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.

Objects

TO ADVANCE OR ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL AIMS OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV SITUATE AND ESTABLISHED IN BEERSHEVA IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL ('THE UNIVERSITY') AND THROUGH OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY TO PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION WHETHER IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL OR IN THE U. K. OR ELSEWHERE AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND MANNER AS THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: ISRAEL, THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

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.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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

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.

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 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01376848

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SOLOMON, Melody Leonie — director, appointed 12/01/2026on trustee list
• HARBOUR, Gideon Mark — director, appointed 03/06/2021on trustee list
• ZLOTOWSKI-MERRAN, Louis — director, appointed 03/06/2021on trustee list
• CHARLES, Henry Martin — director, appointed 25/02/2021on trustee list
• PAISNER, Harold Michael — director, appointed 23/04/1997on trustee list
• PAISNER, Harold Michael — secretary, appointed 28/01/2021

Official officers record.

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 BESIYATA.

• BESIYATA income £129k
• THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA UK income £3.2m
• THE MENORAH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS FOUNDATION TRUST income £1.1m
• BRITISH EMUNAH FUND income £1.0m
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM income £7.8m
• NASOD CHARITABLE TRUST income £378k

Side by side with its peers

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