FRIENDS OF B'EZRI

Registered charity 1203939 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity raises funds from the public for the relief of poverty

Objects

(1) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY MAKING GRANTS TO CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS IN ISRAEL WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY(2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY MAKING GRANTS TO JEWISH RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS IN ISRAEL, TO ENABLE POOR JEWISH PEOPLE TO CELEBRATE THE SABBATH, JEWISH RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS AND OTHER JEWISH RELIGIOUS EVENTS AND TO MARRY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · 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 received £946,177 in donations and held unrestricted reserves of £32,435 at the end of the period. The trustees consider these reserves adequate given the charity's minimal administrative expenses and lack of binding future obligations. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2025 (received 28/09/2026, 28 days after the 31/08/2026 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 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Raphael Landauchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Halibard · trustee of 1 other charity
• benjamin Chontow · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 EZRA.

• FRIENDS OF EZRA income £737k
• FRIENDS OF CHARITY INTERNATIONAL income £121k
• FRIENDS OF MIR income £1.3m
• THE FRIENDS OF BNEI TORAH MOVEMENT TRUST income £40k
• FRIENDS OF RONZLS income £28k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF YESHIVAS KODSHIM income £89k

Side by side with its peers

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