JEWISH LADS' AND GIRLS' BRIGADE

Registered charity 286950 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as J L G B

The JLGB trains and develops young people of the Jewish faith to reach their potential through active citizenship, within both the Jewish and wider community, empowering them to become future leaders of tomorrow. The JLGB removes barriers to participation by providing positive activities and experiences that meet the religious and cultural needs of the Jewish community.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources increased to £2,113,583 from £1,955,714 in the prior year, resulting in a net surplus of £266,492. Free unrestricted reserves totalled £656,920, which the trustees confirm meets their stated policy target of maintaining three months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity holds significant cash reserves of £809,119 and reports no material uncertainties regarding its 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 Nyman Libson Paul LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — JLGB (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Neil Martin CBE — Chief Executive (source)
• Norman Terret — Chairman (source)
• The Lord Levy — President (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Norman Harold Terret JPchair
• Adam Solomon Shelley
• Benjamin de Jong
• Hannah Gerson
• Richard Marshall
• Samuel Steinberg
• Simone Silver

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JLE.

• JLE income £3.2m
• GATESHEAD JEWISH BOARDING SCHOOL income £650k
• THE CHILDREN'S AID COMMITTEE CHARITABLE FUND income £169k
• THE BETH JACOB FOUNDATION income £393k
• THE CHURCH LADS' AND CHURCH GIRLS' BRIGADE income £250k
• GOLDSTAR CREATIVE MARKETING income £364k

Side by side with its peers

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