THE SOCIETY FOR DISTRIBUTING HEBREW SCRIPTURES

Registered charity 232692 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as S D H S

Recognising our debt to the Jewish people for the Bble and the need to overcome prejudice, the society publishes and freely distributes the Hebrew scriptures to Jewish people worldwide.

Objects

5.1 THE PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES OF THE JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS.5.2 THE FURTHERANCE OF THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE SOCIETY BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE INCLUDING THE DISSEMINATION OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE.THE OBJECTS TO BE CARRIED OUT AS A PROCLAMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE SCRIPTURES AND WITH THE BELIEFS AS SET OUT IN CLAUSE 7 HEREOF.÷

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds were £3,344,492, with free reserves of £717,003 exceeding the stated policy target of £600,000. The charity remains heavily dependent on donations and legacies, which totaled £595,053, to fund charitable expenditure of £607,813. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 6 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £473k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~32.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Lawrence
• Amudalatu Oloruntoyin Popoola · trustee of 1 other charity
• DESMOND WIGHTMAN
• Gabriel Bennett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gareth Lucas
• JOHN HENRY PIKE
• Matthew James Ramsey
• Timothy John Dawson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UTRY.

• UTRY income £998k
• THE BRITISH JEWISH HERITAGE SOCIETY income £339k
• HALE AND DISTRICT HEBREW CONGREGATION LTD income £963k
• DEBMAR BENEVOLENT TRUST LIMITED income £396k
• PRESTWICH BETH HAMEDRESH income £131k
• UK FRIENDS OF TZOHAR income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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