Common questions about Manchester Jewish Community Care's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Manchester Jewish Community Care a good charity? +
Manchester Jewish Community Care scores 89 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 89% of its spending goes to charitable activities (latest year) and its accounts are late. 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 Manchester Jewish Community Care a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Manchester Jewish Community Care as a registered charity (charity number 257238). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=257238&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 Manchester Jewish Community Care's charity number? +
Manchester Jewish Community Care's charity number is 257238. 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 Manchester Jewish Community Care's charity rating? +
Manchester Jewish Community Care scores 89 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). 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 Manchester Jewish Community Care have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Manchester Jewish Community Care. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Manchester Jewish Community Care? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 89% of Manchester Jewish Community Care's total spending went to charitable activities. 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 Manchester Jewish Community Care's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 11% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 16% of expenditure (2024); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Manchester Jewish Community Care. Manchester Jewish Community Care's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports no employees paid more than £60,000. Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Manchester Jewish Community Care receive? +
Manchester Jewish Community Care reported £530k total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Manchester Jewish Community Care's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-09-02). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Manchester Jewish Community Care based? +
Manchester Jewish Community Care's registered contact address is in Manchester (M8 4JY). It tells the regulator it operates in Manchester City, Cheshire East, Lancashire, Cheshire West & Chester, with a focus on disability.
How much is Manchester Jewish Community Care's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Manchester Jewish Community Care's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports no employees paid more than £60,000. 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 Manchester Jewish Community Care's money come from? +
Manchester Jewish Community Care reported £530k total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £320k (60%), charitable activities £140k (26%), trading and fundraising events £45k (9%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £69k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Manchester Jewish Community Care? +
The register records Manchester Jewish Community Care 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 Manchester Jewish Community Care's trustees paid? +
Manchester Jewish Community Care's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Manchester Jewish Community Care previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Manchester Jewish Community Care: Manchester Jewish Blind Society.
When was Manchester Jewish Community Care registered as a charity? +
Manchester Jewish Community Care was entered on the register on 7 November 1968. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05105654).
How does CharityCompare score Manchester Jewish Community Care? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Manchester Jewish Community Care'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 Manchester Jewish Community Care's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.