BETH SHMUEL SYNAGOGUE LIMITED

Registered charity 251044 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BETH SHMUEL SYNAGOGUE

The charity maintains the Beth Shmuel Synagogue and its allied charitable activities.

Objects

TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE PRACTICE AND TEACHING OF TRADITIONAL JUDAISM. (FOR FULLER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

Area of benefit: UNRESTICTED

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £18,790 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £529,817 and total expenditure of £511,027. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £1,471,475, and the charity maintains a reserve policy to cover contingencies and sustain activities. Although the charity had net current liabilities, the trustees confirmed the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis due to continued creditor support and fixed asset value.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £1.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (74% 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: 18.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SYLVAIN KLEINchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Klein · trustee of 1 other charity
• Solomon Mozes · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Solomon Mozes — trustee here and at MENDAN LIMITED

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BETH SHALOM REFORM SYNAGOGUE.

• BETH SHALOM REFORM SYNAGOGUE income £226k
• BETH ABRAHAM SYNAGOGUE LIMITED income £130k
• BETHEL CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £27k
• CHELSEA SYNAGOGUE TRUST income £128k
• BROMLEY & DISTRICT REFORM SYNAGOGUE LIMITED income £288k
• THE HECHEL HATORAH SYNAGOGUE TRUST income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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