THE FRIENDS OF ALEXANDER INSTITUTIONS TRUST

Registered charity 1055077 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE (F.A.T)

During the year, the company's principal activity was the provision and distribution of grants tocharities.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL STAND POSSESSED OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE WHOLE OF THE INCOME AND THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND TO OR TOWARDS OR IN FURTHERANCE OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITIES CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD IN SUCH SHARES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: 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 charity reported unrestricted reserves of £1,905 for the year ended 31 March 2025, recovering from a deficit of £53,296 in the prior year. The trustees state that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, citing adequate resources to meet liabilities as they fall due. The charity's policy is to maintain unrestricted funds at a level deemed appropriate by the trustees based on future commitments and administrative costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cohen Arnold. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ASHER I PERELMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Aryeh Piekarski
• Isaac Freylich

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

Operates in: Israel · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ALEXANDRIA TRUST.

• THE ALEXANDRIA TRUST income £48k
• FRIENDS OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING income £493k
• FRIENDS PROVIDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £650k
• FRIENDS OF ACHIEZER ARAD income £1.2m
• THE FRIENDS OF ASOS CHESED income £285k
• FRIENDS FIRST income £132k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.