Cambridge Jewish Residents Association (CJRA CIO) Charity Number 1187648
CJRA Trustees’ Annual Report 29 Jan 2020- 31 May 2021
Reference and administrative Information
Charity Name: Cambridge Jewish Residents Association CIO Charity Registration Number 1187648
Address of Organisation - there is no official building or office.
Both Trustees work from their home addresses
Trustees
1. Mr Barry Gold Treasurer 2. Lady Fersht (Marilyn) Chairman
Structure, governance and management
The CJRA CIO came into existence on 29 January 2020 with a constitution, a new charity number 1187648 and new bank accounts, after many years of being an unincorporated charity. It is managed by an elected committee of 12 members of the organisation including the two trustees.
In order to allow our members time to adjust to the new constitution and banking details we continued to run the old unincorporated charity alongside the new CIO charity, with a view to transferring its assets to the new CIO charity and close the old unincorporated charity down at the end of its financial year. However, due to Covid-19 restrictions we were unable to do this and the new CIO charity was non-operational and no money was raised or donated through its bank accounts, as shown in our annual accounts.
We have held 7 committee meetings and one AGM during the period of this report. 6 of them and the AGM were held on Zoom. We shall recruit more trustees from among the elected committee later in 2021. All are volunteers. We also have many other volunteers who help run our different groups, in particular, a cross community welfare support group, which has been very active during the pandemic.
Objectives and Activities
Our purpose is the advancement of the Jewish faith through the provision of religious services and burial, education to advance
Jewish culture, history and knowledge and to provide welfare for those in need. We are always open to those outside the Jewish faith, who would like to advance their knowledge of our religion, history, customs and culture. Entry to most of our talks and events is free. During the pandemic we were able to keep in touch with our members and other interested persons through zoom and some of our online talks saw a substantial increase of attendees. We were unable to hold our usual Chanukah Party in person in December 2020 but instead held it online by lighting the candles and eating traditional food from the comfort of our own homes. We held an Israel Independence celebration in May 2021 by inviting an Israeli tour guide to give us a special history tour and talk on Zoom directly from Israel. This attracted a large audience.
Our Evening talks programme: Two were held in person in January and March 2020 but others had to be cancelled because of the pandemic. They started again on Zoom in October 2020 and 6 were held between October 2020 and May 2021 and are continuing this way for the time being. Our monthly social and cultural Monday afternoon programme, which was popular with our older members when held in person, had two actual meetings in February and March 2020 and then from June 2020 meetings were held on Zoom. They are now attracting people of all ages often with 30 devices and above.
An email circular is sent out regularly to inform and remind our members and others of forthcoming activities and events.
Our Burial Society arranged 3 funerals and one stone setting. Ever changing Covid rules made burial and stone setting arrangements more difficult for our Burial Society team of volunteers to arrange.
GOV.UK Ch arity Commission Charity Commission Annual Return 2021 CAMBRIDGE JEWISH RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION Charity registr81ion numbar: 1187648 Most of the Informatlon you glve In thls fomi will become pub15cly available on the Register of Charltles. Any fleld that the Charlty Commlsslon will not dlsplay will be clearly marked. Thls document Is a record of the inforniation provlded in the Annual Return 2021. Financial period Flnancial porlod Start date 2910112020 Flnanclal parfod end dats 3110512021 Income and spending Income £ £0 Spending £ £0 Fundraising professional fundraiser
Did your charity raise funds from the public? Grantmaking Was grant maklng tha maln way your charlty carrlad out Its pu1>$8$7 No Government contracts Durlng the flnanclal porlod for thls annual return, d, Id th• charlty recelve Income from contracts (other than granl agreemènts) wlth central government or local authorltles? Government grants Durlng the flnanclal perfod for th18 annual retum. dld the ¢harlty recolve Income from grants from central government or local authorftles? Income from outside the UK Dld your charlty reeelve Income from outslde tho UK 7 No Spending outside England & Wales Did your charlty operate outslde England and Wales? No
Trading subsidiaries Did the charlty havo any subsldiarios? No Trustee payments Dld any of tho trustees receive any remuneratlon. paynMnts or benoflts from the charfty other than rofunds oflogltlmate tr118tee •xpenses7 No Dkl any of the trustees reslgn and thon take up employmont wlth the charlty? No Employees, salaries Dld any of your charlty's staff recelve total employee bon of £60,000 or more? Selact No If your charlty doos not have any S&. or doo8 not pay any staff. No For your hlghe8t pald mombor of staff only, what was the total valuo of their employee bèneflts? (For examplo If your hlghest pald member of staff To1Ved £35,000 entor 35000). If you do not have any staff or dld not pay any staff, enter O (zero} £0 Volunteers How many UK volunteers, exduding trustees, dld the charlty have during the flnancial perlod? 12 Financial controls
Did your charity review its intemal financial controls? Yes Safeguarding Has tha charlty obtalnod a standard. 8nhanc8d or enhanced wlth barred Il$ts DBS check on all trustees. omployo0s and voluntsers who are in roles that are eligible for these checks? Seloct Yes ff there are no trustoes, omployees or voluntsers In roles that are eliglble for those types of DBS checks. Yes Privacy statement Any Infomiatlon you glve UB wlll be held securely and proc888ed only In accordance wlth the rule on data protectlon. We wlll not dlsclose your personal detalls to anyone unconnected to the Charlty Commlsslon unless: you have consented to thelr release; or we are legally obliged to disclose them; or we r8gard disclosure as etthor (a) necessary so that we can proporfy carry out our statutory functlons or {b) nocessary In Ihe publlc IntsreBt. Wo may share and dlsclose Inforniatlon about you wlth relevanl publlc authoritles, regulatory bodles and agencies, outslde the Charlty Commlsslon but only If: we can lawfully do so; and we decide that disclosuro is necessary for national security, crime detection, prevention, and law enforcemen( or other issues in the public inlerest Information we collect about you We wlll use this information: To enable us to carry out our statutory functions and duties: This will include the following actions: (a) update, consolidate, and improve tho accuracy of our r•cords: (b) undertake crime detection and prev•ntion and law enforcement and assist the third parties specified above to Investlgate or prevent crime and carry out law enforcement; (c) data analysis. testing, research, statistical and survey purposes
Infomiation we recelv8 from other sources. Informatlon we receive from other sources We may comblne thbs inforniatlon with infomiatlon you glve to us and Information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined inforniation for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of inforniation we receivo). We wlll ensure that any such dlsclosure and use is proportionate; considers your right to respect for your private Ille; and is done falrly and lawfully in accordance with the data protection prlnclples of the Data Proteclion ACL The Dats Protectlon Act 1998 regulates the use of 'porsonal dats., whlch Is essentially any Informatlon. however stored, about Identlfiable living Sndlvlduals. As a 'dats controllerf under the Ac( the Charfty Commlsslon must comply wlth It. Any changes we may make to our prlvacy statement In the future will be Bet out in the replacement v•rslon of thls fomi. Pleasg check back frequently to so• any updates or chang•s to our prlvacy policy. Declaration Your rolo at the charlty (solect one): Trustee Glven nan# Barry Famlty name Gold Telophone number 07803821924 Emall goldmail@btopenworfd.com Date submittod 2411112021 It is a crlmlnal offonce under sectlon 60 of the Charltles Act 2011 for anyone to knowlngly or rocklSlY provlde false or misleadlng Infornialion to the commisslon; this includes suppressing. conceallng ¢x dgstroying documents.