UK FRIENDS OF YALE UNIVERSITY LIMITED

Registered charity 1119399 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancement of education

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Latest income

£388k

Latest spending

£406k

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased significantly from £18,130 to £321 due to charitable expenditure exceeding incoming resources. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting a minimum of £5,000, meaning current reserves are below this stated target. The going concern basis is supported by the belief that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient for the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £321; policy: minimum reserves of £5,000)

“The unrestricted funds at the balance sheet date amounted to £321 (2024 - £18,130).” — page 3

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Yale University bears the costs of the charity's audit and non-audit accountancy services amounting to £1,800 (2024 - £3,750) and also makes contributions towards its administration costs £Nil (2024 - £1,300)

“The charity is a related party to Yale University, USA: (a) which is the main beneficiary of the charity; (b) bears the costs of the charity's audit and non-audit accountancy services amounting to £1,800 (2024 - £3,750) and also makes contributions towards its administration costs £NIl (2024 - ££1,300) (c) whose, Board of trustees is its sole member.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2024)

Total income

£1.0m

Total spending

£1.1m

Reserves (reported)

£5k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (03/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

JOAN O'NEILLchair
Abel Gregorei Halpern
CHARLES LUBAR
Scott Strobel
Susan Louise Miller

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

Operates in: Throughout England · United States

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/06/2025	£388k	£406k
30/06/2024	£1.0m	£1.1m
30/06/2023	£1.2m	£1.1m
30/06/2022	£167k	£164k
30/06/2021	£365k	£383k

Common questions

Is UK FRIENDS OF YALE UNIVERSITY LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased significantly from £18,130 to £321 due to charitable expenditure exceeding incoming resources. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting a minimum of £5,000, meaning current reserves are below this stated target. The going concern basis is supported by the belief that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient for the next 12 months. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
LPW LIMITED	1	£291k
THE DORFMAN FOUNDATION	1	£200k
CHARITWORTH LIMITED	1	£110k
LATATE LIMITED	1	£100k
THE CHARLES WOLFSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£100k
THE IAN & NATALIE LIVINGSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£100k
E AND E KERNKRAUT CHARITIES LIMITED	1	£90k
THE RABBI MOSHE & LEAH DERMER FOUNDATION	1	£76k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE UK FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND.

THE UK FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND income £136k
UK FRIENDS OF YAD YISROEL INCORPORATING SPONSOR A MEAL FOUNDATION income £580k
THE UK FRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN LIMITED income £553k
FRIENDS OF YESHIVA LUZERN income £418k
STANFORD FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £1.0m
BRITISH FRIENDS OF CHATZER HAKODESH VIZNITZ income £998k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
UK FRIENDS OF YALE UNIVERSITY LIMITED	£388k	—	below	—	no doubt
THE UK FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND FY2025	£136k	—	below	—	no doubt
UK FRIENDS OF YAD YISROEL INCORPORATING SPONSOR A MEAL FOUNDATION FY2025	£580k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE UK FRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN LIMITED FY2025	£553k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
FRIENDS OF YESHIVA LUZERN FY2025	£418k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
STANFORD FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED FY2025	£1.0m	—	above	—	no doubt

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