THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA UK

Registered charity 270733 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH FRIENDS OF HAIFA UNIVERSITY, THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF HAIFA UNIVERSITY

The object of the Charity is to raise funds for the advancement of education in association with and relating to the charitable educational activities of The University of Haifa.

Objects

TO ADVANCE OR ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL AIMS OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE HAIFA UNIVERSITY AND THROUGH OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY TO PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR CHARITABLE PURPOSE CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION WHETHER IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL OR IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE AND IN SUCH PROPORTION AND MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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: Education/training · website · 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 unrestricted reserves stood at £102,491, which is below the stated policy target of retaining 10-12 months' administrative costs. The charity reported a small net surplus of £4,027 for the year, with total incoming resources of £3,193,747 and total resources expended of £3,189,720.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to over £60,000 (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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 07/02/2024, 2 days after the 05/02/2024 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Marcus Rees-Roberts — Executive Director (source)
• Russell Jacobs — Co-Chair (source)
• Dr. Efrat Sopher — Co-Chair (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 5.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Russell Jacobschair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Efrat Sopher · trustee of 1 other charity
• PETER KADAS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen
• Professor Sir Walter Fred Bodmer · trustee of 6 other charities
• Richard Hatter

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WASAFIRI.

• WASAFIRI income £177k
• UK FUND FOR CHARITIES income £4.6m
• THE SEA OF FAITH NETWORK income £17k
• IRSHAD TRUST income £1.1m
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY income £524k
• HADERECH income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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