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

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.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP.

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
• Rosetrees Trust
• The Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust
• Dr Benjamin Angel Foundation

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).

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

• 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

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