ORT UK

Registered charity 1105254 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH ORT FOUNDATION, ORT UK FOUNDATION

To raise funds to empower the next generation to reach their career goals through mentoring, employability skills training and work experience.ORT UK helps young people gain the confidence and skills to thrive in the world of work. We support the World ORT global network, which reaches 350,000 people a year in over 40 countries, providing cutting edge STEM education driven by Jewish values.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND/OR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) HELPING JEWS AND OTHERS, INCLUDING DISPLACED PERSONS, REFUGEES AND VICTIMS OF WAR AND PERSECUTION IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BY PROMOTING THEIR REHABILITATION THROUGH VOCATIONAL AND AGRICULTURAL TRAINING AND RETRAINING AND BY ESTABLISHING VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS, TRAINING WORKSHOPS, TRAINING FARMS, AND BY PROVIDING PREMISES, LAND, TOOLS, IMPLEMENTS, SEEDS, INSTRUCTORS, AND BOOKS THEREFOR AND BY SETTING UP HOSTELS AND BY ORGANISING SYSTEMS OF APPRENTICESHIP WITH SUITABLE INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS OR IN GOVERNMENT TRAINING CENTRES, AND FOR THE ABOVE CHARITABLE PURPOSE ONLY TO CO-OPERATE WITH ORT ORGANISATIONS WORLDWIDE AND WITH OTHER BODIES, GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITIES AND CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS IN CARRYING OUT SCHEMES OF RELIEF AND REHABILITATIONO

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £69,582 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £183,374. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are below the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure, amounting to only 2.8 months of operating expenditure at year-end. The trustees remain confident in the charity's financial resilience and going concern status, citing expected incoming grants and donations to strengthen the reserves position.

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 6 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

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 31/12/2023 (received 29/11/2024, 29 days after the 31/10/2024 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 28.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annette Ruth Kurerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Calanit Gold
• Daniel Caplan
• Hilary Tait
• Malcolm Green
• Natalia Segal
• Nick Reid

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 WORLD ORT TRUST.

• WORLD ORT TRUST income £400k
• AGE UK income £131.8m
• THE IOE FOUNDATION income £50k
• OXFORD KILBURN YOUTH TRUST income £149k
• GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT UK income £1.6m
• EMPLOYABILITYUK income £58k

Side by side with its peers

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