THE CENTRAL BRITISH FUND FOR WORLD JEWISH RELIEF

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

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.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP.

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
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
• Berkley Family, Glasgow
• Robert and Heather Bieber
• The Bloom Foundation
• The Bluston Charitable Settlement
• Vanessa Crocker MBE and Paul Crocker
• Helen and Daniel Dover
• The Dyna and Fala Weinstock Charitable Trust
• Sara and Adam Franks
• The Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation
• Gerta Silberberg Discretionary Trust

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).

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

• Maurice Harold Helfgottchair
• 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 3 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.

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.

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