The Wiener Holocaust Library

Registered charity 313015 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY AND WIENER LIBRARY LTD, THE WIENER LIBRARY, THE WIENER LIBRARY INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, The Wiener Holocaust Library Limited

The Wiener Library is one of the world's leading archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era. Formed in 1933, its unique collection of over one million items includes published and unpublished works, press cuttings, photographs and eyewitness testimony. It is dedicated to supporting research, learning, teaching and advocacy about the Holocaust and genocide, their causes and consequences.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted general reserves increased to £1,106,481, exceeding the stated policy target of six months of projected charitable expenditures (£901,600). The charity reports a good financial position with sufficient reserves to withstand known challenges and no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Wiener Library (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (49% 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: 9.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE COLLOMS
• Daniel Peltz · trustee of 6 other charities
• Howard Steven Lewis · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN ALFRED GEORGE ALEXANDER
• Lizzie Marx
• Mary Jean Alexandra Fulbrook
• PROFESSOR WILLIAM HOWARD SHERMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Charles Oppenheimer
• Professor Sir Richard John Evans

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YAD VASHEM UK FOUNDATION.

• YAD VASHEM UK FOUNDATION income £515k
• HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY TRUST income £1.5m
• '45 AID SOCIETY LIMITED income £153k
• ANNE FRANK TRUST UK income £1.6m
• THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES (AJR) income £8.6m
• NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES income £22.3m

Side by side with its peers

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