UNITED HEBREW CONGREGATION LEEDS

Registered charity 515316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Religious and Educational Services

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN LEEDS.

Area of benefit: LEEDS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £25,769 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total funds carried forward reaching £2,648,273. The trustees and auditors confirm that resources are adequate to fulfill obligations for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis of accounting.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ford Campbell Freedman Limited. 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). 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 ~41.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward Ziff
• Judge Jonathan Rose
• Louise Williams
• Paul Berwin
• Philip Simon Myers
• Robert Hamilton Dewar · trustee of 1 other charity

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 SINAI SYNAGOGUE, LEEDS.

• SINAI SYNAGOGUE, LEEDS income £263k
• NEW CENTRAL VILNA SYNAGOGUES income £566k
• BETH HAMIDRASH HAGADOL SYNAGOGUE LEEDS income £562k
• LEEDS MUSLIM COUNCIL income £176k
• HALE AND DISTRICT HEBREW CONGREGATION LTD income £963k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF LECHLADE income £467k

Side by side with its peers

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