THE MURIEL AND GERSHON COREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1160879 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MGCCF

This is a grant making charity that funds other organisations

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OR IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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 · Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total funds of £68,060,307, comprising unrestricted and endowment funds, with unrestricted reserves at £66,217,286. The trustees consider these reserves adequate to maintain the prevailing level of charitable expenditure. The charity reported a net inflow of £994,956 for the year, driven by significant net gains on investments, and maintains a going concern basis with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 3 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.

• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~177.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 26.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY COREN
• David Esterkin
• GRAHAM WEINBERG
• Gabriel Blauer

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

Operates in: Israel · Kenya · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MORGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• THE MORGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £139k
• THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION income £4.3m
• D S COHEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £79k
• THE COLN TRUST income £27k
• MERRIMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £251k
• THE CORCORAN FOUNDATION income £170k

Side by side with its peers

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