Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

WELL OF TORAH 

The advancement of the Orthodox Jewish FaithThe advancement of Orthodox Jewish Religious EducationThe releif of poverty, sickness and infirmity amongst members of the Jewish faith
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£308£286£22n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/22£147£149£-3n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£151£152£0n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£138£125£13n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/19£70£62£8n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/18*£61£64£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£40£37£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£44£45£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£38£41£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£25£24£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£58£57£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£63£63£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£33£32£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£43£47£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£50£45£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£75£74£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 17 years

welloftorah@gmail.com

01914773911

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Jewish religious associations
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 6 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£10,000 02/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/03/2007, number: 1118381
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR23: 41 days late, AR18: 1 days late, AR10: 44 days late, AR08: 250 days late,
Main office

18 HARTINGTON STREET
GATESHEAD
NE8 4EN

Objectives

(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION(III) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH AND(IV) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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