FRIENDS OF CHOSEN YESHIAS

Registered charity 1196784 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

(1) the advancement of the orthodox Jewish faith, (2) the prevention or relief of poverty, and (3) the relief of those in need, by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage of people living in the UK and Israel, in particular but not exclusively, by financially supporting such charitable purposes as are charitable in UK law.

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH,(2) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY, AND(3) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UK AND ISRAEL, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE IN UK LAW OF SUCH ORGANISATIONS REGISTERED AS CHARITIES IN THE UK AND ISRAEL AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £832,187 and total expenditure of £835,807 for the financial year ending 31 December 2025, resulting in a net deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £32,558, with the majority of charitable expenditure directed towards grants to other charities.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 21/11/2025, 21 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 06/11/2024, 6 days after the 31/10/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ABRAHAM SCHREIBERchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• MEYER WAHRHAFTIG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Schlomo Rosenfeld

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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF BOYAN TRUST.

• FRIENDS OF BOYAN TRUST income £942k
• FRIENDS OF BEIS YISROEL TRUST income £748k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF MISHAN L'CHOLEH income £154k
• FRIENDS OF YESHIVOS IMREI YOSEF income £26k
• FRIENDS OF EIDAH CHAREIDIS ORTHODOX COUNCIL OF JERUSALEM income £315k
• FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS CHAYEI MOISHE income £213k

Side by side with its peers

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