JNF Charitable Trust

The JNF Charitable Trust (Charity number: 225910, Incorporated on 21 July 1939) is the main vehicle for the Jewish National Fund UK trading as JNF UK. It is also a registered charity - number: 225910.

Finances

Year	Income (£)	Sources	Donations/Grants (£)	Recipients of Grants/Donations
2010	12,157,000	-	11,318,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 7,501,000 Funding of projects in Israel: 3,817,000
2011	9,962,000	-	11,721,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 7,257,000 Funding of projects in Israel: 4,464,000
2012	17,537,000	-	9,655,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 7,374,000 Funding of projects in Israel: 2,281,000
2013	13,855,000	-	12,699,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 4,978,000 Funding of projects in Israel: 7,721,000
2014	13,431,000	-	4,315,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 4,265,000 Funding of projects in Israel: 50,000
2015	14,389,000	-	13,068,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 8,853,000 Funding of projects in Israel: 4,215,000
2016	12,417,000	-	9,829,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 7,914,000 Funding of projects in Israel: 1,915,000
2017	17,038,000	-	8,918,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 8,167,000 Funding of projects in Israel: 751,000
2018	22,255,000	-	11,779,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 8,904,000 Funding of projects in Israel: 2,875,000
2019	16,505,000	-	15,599,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 8,492,000 (UK Via KKL Charity Accounts: 8,164,000) Funding of projects in Israel: 7,107,000
2020	15,411,000	-	12,052,000	Funding of UK Charitable Projects: 8,495,000 (UK Via KKL Charity Accounts: 8,332,000) Funding of projects in Israel: 3,557,000

Misleading donors?

In June 2021, the Fundraising Regulator in the UK found that the JNF Charitable Trust was not guilty of misleading donors after a complaint by the campaign group ‘Stop the JNF’ stated otherwise. The complaint by ‘Stop the JNF’ stated that the “charity’s description of its work in the Negev and of the situation in the Negev itself, was so inaccurate or incomplete as to mislead some people” and “the information about the funding related to the Derech Eretz Leadership Programme omitted significant information about the extent of the project's connection with the armed forces in Israel.”

‘Stop the JNF’ pointed to the fact the JNF listed the following about the 2 donation locations:

 “The Negev is a large desert region in the south of Israel which comprises
  around 55% of Israel's landmass and is largely unpopulated. It is home to less than 10%
  of Israel's population. The Negev region is incredibly poor and is in need of support.”

And

Derech Eretz was a:

 "leadership programme providing marginalised youth aged 17-21 the opportunity for life-changing growth and development throughout all three stages of service in the Israel Defense Forces (pre-army support and preparation, ongoing mentorship during service and post-army guardianship. Derech Eretz encourages participants to take responsibility for their lives - helping to make their military service more meaningful, whilst laying the groundwork for a life of personal fulfilment, success,

and giving to the community.”

The complainant contrasted the above with information on Derech Eretz website which said:

 "Programs include a six-month pre-army Mechina which provides guidance for admission
 to elite and combat army units..." and "High school students from the lower strata of
 society need extra help to achieve a useful and meaningful army seMce [sic]. They have a
 harder time qualifying for popular elite army units which require advance preparation...
 Graduates of the program are motivated and well equipped with skills and experiences
 that will allow them to excel in the military".

As well as pointing to a Ha’aretz article which detailed a JNF Charitable statement from 2017 which said that supporting project in Negev "will not only improve the lives of those who already call the Negev and the Galilee home but will create incentives for people to settle and stay in these areas." Other complaints said that projects in the Negev towns of Umm Al-Hiran and Al-Araqib were connected with the OR Movement which the complaint called a “radical Jewish settler movement.”

JNF replied to the allegations saying that the Derech Eretz programme has no military content and is solely social-educational. Whereas the complaints raised regarding Negev were done so by “a politically motivated movement with its ow/n agenda" and the projects are non-political and provide relief for the region in need.

