THE JACOB FOUNDATION

Registered charity 290759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE KESSLER FOUNDATION

TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT FOUNDATIONS, INSTITUTIONS, TRUSTS AND UNDERTAKINGS ESTABLISHED ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net deficit of £71,841 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a total net liability position of £78,523. The trustees confirm that the financial position is satisfactory and that they have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01864076
• Trading subsidiary: THE JEWISH NEWS LIMITED Companies House 03302610

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.

• GOODKIND, Graham Clifford — director, appointed 07/02/2025on trustee list
• FREER, Michael Whitney — director, appointed 07/02/2025on trustee list
• HART, Andrew Michael — director, appointed 15/12/2023on trustee list
• KERSHAW, David Andrew — director, appointed 31/05/2023on trustee list
• MUGHAL, Fiyaz — director, appointed 09/03/2021not on trustee list
• JACOBS, Alan Steven — director, appointed 05/11/2020on trustee list
• GIBBER, Robert Avery — director, appointed 21/06/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (58% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN JACOBS · trustee of 3 other charities
• Andrew Michael Hart
• David Kershaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fiyaz Mughal OBE
• Graham Goodkind
• Lord John Mann
• Michael Freer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Gibber

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

Operates in: Israel · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MASONIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• MASONIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £90.8m
• JACOBS FUTURA FOUNDATION income £16.0m
• EZER MIKOIDESH FOUNDATION income £493k
• THE JACOBS CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.1m
• THE BETH JACOB FOUNDATION income £393k
• GEFEN FOUNDATION income £373k

Side by side with its peers

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