UNITED SYNAGOGUE

Registered charity 242552 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7893580 · Wikipedia

There are five primary objects of the charity.1 To create and maintain synagogues conforming to the orthodox form of Jewish worship.2 To advance education in Jewish religion.3 To provide burial for same4 Relief of the poor 5 To advance charitable purposes of other Jewish bodies and in general any other charitable purpose in connection with the above.

Objects

TO FOUND, BUILD,MAINTAIN,CONDUCT,PROMOTE AND DEVELOP WITHIN THE UK, SYNAGOGUES WHICH CONFORM TO THE FORM OF WORSHIP FOR PERSONS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION; TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS TO PERSONS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION, IN CONFORMITY WITH THE FORM OF WORSHIP, AND TO PROVIDE MEANS OF BURIAL FOR PERSONS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION; THE RELIEF OF POOR PERSONS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION; TO ADVANCE THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF OTHER JEWISH BODIES BY THE MAKING OF GRANTS OR LOANS TO THEM INCLUDING CONTRIBUTING WITH OTHER JEWISH BODIES TO THE MAINTENANCE OF A CHIEF RABBI AND OF OTHER ECCLESIASTICAL PERSONS, AND TO OTHER COMMUNAL DUTIES DEVOLVING ON METROPOLITAN CONGREGATIONS; AND ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE JEWISH RELIGION

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 a small overall surplus of £0.1m for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a surplus in restricted activities which was offset by a deficit in unrestricted activities. Total reserves stood at £138.7m, although the charity explicitly discloses that its free, unrestricted reserves amounted to nil at the year-end. The trustees confirm that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, citing adequate resources to continue activities for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — South Hampstead Synagogue (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jo Grose — Chief Executive (source)
• Saul Taylor — President (source)
• Tristan Nagler — Treasurer (source)
• David Collins — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Vickie Wiltshire — Chief People Officer (source)
• Richard Verber — Chief Communications Officer (source)
• David Frei — Director of External and Legal Services (source)
• David Goldberg — Director of Fundraising Strategy (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (9,296 followers) · instagram (6,732 followers) · linkedin (1,906 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (53% 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Saul David Taylorchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Amanda Corenne Lyons
• Cindy Goldstein
• Daniel Turner
• Daren Lewis
• Jacqueline Malca Zinkin · trustee of 3 other charities
• Nicola Abigail Rosenfelder · trustee of 9 other charities
• Rachel Irma Hartog · trustee of 8 other charities
• Simon Anthony Mitchell · trustee of 8 other charities
• Tristan Howard Nagler

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE OXFORD SYNAGOGUE AND JEWISH CENTRE LIMITED.

• THE OXFORD SYNAGOGUE AND JEWISH CENTRE LIMITED income £255k
• THANET AND DISTRICT REFORM JEWISH SYNAGOGUE income £46k
• SOUTH MANCHESTER SYNAGOGUE income £587k
• CARDIFF REFORM SYNAGOGUE income £98k
• SYNAGOGUE MAHARIM DUSHINSKY LIMITED income £347k
• ADASS YESHURUN SYNAGOGUE income £162k

Side by side with its peers

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