Common questions about The Jewish Leadership Council's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Jewish Leadership Council a good charity? +
The Jewish Leadership Council scores 77 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) 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 The Jewish Leadership Council a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Jewish Leadership Council as a registered charity (charity number 1115343). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1115343&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 The Jewish Leadership Council's charity number? +
The Jewish Leadership Council's charity number is 1115343. 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 The Jewish Leadership Council's charity rating? +
The Jewish Leadership Council scores 77 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 The Jewish Leadership Council have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Jewish Leadership Council. 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 The Jewish Leadership Council? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The Jewish Leadership Council's total spending went to charitable activities (3-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 The Jewish Leadership Council's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 1% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Jewish Leadership Council. The Jewish Leadership Council's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 The Jewish Leadership Council receive? +
The Jewish Leadership Council reported £2.3m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Jewish Leadership Council's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-07-09). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Jewish Leadership Council based? +
The Jewish Leadership Council's registered contact address is in London (NW4 2BZ). It tells the regulator it operates in London, with a focus on human rights.
How much is The Jewish Leadership Council's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Jewish Leadership Council's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 The Jewish Leadership Council's money come from? +
The Jewish Leadership Council reported £2.3m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2.3m (100%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Jewish Leadership Council? +
The register records The Jewish Leadership Council 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 The Jewish Leadership Council's trustees paid? +
The Jewish Leadership Council's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Jewish Leadership Council registered as a charity? +
The Jewish Leadership Council was entered on the register on 14 July 2006. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05742840).
How does CharityCompare score The Jewish Leadership Council? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Jewish Leadership Council'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 The Jewish Leadership Council'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.