READING HEBREW CONGREGATION

Registered charity 220098 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as READING SYNAGOGUE

To promote the Jewish faith in Reading and surrounding areas as a community.Outreach by communication and meetings with other faiths and schools.Assist with the welfare of our members.

Objects

FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: READING AND SURROUNDING AREA.

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: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £47,642 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a significant gain on investment assets. Per the trustees' report, reserves are held to mitigate risks associated with maintaining the listed synagogue building and covering unknown future burial costs. The trustees note that the community size is significantly reduced and declining, requiring vigilant management of operating costs to ensure long-term sustainability.

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 4 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SARAH FIRSHTchair
• ALAN RICHARD BENN
• ANTHONY LARRY WOOLF
• David Clarke
• Gerald Cowan
• MARK DRUKKER
• Michael John Fuhr
• SUSAN CLARKE

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEICESTER HEBREW CONGREGATION.

• LEICESTER HEBREW CONGREGATION income £121k
• GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF READING income £42k
• SALE & DISTRICT HEBREW CONGREGATION income £39k
• ALLERTON HEBREW CONGREGATION CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE income £220k
• PRESTWICH HEBREW CONGREGATION income £427k
• UNITED HEBREW CONGREGATION LEEDS income £714k

Side by side with its peers

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