ACTION AROUND BETHLEHEM CHILDREN WITH DISABILITY

Registered charity 1097623 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABCD

To bring relief to those children and their families who are suffering from physical and mental disabilities in the West Bank of Palestine/Israel through providing medical care, home modifications and transport through local personnel; We sponsor the training of local personnel in the relative fields sponsor upgrading courses.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND REHABILITATION OF PHYSICALLY MENTALLY AND MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS FROM THE WEST BANK AND THE GAZA STRIP BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES PARA - MEDICAL TRAINING CLINICAL OR DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT THERAPEUTIC EDUCATIONAL OR OTHER SERVICES RELEVANT TO THE NEEDS OF SUCH DISABLED PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES (INCLUDING THE MANUFACTURE AND PROVISION OF AIDS AND EQUIPMENT).

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS, ISRAEL, WEST BANK, GAZA

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Test Valley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £96,034 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £539,758 to £443,724. Despite this deficit, the trustees report that general reserves of £259,737 remained significantly higher than the policy target of 8-10 months' budgeted expenditure. The charity is not dependent on outside volunteers and trustees serve without remuneration.

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 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~38.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Daniel Burtonchair
• Alastair Grahame Harris
• Alison Driscoll
• Anthony Glaister · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Godsmark
• Firas Sarhan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gina Groom
• Matthew Taylor
• VALERIE JOURDAN

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

Operates in: Occupied Palestinian Territories

Income and spending

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• KEF KIDS income £1.4m
• WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED income £5.1m
• SPECIAL NEEDS ADVISORY AND ACTIVITIES PROJECT income £422k
• ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN IN CRISIS income £43k
• MULTI AGENCY INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND SUPPORT income £118k
• BEIT HALOCHEM UK income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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