**REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 207956**
## **Report of the Trustees and**
**Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
**for**
**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
London Accounting Group Ltd 5 North End Road London NW11 7RJ
**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Contents of the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
|||**Page**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Report of the Trustees**|1|to|2|
|**Independent Examiner's Report**||3||
|**Statement of Financial Activities**||4||
|**Balance Sheet**||5||
|**Cash Flow Statement**||6||
|**Notes to the Cash Flow Statement**||7||
|**Notes to the Financial Statements**|8|to|14|
|**Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**|15|to|16|
**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2024. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
The main object of the Synagogue is to provide services for Orthodox Jews and to provide all its members with the communal facilities required for the purpose of practising and studying their religion.
The main object of the Burial Society is to provide burial facilities for the members of both the Synagogue and of such other congregations and societies who wish to make use of the facilities.
The policy of the Synagogue and Burial Society continues to be to seek membership and burial fees in order to pursue the Charity's objects.
## **Public benefit**
The Trustees confirm their compliance with the duty to have due regard to the Public Benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission when reviewing the Charity's aims and objectives and in planning future activities.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Investment policy and objectives**
The investment policy of the Trustees is to invest reserves in interest bearing bank receipts.
## **Reserves policy**
It is the policy of the charity to maintain unrestricted funds, which are the free reserve of the charity, at a level which the Trustee think appropriate after considering the future commitments of the charity and the likely administrative costs of the charity for the next year.
## **Risk Factors**
The charity has assessed the major risk areas to which the charity is exposed, in particular those to the operations and finances of the charity, and is satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate its exposure to those risks.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust and constitutes an unincorporated charity.
The Charity was founded on 11 August 1889 under the name of the name North London Beth Hamedrash and changed its name to "Adath Yisroel Synagogue incorporating The North London Beth Hamedrash" on 25 December 1913. The Governing document of the charity is the Rules and Regulations embodying its Constitution as passed at General Meetings held on 25 December 1913 and 9 May 1915.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Charity number**
207956
## **Principal address**
40 Queen Elizabeth Walk London N16 0HQ
## **Trustees**
M Bibelman G Lewin D Lobenstein
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Independent Examiner**
Samuel Feigenblatt FCCA London Accounting Group Ltd 5 North End Road London NW11 7RJ Approved by order of the board of trustees on ............................................. and signed on its behalf by:
........................................................................ M Bibelman - Trustee
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**Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society (the Trust) for the year ended 31 December 2024.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of 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 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under Section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
Since your charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a listed body. I can confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by Section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do 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.
Samuel Feigenblatt FCCA
London Accounting Group Ltd 5 North End Road London NW11 7RJ
Date: .............................................
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
|31.12.24
Unrestricted
funds
Notes
£
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**
Donations and legacies
2
123,505
**Charitable activities**
4
Charitable Activities
703,746
Investment income
3
129,363
**Total**
956,614
**EXPENDITURE ON**
**Charitable activities**
5
Charitable Activities
923,217
**NET INCOME**
33,397
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
4,032,899
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
4,066,296|31.12.23
Total funds
£
100,604
905,910
57,038|
|---|---|
||1,063,552|
||973,584|
||89,968
3,942,931|
||4,032,899|
The notes form part of these financial statements
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Balance Sheet 31 December 2024**
|31.12.24
Unrestricted
funds
Notes
£
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible assets
11
1,883,776
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Stocks
12
600
Debtors
13
25,564
Cash at bank and in hand
2,273,835
2,299,999
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due within one year
14
(12,632)
**NET CURRENT ASSETS**
2,287,367
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT**
**LIABILITIES**
4,171,143
**CREDITORS**
Amounts falling due after more than one year
15
(104,847)
**NET ASSETS**
4,066,296
**FUNDS**
16
Unrestricted funds
4,066,296
**TOTAL FUNDS**
4,066,296|31.12.23
Total funds
£
1,936,551
600
27,464
2,124,146
2,152,210
(30,655)
2,121,555
4,058,106
(25,207)
4,032,899
4,032,899
4,032,899|
|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue on ............................................. and were signed on its behalf by:
............................................. M Bibelman - Trustee
The notes form part of these financial statements
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Cash Flow Statement**
## **for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
|Notes
**Cash flows from operating activities**
Cash generated from operations
1
Net cash provided by operating activities
**Cash flows from investing activities**
Purchase of tangible fixed assets
Interest received
Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities
**Change in cash and cash equivalents in**
**the reporting period**
**Cash and cash equivalents at the**
**beginning of the reporting period**
**Cash and cash equivalents at the end of**
**the reporting period**|31.12.24
£
139,033
139,033
-
10,656
10,656
149,689
2,124,146
2,273,835|31.12.23
£
181,128
181,128
(231,979)
6,769
(225,210)
(44,082)
2,168,228
2,124,146|
|---|---|---|
The notes form part of these financial statements
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Notes to the Cash Flow Statement for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **1. RECONCILIATION OF NET INCOME TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES**
|**Net income for the reporting period (as per the Statement of Financial**
**Activities)**
**Adjustments for:**
Depreciation charges
Interest received
Land replacement cost
Decrease in debtors
Increase in creditors
**Net cash provided by operations**|31.12.24
£
33,397
2,775
(10,656)
50,000
1,900
61,617
139,033|31.12.23
£
89,968
3,033
(6,769)
50,000
42,151
2,745|
|---|---|---|
|||181,128|
## **2. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS**
|**Net cash**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Total**|At 1/1/24
£
2,124,146
2,124,146
2,124,146|Cash flow
£
149,689
149,689
149,689|At 31/12/24
£
2,273,835|
|---|---|---|---|
||||2,273,835|
||||2,273,835|
The notes form part of these financial statements
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
**Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Basis of preparing the financial statements**
The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.
