MAYFAIR CHARITIES LIMITED

Registered charity 255281 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity receives income from its investment properties, cash deposit fixed asset listed investments and subsidiaries which it utilises in the provision and distribution of grants, donations and loans for charitable purposes to organisations & institutions engaged in the provision of education & promotion of religious observance within the Tenets of Orthodox Judaism & for the relief of poverty.

Objects

TO FURTHER THOSE PURPOSES BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE BY ENGLISH LAW.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND FOREIGN

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £5,118,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by significant valuation losses on investments. Per the trustees' report, free reserves are considered adequate to continue grant-making activities, with total funds carried forward at £78,069,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 4 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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)

23 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (19 freehold); recorded price paid £1.2m. 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 ~102.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 52.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BENZION SCHALOM ELIEZER FRESHWATER · trustee of 7 other charities
• MR D DAVIS · trustee of 3 other charities
• RICHARD FISCHER · trustee of 2 other charities
• SOLOMON ISRAEL FRESHWATER · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Australia · Belgium · France · Israel · Lithuania · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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