Central Synagogue

Mr Stanley Salter - Financial Representative

I became a member of the Central Synagogue when my family moved into the area forty eight years ago and, but for a very short interlude when I moved to Wembley while still retaining my membership, have lived in the area ever since. As proof of that I remember the first years of our membership when our seats for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur were in the Wix Hall overflow service, which was also packed out.

A few years ago I served on the Board of Management for a number of years when I was responsible for security and saw more of the outside than the inside of the Shul, and was elected Financial Representative at the AGM in May of this year. I am an accountant by training and profession having been a partner in a firm of accountants for nearly thirty years and during that time was head of the London audit and accounts department as well as serving on the executive and marketing committees. I specialised in media and FSA regulated clients, as well as having a number of charities as clients. I now do consultancy work and am on the Board of several charities as treasurer, of which one is a national charity. I am very much into sport being fortunate to visit India in March this year to see the Cricket World Cup. An experience never to be forgotten.

Times have changed and it is apparent there is a return to this area and the Shul, which is due in no small part to our learned Rabbi Barry Marcus and our excellent and well renowned Chazzan Steven Leas, both of whom are professional in their work and modern in their outlook but with the ability to couple this with their desire to engage people whoever they are and wherever they are from. I look forward to working with them together with my fellow Board members.