THE FRIENDS OF THE BOBOVER YESHIVAH

Registered charity 242075 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity runs a school for children over the age of 5 and also gives aid to needy Talmudical students and makes grants to the poor and needy.

Objects

ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX TENETS THEREOF AND ANCILLARY THERETO, PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR STUDY OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS LITERATURE.

Area of benefit: UNRESTRICTED.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £74,487 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,574,098 and total expenditure of £1,499,611. The trustees report that net reserves increased to £521,441, noting that generous donors are available to meet immediate contingencies if necessary. The independent auditor 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 Glazers. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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 31/03/2022 (received 18/05/2023, 107 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BENZION BLUM
• LEVI ROTTENBERG
• STEVEN BLAU · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF BRENTWOOD SCHOOL (FOBS).

• FRIENDS OF BRENTWOOD SCHOOL (FOBS) income £39k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE WINDSOR BOYS' SCHOOL income £43k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF ALEH income £272k
• FRIENDS OF BOTLEY SCHOOL income £28k
• FRIENDS OF YAD HALEVI TRUST income £49k
• FRIENDS OF BEECROFT GARDEN PRIMARY SCHOOL income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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