Powerbase research: Create World Jewish Relief: charity 290767 / company 01874886 (Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief); accounts to June 2025 incl. MHCLG funding of GBP 4.5m for the STEP Ukraine programme

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Create World Jewish Relief: charity 290767 / company 01874886 (Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief); accounts to June 2025 incl. MHCLG funding of GBP 4.5m for the STEP Ukraine programme

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{{short description|UK Jewish overseas relief and refugee-employment charity (charity 290767; company 01874886), formerly the Central British Fund for German Jewry}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = World Jewish Relief
| type = Registered charity and private company limited by guarantee
| registration_id = Charity 290767; company 01874886
| founded = 1933 (as the Central British Fund for German Jewry, per its website)
| revenue = £15.5 million (year to 2025-06-30)
}}
'''World Jewish Relief''' is a UK Jewish charity working on humanitarian response, support for vulnerable Jewish communities, employment and livelihoods, and refugee employment and language programmes in the UK. Its website gives the legal name as The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, with charity number 290767.<ref name="WJR-WEB-WHAT">World Jewish Relief, [https://www.worldjewishrelief.org/what-we-do/ What we do], accessed 11 November 2026.</ref> Companies House records a private company limited by guarantee of that name (company number 01874886), incorporated on 31 December 1984.<ref name="WJR-CH">Companies House, [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01874886 The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (01874886): overview], [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01874886/officers officers], [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01874886/persons-with-significant-control persons with significant control], [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01874886/filing-history filing history] and [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01874886/charges charges], accessed 11 November 2026.</ref> The charity says it "was established as the Central British Fund for German Jewry in 1933 to help refugees from Nazi-Europe" and helped around 65,000 Jewish refugees to safety.<ref name="WJR-WEB-WHAT" />

Powerbase's page on the [[Jewish Leadership Council]] lists World Jewish Relief among the JLC's constituent members (member lists for 2021 and 2023).

==What the charity says it does==
Its website lists humanitarian response through local partners, life-saving support to vulnerable Jews (it names Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Uganda, Ethiopia and Israel, with a focus on older Jews of the Survivor Generation), employment and livelihoods, climate resilience, and support for refugees in the UK, including a "language and employment programme".<ref name="WJR-WEB-WHAT" /> It also runs a Specialist Training and Employment Programme (STEP) for Ukrainian refugees.<ref name="WJR-WEB-HOME">World Jewish Relief, [https://www.worldjewishrelief.org/ Home page], accessed 11 November 2026.</ref>

==Companies House record==
The company is active, with SIC codes 85590, 86900 and 88990. Its latest accounts are for the year to 30 June 2025. Companies House records no person with significant control (the company's statement is that there is no registrable person) and no charges.<ref name="WJR-CH" />

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Current officers of The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (01874886) as listed by Companies House on 11 November 2026 (name, role, status and dates only; former officers are not listed here)
! Name !! Role !! Status !! Appointed !! Resigned
|-
| Isobel Collinge || Secretary || Active || 17 November 2014 || –
|-
| Hilda Rosemary Worth || Director || Active || 18 June 2020 || –
|-
| Maurice Harold Helfgott || Director || Active || 28 January 2021 || –
|-
| Rachel Louise Ingram || Director || Active || 28 January 2021 || –
|-
| Jeremy Steven Newman || Director || Active || 28 January 2021 || –
|-
| Elliot David Moss || Director || Active || 7 October 2021 || –
|-
| Dina Shiloh || Director || Active || 7 October 2021 || –
|-
| Kevin David Sneader || Director || Active || 8 December 2021 || –
|-
| Alan Rousso || Director || Active || 31 March 2022 || –
|-
| Prerna Pramod Wadikar || Director || Active || 26 April 2022 || –
|-
| Annabel Mahgerefteh || Director || Active || 10 May 2022 || –
|-
| Robert Ian Ginsberg || Director || Active || 16 January 2025 || –
|-
| Gabrielle Alison Silver || Director || Active || 29 October 2025 || –
|-
| Andrew Michael Showman || Director || Active || 29 January 2026 || –
|-
| Adam Leigh || Director || Active || 2 September 2026 || –
|}

==Accounts==
The accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 show total income of £15.5 million (2024: £17.3 million) and total expenditure of £16.7 million (2024: £21.3 million), with funds falling from £9.6 million to £8.3 million.<ref name="WJR-AA2025">Companies House filing history for The Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief (01874886), [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01874886/filing-history/MzQ4NzczMjMzMGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0 annual report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 2025], filed 07 Nov 2025, accessed 11 November 2026.</ref> The trustees' financial review says that, for the UK refugee programme that supported Ukrainian refugees into employment and English-language learning, the charity received £4.5 million from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government in 2024/25 (2023/24: £6.8 million), for 3,400 clients (2023/24: 9,000), that the funded STEP Ukraine programme ended in March 2025, and that it also secured Home Office funding for a new employment and English-language programme.<ref name="WJR-AA2025" /> It reports legacy income of about £1.4 million and a successful Annual Dinner.<ref name="WJR-AA2025" />

{| class="wikitable"
|+ World Jewish Relief: figures from the accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 (£ thousand)
! Item !! 2025 !! 2024
|-
| Donations and legacies<ref name="WJR-AA2025" /> || 9,912 || 9,987
|-
| Charitable activities || 5,382 || 7,168
|-
| Investments || 162 || 190
|-
| Total income || 15,456 || 17,345
|-
| Expenditure on raising funds || 2,226 || 2,256
|-
| Expenditure on charitable activities || 14,427 || 19,051
|-
| Total expenditure || 16,653 || 21,307
|-
| Net (expenditure) after investment gains/losses || (1,267) || (3,953)
|-
| Total funds at year end || 8,343 || 9,610
|}

==Identification and limits==
*This page records Companies House information, the annual report and accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 and what the charity says about itself. Only the latest accounts were read in full.
*The accounts are scanned images and were read page by page; the income, expenditure and funds figures were checked by eye against the page images and add up.
*The charity's own US affiliate and its overseas partners are not covered.
*The Charity Commission register could not be opened from the research box; the charity number comes from the charity's website.
*Officer details are limited to names, roles, status and dates from the public register.

==See also==
*[[Jewish Leadership Council]]

==Notes==
<references/>
[[Category:Charities]]
[[Category:Charities in England and Wales]]
[[Category:Jewish charities in the United Kingdom]]

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Powerbase research: Create World Jewish Relief: charity 290767 / company 01874886 (Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief); accounts to June 2025 incl. MHCLG funding of GBP 4.5m for the STEP Ukraine programme