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.

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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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

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 HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE.

• HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE income £842k
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY income £524k
• BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION income £767k
• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION LIMITED income £6.1m
• CFI CHARITABLE TRUST income £735k

Side by side with its peers

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