FRIENDS OF WIZNITZ LIMITED

Registered charity 255685 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting Orthodox Jewish religious education, the advancement of the Orthodox Jewish Religion and the relief of poverty by grant-making to institutions and individuals and allowing the use of a building as a school.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 unrestricted funds at the year end were £3,707,010, with total net assets of £4,432,249. The charity reports a surplus for the year of £936,865, noting that despite a decline in overall income, the reduction in grantmaking resulted in this positive financial position. The trustees confirm there are 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 Sugarwhite Meyer Accountants Ltd. Discloses 3 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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.

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 31/03/2023 (received 04/02/2024, 4 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00929964 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FELDMAN, Barry — director, appointed 10/04/2022on trustee list
• GOTTESFELD, Ephraim — director, appointed 01/01/2014on trustee list
• FELDMAN, Shulom — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £938k. 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 ~0.3 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 (96% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARRY FELDMAN · trustee of 4 other charities
• Ephraim GOTTESFELD · trustee of 4 other charities
• SHULOM FELDMAN · trustee of 8 other charities

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

Operates in: Hackney · Haringey · Israel · United States

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.

• Ephraim GOTTESFELD — trustee here and at PARKWILL LIMITED
• SHULOM FELDMAN — trustee here and at AHAVAS SHALOM TRUST
• SHULOM FELDMAN — trustee here and at AHAVATH CHESSED CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION LIMITED
• SHULOM FELDMAN — trustee here and at BIRCHAS MOSHE TRUST
• SHULOM FELDMAN — trustee here and at NORTH LONDON CHARITIES LTD

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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 FRIENDS OF SANZ INSTITUTIONS.

• FRIENDS OF SANZ INSTITUTIONS income £1.6m
• FRIENDS OF PILZNO income £62k
• FRIENDS OF YESHIVOS IMREI YOSEF income £26k
• MERCAZ CHASIDEI WIZNITZ TRUST income £1.4m
• 4 CHARITY FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• FRIENDS OF BEIS SOROH SCHNEIRER income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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