BRITISH FRIENDS OF ALEH

Registered charity 327766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ALEH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Raising funds and dispensing grants to institutions which care for children with special needs and in particular to the "Aleh" institutions in Israel.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN AND IN PARTICULAR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE EDUCATIONAL OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE ALEH HOME IN B'NEI BRAK NEAR TEL AVIV IN THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND OF ALL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AS ARE FOUNDED FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING THE AFOREMENTIONED OBJECTS OR ANY OF THEM.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £30,213 for the year ended 5 April 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £19,824. The trustees consider these reserves adequate for the charity's size and activities, noting a policy to hold minimal reserves sufficient for day-to-day costs. The charity relies on donations for income and distributes the majority of funds to charitable institutions in Israel.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 09/02/2026, 4 days after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2024 (received 08/09/2025, 215 days after the 05/02/2025 due date); year ending 05/04/2023 (received 06/05/2024, 91 days after the 05/02/2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — British Friends of ALEH (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shlomo Rechtschaffen
• Yitzchak Fedder
• Zeev Adler

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

Operates in: Israel · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE CHAZON ISH INSTITUTIONS.

• BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE CHAZON ISH INSTITUTIONS income £110k
• BRITISH ALEVI FEDERATION income £361k
• UK FRIENDS OF BNOS YEHUDIS income £176k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF YEHUDA YAALE income £60k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF OR CHADASH income £34k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF MISHAN L'CHOLEH income £154k

Side by side with its peers

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