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.

Objects

TO PROMOTE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF AN UNDERSTANDING CONCERNING THE CULTURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHERESOEVER SITUATE.

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.

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bexley, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 JEWISH BOOK TRUST UK.

• THE JEWISH BOOK TRUST UK income £66k
• JEWISH LITERARY TRUST LIMITED income £69k
• FEDERATION OF JEWISH RELIEF ORGANISATIONS income £498k
• FFH EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £93k
• JEWISH LEGACY GIVING income £47k
• TIFERETH BENEVOLENT FUND LIMITED income £434k

Side by side with its peers

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