FEDERATION OF SYNAGOGUES

Registered charity 254951 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FEDERATION

The Federation of Synagogues provides places of worship, facilities for education and orthodox burial for its members. It maintains a Beth Din and provides Rabbis and Ministers. It is involved in the supervision and provision of food serving the Jewish public by facilitating the provision of Kosher Food.

Objects

THE INCOME AND PROPERTY OF THE FEDERATION SHALL BE APPLIED SOLELY TOWARDS THE PROMOTION OF THE OBJECTS WHICH ARE:3.1 TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN JEWISH PLACES OF WORSHIP AND COMMUNITY AND EDUCATIONAL CENTRES;3.2 TO PROVIDE SERVICES OF DAYANIM, RABBIS AND OTHER RELIGIOUS OFFICIANTS;3.3 TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN AND SUPPORT INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL PURPOSES;3.4 TO ESTABLISH, PROMOTE AND CARRY ON AND ASSIST IN THE ESTABLISHMENT, PROMOTION AND CARRYING ON OF INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR THE PROMOTION, PROVISION ANDMAINTENANCE OF KASHRUT; AND3.5 TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN CEMETERIES AND FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JEWS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£5.6m

Latest spending

£5.5m

Registered

1968

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income surplus of £61,213 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £5,596,589 and total expenditure of £5,535,376. The group held net assets of £29,847,146, comprising unrestricted funds of £28,017,843 and restricted funds of £1,829,303. The trustees confirmed that the charity's continuing income, property base, and liquidity are sufficient to support activities for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £120,001 - £130,000 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)

“In the band £120,001 - £130,000 1” — page 28

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 7

“In the band £60,001 - £70,000 4 In the band £70,001 - £80,001 1 In the band £100,001 - £110,000 1 In the band £120,001 - £130,000 1” — page 28

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: to maintain unrestricted funds, which are free reserves of the charity, at a level which provides sufficient resources to fund the charitable commitments and the cost of management and administration (reserves figure: £28.0m)

“It is the policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted funds, which are free reserves of the charity, at a level which provides sufficient resources to fund the charitable commitments and the cost of management and administration.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Cleaning services provided by company connected with a Trustee to subsidiary Kosher Foods Supervisory Services Ltd.

“During the year, a company connected with one of the Trustees provided cleaning services to Kosher Foods Supervisory Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the charity. The company was paid £7,699 (2024 £7,204).” — page 41

“As at the year end there is an interest free loan included within other creditors of £5,000 payable to Andrew Cohen (Trustee and Chair).” — page 41

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Interest-free loan of £5,000 payable to Andrew Cohen (Trustee and Chair).

“During the year, a company connected with one of the Trustees provided cleaning services to Kosher Foods Supervisory Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the charity. The company was paid £7,699 (2024 £7,204).” — page 41

“As at the year end there is an interest free loan included within other creditors of £5,000 payable to Andrew Cohen (Trustee and Chair).” — page 41

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Kosher Foods Supervisory Services Limited, Watford Way Investments Limited

“The charity has two subsidiaries, Kosher Foods Supervisory Services Limited and Watford Way Investments Limited.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Landau Morley LLP. 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
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
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
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 115
Employees paid over £60,000: 7 (£60,001–£70,000: 4; £70,001–£80,000: 1; £100,001–£110,000: 1; £120,001–£130,000: 1)
Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 115
Employees paid over £60,000: 7 (£60,001–£70,000: 5; £100,001–£110,000: 1; £110,001–£120,000: 1)
Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 115
Employees paid over £60,000: 5 (£60,001–£70,000: 3; £100,001–£110,000: 2)
Has a trading subsidiary

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Methodist Church delivers three historic scrolls to Federation of Synagogues jewishnews.co.uk · 13/03/2025
‘The Torah Leadership We Need’ - The Chief Rabbi of Britain’s Federation of Synagogues, Dayan Michoel Fisher, on his Shavuot visit to the Lubavitcher Rebbe chabad.org · 31/01/2020
Federation of Synagogues hires Rabbi Shraga Feivel Zimmerman, current head rabbi of Gateshead, as new Av Beth Din thejc.com · 30/06/2019

Corporate structure

Trading subsidiary: KOSHER FOODS SUPERVISORY SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 04138362 · Financial health read from its filings
Trading subsidiary: WATFORD WAY INVESTMENTS LIMITED Companies House 05777108 · Financial health read from its filings

WATFORD WAY INVESTMENTS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Amounts owed to group undertakings: £92,909 (2025) and £43,439 (2024). Other creditors (non-current) include an amount due to the parent charity.

