HABONIM DROR

Registered charity 1088803 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Habonim Dror is a youth organisation organising activities of an educational and social nature to socially concious Jewish youth.

Objects

(1) TO EDUCATE JEWISH YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES IN THE UK AND ABROAD, SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. (2) TO EDUCATE JEWISH YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE HISTORY, TRADITIONS, CULTURE AND FAITH OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE; (3) TO PROVIDE, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE; (4) TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE COMPANY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT..

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a net decrease in funds. However, the trustees consider the charity financially secure and resilient, maintaining unrestricted free reserves of £430,358 which they deem sufficient to cover 12 months of operational costs. The charity holds significant tangible fixed assets in property valued at £1,282,500.

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 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• UJIA — “UJIA Israel Experience is organised by the Jewish Agency for Israel and supported by UJIA” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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

• Anthony Ivor Guy Ashworth-Steen
• David William Russell
• Dr Tessa Rachael Davis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fiona Blakey
• GARY SAKOL
• Hannah Weisfeld
• Harrison Daniel Bernard Engler
• Jonathan Synett
• Karen Michelle Ackerman · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Israel · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

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

• MAYONOIS HATORAH TRUST income £54k
• HASMODAS HATORAH FOUNDATION income £125k
• ME'OR EINAYIM LIMITED income £283k
• HOPEGROVE income £73k
• OVOS UBONIM/YAGDIL TORAH income £65k
• BAAL HAMOIN income £167k

Side by side with its peers

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