BALSTRAW LIMITED

Registered charity 262185 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity is established to foster, assist and promote the charitable activities of any institution professing and teaching the principles of traditional Judaism, to advance religion in accordance with the Jewish faith and to give philanthropic aid to the Jewish needy.

Objects

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

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position is satisfactory, with total unrestricted reserves of £2,921,293 as of 31 March 2025. The trustees consider the free reserves of £257,918 to be adequate to support charitable institutions and cover contingencies. The charity relies on investment income, its subsidiary undertaking, and voluntary donations to fund its grant-making activities.

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 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: NIRLAKE INVESTMENTS LIMITED Companies House 00714297
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01002008

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.

• FOUX, Laurence Allan — director, appointed 22/02/2024on trustee list
• FRANKEL, Ephraim — director, appointed 20/06/2022on trustee list
• FRANKEL, Maurice Moishe — director, appointed 20/06/2022on trustee list
• FRANKEL, Joel — director, appointed 06/02/1999on trustee list
• FRANKEL, Zisi — directoron trustee list
• FRANKEL, Leslie — directoron trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LESLIE FRANKELchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ephraim Frankel · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOEL FRANKEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• LAURENCE ALLAN FOUX · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maurice Moishe Frankel · trustee of 2 other charities
• ZISI FRANKEL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: United States

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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