Israel Charity Bot: New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 19)

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New profile: UK charity operating in Israel (batch 19)

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{{short description|'''London charitable company that passed £77,200 in 2024/25 to Reuth, the Tel Aviv rehabilitation hospital and elderly-care association; its main grant income comes from an unnamed funder'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = British Friends of Reuth
| type = Charitable company
| registration_id = Registered charity 1126124; company 06615331
| founded = 2008-10-01 (registered)
| headquarters = London NW4 (PO box)
| area_served = Throughout London, Israel
| revenue = £85,587 (year to 2025-06-30)
| website = www.reuth.org.uk
| logo = [[File:Reuth_Medical_Center_Tel_Aviv_2013.jpg|200px]]
}}

'''[[British Friends of Reuth]]''' (also registered as "Reuth UK") is a charitable company (06615331) whose memorandum and articles are dated 10 June 2008; it was registered on 1 October 2008, its correspondence address is a PO box in Hendon, London NW4, and its registered office is that of its accountants, [[Goldwins]], in West Hampstead (PDF p.3–4).<ref name="EXTRACT">[[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, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.</ref><ref name="ACC">[[Charity Commission]], [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4041615/accounts-and-annual-returns British Friends of Reuth (1126124): accounts and annual returns] ''Register of Charities''; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).</ref> Its object is to support [[Reuth]], an Israeli non-profit whose services, the accounts say, "include the Reuth Rehabilitation Hospital which is a neurological, rehabilitation and chronic care facility, community housing for those in need and senior homes & day centres for the elderly" (PDF p.4).<ref name="ACC" /> The directors in 2024/25 were Dr [[Neil Ferber]], [[Michael Bleys]], [[Stephen Jacobson]] and R Somerston, who resigned on 11 June 2025; the independent examiner is Anthony Epton FCA of Goldwins (PDF p.3).<ref name="ACC" /> In the year to 30 June 2025 income was £85,587, of which grants were £77,223 (2024: £76,681) and donations £8,328; donations to Reuth (Israel) were £77,200 (2024: £86,950) (PDF p.7, 10–11).<ref name="ACC" />

== Objects and activities ==
The charity's registered objects read: "3. TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES OF REUTH, (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS WOMEN'S SOCIAL SERVICE) ("REUTH") A NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANISATION ESTABLISHED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, AND THROUGH OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH REUTH TO PROVIDE OR PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF MEDICAL RELIEF, ACCOMMODATION AND ASSISTANCE IN KIND TO THOSE IN NEED, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THE ELDERLY, THE HANDICAPPED AND THE CHRONICALLY ILL OF ALL AGES AND ALSO VICTIMS OF TRAUMA."<ref name="EXTRACT" />

The register describes its activities as: "Support Reuth organisation"<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Register classifications: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout London, Israel.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

== Trustees ==
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:<ref name="EXTRACT" />

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Trustees of British Friends of Reuth (register, October 2026)
! Trustee !! Appointed !! Chair !! Other trusteeships
|-
| [[Neil Ferber]] || not recorded || || —
|-
| [[Michael Bleys]] || 2016-11-08 || || —
|-
| [[Stephen David Jacobson]] || 2018-12-15 || || —
|}

=== Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive) ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees shown in archived register pages
! Capture date !! Trustees listed !! Source
|-
| 2010-07-12 || [[M D Paisner]]; [[Russell Ivor Kett]]; [[Neil Ferber]]; [[Beverley de Vries]]; [[Ann Rau Dawes]] || <ref name="u8c956cbe">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20100712094435/http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/SHOWCHARITY/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1126124&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 1126124, contact and trustees (capture of 20100712)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 2011-01-15 || [[M D Paisner]]; [[Russell Ivor Kett]]; [[Neil Ferber]]; [[Beverley de Vries]]; [[Ann Rau Dawes]] || <ref name="u6ba229c0">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20110115081530/https://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1126124&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 1126124, contact and trustees (capture of 20110115)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 2016-07-01 || [[M D Paisner]]; [[Russell Ivor Kett]]; [[Neil Ferber]]; [[Beverley de Vries]]; [[Ann Rau Dawes]]; [[Martin]] || <ref name="u1ee3df1d">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160701182709/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1126124&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 1126124, contact and trustees (capture of 20160701)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 2018-01-03 || [[M D Paisner]]; [[Russell Ivor Kett]]; [[Neil Ferber]]; [[Beverley de Vries]]; [[Michael Bleys]]; [[Vikki Louise Yaffe]]; [[Martin]] || <ref name="u5efc2b12">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20180103195015/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1126124&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Register entry 1126124, contact and trustees (capture of 20180103)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|-
| 2021-01-14 || [[Roy Sydney Somerston]] (from 15 December 2018); [[Stephen David Jacobson]] (from 15 December 2018); [[Neil Ferber]]; [[Michael Bleys]] (from 08 November 2016) || <ref name="u70851a0e">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210114042141/https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4041615/full-print Register entry 1126124, full print (capture of 20210114)] ''UK Government Web Archive''.</ref>
|}

