Registered charity (CIO) · Middx
Yiddish Cafe Trust
- 10 trustees
- Income £24k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Professor Stephen OginChair · since 2021
- Barry BurlandTrustee · since 2024
- Dr Sima BeeriTrustee · since 2021
- Michael HeiserTrustee · since 2021
- Myra WoolfsonTrustee · since 2021
- Pamela SingerTrustee · since 2021
- Philip TomlinsonTrustee · since 2021
- Rabbi Dr. Barbara BortsTrustee · since 2021
- Tamara Gleason FreidbergTrustee · since 2021
- Vivienne LachsTrustee · since 2021
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- yiddishcafe.com (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2022
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£24k£22k
- 2024£23k£37k
- 2023£21k£7k
Income trend, 2023 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND ITS ASSOCIATED HISTORY, CULTURE AND TRADITION IN THE FIELDS OF LITERATURE, POETRY, THEATRE, ART AND MUSIC, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR YIDDISH SPEAKERS OF ALL ABILITIES AND THOSE WHO WISH TO LEARN YIDDISH TO PRACTICE AND HONE THEIR SKILLS, TO CREATIVELY ENGAGE WITH THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND TO SPEAK, LISTEN AND PERFORM PUBLICLY IN THAT LANGUAGE.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
10 trustees on the board
- Professor Stephen Ogin Chair since 2021
- Barry Burland since 2024
- Dr Sima Beeri since 2021
- Michael Heiser since 2021
- Myra Woolfson since 2021
- Pamela Singer since 2021
- Philip Tomlinson since 2021
- Rabbi Dr. Barbara Borts since 2021
- Tamara Gleason Freidberg since 2021
- Vivienne Lachs since 2021
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Professor Stephen Ogin Chair since 2021
- Barry Burland since 2024
- Dr Sima Beeri since 2021
- Michael Heiser since 2021
- Myra Woolfson since 2021
- Pamela Singer since 2021
- Philip Tomlinson since 2021
- Tamara Gleason Freidberg since 2021
- Vivienne Lachs since 2021
Portfolio (1)
- Rabbi Dr. Barbara Borts since 2021
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1200053
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 15 Aug 2022
- Contact on the register
- 02085715544 · trust@yiddishcafe.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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