## **Income**
All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.
## **Expenditure**
Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.
Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year end date are noted as a commitment but not accrued as expenditure.
## **Tangible fixed assets**
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
Plant and machinery - Straight line over 3 years Fixtures and fittings - 25% on reducing balance
In the opinion of the trustees, it is no longer appropriate to provide depreciation on the Synagogue building and its land.
## **Stocks**
Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow moving items.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.
Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.
## **Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits**
The pension costs charged in the accounts represent the contributions payable by the charity during the year in accordance with FRS17.
continued...
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
**Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued**
## **Government grants**
Grants towards capital expenditure are released to the statement of financial activities over the expected useful life of the relevant assets.
## **2. DONATIONS AND LEGACIES**
|Donations - Other
**3.**
**INVESTMENT INCOME**
Rents received
Deposit account interest
**4.**
**INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES**
Synagogue income
Burial society income
**5.**
**CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS**
Charitable Activities
**6.**
**GRANTS PAYABLE**
Charitable Activities|31.12.24
£
123,505
31.12.24
£
118,707
10,656
129,363
31.12.24
Charitable
Activities
£
35,703
668,043
703,746
Grant
funding of
activities
Support
Direct
(see note
costs (see
Costs
6)
note 7)
£
£
£
675,475
135,908
111,834
31.12.24
£
135,908|31.12.23
£
100,604|
|---|---|---|
|||31.12.23
£
50,269
6,769|
|||57,038|
|||31.12.23
Total
activities
£
27,751
878,159|
|||905,910|
|||Totals
£
923,217|
|||31.12.23
£
129,282|
The total grants paid to institutions during the year was £130,908 (2023: £126,532).
Grants paid to institutions is comprised as follows:
|Beis Chinuch|5,000|
|---|---|
|Chasdei Uvois|10,000|
|Low Cost Living|7,500|
|Matan be Seiser|8,000|
|Yeshivas Mekor|5,000|
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
**Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **6. GRANTS PAYABLE - continued**
|Yeshivas Horomo|11,500|
|---|---|
|The Union Of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations|50,000|
|OTHER DONATIONS LESS THAN £5,000|33,908|
|||
||130,908|
|||
## **7. SUPPORT COSTS**
|**SUPPORT COSTS**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Governance||
||Finance|Other|costs|Totals|
||£|£|£|£|
|Charitable Activities|1,355|52,415|58,064|111,834|
## **8. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS**
There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31 December 2024 nor for the year ended 31 December 2023.
## **Trustees' expenses**
There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 31 December 2024 nor for the year ended 31 December 2023.
## **9. STAFF COSTS**
|Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Other pension costs
The average monthly number of employees during the year was as follows:
Administrative staff|31.12.24
£
258,832
8,459
3,644
270,935
31.12.24
13|31.12.23
£
245,967
14,926
4,336|
|---|---|---|
|||265,229|
|||31.12.23
13|
No employees received emoluments in excess of £60,000.
continued...
