BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BIBLE LANDS MUSEUM, JERUSALEM

Registered charity 1062357 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's aims are to support the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. It does this by administering the trust fund and its income and applying them for the furtherance of education. The policies adopted in furtherance of these objects are to distribute the funds as and when the trustees see fit.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The charity's unrestricted reserves decreased significantly from £10,190,090 to £6,432,176, a decline attributed primarily to a £4,025,000 revaluation loss on investment properties. Despite this reduction, the trustees remain confident that sufficient funds are available to maintain the charity's operations and continue to make donations to its beneficiary. The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees expressing reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Harold Everett Wreford LLP. 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 policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 20/03/2024, 49 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~122.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 3.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BATYA BOROWSKIchair
• Dr Daniel Eilon
• RICHARD KAUFMAN · trustee of 3 other charities
• Zvi Nixon

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

Operates in: Israel

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UK FRIENDS OF TIFERES CHAIM LTD.

• UK FRIENDS OF TIFERES CHAIM LTD income £115k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM income £703k
• BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS TRUST income £12.6m
• FRIENDS OF BEIS YISROEL TRUST income £748k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR income £487k
• BRITISH EMUNAH FUND income £1.0m

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