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Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade

4. OBJECTSThe charitable objects of the Charity are:(a) For the public benefit to promote citizenship and community development amongst children and young Jewish people up to the age of 25 by:(i) providing support and activities both in the UK and...

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £2.1m (2025)

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

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.jlgb.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Jewish Lads' & Girls' Brigade
Registered
1983

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.1m£1.8m
  • 2024£2.0m£1.8m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2021£1.0m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 23%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

4. OBJECTSThe charitable objects of the Charity are:(a) For the public benefit to promote citizenship and community development amongst children and young Jewish people up to the age of 25 by:(i) providing support and activities both in the UK and internationally which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals; and(ii) facilitating opportunities to encourage them to volunteer to support multi-generational members of the Jewish community, other faith groups and wider society by connecting with existing charities and other voluntary networks to provide assistance both in the UK and internationally when and where required.(b) For the public benefit to promote the education of Jewish people up to the age of 25 years throughout the United Kingdom by developing their mental, physical and moral capabilities through such educational activities and in such ways as the Trustees think fit, including by:(i) awarding to such young persons scholarships, maintenance allowances or grants in order that financial hardship will not prevent their inclusion in such educational activities;(ii) working with and supporting the carers and/or families of those Jewish young people with physical or mental impairment or incapacity to enable those young people to take part so far as reasonably possible in such activities of the Charity as may be appropriate or beneficial for them;(iii) ensuring that so far as reasonably possible all such activities are provided in such a way that those young persons and families practising their Jewish faith at any level of observance are not thereby prevented from taking part; (iv) providing courses, clubs, leisure time activities and residential opportunities (including preparation for the Duke of Edinburgh award and other awards) for the development of skills and to encourage employability and to prepare for entry to any occupation, trade or profession or entry to a University or other higher education establishment on leaving an educational establishment.(c) The promotion of racial and religious harmony for the public benefit by:(i) promoting mutual understanding and harmony between young Jewish people and other faith and ethnic minority groups; and(ii) advancing education and raising awareness amongst young Jewish people about different faith and ethnic minority groups to promote good relations between persons of different faith and ethnic minority groups.

Grants received

18 grants · £2,748,451 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £960,516 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £906,050 (2 grants)
  • Pears Foundation · £475,000 (9 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £166,989
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £164,896 (3 grants)

Most recent

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.

7 trustees on the board

4.8y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 7

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

Education 6Professional services 2Business services 1

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£2.1m 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.

4.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.6 in 2021

19 from 25 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
286950
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15TH MARCH 1983 as amended on 04 Jun 2024
Companies House
Company number 01713997 · Active
Contact on the register
02089898990 · hello@jlgb.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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