UK Friends of I.D.C.

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UK fundraising charity for Reichman University (formerly IDC Herzliya)

UK Friends of I.D.C.

Logo Reichman University Yankin campus Herzliya 2024.jpg
Reichman University's Yankin campus, Herzliya (2024). The charity gave £902,704 to Reichman University (formerly IDC Herzliya) in 2024
Type Other
Founded 2003-04-04 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1096858
Headquarters C H Hausmann & Co, 5 De Walden Court, 85 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6XD
Area served Israel


UK Friends of I.D.C. was established by trust deed of 7 October 2002 and registered on 4 April 2003; its register area of operation is Israel.[1][2] Its trustees are A Trager-Lewis, G Hausmann and R Hausmann, at 5 De Walden Court, 85 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 6XD. It supports "the Reichman University, located in Herzliyah in Israel, a private college", funding scholarships for international students, the Abba Eban Chair of International Diplomacy and research and teaching posts. In 2024 donations were £867,990 and £902,704 was given to the university (2023: £785,061); funds were –£8,736.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "I. TO ADVANCE OR ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL AIMS, OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE I.D.C AND THROUGH OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE I.D.C TO PROMOTE OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION WHETHER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, STATE OF ISRAEL, OR ELSEWHERE AND IN SUCH PROPORTION AND MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.II. NOTWITHSTANDING THE GENERALITY OF SUB CLAUSE 4.1 THE TRUSTEES MAY PAY OR APPLY AT THE TRUSTEES DISCRETION THE INCOME OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL OF THE TRUST IN PROMOTING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE (AS DEFINED HEREIN) AND PRIMARILY TO ADVANCE EDUCATION."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "To raise funds to support the Interdisciplinary Centre in Herzliyah, Israel. It is a private college which combines academic study with practical training and where personal achievement and social responsibility go hand-in-hand."[1]

Register classifications: Education/training.[1]

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

Trustees

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

Trustees of UK Friends of I.D.C. (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Ruth Hausmann not recorded The British Friends of Ezra Lamarpeh (1001526); The Hausmann Foundation (274542)
Gordon Hausmann not recorded British Friends of the Open University of Israel (Bfoui) (1172236); The British Friends of Ezra Lamarpeh (1001526); The British Friends of the Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre (281754); The Hausmann Foundation (274542); UK Friends of Jrv (1101670); UK Friends of Taglit (1192283)
Alexander Trager-lewis 2017-07-24 Different Thinkers UK (1207636); The British Friends of the Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre (281754); The Hausmann Foundation (274542)

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2018-01-04 Gordon B S Hausmann; Ruth Hausmann; Alexander Joseph Trager-lewis [3]
2021-07-06 Gordon Hausmann – also trustee of UK Friends of Jrv, The British Friends of the Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre, The British Friends of Ezra Lamarpeh, UK Friends of Taglit, The Hausmann Foundation, British Friends of the Open University of Israel (Bfoui); Alexander Trager-lewis (from 24 July 2017) – also trustee of The British Friends of the Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre, The Hausmann Foundation; Ruth Hausmann – also trustee of The British Friends of Ezra Lamarpeh, The Hausmann Foundation [4]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £1,235,614 £1,192,286
2021-12-31 £1,009,356 £1,052,477
2022-12-31 £382,317 £373,177
2023-12-31 £813,245 £792,251
2024-12-31 £867,990 £909,324

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[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[9]

Funding in Israel

  • 2024: £902,704 given to Reichman University (2023: £785,061) for international student scholarships, the Abba Eban Chair of International Diplomacy and research and teaching posts.[2]

Israeli partners

Reichman University, Herzliya.[2]

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
Herzliya, stated in the accounts, lies inside the 1949 line.[2] Low

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[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]
  • Negative funds. Total funds were –£8,736 at 31 December 2024.[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[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.[20]

Land and property

The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[21]

US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)

Organisation EIN Latest filing year Revenue (US$) Expenses (US$)
American Friends Of Reichman University Inc[22] 311577589 2023 22,461,872 20,154,030

These US organisations share the name or beneficiary of the UK charity; no financial flows between them and the UK charity were established.

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'UK Friends of I.D.C.', 'Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya', 'Reichman University' returned 0 contributions in total.[23]

Web archive

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".[4]

See also

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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 Charity Commission, UK Friends of I.D.C. (1096858): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 1096858, contact and trustees (capture of 20180104) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1096858, full print (capture of 20210706) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ UK Friends of I.D.C. accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  6. ↑ UK Friends of I.D.C. accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ UK Friends of I.D.C. accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ UK Friends of I.D.C. accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ UK Friends of I.D.C. accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  10. ↑ 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 every charity in batches 1–7 (175 pages, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026) and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section. Alerts appeared only for Mifal Hachesed Vehatzedokoh (1139320), Ezer Viznitz Foundation (1161881), BC Trust (1155555), Vyoel Moshe Charitable Trust (327054) – all named in the cheque-cashing class inquiry – and The Gevurath Ari Torah Academy Trust (1003102).
  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 (re-fetched 14 October 2026).
  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, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-5 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  17. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-5 charity name returned zero results).
  18. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Reichman University' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1096858 360Giving, queried 14 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-5 screening covered 345 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers and related persons named in the accounts read for this batch (including archived accounts) and on the Companies House pages for Brightness Ltd; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  21. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 14 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. ↑ American Friends Of Reichman University Inc – Nonprofit Explorer ProPublica, viewed 14 October 2026.
  23. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Reichman University' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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