Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 7
Support Score: 11
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Award winner
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

THE CENTRAL BRITISH FUND FOR 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.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity is a recent Award Winner
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£15,919£16,231£-311£2,145£13,563£8,0155.94913
30/06/22£17,839£11,171£6,667£1,509£14,020£6,2976.83313
30/06/21£7,367£7,167£200£1,133£7,157£5,0688.53113
30/06/20£6,310£7,080£-770£1,305£6,815£4,2337.23213
30/06/19£5,731£8,309£-2,578£1,625£7,385£3,7765.53515
30/06/18£5,940£9,218£-3,277£1,761£10,133£4,8806.4360
30/06/17£6,291£7,964£-1,673£1,656£13,256£5,7528.7370
30/06/16£5,972£7,622£-1,650£1,571£14,111£5,4638.6320
30/06/15£5,361£7,364£-2,003£1,463£15,541£5,0788.3250
30/06/14£7,162£7,304£-142£1,509£16,553£4,9918.2280
30/06/13£7,214£9,265£-2,052£1,284£16,740£4,6166260
30/06/12£8,124£9,163£-1,039£1,302£17,555£5,0026.6230
30/06/11£20,502£7,137£13,365£1,159£18,920£5,1818.7180
30/06/10£7,799£7,490£309£1,144£5,491£3,1895.1170
30/06/09£6,936£7,719£-783£1,091£4,913£2,8184.4160
30/06/08£8,519£9,670£-1,151£1,220£5,830£3,0123.7150
30/06/07£7,688£7,532£155£908£7,626£2,5874.1130
30/06/06£9,890£9,371£519n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/05£11,746£7,303£4,443n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/04£6,480£5,451£1,029n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 13.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 13.2%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 4%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 59%
Reserves/Spending: 5.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 13.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 39 years

www.worldjewishrelief.org

info@worldjewishrelief.org

02087361250

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UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • International poverty relief
How it operates
  • Makes grants to individuals
  • Makes grants to organisations
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Burma, Colombia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Moldova, Mozambique, Nepal, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, Throughout England, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Awards received
  • Charity Awards 2022 Education and Training
Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£500,000
Home Office£154,492
Pears Foundation£75,000
LUND TRUST£22,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Step forward
£500,000 31/08/2023
Funding will be used to continue and expand an employment-readiness and wellbeing project aimed at refugee women working in partnership with Horton Housing Association) Coventry City Council and the ....more
LUND TRUST - Towards core costs
£22,500 09/01/2023
Towards core costs
Pears Foundation - Renewal of funding for Climate and Resilience Programmes Manager post
£50,000 30/09/2022
24
Renewal of funding for Climate and Resilience Programmes Manager post
Home Office - STEP information videos on employment for refugees
£40,000 05/09/2021
To help refugees into employment more quickly, supporting earlier self-sufficiency in the UK. These information videos will benefit refugees looking for employment in the UK because they will give ....more
Pears Foundation - Grant to World Jewish Relief
£25,000 20/07/2021
Funding towards Climate Resilience Programme Officer post
Joseph Levy Foundation - Connections Programme
£3,000 09/11/2020
12
Contribution to the Connections Programme which supports Jewish students in Bosnia and Poland who could not continue their studies without help
Home Office - Refugee Employment Network (REN) Support 2020-21
£114,492 01/10/2020
Secretariat support for the REN is currently provided on a pro bono basis by the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (WJR) and a partner, and this inevitably limits the Networks scope to ....more
Joseph Levy Foundation - Connections Programme
£1,000 13/01/2020
Contribution to the Connections Programme which supports Jewish students in Bosnia and Poland who could not continue their studies without help
Pears Foundation - Grant to World Jewish Relief
£20,000 29/03/2019
3
Emergency Relief following Cyclone Idai
Pears Foundation - Grant to World Jewish Relief
£20,000 14/10/2018
3
Emergency Relief following Indonesian Earthquake
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to World Jewish Relief
£30,000 09/06/2016
12
Towards the provision of work placements and supported employment for Syrian refugees as part of their resettlement.
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to World Jewish Relief
£20,000 09/06/2016
12
Towards the development of partnerships for the Employment Programme of Syrian Refugees.
Pears Foundation - Grant to World Jewish Relief
£50,000 03/06/2015
1
Nepal Earthquake Appeal
Pears Foundation - Grant to World Jewish Relief
£50,000 14/04/2015
1
Ukraine Crisis Appeal
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 27-65
  • ALAN ROUSSO Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant
  • ANNABEL MAHGEREFTEH Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • DINA SHILOH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Solicitor
  • ELLIOT DAVID MOSS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chief Brand Officer
  • HILDA ROSEMARY WORTH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Magistrate
  • JEREMY STEVEN NEWMAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • KEVIN DAVID SNEADER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Banker
  • MAURICE HAROLD HELFGOTT (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • PRERNA PRAMOD WADIKAR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Consultant
  • RACHEL INGRAM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Recruitment Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/07/1985, number: 290767
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/12/1984, number: 01874886
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from TZEDEK on 23/05/2023
  • Asset transfer in from ENSIX CHARITABLE TRUST on 12/04/2024
Main office

WORLD JEWISH RELIEF
54 CREWYS ROAD
LONDON
NW2 2AD

Objectives

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.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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