NEW CENTRAL VILNA SYNAGOGUES

Registered charity 513851 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Congregation continues to provide and maintain a synagogue for the benefit of persons professing to worship in the Jewish religion. The Charity operates a burial society and maintains a Jewish burial ground in Leeds.

Objects

THE SYNAGOGUE IS A CONGREGATION PROFESSING THE JEWISH RELIGION FORMED WITH THE OBJECT OF PROVIDING A SYNAGOGUE OR SYNAGOGUES FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING RELIGION AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £898 for the year ended 5 April 2025, compared to a deficit of £74,990 in the prior year. Total funds decreased slightly from £2,035,042 to £2,034,145, with unrestricted funds standing at £1,919,657. The trustees confirmed that forecasts were prepared to ensure sufficient resources to meet the charity's needs effectively.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (86% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sara Saunderschair
• Hilton Anthony Lorie · trustee of 1 other charity
• Howard Lethbridge
• PAUL GROSS
• Richard Winetrobe

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WEST LONDON SYNAGOGUE OF BRITISH JEWS.

• THE WEST LONDON SYNAGOGUE OF BRITISH JEWS income £4.1m
• UNITED HEBREW CONGREGATION LEEDS income £714k
• UNITED SYNAGOGUE income £47.2m
• GOLDERS GREEN BETH HAMEDRASH CONGREGATION income £958k
• MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT COUNCIL OF SYNAGOGUES income £218k
• SINAI SYNAGOGUE, LEEDS income £263k

Side by side with its peers

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