At Companies House, Neil Ferber, Michael Bleys and Stephen Jacobson are active directors and R Somerston's appointment ended on 11 June 2025; the register lists only the three active directors.<ref name="CH_REUTH">[[Companies House]], [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06615331 BRITISH FRIENDS OF REUTH (06615331)] ''Find and update company information'', overview and [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06615331/officers officers], viewed 16 October 2026.</ref><ref name="EXTRACT" />

=== Companies House officers ===
Companies House lists 13 current and former officers of the charitable company (06615331), 3 of them active.<ref name="u01958c36">[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06615331/officers Company 06615331: officers] ''Companies House'', viewed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
! Financial year end !! Income !! Expenditure
|-
| 2021-06-30 || £23,308 || £30,588
|-
| 2022-06-30 || £24,969 || £25,707
|-
| 2023-06-30 || £89,226 || £99,602
|-
| 2024-06-30 || £84,325 || £93,931
|-
| 2025-06-30 || £85,587 || £84,029
|}
Source: register annual-return history.<ref name="EXTRACT" />

=== Archived accounts ===
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the [[UK Government Web Archive]]:
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2011<ref name="ub7dededb">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160701182709/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0001126124_ac_20110630_e_c.pdf British Friends of Reuth accounts, year ended 2011-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20160701).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2012<ref name="u580f8223">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160701182659/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0001126124_AC_20120630_E_C.pdf British Friends of Reuth accounts, year ended 2012-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20160701).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2013<ref name="u4f3e23f7">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160701182710/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0001126124_AC_20130630_E_C.pdf British Friends of Reuth accounts, year ended 2013-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20160701).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2014<ref name="ufc7dc29c">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160701182705/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0001126124_AC_20140630_E_C.pdf British Friends of Reuth accounts, year ended 2014-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20160701).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2015<ref name="u961f34fc">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160701182711/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0001126124_AC_20150630_E_C.pdf British Friends of Reuth accounts, year ended 2015-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20160701).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2016<ref name="u745979a9">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200104202611/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0001126124_AC_20160630_E_C.PDF British Friends of Reuth accounts, year ended 2016-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200104).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2017<ref name="u35d1325f">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200104203807/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0001126124_AC_20170630_E_C.PDF British Friends of Reuth accounts, year ended 2017-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200104).</ref>
* Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018<ref name="u94c7f92c">[https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20200104202333/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0001126124_AC_20180630_E_C.PDF British Friends of Reuth accounts, year ended 2018-06-30] ''UK Government Web Archive'' (capture of 20200104).</ref>

== Funding in Israel ==
[[File:Reuth_Medical_Care_Center_Tel_Aviv_night_2008.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Reuth medical centre in Tel Aviv at night (2008)]]
* Year to 30 June 2025: donations to Reuth (Israel) £77,200 (2024: £86,950; 2023: £92,550) (PDF p.11).<ref name="ACC" />

=== Israeli partners ===
[[File:Reuth_Rehabilitation_Hospital_therapeutic_garden_2024.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The therapeutic garden at the Reuth Rehabilitation Hospital in Tel Aviv (2024); the charity's grants go to the Reuth association, which runs the hospital]]
[[Reuth]] (the Reuth association, Israel), which the accounts say runs the Reuth Rehabilitation Hospital, community housing and senior homes and day centres (PDF p.4).<ref name="ACC" /> The British Friends' website places its rehabilitation hospital and seniors' housing in central Tel Aviv and describes a new campus in north Tel Aviv.<ref name="REUTH_UK">British Friends of Reuth, [https://www.reuth.org.uk/ Home page] ''reuth.org.uk'', viewed 16 October 2026.</ref>

== 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.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
! Finding !! Confidence
|-
| The British Friends' website places Reuth's hospital and housing in Tel Aviv; nothing in the sources places Reuth's work beyond the Green Line.<ref name="REUTH_UK" /><ref name="ACC" /> || Medium (partner)
|}

'''Support for the IDF:''' No IDF or military funding is stated in the UK accounts.<ref name="ACC" /> The British Friends' website says that "Reuth TLV opened its dedicated Trauma Clinic to help soldiers heal from the psychological wounds of war"; this is medical treatment of soldiers by the recipient, not funding of the military.<ref name="REUTH_UK" /> (Partner finding.)<ref name="ACC" />

