BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM

Registered charity 209691 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FHU, FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM

The BFHU is a national, non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting, marketing and promoting the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and to raising awareness of its global contribution.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £3.1m are held, which is above the stated policy target of £760k. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £1.0m, driven primarily by investment gains of £1.7m, while underlying operations reflected a small deficit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06350828

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nigel Salomon — Chief Executive (source)
• Alan Jacobs — Chair (source)
• Isaac Kaye — President (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Pears Foundation — “If I had to pick one partnership that is most emblematic of our Foundation’s identity and values it would be the Pears Scholarships Initiati…” (source page)
• Rosetrees Trust — “Rosetrees has supported outstanding research at the Hebrew University since 2000 and we are delighted that the prestigious Rosetrees Interdi…” (source page)
• The Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust — “The Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust, now in its fourth generation, feels proud and privileged to be part of the Hebrew University going forwa…” (source page)
• Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation — “The quality, diversity and all round excellence of the medical faculty of the Hebrew University makes it the ideal recipient of the scholars…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KAYE, Steven Jonathan — director, appointed 18/03/2026on trustee list
• WERNICK, David Mark — director, appointed 16/12/2025on trustee list
• AMIAS, Jeremy Adrian — director, appointed 05/12/2022on trustee list
• STOWE, Benjamin Harry George — director, appointed 29/09/2022on trustee list
• JACOBS, Alan Steven — director, appointed 25/03/2021on trustee list
• SPITZ, Derek — director, appointed 16/05/2019on trustee list
• JOSEPH, Denise Nicole — director, appointed 24/05/2017on trustee list
• TOBELEM, Simon — director, appointed 16/09/2015on trustee list
• ARWAS, Jenny — director, appointed 18/10/2012on trustee list
• SMOUHA, Joseph — director, appointed 18/10/2012not on trustee list
• SALOMON, Nigel — secretary, appointed 17/06/2009

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/08/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/08/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN JACOBSchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Benjamin Harry George Stowe
• DENISE NICOLE JOSEPH · trustee of 6 other charities
• David Mark Wernick
• Derek Bryan Spitz
• JENNY ARWAS · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOSEPH SMOUHA KC · trustee of 3 other charities
• Jeremy Amias
• SIMON TOBELEM · trustee of 2 other charities
• STEVEN KAYE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Israel

Income and spending

Common questions

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 BRITISH FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR.

• BRITISH FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR income £487k
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY income £524k
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY income £334k
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE JAFFA INSTITUTE income £361k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BIBLE LANDS MUSEUM, JERUSALEM income £1.3m
• BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION income £767k

Side by side with its peers

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