BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE RABBI MEIR BAAL HANESS CHARITY (KOLLEL SHOMREI HACHOMOS)

Registered charity 288023 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE RABBI MEIR BAAL HANESS CHARITY (KOLLEL SHOMREI HACHOMOS) ALSO KNOWN SHORTLY AS "KSH", KSH

the relief of poverty and the advancement of jewish education and the jewish religion, in particular by assisting poor persons with all necessary relief and medical assistance, housing, old age care facilities and providing financial help for schools and colleges, run by Kollel Shomrei Hachomos in Israel

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF JEWISH EDUCATION AND THE JEWISH RELIGION IN PARTICULAR BY ASSISTING POOR PERSONS WITH ALL NECESSARY RELIEF AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE HOUSING AND OLD AGE CARE FACILITIES AND PROVIDING FINANCIAL HELP FOR THE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES RUN BY THE ORIGINAL CHARITY.

Area of benefit: ISRAEL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £303,626 to £256,668 due to a net expenditure of £46,958, despite incoming resources of £1,556,857. The trustees report that incoming resources exceeded outgoing resources in the prior year but note a deficit in the current year, while maintaining that they do not seek to maintain reserves other than to ensure continuity of activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Martin + Heller. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 31/03/2021 (received 01/02/2022, 1 day after the 31/01/2022 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JACOB FRANKEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOSEPH SCHISCHA · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR JEHUDAH BAUMGARTEN · trustee of 7 other charities

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

Operates in: Israel

Income and spending

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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 BRITISH FRIENDS OF KOLLEL NEFESH HACHAIM.

• BRITISH FRIENDS OF KOLLEL NEFESH HACHAIM income £55k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF MISHAN L'CHOLEH income £154k
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF YESHIVAT HAKOTEL income £30k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF KISHORIT income £88k
• FRIENDS OF BEIS SOROH SCHNEIRER income £4.0m
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR income £487k

Side by side with its peers

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