FRIENDS OF GAON YAAKOV

Registered charity 326592 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF GOAN YAAKON, FRIENDS OF GOAN YAAKOV

TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO SUPPORT GAON YAACOV

Objects

(I) THE TRUSTEES SHALL STAND POSSESSED OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE WHOLE OF THE INCOME AND THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND TO OR TOWARDS OR IN FURTHERANCE OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITIES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD IN SUCH SHARES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE. (II) PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING TRUST AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY THEREOF THE TRUSTEES MAY IN PARTICULAR APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OR PARTS OT THE TRUST FUND AND THE INCOME THEREOF FOR THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE COLLEGE IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: ANY PART OF THE WORLD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · 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 the charity received £83,821 in donations during the year, which the trustees reported greatly exceeded expectations. The charity relies heavily on outside donations to cover its running costs as a teachers' training college. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention, indicating the accounts were properly prepared.

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 3 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chaskel RAND
• SCHLOIME RAND · trustee of 6 other charities
• YECHIEL CHERSKY · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Hackney · Israel

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.

• SCHLOIME RAND — trustee here and at BOURNEHEIGHTS LIMITED
• YECHIEL CHERSKY — trustee here and at BOURNEHEIGHTS LIMITED

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UK FRIENDS OF MACHON YAAKOV.

• UK FRIENDS OF MACHON YAAKOV income £40k
• FRIENDS OF OHEL YIZCHAK UMIRIAM income £34k
• KOLLEL GAON YAAKOV income £773k
• FRIENDS OF CANNON LANE PRIMARY SCHOOL income £28k
• FRIENDS OF FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF UKRAINE income £56k
• FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAH OHR income £311k

Side by side with its peers

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