BRITISH EMUNAH FUND

Registered charity 215398 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH EMUNAH, CHILD RESETTLEMENT TRUST FUND, SIDMOUTH CE PRIMARY SCHOOL PTFA

The objects of the charity, as detailed in the Trust Deed, are to promote, encourage and provide for and generally to organise secular and religious education in Israel in accordance with Jewish law and tradition, for those who are in need of resettlement, and to provide the necessary facilities and equipment to achieve these aims.The Trust consists of groups throughout the United Kingdom.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE, PROVIDE FOR AND GENERALLY TO ORGANISE THE SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN ISRAEL OR IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND OR ELSEWHERE IN ACCORDANCE WITH JEWISH LAW AND TRADITION ALL JEWISH CHILDREN WHETHER THE SAME SHALL BE ORPHANS OR NOT WHO SHALL IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BE IN NEED OF RESETTLEMENT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit for the year of £185,330, which reflects a decision to increase support to projects in Israel and utilize previously accumulated reserves. Despite this deficit, the trustees report that free reserves at year-end were £830,109, which exceeded the target level of approximately £600,000 based on the stated reserves policy. The independent auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Landau Morley LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).
• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 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
• Investment
• 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 — Emunah (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 ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Edward Jacksonchair
• Andrew Charles FREEDMAN
• David Joseph HIRSCHFIELD
• Hilary Elizabeth Lewis

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

Operates in: Israel · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ME'OR EINAYIM LIMITED.

• ME'OR EINAYIM LIMITED income £283k
• BRITISH COMMITTEE FOR P'EILIM IN ISRAEL income £53k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF MISHAN L'CHOLEH income £154k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF EMEK income £72k
• THE MENORAH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS FOUNDATION TRUST income £1.1m
• BINYEN TORAH LIMITED income £984k

Side by side with its peers

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