The Fundraising Regulator came to the outcome that the JNF Charitable Trust had not misled donors in either of the two cited cases and no evidence of deliberate ambiguousness or attempt to mislead.

Funding of projects in Israel 2020

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	27,000
Benji Hillman	57,000
Refua Vesimcha	250,000
Be’re Sova – Soup Kitchen	10,000
Ben Hashitin – Leadership Programme	30,000
Derech Eretz – Youth Programme	2,000
Garin Harel in Tzohar	37,000
Keren Shalom Community Project	30,000
Ruhama Forest	22,000
Latet	47,000
Hakeren Leyedidot	44,000
Meitarim Lachish	75,000
Matan Avrut Adadit	77,000
Rachashei Lev	170,000
Yad Tamar	85,000
Student Village in Kibbutz Misgav Am	57,000
Afike Orot – Ofakim	25,000
Bnei HaMenashe Community	9,000
Be’re Milka Community	20,000
Others	179,000
Legacies	1,024,000

In 2020, JNF Charitable Trust donated funds to a number of projects as outlined above. Details of particular projects are as follows.

£77,000 was donated to Matan Arvut Hadadit – an organisation that makes payments to families below the poverty line. Funds also went to Mitzpe Ramon to advance employment opportunities for the deprived.

Funds were directed to the deprived town of Yerucham. Funds were aimed at the gaps in infrastructure – including a new daycare centre and the renovation of nurseries, development of entrances to the village and to help build a special needs employment centre. In the town of Kiryat, similar aims were established such as a ‘House of Excellence’, which aimed to close the gaps in education support for lower socioeconomic groups.

Funds also went to Refua V’simcha, an organisation that aims to improve the conditions of those in need, and Mariann’s early childhood centre which works with children with ADHD and autism.

£85,000 was donated to Yad Tamar to assist in the well-being of cancer patients. Tenufa Bakehila, which improves the lives of the socio-economically deprived in areas such as Sderot, Kiryat Malachi and Ashkelon, also received funds. In Sderot, an elderly care and treatment centre was established. The Moadoniot Organisation in Hatzor Haglilit was also supported. The organisation removes children from at-risk families and placed them in protected environments.

£2,000 was donated to the Derech Eretz youth programme with aims to develop skills in teenagers in deprived areas. £9,000 went to Bnei HaMenashe Community – a community that aspires people to move from India to Israel.

Finally, £1.2 million, since 2018, was donated to schools – primarily those in the UK (16 schools assisted in 2020). Two are specifically identified through the JNF 6th Form Programme: JNF and Yavneh College. In 2020, the 6th Form programme enable speakers such as Gideon Falter, Lyn Julius, Alex Vaskevitch, Alan Mendoza and Baroness Deech.

Funding of projects in Israel 2019

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	17,000
Benji Hillman	67,000
Environmental Projects	31,000
Refua Vesimcha	317,000
Amit High School	70,000
Be’er Sova	10,000
Bet Hashitin	15,000
Derech Eretz	32,000
Ezra LeMarpeh	2,000
Garin Harel in Tzohar	15,000
Hof Ahskelon community centre	20,000
Israel Is	13,000
Kerem Shalom	15,000
Kiryat Melachi Kindergartens	20,000
Meitarim Lachish	10,000
Rachashei Lev	260,000
Ruach Dromit	1,000
Simcha Layeled	43,000
Tenufa Bakehila	30,000
Yad Tamar	53,000
YBA – Bnei Akiva	21,000
Nitzan Lanoar therapeutic farm for youth at risk	10,000
Legacies	276,000

In 2019, donations from JNF included those to the town of Yerucham. Funds were donated with the aim of alleviating social deprivation, poverty and exclusion. Specific projects included an early childhood education centre, developing a music conservatory, a senior and special needs employment centre and development of playgrounds and entrances.

In Kiryat Malachi, a town in the south of Israel, funds helped develop The Ottensooser Young Adult Centre as well as renovation of entrances, kindergartens (cost of £20,000), Amit High School, Eli Cohen Primary School and a community park.

