BELZ FOUNDATION LTD

Registered charity 1112150 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BHF LTD, THE BELZ HERITAGE FOUNDATION LTD

general charitable purposes in particular the relief of poverty within the Jewish community, advancement of the orthodox Jewish religion and of education, both within the UK and overseas. Also, the relief of poverty hardship and distress and the preservation and protection of good health, in particular among persons suffering as a result of disability or need.

Objects

(I) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST THE ELDERLY OR PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS WITHIN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND OTHER COMMUNITIES (II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION(III) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, BOTH WITHIN THE UK AND OVERSEAS (THE AREA OF BENEFIT), BY THE PROVISION OF SUCH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.(IV) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR AMONG PERSONS SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF DISABILITY OR NEED, BY THE PROVISION OF RESPITE HOLIDAYS OR SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: UK AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £20,891 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £24,321. The trustees confirm that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue operations. The charity maintains a policy of holding reserves equivalent to donor donations to ensure funds are available for distribution according to donor wishes.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Martin + Heller. 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
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05423453

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RAND, Schloime — director, appointed 27/06/2011on trustee list
• STERNLICHT, Yitzchok Menachem — director, appointed 19/04/2005on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SCHLOIME RAND · trustee of 6 other charities
• YITZCHOK MENACHEM STERNLICHT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hackney · Israel

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• SCHLOIME RAND — trustee here and at BOURNEHEIGHTS LIMITED
• SCHLOIME RAND — trustee here and at COSMON (BELZ) LIMITED
• YITZCHOK MENACHEM STERNLICHT — trustee here and at COSMON (BELZ) LIMITED

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with M.L.T. BELZ.

• M.L.T. BELZ income £477k
• BELZ RELIEF LIMITED income £65k
• BELZ COMMUNITIES income £360k
• TIFERETH BENEVOLENT FUND LIMITED income £434k
• KOLEL BELZ MACHNOVKEH LIMITED income £79k
• LBD income £716k

Side by side with its peers

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