Mikve Taharas Ruchel

Mikve Taharas Ruchel, founded in 2012 and registered as a UK charity in 2013, is a small, trustee-led organization (five unpaid board members, including Lebrecht family founders) operating as a company limited by guarantee. Its core mission is to advance Orthodox Jewish faith by providing, maintaining, and operating a dedicated mikvah—a ritual bath essential for religious immersion, particularly for observant women—housed in a purpose-built facility at 435 Bury New Road, Salford. Rooted in values of family purity, communal sustenance, and strict adherence to Jewish law, it invests nearly all resources in this asset-led infrastructure, with annual income and expenditure around £150,000 dedicated to property upkeep, operations, and minimal connected activities like religious education, training, and poverty relief within the Orthodox Jewish community.

The charity's priorities are hyper-specific: sustaining the mikvah for local Orthodox Jews in Salford and surrounding North Greater Manchester areas, enabling religious obligations that underpin community life. While purposes extend to general charitable aims, ethnic-specific support, and aid for other Jewish-linked bodies, documented spending overwhelmingly targets mikvah maintenance, with no broad programmatic grants.

Unsolicited applications are not accepted, as there is no public grant programme, application process, deadlines, or typical grant ranges for externals—funding is reserved for directly connected individuals or organizations aligned with Orthodox ritual immersion, education, or poverty needs. Geographically, it serves England and Wales regulatory-wide but focuses on Salford's Orthodox population; eligible entities are unspecified but implicitly Jewish-only, community-tied groups without income/size limits.

Distinctively conservative and inward-focused, Mikve Taharas Ruchel excludes unrelated causes, social innovation, or non-Orthodox projects, differentiating as a specialist protector of vital religious infrastructure rather than a versatile grant-maker—ideal matches are rare, limited to hyper-aligned religious needs.