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Jewish Joint Burial Society

The charity’s objects ("Objects") are specifically restricted to the following:Providing burial, cremation and funeral facilities and services and other associated facilities and services for Synagogues in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.6m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.jjbs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Jewish Joint Burial Society
Registered
1968

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.6m£2.3m
  • 2024£2.2m£2.2m
  • 2023£923k£2.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£966k
  • 2021£3.3m£2.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

The charity’s objects ("Objects") are specifically restricted to the following:Providing burial, cremation and funeral facilities and services and other associated facilities and services for Synagogues in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and for the people belonging to such Synagogues and their dependents and for such other charitable purposes which accord with the principles of Judaism as the directors may from time to time determine.

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.

12 trustees on the board

5.5y median 5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 12

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 16Education 3Arts and leisure 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

9.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 32.4 in 2021

13 from 8 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
257345
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27TH AUGUST 1968, AMENDED 1 JUNE 2005 as amended on 21 Apr 2021 as amended on 03 Jul 2024 as amended on 03 Jul 2024
Companies House
Company number 00937882 · Active
Contact on the register
02089895252 · admin@jewishfunerals.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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