## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1 April 2023 31 March 2024 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** RAMBAM SEPHARDI **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1157540 **Charity's principal address** 20 Highwood Grove London **Postcode NW7 3LY** ~~——~~ **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) for whole year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Derek Sheena Trustee. 2 Joseph Arazi Trustee. 3 Nathan Hasson Trustee ~~———~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year** none ~~———~~ **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Rabbi Eliyahu Hye ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Volunteers agreed by the board Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ~~a~~ March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **----- Start of picture text -----**
To advance the religion and related culture of Sephardi Jews in the
London and Hertfordshire area, for the benefit of the local and
Summary of the objects of the
surrounding Jewish communities, through prayer, celebration of religious
charity set out in its
festivals and meetings/events and the support of our community during
governing document times of need.
As is customary, we continued our Friday night, Saturday morning and
Festival services and Kiddushim at Yavneh College throughout the year.
Following a well researched and executed recruitment process, we
appointed Rabbi Raviv Rahmani as our Community rabbi in August 2023.
This rejuvenated our community as the rabbi initiated a weekly study
group for adults, developed and ran a program for young teens as well as
supported the weekly children’s services.
Summary of the main The Community Enrichment and Events committees ran interesting
activities undertaken for the
programs
public benefit in relation to  Ladies Painting evening
these objects (include within  talk by an internationally acclaimed speaker on Autism
this section the statutory  talks by varied speakers on wellbeing issues
declaration that trustees have
had regard to the guidance
Additionally we continued with our traditional events
issued by the Charity  Hanukkah candle lighting and family activity
Commission on public
 Tu b’Shvat fruit extravaganza
benefit)
 Purim feast and play
 Lag l’Omer bbq, bonfire, archery and activities
 Camp Rambam- 10 day summer camp
 Simhat Torah community lunch
 Eishet Hayil community kiddush
Our Welfare committee headed by Rabbi Rahmani gave pastoral support
for lifestyle events as well as raised funds throughout the year. These
were distributed mainly pre festivals and as determined by need.
Section D Achievements and performance
Recruitment of our community Rabbi and continued to hold all our
Summary of the main
services and events and develop our helpful and caring community.
achievements of the charity
during the year
Section E Financial review
As at 31/3/2024 we held £54,198 in reserves which will be used to pay
Brief statement of the for accommodation, salaries and other running costs as necessary in the
charity’s policy on reserves future as donations and other income fluctuates during the year.
Details of any funds materially
None
in deficit
Section F Other optional information
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March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** _**Derek Sheena (by email)**_ **Full name(s)** Derek Sheena **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 20th January 2025 March **2012** **TAR** 3 ||**RAMBAM SEPHARDI**|**RAMBAM SEPHARDI**|**RAMBAM SEPHARDI**|**RAMBAM SEPHARDI**|||||**1157540**|**1157540**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||||||||**CC16a**||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Period end date
01/04/2023
31/03/2024
**For the period**
**from**
Period start date
**To**
ee|||||||||||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|| |Membership Income|**14,605**|||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**14,605**|**14,605**||**13,265**|**13,265**|| |Donations|**5,131**|||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**5,131**|**5,131**||**8,126**|**8,126**|| |Events Income|**13,698**|||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**13,698**|**13,698**||**12,119**|**12,119**|| |Kiddush Income|**4,965**|||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**4,965**|**4,965**||**4,491**|**4,491**|| |Grants|**17,403**|||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**17,403**|**17,403**||**6,835**|**6,835**|| |Bank Interest|**539**|||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**539**|**539**||**26**|**26**|| |Rabbi Fund||||**4,986**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**4,986**|**4,986**||**100**|**100**|| |||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**56,341**|||**4,986**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**61,326**|**61,326**||**44,961**|**44,961**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**56,341**
**4,986**
**-**
**61,326**
**44,961**
**A3 Payments**
————~~——~~|||||||||||||||| |Advertising|**-**|||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|| |Event costs|**13,473**|||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**13,473**|**13,473**||**11,071**|**11,071**|| |Hire of premises|**17,539**|||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**17,539**|**17,539**||**16,349**|**16,349**|| |Kiddush costs|**6,089**|||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**6,089**|**6,089**||**3,791**|**3,791**|| |Other Premises, Expenses & Security|**1,615**|||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,615**|**1,615**||**4,608**|**4,608**|| |Salaries|**10,158**|||**4,986**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**15,144**|**15,144**||**12,820**|**12,820**|| |Hazan|**-**|||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**2,100**|**2,100**|| |Beth Din|**500**|||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**500**|**500**||**2,000**|**2,000**|| |Donations Paid Out|**3,165**|||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**3,165**|**3,165**||**1,345**|**1,345**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**52,540**|||**4,986**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**57,526**|**57,526**||**54,083**|**54,083**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**52,540**
**4,986**
**-**
**57,526**
**54,083**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**3,801**
**-**
**-**
**3,801**
**- 9,122**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**50,398**
**- -**
**50,398**
**59,520**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**54,199**
**-**
**- 54,199**
**50,398**
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===>>|||||||||||||||| Rambam Sephardi Accounts FINAL 1 28 December 2023 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|Signature
_by email_
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
HSBC General
HSBC Savings
Paypal
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,826**
**41,174**
**-**
**5,198**
**-**
**54,199**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Derek Sheena|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
28/12/2023| Rambam Sephardi Accounts FINAL 2 28 December 2023 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name RAMBAM SEPHARDI **members of On accounts for the year** 31 March 2024 **Charity no** 1157540 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 and 2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 March 2024** **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect,: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Signed:** _**Lynn Tarragano (by email)**_ **Date:** 19 Jan 2025 ~~PO |~~ **Name:** Lynn Tarragano ~~Ps~~ **Relevant professional** Association of Chartered Certified Accountants **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Devonshire House Manor Way, Borehamwood Herts. WD6 1QQ 1 **October 2018** **IER** **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **October 2018** **IER**