UK FRIENDS OF AHAVAS CHESED

Registered charity 1134987 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AHAVAS CHESED

RELIEF OF POVERTY AND OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Objects

(I) TO PROMOTE GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY INDIVIDUALS OF THE JEWISH FAITH AND TO PROVIDE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SOCIAL AND / OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE(II) TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · 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 generated a net income of £9,131 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £758,595 against total expenditure of £749,464. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stand at £168,674, which the trustees consider an acceptable level given the charity's limited financial obligations. The filing confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

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.

• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Volunteer management

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 31/03/2025 (received 18/02/2026, 18 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BERISH DRESDNERchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• MOSHE LINSHE
• MOSHE MEIROVITS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Israel · 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 PRESTWICH AHAVAS CHESED.

• PRESTWICH AHAVAS CHESED income £78k
• THE UK FRIENDS OF GEORGETOWN LIMITED income £553k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS SHAAREI CHOCHMO income £661k
• FRIENDS OF TOWERS FUNDRAISING ASSOCIATION income £30k
• FRIENDS OF ACHIEZER ARAD income £1.2m
• AISHAHS FOOD CHARITY income £67k

Side by side with its peers

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