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The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief

The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief is a registered charity (number 290767) based in London, governed by 14 trustees and chaired by Maurice Harold Helfgott since 2021. Latest income £15m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as World Jewish Relief (Charity Commission)

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 3 more
Where
Throughout England, Belarus, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Georgia and more
Website
www.worldjewishrelief.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief
Registered
1985

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£17m
  • 2024£17m£21m
  • 2023£16m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£18m£11m
  • 2021£7.4m£7.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 32%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

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.

Grants received

18 grants · £1,025,959 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £500,000
  • Pears Foundation · £275,000 (6 grants)
  • Home Office · £175,492 (3 grants)
  • Pears Foundation · £40,000 (2 grants)
  • LUND TRUST · £22,500

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

14 trustees on the board

3.6y median 4.5y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (2)

14
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 14General Charitable Purposes 14The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 14

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 25Finance 15Professional services 15

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£15.5m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.3 in 2021

113
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
290767
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31ST DECEMBER 1984,AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED 31ST JANUARY 1990 AND 29 SEPTEMBER 2003 as amended on 25 Jan 2019
Companies House
Company number 01874886 · Active
Contact on the register
02087361250 · info@worldjewishrelief.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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