Common questions about Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Leeds Jewish Welfare Board a good charity? +
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board scores 90 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 96% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Leeds Jewish Welfare Board a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Leeds Jewish Welfare Board as a registered charity (charity number 1041257). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1041257&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's charity number? +
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's charity number is 1041257. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's charity rating? +
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board scores 90 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Leeds Jewish Welfare Board have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Leeds Jewish Welfare Board. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Leeds Jewish Welfare Board? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 96% of Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's total spending went to charitable activities (2-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 4% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 5% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Leeds Jewish Welfare Board. Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Leeds Jewish Welfare Board receive? +
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board reported £3.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Leeds Jewish Welfare Board based? +
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's registered contact address is in Leeds (LS17 6AZ). It tells the regulator it operates in Leeds City, North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's money come from? +
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board reported £3.7m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £2.6m (70%), donations and legacies £885k (24%), investments £117k (3%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £142k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Leeds Jewish Welfare Board? +
The register records Leeds Jewish Welfare Board as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's trustees paid? +
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Leeds Jewish Welfare Board registered as a charity? +
Leeds Jewish Welfare Board was entered on the register on 4 October 1994. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02923217).
How does CharityCompare score Leeds Jewish Welfare Board? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Leeds Jewish Welfare Board's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.