SIVA CHARITABLE FUND

Registered charity 267685 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Apply and pay for or to such legally charitable purpose or purposes or legally charitable institution or institutions in the United Kingdom or elsewhere including the relief of poverty and the advancement of education amongst persons who in the uncontrolled opinion of the Trustees are of Jewish Faith and advancement of Jewish Religion and the study of the Torah.

Objects

1. FOR SUCH LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES OR LEGALLY CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE. 2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PERSONS WHO IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES ARE OF THE JEWISH FAITH. 3. ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AND THE STUDY OF THE TORAH.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE

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 FY2024 accounts

The charity holds £5,954,984 in unrestricted funds, which the trustees consider appropriate given future commitments and administrative costs. Although the charity reports net current liabilities of £1,028,651, the trustees and auditors confirm that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis due to adequate resources and available finance. The charity relies entirely on investment property income, having generated £833,748 in the year, and does not engage in fundraising activities.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 50.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOSHUA STERNLICHTchair · trustee of 6 other charities
• ABRAHAM KLEIN · trustee of 6 other charities
• ZELDA STERNLICHT · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SIVA TRUST LTD.

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• S K CHARITABLE TRUST income £232k
• SHIVA CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £142k

Side by side with its peers

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