Ben-Gurion University Foundation

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Ben-Gurion University Foundation is a non-profit organisation headquartered in London, affiliated with the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in South Israel.

The university

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is a university in Be’er Sheva, South Israel. It’s named after David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, who believed the that the future of the country lay in this region. Set up in 1969 by the Government of Israel, the university has approximately 20,000 students in five faculties and is comprised of six institutes: Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Heksherim – Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture, Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, The Homeland Security Research Institute, The National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev and Kreitman School of Advance Graduate Studies.[1][2]


The Foundation

According to the Foundation’s website it was founded in 1974, five years after the university was formed, its aim is to ‘raise funds and awareness for the University across the UK’.[3] It’s business accounts show the firm was registered as a charity in July 1978, with a registration number of 276203.[4]


People

Trustees

Former trustees

Finances

Year end Income Spending
30/09/2009 £682, 566 £760, 829
30/09/2010 £212, 199 £229, 716
30/09/2011 £569, 218 £568, 535
30/09/2012 £523, 218 £343, 971
30/09/2013 £603, 494 £845, 286

Table references:[4]

Contact

Address: Devonshire House,
1 Devonshire Street,
London,
W1W 5DR
Telephone: 020 7446 8558
Email: bengurion.foundation@bguf.org.uk

Notes

  1. History ‘’Ben-Gurion University’’, accessed 30 January 2015
  2. About BGU ‘’Ben-Gurion University’’, accessed 30 January 2015
  3. About the foundation ‘’Ben-Gurion University Foundation’’, accessed 30 January 2015
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Ben-Gurion University Foundation ‘’BizDb’’, accessed 30 January 2015
  5. Greer Fay Cashman Grapevine: A little piece of Boston ‘’The Jerusalem Post’’, 15 May 2011, accessed 30 January 2015
  6. July 2013 Newsletter ‘’Ben Gurion University Foundation’’, accessed 23 November 2014
  7. Eric Arnold Charles ‘’Open Corporates’’, accessed 30 January 2015
  8. Eric Charles] ‘’Companies in the UK’’, accessed 30 January 2015
  9. George Weidenfeld ‘’Blavatnik School of Government’’, accessed 30 January 2015
  10. Obituary: Sidney Corob ‘’The Jewish Chronicle’’, 2 April 2009, accessed 30 January 2015
  11. Nicholas Serota Obituary: Hyman Kreitman ‘’Guardian’’, 21 May 2001, accessed 30 January 2015

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