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Revision as of 07:01, 22 September 2014

UK AWIS logo. Screen capture taken from ukawis.co.uk 21 September 2014.


The UK Friends of AWIS (Registered Charity No. 1084272; company No. 4094203) is the UK offshoot of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers - an organisation established in 1942 by David Ben-Gurion. It says its main objective is 'to promote the wellbeing of Israel's sons and daughters in uniform.'[1] The organisation also has a trading arm, UK AWIS Trading Limited "whose principal activity is to support fundraising for the charity [UK Friends of AWIS] through its trading activities." [2] According to Greer Fay Cashman, writing in the Jerusalem Post, UK Friends of AWIS was set up in 2000 by Alice Krieger at the instigation of the then Defense Attache at the UK Israeli Embassy Brig. Gen. Itzchaki Chen in the late 1990s. [3]

Activities

Mobile synagogue

Amongst its other activities UK Friends of AWIS has provided mobile synagogues to the IDF:

The Israeli Defense Force launched a mobile synagogue initiative in 2011 to allow troops to pray more comfortably as they operate the Iron Dome anti-missile system in southern Israel. The UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers (UKAWIS) has provided such mobile synagogues - which contain an ark, reader's platform and washbasin - as "a source of spiritual sustenance [for the soldiers] as they carry the weight of Israel's security on their shoulders". [4]

UK Friends of AWIS sends some of its received donations to the Israeli parent organisation. For instance in 2012 UK Friends of AWIS sent £494,666 to the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's soldiers. [5]

People

Trustees

Julian Kemble (DoB 16 January 1936) (20 October 2000 - 2014) | Zeev Remez (DoB 4 January 1956) (20 October 2000 - 2014) | Peter Sussmann (DoB 23 December 1934) (20 October 2000 - 2014) | David Tucker (Appointed 25 May 2011- 2014)

Former Trustees

Anke Adler-Slottke (20 October 2000-Resigned 14 June 2007) | Andrew Balcombe (25 September 2002 - 12 September 2006)[6] | Rachel Rogoff (DoB 9 February 1958) (4 September 2007 - 17 May 2011)

Funding



Donors to the UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers in £ sterling [7]
Organisation 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total 2005-2013
A M Charitable Trust ? ? ? 2,000 0 0 0 2,000 ? 4,000
C H (1980) Charitable Trust ? ? ? 0 2,000 0 0 0 0 2,000
Family Foundations Trust 0 0 0 25,000 21,000 15,000 15,000 10,200 10,000 96,200
G R P Charitable Trust 0 0 0 0 0 2,000 2,000 0 2,000 6,000
Phillips and Rubens Charitable Trust 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,500 2,500 0 5,000
Stanley and Zea Lewis Family Foundation 0 0 0 0 0 200 0 0 0 200
Specific known donations total 0 0 0 27,000 23,000 17,200 19,500 14,700 12,000 113,200
Total income declared by UK AWIS 54,693 455,667 540,990 713,655 648,966 544,965 532,129 649,859 ? -
Total income sent to the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers 74,000 455,118 434,242 518,995 547,059 408,629 410,229 494,666  ? 3,342,938


See Also

Contact

235 Old Marylebone Road
London, NW1 5QT
Tel:020 3210 3060
Email: ukawis@ukawis.net
Web: ukawis.co.uk
Web Archive ukawis.co.uk
Address Circa 2002:
87A Bell Lane
Hendon
London
NW4 2SA.
Telephone 0208 203 7135
Fax 0208 203 6918
e-mail ukawis@hotmail.com[8]

Notes

  1. UK Friends of AWIS About. Accessed 24 August 2014.
  2. 'UK Friends of the Association For the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers Trustees' Report and Consolidated Financial Statements For the Year Ended 31 December 2012', Charity Commission, Accessed 11 September 2014.
  3. Greer Fay Cashman, 'Friday Grapevine', Jerusalem Post, 18 August 2006, accessed 15 September 2014.
  4. Oliver Wainwright, 'Russian army introduces the flying Orthodox church-in-a-box', The Guardian, 2 April 2013, accessed 14 September 2014
  5. UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers Trustees' Report and Consolidated Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2012.
  6. UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers Trustees' Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2005.
  7. Data compiled from filings at the Charity Commission and UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers Trustees' Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2005 - 2012.
  8. UK Friends of AWIS About, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 20 October 2002 on 22 September 2014.