Arad, a deprived town, was also helped via JNF funded projects. These included renovating the Oron Theatre and youth projects such as building the Joy Bickler Arad Youth Centre (Joy Bickler being an Israel supporter) and renovating the Bnei Akiva Youth centre. Kindergartens and the Ye’elim Ofarim School were also renovated as well as a club for the hearing impaired

In Mitzpe Ramon, funds helped build a business valley, a community centre music studio, a school computer room and a water playground. JNF funds have also been used to build flats for new Olim; to help establish immigrants in Israel.

Uran Forests were also planted in Yerucham, Kiryat Malakhi, Mitzpe Ramon, Bnei Dekalimin.

Elsewhere, donations (£2,000) helped establish a medical centre (the Ezra Le Marpen rehabilitation centre) in Sderot. A new outpatient centre at a cancer care unit was also developed in Ruach Dromit. £317,000 was donated to Refua Vesimcha - a charity providing services to improve the conditions of patients. JNF also worked with the Sderot municipality and Ministry of Education to upgrade educational opportunities.

Funds were also donated to the Eshkol Music School whilst other projects such as the Bikurim school for performing arts and Jonathan Wohl Music School in the Ono Academic College was also supported in 2017 by JNF.

In Shavei Darom, a town near the Gaza Strip, the development of a sports ground was funded.

Funds also supported Ahuzat Ya’akov - an organisation that helps integrate ultra-orthodox Israelis into wider society – to help renovate their campus. Other organisations supported include Masa Israeli, an organisation that aims to strengthen Zionist identity by communicating with students, Shiur Acher – an organisation that supports underprivileged students and El-Sayad Bedouin High School.

Scholarships for the Bedouin community were also part-funded by the JNF; £13,000 was donated to the Bedouin Academy.

Tenufa Bakehila – an organisation that supports deprived areas in Kiryat Gav and Kiryat Malachi received £30,000, Krembo wings – a youth movement for special needs children, Eden Karmia an organisation that provides a framework for survivors of abuse (£42,000). Orr Shalom, in Ashkelon, an organisation that removes children from homes of abuse was supported through the renovation of foster homes.

HaShomer HaChadash, a neighbour watch initiative that aims to protect farmland, was given funds to maintain presence and to run educational leadership programmes. £30,000 was donated to Derech Eretz for a leadership programme that aimed to develop skills in teenagers and strengthen connections to Israel.

JNF funds in 2019 also helped SAHI – an organisation that combats hungry and Project Connect which works with holocaust survivors by providing internet and renovating flats (through the ‘Living in Dignity’ programme) along with an Immediate Assistance Fund for survivors below the poverty line. JNF also hosted ‘Notes of Hope’ concert – a tribute to holocaust victims.

OR Me’Ophir – an organisation that helps Ethiopian Israelis – has been assisted with funds for programmes to improve living conditions, the environment and integration.

Funding has also been granted to Yad Tamar to assist cancer patients (£53,000) and strengthen the well-being of outpatients, to Moadoniot in Hatzor Haglilit (who take children to protected environments from at-risk families) and Marianne’s early childhood and family centre.

Funds have also been directed to increase the connection between the UK and Israel through trips to the Negev region and the Israeli Education Grant Programme which increase education about Israel in UK schools (including the Festival of Spoke Irvit - an initiative that sees Israeli Actors visit UK schools).

Funding of projects in Israel 2018

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	27,000
Benji Hillman	23,000
Environmental Projects	51,000
Refua Vesimcha	80,000
Bedouin Academy	13,000
Gevim School	30,000
Massa Israeli	148,000
Derech Eretz	30,000
Meitarim Lachish	7,000
Ramat Hanegev YAFE	70,000
Rachashei Lev	267,000
Reut Sderot	10,000
Tenufa Bakehila	20,000
Legacies	559,000

In 2018, donations from JNF included those to the town of Yerucham. Funds were donated with the aim of alleviating social deprivation, poverty and exclusion. Specific projects included an early childhood education centre, the development of a music conservatory and the development of playgrounds and entrances.

