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

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Latest income
£1.7m
Latest spending
£1.3m
Registered
2017
Accounts read
FY2024

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

Related-party transaction: Trustees made donations to the charity in the ordinary course of business.
“During the current and previous financial years, donations were made to the charity by its Trustees in the ordinary course of business. No other related party transactions existed in the current or previous financial year.” — page 32
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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)

Total income
£1.7m
Total spending
£1.3m
Cost of raising funds
£349k
Reserves (reported)
£1.5m
Employees
2

Reported reserves equal ~13.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 5.2%) (benchmarks).

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.7m£1.3m
31/03/2024£1.7m£1.1m
31/03/2023£1.2m£1.0m
31/03/2022£562k£948k
31/03/2021£720k£943k

Common questions

Is BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUMS OF ISRAEL financially healthy?

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. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Kreston Reeves LLP.

Who funds BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUMS OF ISRAEL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUMS OF ISRAEL as a grant recipient include THE SIR JOHN RITBLAT FAMILY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE ART MUSEUMS OF ISRAEL£1.7m—0unclear—no doubt
THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY FY2025£524k——unclear—no doubt
BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BIBLE LANDS MUSEUM, JERUSALEM FY2024£1.3m—0above—no doubt
THE BRITISH MUSEUM FRIENDS FY2025£6.9m—0unclear—no doubt
BRITISH FRIENDS OF DARCHE NOAM FY2025£139k—0unclear—no doubt
BRITISH FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH ISRAEL FY2024£2.6m——above—no doubt

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