INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES

Registered charity 313338 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GATESHEAD KOLEL, THE GATESHEAD KOLEL, THE INSTITUTE OF HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES GATESHEAD KOLEL

The development and training of future rabbis

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves amounted to £68,135 at year-end, with total unrestricted funds of £632,165. The trustees confirmed that available funds are sufficient to permit the trust to continue in operation and maintain its current level of charitable expenditure.

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £65k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• HAROLD EMANUEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Isaiah Kaufman
• Joseph Oppenheimer · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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.

• HAROLD EMANUEL — trustee here and at INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES
• Isaiah Kaufman — trustee here and at INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES
• Joseph Oppenheimer — trustee here and at INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COLLEGE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES.

• COLLEGE FOR HIGHER RABBINICAL STUDIES income £3.6m
• JEWISH TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE income £3.8m
• ACADEMY FOR TALMUDICAL RESEARCH (KOLEL HARABANIM) income £593k
• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• FRIENDS OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KOL TORA JERUSALEM income £148k
• RABBINICAL RESEARCH COLLEGE income £263k

Side by side with its peers

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