British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre

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UK trust buying equipment for Rambam hospital, Haifa, with two paid trustees

British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre

Logo Rambam Health Care Campus.jpg
Type Trust
Founded 1993-11-04 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1028061
Headquarters London N3
Area served Throughout England, Israel
Key people Anita Alexander-Passe (chair)
Website www.rambamuk.co.uk


British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre is a trust (deed of 4 November 1993) registered on 4 November 1993; register areas are England and Israel.[1] Its trustees are Anita Alexander-Passe (chair), Gabriella Alexander-Passe (honorary treasurer) and Samantha Rose; its principal address is in London N3 and its website rambamuk.co.uk.[1] Its aim is to buy medical equipment for "the Rambam Medical Centre in Haifa, Israel" (PDF p.4).[2] In 2024 income was £262,549 (voluntary income £236,829; Gift Aid £22,071), expenditure £294,678 and funds £84,354 (PDF p.5, 7).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "THE PURCHASE OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF MEDICAL FACILITIES AT RAMBAM HOSPITAL."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "Raises funds by letters of appeal, organises small fundraising events. We purchase equipment for the hospital & also acts as liaison between Rambam and the Homerton Hospital in Hackney, London, in the exchange programme of nurses and other medical personnel."[1]

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England, Israel.[1]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Gabriella Alexander-Passe not recorded Operation Wheelchairs Committee (263089)
Anita Alexander-Passe not recorded Yes Friends of Rambam Hospital (1209915); Operation Wheelchairs Committee (263089)
Samantha Rose not recorded Friends of Rambam Hospital (1209915); Operation Wheelchairs Committee (263089)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-03 Anita Alexander-Passe (chair); Samantha Rose; Gabriella Alexander-Passe [3]

Anita Alexander-Passe and Samantha Rose are also register trustees of Friends of Rambam Hospital (1209915), and all three trustees of Operation Wheelchairs Committee (263089).[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £564,058 £545,983
2021-12-31 £921,287 £797,201
2022-12-31 £444,447 £526,499
2023-12-31 £842,314 £836,838
2024-12-31 £262,549 £294,678

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • 2024 equipment funds £255,556 (2023: £367,720), including catheterisation equipment for the Heart Hospital and surgical equipment for paediatric orthopaedics and oncology; restricted funds include Rheumatology Research £48,985, Lewis Melanoma £22,578 and Laura Simons Nursing Certificates £5,000 (PDF p.5, 12).[2]

Israeli partners

Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam Medical Centre), a public hospital at 8 HaAliya HaShniya Street, Haifa.[2][9]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
The hospital is in Haifa, inside the 1949 armistice lines.[2][9] Low – Haifa

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated. The trustees' report notes that "Key to the hospital is the maintenance of the underground hospital for emergency medicine in times of war"; no grant for it is itemised (PDF p.5).[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[10] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[11][12][13][14] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[15]
  • Paid trustees. Note 7 records remuneration of £9,000 to Mrs A Alexander-Passe as administrator and £20,262 (2023: £37,000) to Mrs S Rose as fundraiser (PDF p.11);[2] the register's annual-return data flags trustee benefits.[1]
  • Accounting irregularities. The balance sheet is dated 20 November 2025 but the trustees' report 9 December 2025; the accounts follow the withdrawn SORP 2005 and FRSSE 2008; and the 2023 income is given as £439,659 in the report and £439,788 in the statement of financial activities (PDF p.3, 5, 7, 9–10),[2] while the register's annual-return figure for 2023 is £842,314.[1]
  • Late filing. The register records the annual return and accounts for the year to 31 December 2024 as due on 31 October 2025 and received on 9 December 2025 – 39 days late.[1] The 2023 return was received 13 days late.[1][10]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[16] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[17]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[18]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[19]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[20]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[21]

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre", "Rambam Medical Centre" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

Web archive

  • rambamuk.co.uk: 14 yearly captures, first 2011-05-19, last 2026-01-07.[23]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

See also

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre (1028061): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1028061, full print (capture of 20210703) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  5. ↑ British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  6. ↑ British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, List of medical facilities in Israel GOV.UK, updated 23 May 2023, retrieved 15 October 2026 (Soroka Medical Centre, "151 Yitshak Rager Boulevard, Beer Sheva", public hospital (Clalit); HaEmek Medical Centre, "21 Yitshak Rabin Boulevard, Afula", public hospital (Clalit); Rabin Medical Centre, "39 Derech Ze'ev Jabotinsky Street, Petah Tikva", public hospital (Clalit); Rambam Medical Centre, "8 HaAliya HaShniya Street, Haifa", public hospital).
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-11 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status (for example "Charity reporting is up to date (39 days late)" for British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre, "(4 days late)" for British Friends of Aleh and "(11 days late)" for Urgent Projects).
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  15. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  16. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-11 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names such as J R Gibb Charitable Trust and Boleskine Community Care).
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-11 charity names returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Rambam' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1028061 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
  20. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-11 screening covered 386 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (GS Property Management Services, Igerville, Housefresh, Vitalina, Rochester Developments and Delapage), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Fund", "Israel", "Republic") and surname-only coincidences (Cohen, Levy, Friedman, Green, Said); lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Rambam" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  23. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for rambamuk.co.uk Wayback Machine, queried 15 October 2026.
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