FRIENDS OF ASCENT

Registered charity 328625 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The activity of the charity is to raise funds to support Ascent which is a charity operating in Tsfat, Israel

Objects

TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE ASCENT PROGRAMME IN ISRAEL BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE JEWISH FAITH AND JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST POOR FAMILIES OF THE JEWISH FAITH.

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: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £13,909 at year-end, representing a surplus carried forward from the previous period. The trustees report confirms that all fundraising and administration were conducted on a voluntary basis, with no staff costs incurred. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and accounts prepared in compliance with the Charities Act 1993.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Chevernchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• LAWRENCE BRIENDEL
• RABBI Steven Shaul Joseph LEITER

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF THE SPAFFORD CHILDREN'S CENTER OF JERUSALEM.

• THE FRIENDS OF THE SPAFFORD CHILDREN'S CENTER OF JERUSALEM income £77k
• FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION income £159k
• THE ASCENSION TRUST income £983k
• FRIENDS OF CHARITY INTERNATIONAL income £121k
• ASCENSION COMMUNITY TRUST income £470k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE YESHIVAT HAR ETZION TRUST income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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