MESIFTA TALMUDICAL COLLEGE

Registered charity 312905 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's objectives are as set out in its' governing document, namely the charity was established for the purpose of promoting advanced Jewish religious education and learning, and in particular to:(a) to give instruction in the students in Jewish classical religious literature with special emphasis on the Talmud,

Objects

THE PURPOSE OF THE COLLEGE IS TO:A. ADVANCE THE JEWISH RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CODE OF JEWISH LAW BY PROVIDING RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION AND SUPERVISION AND BY PROMOTING THE STUDY OF RELIGIOUS TEACHING, PRACTICES AND SCRIPTURES; ANDB. TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY OF STUDENTS ATTENDING THE COLLEGE BY PROVIDING GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES, ITEMS OR SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED.

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: Education/training · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £1,608,313 while total expenditure decreased to £1,188,627, resulting in a net increase in funds. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £6,790,700, although its free reserves of £97,842 are below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £300,000. The trustees report that the charity is well placed to continue delivering its charitable objectives despite a post-year-end property fire.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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

• Trading subsidiary: BURNDATA LIMITED Companies House 03371453

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £200k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hersch Oestreicher
• Jacob Mosche Fekete
• Moishe Stern
• RABBI SAMUEL WEINSTOCK · trustee of 2 other charities
• Solomon Hochberg

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• RABBI SAMUEL WEINSTOCK — trustee here and at YETEV LEV LONDON JERUSALEM TRUST

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HIGHER TALMUDICAL EDUCATION LIMITED.

• HIGHER TALMUDICAL EDUCATION LIMITED income £420k
• THE TALMUD CENTRE TRUST income £145k
• GATESHEAD TALMUDICAL COLLEGE income £3.8m
• UNITED TALMUDICAL ASSOCIATES LTD income £18.7m
• THE TALMUD TORAH MACHZIKEI HADASS TRUST income £768k
• HADERECH income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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