ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTRE UK

Registered charity 1188449 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IGDC UK

The relief of blind, visually impaired and disabled persons resident in Israel by promoting such work of the institution known as the Israel Guide Dog Centre for the blind as is exclusively charitable.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: THE RELIEF OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE AND OTHERS WITH PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITIES BY SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING SUCH WORK OF THE ORGANISATION KNOWN AS THE ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTRE FOR THE BLIND (‘THE CENTRE’) AS IS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, INCLUDING THROUGH, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (1) THE PURCHASE, BREEDING OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRING AND TRAINING OF DOGS AS GUIDE DOGS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED OR SERVICE OR THERAPY DOGS FOR THOSE WITH OTHER PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITIES, AND TO PROVIDE SUCH OTHER SUPPORT, FACILITIES OR SERVICES TO SUCH OF THOSE PERSONS AS THE CENTRE MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DEEM FIT; AND (2) SUCH ANCILLARY ACTIVITIES AS ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE FOREGOING TO RAISE FUNDS FOR AND AWARENESS ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRE AND THE WAYS IN WHICH VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE AND OTHERS WITH PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITIES ARE ASSISTED THROUGH THE CENTRE’S WORK.

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

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Registered contact address: Hertsmere, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £237,163 for the year, resulting in a deficit due to the trustees' decision to utilize accumulated assets to fund remittances to Israel. Despite this, unrestricted reserves were maintained at £322,902, which the trustees consider to be in line with their policy of holding six months of overheads and planned remittances. The charity's gross income increased to £695,492, supported by donations and charitable activities.

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 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Israel Guide Dog Centre UK (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Marc Jonathan Benjaminchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Adam Blake
• Lisa Marlowe
• Mark Adrian Gold
• Mason Hadleigh Bloom
• Michael Stoller
• Nicola Nathan
• PATRICIA SIMONE WARD
• Tina Mandy Son

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.

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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION.

• THE GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION income £163.8m
• ISRAELI CHARITY FOUNDATION income £160k
• THE GEORGE W WALSH SEEING EYE DOG FOUNDATION LIMITED income £44k
• FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SPORTS CENTRE FOR THE DISABLED income £68k
• UK FRIENDS OF BNOS YEHUDIS income £176k
• THE JEWISH DEAF ASSOCIATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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