BETH SHALOM LIMITED

Registered charity 509022 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY OF THE TRUE VINE LIMITED, THE HOLOCAUST CENTRE, The National Holocaust Centre & Museum

The charity runs an education centre (the National Holocaust Centre & Museum) providing an opportunity for schoolchildren, professionals, groups working in local communities and the public to examine, learn and apply the lessons for humanity from the events of the Holocaust and contemporary acts of injustice. The gardens provide a place for reflection and memorial for survivors and relatives.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE RELIGION, PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OPENNESS, TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION BETWEEN RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC GROUPS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.(2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF HUMANITARIANISM THROUGH INCREASING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING LESSONS OF THE HOLOCAUST, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A MUSEUM/COLLECTION DEDICATED TO THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE HOLOCAUST

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported an overall deficit of £408,572 for the year ended 31 March 2025, contrasting with a surplus in the prior year. Total reserves stood at £3,934,125, with general unrestricted funds of £2,715,881, which the trustees noted represented approximately 3.5 months of expenditure against a policy target of up to 6 months. The accounts state that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 01388313 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

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

• The National Lottery Heritage Fund — “The Journey exhibition is now reopen after a major upgrade with thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Claims Conference, the Pears F…” (source page)
• Claims Conference — “The Journey exhibition is now reopen after a major upgrade with thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Claims Conference, the Pears F…” (source page)
• the Pears Foundation — “The Journey exhibition is now reopen after a major upgrade with thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Claims Conference, the Pears F…” (source page)
• Arts Council England — “The Journey exhibition is now reopen after a major upgrade with thanks to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Claims Conference, the Pears F…” (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.

• JACOBS, Louise Sara — director, appointed 17/02/2026on trustee list
• LEVENE, Andrew Simon — director, appointed 16/12/2025on trustee list
• BIBRING, Michael Albert — director, appointed 16/12/2025on trustee list
• DAWSON MBE, Adam David — director, appointed 20/10/2025not on trustee list
• WEBBER, Gillian Margaret — director, appointed 24/06/2025on trustee list
• ENGLER, Lydia Jane — director, appointed 26/11/2024on trustee list
• MCLAREN, Justin Benedict — director, appointed 05/12/2023on trustee list
• WELLER, Laura — director, appointed 04/05/2020on trustee list
• MILLS, Janet Margaret — secretary, appointed 16/09/2015

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 9.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam David Dawsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Simon Levene
• Dr JAMES MICHAEL SMITH CBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Martin Adam Stern
• Gemma Lyons · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Margaret Webber · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Christine Wilkinson
• Justin Benedict McLaren
• LYDIA JANE ENGLER
• Laura Weller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Sara Jacobs
• Michael Albert Bibring

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TORAH AND CHESED (BH) LIMITED.

• TORAH AND CHESED (BH) LIMITED income £224k
• BETH ZILKA income £304k
• AHAVAT SHALOM CHARITY FUND income £2.3m
• THE BETH HA-TALMUD SCHOLARSHIP FUND income £164k
• BETH SHALOM REFORM SYNAGOGUE income £226k
• HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £4.9m

Side by side with its peers

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