MANCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CARE

Registered charity 257238 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MANCHESTER JEWISH BLIND SOCIETY, NICKY ALLIANCE DAY CENTRE

Day centre for Jewish elderly, blind and physically disabled people or any other catergory of individual who is deemed to be in need of such assistance.Serving the community with physical, social & emotional care.

Objects

TO ASSIST IN ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE WAYS MENTIONED BELOW OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH (TOGETHER WITH THEIR DEPENDENTS) WHO ARE TOTALLY BLIND OR REGISTERED BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED OR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED OR ANY OTHER CATEGORY OF INDIVIDUAL WHO THE COUNCIL SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM TO BE IN NEED OF SUCH ASSISTANCE: A) BY THE PROVISION BY THE SOCIETY ALONE OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER APPROPRIATE BODIES OF THE SOCIAL RESIDENTIAL AND DAY CENTRE SERVICES AND OTHER APPROPRIATE FACILITIES. B) BY PROVIDING WEEKLY OR PERIODIC FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE OR GIFTS IN KIND IN CASE OF NEED BY WAY OF GRANT, PENSION OR LOAN OF SUCH AMOUNT OR AMOUNTS AS MAY BE FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINED BY THE COUNCIL. C) BY THE PROVISION ALONE OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE OTHER APPROPRIATE BODIES OF WELFARE SERVICES OF ALL KINDS. D) BY ANY AND ALL OTHER MEANS CONSISTENT WITH THE FOREGOING MAIN OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT

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 · Disability · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £136,351 for the year, which was covered by drawing down £151,000 from its reserves, reducing total unrestricted and restricted funds to £1,244,270. The trustees state that while fundraising efforts have improved, ongoing vigilance on costs is required, but they believe the charity can safely continue for the next year. The organization holds free reserves significantly below its stated policy target of nine months' operating expenses.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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)

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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 31/12/2021 (received 08/12/2022, 38 days after the 31/10/2022 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 05105654

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.

• SENIOR, Benjamin Ellis — director, appointed 30/12/2024on trustee list
• HART, Michael David — director, appointed 01/05/2018on trustee list
• MOORE, Michael Alan — director, appointed 13/05/2013on trustee list
• LEWIS, Jeffrey Michael — director, appointed 19/04/2004on trustee list
• WHITE, Brian Jonathan — director, appointed 19/04/2004on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~18.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIAN WHITE · trustee of 6 other charities
• Benjamin Ellis Senior
• JEFFREY MICHAEL LEWIS
• Michael David Hart
• Michael Moore

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Lancashire · Manchester City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JEWISH CHILD'S DAY.

• JEWISH CHILD'S DAY income £637k
• MANCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE income £492k
• MANCHESTER COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD income £664k
• SERVICE TO THE AGED income £5.1m
• PENCARE income £129k
• CHABAD COMMUNITY CARE income £64k

Side by side with its peers

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