KOSHER FOODS SUPERVISORY SERVICES LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Creditors include £660,185 (2025) / £636,362 (2024) owed to group undertakings.

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

Total income

£5.6m

Total spending

£5.5m

Cost of raising funds

£1.9m

Reserves (reported)

£0

Employees

99

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (41% 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: 34.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

ANDREW SELWYN COHEN FCAchair · trustee of 4 other charities
Alexander Tobias Gold
Gavriel Rokach
Gerald Joshua Frankel · trustee of 1 other charity
Lester Max Harris
MOSHE WINEGARTEN
Meir Itzinger

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

Operates in: Manchester City · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£5.6m	£5.5m
31/12/2024	£5.6m	£5.3m
31/12/2023	£5.1m	£5.1m
31/12/2022	£4.7m	£4.6m
31/12/2021	£4.6m	£4.4m

Common questions

Is FEDERATION OF SYNAGOGUES financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a net income surplus of £61,213 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £5,596,589 and total expenditure of £5,535,376. The group held net assets of £29,847,146, comprising unrestricted funds of £28,017,843 and restricted funds of £1,829,303. The trustees confirmed that the charity's continuing income, property base, and liquidity are sufficient to support activities for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Landau Morley LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of FEDERATION OF SYNAGOGUES earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £120,001 - £130,000 band, and 7 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds FEDERATION OF SYNAGOGUES?

Funders whose own accounts filings name FEDERATION OF SYNAGOGUES as a grant recipient include ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED, THE RAPHAEL FRESHWATER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, MOLE CHARITABLE TRUST, GIVE US A CHANCE, BALSTRAW LIMITED.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED	FY2024	£361k
ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED	FY2022	£149k
ACHISOMOCH AID COMPANY LIMITED	FY2023	£136k
THE RAPHAEL FRESHWATER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION	FY2023	£30k	advancement of religion and education
MOLE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£30k
GIVE US A CHANCE	FY2024	£15k	relief of poverty, advancement of Jewish religion and advancement of Jewish religious education
BALSTRAW LIMITED	FY2025	£5k
LYNWOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£1k
HIGHBURY QUADRANT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH	FY2021	£100	Gifts to organisations

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	18/07/2019	£10k	Community Engagement Project

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE MAURICE WOHL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	2	£163k
THE SIERATZKI CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£2k
SOUTH HAMPSTEAD CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£961k
ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION (HANADIV) EUROPE	1	£180k
STANLEY AND ZEA LEWIS FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£148k
THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES (AJR)	1	£139k
THE WIGODER FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£65k
THE SIR JOHN RITBLAT FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£59k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LIBERAL JEWISH SYNAGOGUE.

THE LIBERAL JEWISH SYNAGOGUE income £1.9m
THE BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE income £1.5m
UNITED SYNAGOGUE income £50.7m
THE LIBERAL SYNAGOGUE ELSTREE income £301k
GOLDERS GREEN BETH HAMEDRASH CONGREGATION income £958k
CONGREGATION OF ADEN JEWS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM income £297k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
FEDERATION OF SYNAGOGUES	£5.6m	£120,001 - £130,000	7	unclear	—	no doubt
THE LIBERAL JEWISH SYNAGOGUE FY2025	£1.9m	£80,000 - £90,000	2	above	—	no doubt
THE BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE FY2025	£1.5m	£120,000 - £129,999	—	above	—	no doubt
UNITED SYNAGOGUE FY2025	£50.7m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE LIBERAL SYNAGOGUE ELSTREE FY2025	£301k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GOLDERS GREEN BETH HAMEDRASH CONGREGATION FY2025	£958k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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