FRIENDS OF MIR

Registered charity 1187814 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raising financial support for the Mir Yeshiva

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING THE TALMUDICAL COLLEGE KNOWN AS 'MIR YESHIVA' IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · 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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated unrestricted reserves of £70,560 at the year end, which the trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The trustees are confident that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, and the independent auditors reported no material uncertainties relating to going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Landau Morley LLP. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 11.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL BORDONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barry Yehuda Bodner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ronald Edward Hochhauser · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Israel

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 FRIENDS OF THE YESHIVAT SHAAR HASHAMAYIM.

• THE FRIENDS OF THE YESHIVAT SHAAR HASHAMAYIM income £27k
• FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS CHAYEI MOISHE income £213k
• UK FRIENDS OF YAD YISROEL INCORPORATING SPONSOR A MEAL FOUNDATION income £580k
• FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS TORAH OHR income £311k
• FRIENDS OF YESHIVA LUZERN income £418k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE YESHIVAT HAR ETZION TRUST income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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