BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 276203 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. To advance or assist in the advancement of the charitable educational aims and activities of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev situated in Beersheva in the State of Israel ("the University")2. Through or in association with the University, to promote or assist in promoting such charitable purposes connected with the advancement of education in the state of Israel or elsewhere.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total assets less liabilities decreased to £1,999,583 from £2,256,401 in the prior year, driven by a net expenditure of £251,847. Per the trustees' report, the state of affairs was described as satisfactory, with free reserves standing at £239,672 to cover ongoing overheads. The charity received £713,307 in donations and legacies, while grants payable totaled £929,496.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• HAROLD PAISNERchair
• Gideon Harbour
• HENRY CHARLES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Forster
• Louis Zlotowski-Merran
• Melody Solomon

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.

• Gideon Harbour — trustee here and at BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
• HAROLD PAISNER — trustee here and at BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
• HENRY CHARLES — trustee here and at BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
• Laura Forster — trustee here and at BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
• Louis Zlotowski-Merran — trustee here and at BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
• Melody Solomon — trustee here and at BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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 THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY.

• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY income £524k
• THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA UK income £3.2m
• UK FRIENDS OF TZOHAR income £100k
• BRITISH EMUNAH FUND income £1.0m
• AHAVAT SHALOM CHARITY FUND income £2.3m
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY income £334k

Side by side with its peers

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