BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUMS OF ISRAEL

Registered charity 1171510 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BFAMI

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART MUSEUMS OF ISRAEL

Objects

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE THROUGH THE FURTHERANCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART MUSEUMS OF ISRAEL (THE "MUSEUMS") AND OTHER ARTISTIC OR CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS, BODIES AND INSTITUTIONS OPERATING IN ISRAEL (THE "INSTITUTIONS").

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £887,587, while total funds reached £15,767,850, supported by a net movement in funds of £795,997. The charity reports a strong financial position with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Reserves are monitored against short-term cash-flow needs and grant-making requirements rather than a fixed policy target.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs Pamela Crystal — Co-Chairman (source)
• Mr Poju Zabludowicz — Co-Chairman (source)
• Mrs Fiona Amitai — Co-Vice Chairman (source)
• Mrs Alice Black — Co-Vice Chairman (source)
• Mrs Michelle Hyman — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Ms Maia Morgensztern — Head of Cultural Programme (source)
• Ms Sandra Lawson — Head of Corporate Sponsorship (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Reported reserves equal ~13.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (30% 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: 20.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHAIM ZABLUDOWICZchair
• Brian Jack Markeson
• Catherine Martha Wills
• EDWARD MICHAEL LEE · trustee of 5 other charities
• Giorgina Djanogly
• Pamela Crystal
• THE HON MARION NAGGAR

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH FRIENDS OF NISHMAS YISROEL.

• BRITISH FRIENDS OF NISHMAS YISROEL income £21k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH ISRAEL income £2.0m
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF ALEH income £272k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE CHAZON ISH INSTITUTIONS income £110k
• FRIENDS OF NACHALAS BNEI SHIMON income £194k
• FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERY income £35k

Side by side with its peers

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