COLLEGE

Registered charity 209777 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1508696 · Wikipedia · also known as LEO BAECK COLLEGE - CENTRE FOR JEWISH EDUCATION, LEO BAECK COLLEGE LTD

Training rabbis and teachers for Jewish congregations, communities and schools

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND FURTHERANCE OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTRUCTION AND FOSTERING AND ADVANCING THE STUDY OF JUDAISM AND OF JEWISH EDUCATION, HISTORY, ART, LITERATURE, MUSIC AND WAY OF LIFE IN ALL ITS ASPECTS, BOTH RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR AND PROMOTING SUCH OTHER LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF A LIKE NATURE TO THE FOREGOING, AS THE COLLEGE MAY SEE FIT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £379,154 for the year, primarily due to a non-recurring restricted donation in the previous year and increased employer National Insurance costs. Free reserves are currently £284,855, which is significantly below the trustees' policy target of maintaining unrestricted reserves in excess of 100% of annual operating expenditure. However, the trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate, citing access to over £300,000 in unrestricted investments to cover predicted deficits until at least July 2027.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2025 (received 19/08/2026, 20 days after the 30/07/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00626693

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.

• ELZER, Viktor — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• GREENE, Richard Allen — director, appointed 10/11/2025on trustee list
• SCHELL, Till Adrian Michael, Rabbi — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• MYERS, Jo-Ann Debra, Dr — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• LEVY, Joshua Benjamin Israel, Rabbi — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• ZINKOV, Igor, Rabbi — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• GILLIS, Amanda — director, appointed 31/01/2024on trustee list
• REITSMA-JURMAN, Emily, Rabbi — director, appointed 01/03/2023on trustee list
• SIMON, David, Professor — director, appointed 18/01/2023on trustee list
• TRAEGER, James Robert, Dr — director, appointed 18/01/2023on trustee list
• NEWMAN, Karen Melanie — director, appointed 16/01/2022on trustee list
• BAGINSKY, Charlotte, Rabbi — director, appointed 16/01/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (39% 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: 5.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Gillis
• Darren Frank Simons
• Dr James Traeger
• Dr Jo-Ann Debra Myers
• Karen Melanie Newman
• Professor David Simon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rabbi Charlotte Baginsky
• Rabbi Emily Reitsma-Jurman
• Rabbi Igor Zinkov
• Rabbi Joshua Benjamin Israel Levy
• Rabbi Professor Deborah Kahn-Harris
• Rabbi Till Adrian Michael Schell
• Student Rabbi Richard Allen Greene · trustee of 1 other charity
• Viktor Elzer

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LINDISFARNE COLLEGE OF THEOLOGY LTD.

• LINDISFARNE COLLEGE OF THEOLOGY LTD income £369k
• THE ABDO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION income £3.2m
• LONDON EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £474k
• LUBAVITCH KOLLEL income £76k
• WHITEFIELD COMMUNITY KOLLEL income £120k
• JEWISH TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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