THE CENTRAL BRITISH FUND FOR WORLD JEWISH RELIEF

Registered charity 290767 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q8035874 · Wikipedia · also known as WORLD JEWISH RELIEF

World Jewish Relief is the UK Jewish community's international development and humanitarian agency. We tackle Jewish poverty and reach beyond our community. We create opportunities for those out of work to become self-reliant, we bring dignity to the elderly, assistance to refugees and we respond to international disasters.

Objects

THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) JEWISH REFUGEES OR ANY OTHER JEWISH PERSONS AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PHYSICAL DISABILITY IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD IN SUCH MANNER AND ON SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS (IF ANY) AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 the charity reported a net deficit of £1.3m for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total reserves decreasing from £9.6m to £8.3m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £4.2m remain above the estimated £1.1m required to cover closedown costs, and the trustees are satisfied with the level of free reserves. The charity confirmed it has sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due, with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01874886
• Trading subsidiary: WORLD JEWISH RELIEF (TRADING) LIMITED Companies House 02673247

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — World Jewish Relief (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alisa Avigdor — Director of Philanthropy (source)
• Paul Anticoni OBE — Chief Executive (source)
• Maurice Helfgott — Chair (source)
• Stacey Swimer — Director of International Programmes and Partnerships (source)
• Isobel Collinge — Director of Finance (source)
• Rachel Stein — Director of Communications & Marketing (source)
• Tessa Drysdale — Director of People & Culture (source)
• David Weisberg — Executive Director, World Jewish Relief USA (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Alfred Landecker Foundation — “Principal Benefactors The Alfred Landecker Foundation” (source page)
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee — “American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee” (source page)
• Berkley Family, Glasgow — “Berkley Family, Glasgow” (source page)
• Robert and Heather Bieber — “Robert and Heather Bieber” (source page)
• The Bloom Foundation — “The Bloom Foundation” (source page)
• The Bluston Charitable Settlement — “The Bluston Charitable Settlement” (source page)
• Vanessa Crocker MBE and Paul Crocker — “Vanessa Crocker MBE and Paul Crocker” (source page)
• Helen and Daniel Dover — “Helen and Daniel Dover” (source page)
• The Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust — “The Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Sara and Adam Franks — “Sara and Adam Franks” (source page)
• The Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation — “The Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation” (source page)
• Gerta Silberberg Discretionary Trust — “Gerta Silberberg Discretionary Trust” (source page)

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.

• SHOWMAN, Andrew Michael — director, appointed 29/01/2026on trustee list
• SILVER, Gabrielle Alison — director, appointed 29/10/2025on trustee list
• GINSBERG, Robert Ian — director, appointed 16/01/2025on trustee list
• MAHGEREFTEH, Annabel — director, appointed 10/05/2022on trustee list
• WADIKAR, Prerna Pramod — director, appointed 26/04/2022on trustee list
• ROUSSO, Alan — director, appointed 31/03/2022on trustee list
• SNEADER, Kevin David — director, appointed 08/12/2021on trustee list
• SHILOH, Dina — director, appointed 07/10/2021on trustee list
• MOSS, Elliot David — director, appointed 07/10/2021on trustee list
• NEWMAN, Jeremy Steven — director, appointed 28/01/2021on trustee list
• INGRAM, Rachel Louise — director, appointed 28/01/2021on trustee list
• HELFGOTT, Maurice Harold — director, appointed 28/01/2021on trustee list
• WORTH, Hilda Rosemary — director, appointed 18/06/2020on trustee list
• COLLINGE, Isobel — secretary, appointed 17/11/2014

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (9,145 followers) · instagram (5,587 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Maurice Harold Helfgottchair
• ADAM LEIGH
• Alan Rousso
• Andrew Showman
• Annabel Mahgerefteh
• Dina Shiloh
• Elliot David Moss
• Gabrielle Alison Silver
• Hilda Rosemary Worth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Steven Newman · trustee of 4 other charities
• Kevin David Sneader
• Prerna Pramod Wadikar
• RACHEL INGRAM
• Robert Ian Ginsberg

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · Belarus · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Burma · Colombia · Ethiopia · Georgia · Greece · Haiti · Kazakhstan · Kenya

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.

• Jeremy Steven Newman — trustee here and at THE CYRIL AND EVE JUMBO CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 FEDERATION OF JEWISH RELIEF ORGANISATIONS.

• FEDERATION OF JEWISH RELIEF ORGANISATIONS income £498k
• CENTRAL HARDSHIP AND RELIEF TRUST income £2.9m
• HOLMFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST income £350k
• JEWS' TEMPORARY SHELTER income £133k
• JEWISH WOMENS AID LIMITED income £1.5m
• CHIEF RABBINATE TRUST income £998k

Side by side with its peers

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