THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 232666 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEIZMANN UK

Weizmann UK raises funds for and awareness of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £6,897,536, supported by a significant surge in donations following an emergency appeal. The charity reported a net income of £30,864,006 for the year, driven largely by restricted donations for recovery efforts, resulting in a strong overall financial position with total funds reaching £71,292,937.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Weizmann UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr. Arabella Duffield — Chair (source)
• Barry Townsley CBE — President (source)
• Carmel Spyer — Executive Director (source)
• Rozanne Gallon — Director of Operations (source)
• Nicole Barnett — Director of Development (source)
• Tanya Minsky — Director of Development (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (392 followers) · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~17.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ARABELLA DUFFIELDchair
• Bianca Rose Roden
• Charles Wolfson Townsley
• DEAN LUSH · trustee of 1 other charity
• DENIS GRAHAM RAEBURN
• David Norman Marks · trustee of 4 other charities
• Denitza Roussinova
• Dr Iris Good
• HAYLEY SIEFF
• MICHAEL SANDLER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Paisner CBE MA LLM · trustee of 26 other charities
• Simon John Sturge

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

Operates in: Israel

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Martin Paisner CBE MA LLM — trustee here and at THE BLUSTON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT
• Martin Paisner CBE MA LLM — trustee here and at THE SYBIL SHINE MEMORIAL TRUST

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 JNF CHARITABLE TRUST.

• JNF CHARITABLE TRUST income £21.6m
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY income £524k
• GOFUNDME.ORG.UK income £227k
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY income £334k
• WIZO.UK income £2.1m
• FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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