THE FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS BRISK

Registered charity 1005809 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancing Orthodox Jewish religious education and, principally, by assisting the Yeshivas Brisk advanced Tulmudical College in Jerusalem, Israel.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN AND THE RELIGION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH AND IN FURTHERANCE THEREOF TO SUPPORT FINANCIALLY OR OTHERWISE THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE YESHIVAS BRISK.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE,JERUSALEM,ISRAEL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £4,080 for the period, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £17,616. The trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory and confirm adequate resources for future operations. The charity's reserves policy is to distribute funds received rather than retain significant reserves, which the trustees deem appropriate given low running costs.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shmuel Baruch Feldmanchair
• ARIEH LEIB LEVISON · trustee of 9 other charities
• Benjamin Chontow

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Israel

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS CHAYEI MOISHE.

• FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS CHAYEI MOISHE income £213k
• FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAH OHR income £311k
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL income £30k
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE DIASPORA YESHIVA TORAS YISRAEL TRUST income £96k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE YESHIVAT HAR ETZION TRUST income £81k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE CENTRE FOR TORAH EDUCATION TRUST income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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