Jewish Literary Foundation

Registered charity 293800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL, JEWISH BOOK WEEK

The aim of the Jewish Literary Foundation is to stimulate and encourage the reading of books on every aspect of Jewish thought, life, literature and history and culture.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £39,352 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income rising to £461,957 from £374,968 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £207,186, which the Council of Management considers prudent given their target of maintaining nine months of core expenditure. The charity confirms it is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01989333

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• THE EDITH & FERDINAND PORJES CHARITABLE FUND — “Founders Circle THE EDITH & FERDINAND PORJES CHARITABLE FUND” (source page)
• Klein Family Foundation — “Presidents Circle Klein Family Foundation” (source page)

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.

• GORDON, Alexander, Dr — director, appointed 20/07/2022on trustee list
• HILTON, Robin Antony — director, appointed 05/05/2020on trustee list
• ISRAEL, Paul Martin Winburn — director, appointed 05/05/2020on trustee list
• GROSSMAN, Antony — director, appointed 01/07/2019on trustee list
• MARCUS, Stephanie — director, appointed 29/09/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTONY GROSSMANchair
• Anne Webber
• Dr Alexander Gordon
• Paul Israel
• Robin Hilton
• Stephanie Marcus

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

Operates in: Camden

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 THE LITTMAN LIBRARY OF JEWISH CIVILISATION.

• THE LITTMAN LIBRARY OF JEWISH CIVILISATION income £151k
• FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH HERITAGE income £951k
• SF FOUNDATION income £7.7m
• MENORAH FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• THE JEWISH PHILANTHROPIC ASSOCIATION FOR ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST income £135k
• THE OXFORD SYNAGOGUE AND JEWISH CENTRE LIMITED income £255k

Side by side with its peers

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