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
**Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **10. COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM**
Donations and legacies
**Charitable activities**
Charitable Activities
Investment income
**Total**
**EXPENDITURE ON**
**Charitable activities**
Charitable Activities
**NET INCOME**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**11.**
**TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS**
**COST**
At 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024
**DEPRECIATION**
At 1 January 2024
Charge for year
Land replacement cost
At 31 December 2024
**NET BOOK VALUE**
At 31 December 2024
At 31 December 2023|Freehold
property
£
3,053,346
1,123,894
-
50,000
1,173,894
1,879,452
1,929,452|Plant and
machinery
£
6,000
2,000
2,000
-
4,000
2,000
4,000|Fixtures
and
fittings
£
413,001
409,902
775
-
410,677
2,324
3,099|Unrestricted
funds
£
100,604
905,910
57,038
1,063,552
973,584
89,968
3,942,931
4,032,899
Totals
£
3,472,347
1,535,796
2,775
50,000
1,588,571
1,883,776
1,936,551|Unrestricted
funds
£
100,604
905,910
57,038
1,063,552
973,584
89,968
3,942,931
4,032,899
Totals
£
3,472,347
1,535,796
2,775
50,000
1,588,571
1,883,776
1,936,551|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||1,063,552|
||||||973,584|
||||||89,968
3,942,931|
||||||4,032,899|
||||||Totals
£
3,472,347
1,535,796
2,775
50,000
1,588,571
1,883,776
1,936,551|
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
|**12.**
**STOCKS**
31.12.24
£
Stocks
600
**13.**
**DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
31.12.24
£
Other debtors
614
Staff loan
10,800
Other loan debtors
14,150
25,564
**14.**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR**
31.12.24
£
Trade creditors
2,540
Taxation and social security
492
Other creditors
9,600
12,632
**15.**
**CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE YEAR**
31.12.24
£
Other creditors
104,847
**16.**
**MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
Net
movement
At 1/1/24
in funds
£
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
4,032,899
33,397
**TOTAL FUNDS**
4,032,899
33,397
Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Incoming
Resources
resources
expended
£
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
956,614
(923,217)
**TOTAL FUNDS**
956,614
(923,217)|31.12.23
£
600
31.12.23
£
814
10,800
15,850
27,464
31.12.23
£
20,843
5,012
4,800
30,655
31.12.23
£
25,207
At
31/12/24
£
4,066,296|31.12.23
£
600
31.12.23
£
814
10,800
15,850
27,464
31.12.23
£
20,843
5,012
4,800
30,655
31.12.23
£
25,207|
|---|---|---|
||4,066,296||
||Movement
in funds
£
33,397
33,397||
|||33,397|
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
**Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **16. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued**
**Comparatives for movement in funds**
|At 1/1/23
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
3,942,931
**TOTAL FUNDS**
3,942,931
Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
Incoming
resources
£
**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
1,063,552
**TOTAL FUNDS**
1,063,552|Net
movement
in funds
£
89,968
89,968
Resources
expended
£
(973,584)
(973,584)|At
31/12/23
£
4,032,899|
|---|---|---|
|||4,032,899|
|||Movement
in funds
£
89,968|
|||89,968|
A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined position is as follows:
|**Unrestricted funds**
General fund
**TOTAL FUNDS**|At 1/1/23
£
3,942,931
3,942,931|Net
movement
in funds
£
123,365
123,365|At
31/12/24
£
4,066,296|
|---|---|---|---|
||||4,066,296|
A current year 12 months and prior year 12 months combined net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:
||Incoming|Resources|Movement|
|---|---|---|---|
||resources|expended|in funds|
||£|£|£|
|**Unrestricted funds**||||
|General fund|2,020,166|(1,896,801 )|123,365|
|**TOTAL FUNDS**|2,020,166|(1,896,801 )|123,365|
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
**Notes to the Financial Statements - continued for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
## **17. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES**
Under an agreement with Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (UOHC) dated 10 August 1992, the charity has a potential liability to make a grant to the UOHC, equal to 49% of the surplus of income over expenditure. Provision for this liability is subject to actuarial approval.
## **18. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES**
M Bibelman is also a Trustee of The Union Of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations.
During the year donations paid to The Union Of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations amounted to £50,000 (2023: £42,800).
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Detailed Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations - Other
**Investment income**
Rents received
Deposit account interest
**Charitable activities**
Synagogue income
Burial society income
**Total incoming resources**
**EXPENDITURE**
**Charitable activities**
Wages
Social security
Pensions
Synagogue, Marriage & Mikvah expenses
Funeral expenses
Chevrah Kadisha Seuda & expens
Burial ground and other expenses
Grants to institutions
Grants to individuals
**Support costs**
**Finance**
Bank charges
**Other**
Land replacement cost
Release of Grant
Plant and machinery
Fixtures and fittings
**Governance costs**
Office and admin costs
Carried forward|31.12.24
£
123,505
118,707
10,656
129,363
35,703
668,043
703,746
956,614
258,832
8,459
3,644
260,154
89,685
3,578
51,123
130,908
5,000
811,383
1,355
50,000
(360)
2,000
775
52,415
36,013
36,013|31.12.23
£
100,604
50,269
6,769
57,038
27,751
878,159
905,910
1,063,552
245,967
14,926
4,336
276,289
102,883
1,300
71,080
126,532
2,750
846,063
1,762
50,000
(360)
2,000
1,033
52,673
35,788
35,788|
|---|---|---|
This page does not form part of the statutory financial statements
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**Adath Yisroel Synagogue & Burial Society**
## **Detailed Statement of Financial Activities for the Year Ended 31 December 2024**
|**Governance costs**
Brought forward
Legal and professional
Sundries
Accountancy fees
Total resources expended
**Net income**|31.12.24
£
36,013
600
16,651
4,800
58,064
923,217
33,397|31.12.23
£
35,788
17,109
15,389
4,800|
|---|---|---|
|||73,086|
|||973,584|
|||89,968|
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