== 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;<ref name="ALERTS">[[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-19 charities, all retrieved successfully on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. Twenty-two registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; British Friends of Ramoth Jerusalem showed "Charity reporting is overdue by 1691 days"; Leibovici Charitable Trust and Friends of Bereaved Families Forum (1118221) showed "Removed charity".</ref> 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.<ref name="CC_CHEQUE1">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/serious-concerns-over-use-of-22-million-triggers-investigation-by-charity-regulator Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator] ''GOV.UK'', 14 May 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE2">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-opens-next-phase-of-investigation-into-105-charities-connected-to-company-cashing-cheques Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques] ''GOV.UK'', 1 September 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE3">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-announces-next-charities-to-be-investigated-as-part-of-inquiry-connected-to-company-cashing-cheques Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques] ''GOV.UK'', 4 December 2025.</ref><ref name="CC_CHEQUE4">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-concludes-investigation-into-4-charities-as-class-inquiry-continues Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues] ''GOV.UK'', 9 September 2026, with [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statement-of-the-results-of-a-class-inquiry/statement-of-the-results-of-a-class-inquiry Statement of the results of a class inquiry] (same date).</ref> 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.<ref name="CC_SETTLE">[[Charity Commission]], [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/charity-regulator-opens-inquiry-into-charities-working-in-illegal-israeli-settlements Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements] ''GOV.UK'', 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").</ref>
* '''Unnamed grantor.''' The charity's income is mostly "grants" of £77,223 (2024: £76,681) whose source is not named, and nearly the same amount was passed to Reuth; the accounts record no related-party transactions (PDF p.10–11, 13).<ref name="ACC" />
* '''Undated approval.''' The dates of the directors' approval and of the independent examiner's report are handwritten and not legible in the scanned filing (PDF p.5–8).<ref name="ACC" />

== Other registers and records ==
=== Scotland and Northern Ireland ===
No entry was found on the [[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator|Scottish Charity Register]] for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).<ref name="OSCR">[[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator]], [https://www.oscr.org.uk/download/charity-register Scottish Charity Register download] ''OSCR'', export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-19 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.</ref> No entry was found on the [[Charity Commission for Northern Ireland]] register (API name searches returned zero results).<ref name="CCNI">[[Charity Commission for Northern Ireland]], [https://www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/api/charity-search/results?searchText=Reuth&pageNumber=1 Register of charities search API] ''CCNI'', searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-19 charity names returned zero results).</ref>

=== The Gazette ===
Searches of ''The Gazette'' for the charity's name returned only Companies House filing lists; no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice naming the charity was found.<ref name="u33bdc655">[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice/data.feed?text=British%20Friends%20of%20Reuth The Gazette: notices matching 'British Friends of Reuth'] ''The Gazette'', searched 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== Grants recorded by 360Giving ===
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.<ref name="u852af0e3">[https://api.threesixtygiving.org/api/v1/org/GB-CHC-1126124/grants_received/?limit=100 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1126124] ''360Giving'', queried 16 October 2026.</ref>

=== 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.<ref name="SANC">[[Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office]], ''UK Sanctions List'' (CSV); [[Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation]], ''Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets'' (ConList.csv). Batch-19 screening covered 358 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the eight charitable companies, and trustees, examiners, grantees and other people and bodies named in the accounts and sources read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; token matches were surname-only coincidences (for example Miller, Gold) or generic words in organisation names (Trust, Ltd, Limited).</ref>

=== Land and property ===
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.<ref name="EXTRACT" /> No title registers were purchased; the [[HM Land Registry]] interactive search blocked automated access.<ref name="HLRWEB">[[HM Land Registry]], [https://search-property-information.service.gov.uk/ 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 [[Corporate and Commercial Ownership Data|CCOD]] / [[Overseas Companies Ownership Data|OCOD]] datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.</ref>

=== US counterparts (ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer) ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Organisation !! EIN !! Latest filing year !! Revenue (US$) !! Expenses (US$)
|}
This US organisation shares the UK charity's beneficiary; no financial flows between it and the UK charity were established.<ref name="ACC" />

=== Parliament ===
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "British Friends of Reuth", "Reuth" returned 0 contributions in total.<ref name="HANS">UK Parliament, [https://hansard-api.parliament.uk/search/contributions/Spoken.json?queryParameters.searchTerm=%22British%20Friends%20of%20Reuth%22&queryParameters.take=100&queryParameters.orderBy=SittingDateAsc Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "British Friends of Reuth"] ''Hansard'', queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).</ref>

== Web archive ==
* reuth.org.uk: 16 yearly captures, first 2011-06-24, last 2026-01-07.<ref name="u9a58a30a">[https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=reuth.org.uk&output=json&fl=timestamp,original,statuscode&filter=statuscode:200&collapse=timestamp:4 Internet Archive CDX index for reuth.org.uk] ''Wayback Machine'', queried 16 October 2026.</ref>
* reuth.org.il: 19 yearly captures, first 2000-03-04, last 2026-01-06.<ref name="u2b155f39">[https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=reuth.org.il&output=json&fl=timestamp,original,statuscode&filter=statuscode:200&collapse=timestamp:4 Internet Archive CDX index for reuth.org.il] ''Wayback Machine'', queried 16 October 2026.</ref>

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" and "Other regulators: No information available".<ref name="u70851a0e" />

== External links ==
* [https://www.reuth.org.uk Official website]

==Notes==
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[[Category:Jewish charities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Health charities in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Charities based in London]]
[[Category:Charities operating in Israel]]
[[Category:Israel]]
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