BRITISH FRIENDS OF RETURN/SHUVU

Registered charity 1100984 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To pursue the objects of the charity with all the resources available to the charity.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS IN ISRAEL AND THE UK IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS TENABLE AT ANY UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER OR FURTHER EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: 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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has net current liabilities and an overall deficit on its unrestricted reserves of £122,074. The trustees acknowledge this deficit but are confident the charity will continue for the foreseeable future, supported by their commitment to raise funds and loan from their own funds to repay creditors.

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.

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.

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 30/11/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID BLACHMANchair
• HENRY LAST · trustee of 2 other charities
• JIZCHAK KRUSKAL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Israel · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 BRITISH FRIENDS OF REUTH.

• BRITISH FRIENDS OF REUTH income £86k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF MOSDOS TCHERNOBEL income £1.1m
• M O CHARITABLE TRUST income £146k
• BEDFORDSHIRE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £372k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS SHAAREI CHOCHMO income £661k
• THE BRITWELL TRUST income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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