LONDON ACADEMY OF JEWISH STUDIES

Registered charity 270680 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

provides premises and grants and courses of study

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ACADEMY FOR THE LEARNING OF HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES AND JEWISH LEARNING AND PARTICULARLY FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG MEN FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £45,341 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £270,463. The trustees report that the charity operates with an adequate level of reserves representing approximately 3 to 6 months of expenditure. Per the trustees' report, the charity received income of £628,470 and incurred expenditure of £583,129 during the year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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)

1 annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Asher Andrew Guttentag · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rabbi Alexander Meir Markovic
• Rabbi Gershon Hager · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rabbi Judah Hager

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES.

• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• The Jewish Students Aid Trust income £186k
• THE JEWISH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL income £2.3m
• JEWISH LEGACY GIVING income £47k
• J & J CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £156k
• OD YOSEF HAI YESHIVA COLLEGE OF RABBINICAL STUDIES income £368k

Side by side with its peers

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