In Kiryat Malachi, a town in the south of Israel, funds helped develop The Ottensooser Young Adult Centre as well as the renovation of entrances, kindergartens, Amit High School, Eli Cohen Primary School and a community park.

Arad, a deprived town, was also helped via JNF funded projects. These included renovating the Oron Theatre and youth projects such as building the Joy Bickler Arad Youth Centre (Joy Bickler being an Israel supporter) and renovating the Bnei Akiva Youth centre. Kindergartens and the Ye’elim Ofarim School were also renovated as well as a club for the hearing impaired.

In Mitzpe Ramon, funds helped build a business valley, a Community centre music studio, a school computer room and a water playground. JNF funds have also been used to build flats for new Olim; to help establish immigrants in Israel.

Uran Forests were also planted in Yerucham, Kiryat Malakhi, Mitzpe Ramon, Bnei Dekalimin.

Elsewhere, donations helped establish a medical centre (the Ezra Le Marpen rehabilitation centre) in Sderot. A new outpatient centre at a cancer care unit was also developed in Ruach Dromit. £500,000 was donated to Refua Vesimcha - a charity providing services to improve the conditions of patients.

Funds were also donated to the Eshkol Music School whilst other projects such as the Bikurim school for performing arts and Jonathan Wohl Music School in the Ono Academic College was also supported in 2017 by JNF.

In Shavei Darom, a town near the Gaza Strip, the development of a sports ground was funded.

Funds also supported Ahuzat Ya’akov - an organisation that helps integrate ultra-orthodox Israelis into wider society – to help renovate their campus. Other organisations supported include Masa Israeli, an organisation that aims to strengthen Zionist identity by communicating with students, Shiur Acher – an organisation that supports underprivileged students and El-Sayad Bedouin High School.

Scholarships for the Bedouin community were also part-funded by the JNF; £13,000 was donated to the Bedouin Academy.

Tenufa Bakehila – an organisation that supports deprived areas in Kiryat Gav and Kiryat Malachi received £20,000, Krembo wings – a youth movement for special needs children, Eden Karmia an organisation that provides a framework for survivors of abuse (£42,000). Orr Shalom, in Ashkelon, an organisation that removes children from homes of abuse was supported through the renovation of foster homes.

HaShomer HaChadash, a neighbour watch initiative that aims to protect farmland, was given funds to maintain presence and to run educational leadership programmes. £30,000 was donated to Derech Eretz for a leadership programme that aimed to develop skills in teenagers.

JNF funds in 2017 also helped SAHI – an organisation that combats hungry and Project Connect which works with holocaust survivors. JNF also hosted ‘Notes of Hope’ concert – a tribute to holocaust victims.

OR Me’Ophir – an organisation that helps Ethiopian Israelis – has been assisted with funds for programmes to improve living conditions, the environment and integration.

Funding has also been granted to Yad Tamar to assist cancer patients and strengthen well-being of outpatients and Moadoniot in Hatzor Haglilit who take children to protected environments from at-risk families.

Funds have also been directed to increase the connection between the UK and Israel through trips to the Negev region and the Israeli Education Grant Programme which increases the education of Israel in UK schools.

Funding of projects in Israel 2017

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	30,000
Benji Hillman	50,000
Environmental Projects	55,000
Emergency Projects	2,000
Alon kindergarten	10,000
Barzilay Hospital	25,000
Desert Stars	20,000
Derech Eretz	88,000
Eden Karmia	42,000
Havatzelet	10,000
Kiryat Malachi kindergartens	18,000
Refua Vesimcha	500,000
Sachlav Kindergarten	24,000
Yerucham Early Childhood Centre	43,000
Other	3,000
Legacies	888,000

In 2017, donations from JNF included those to the town of Yerucham. Funds were donated with the aim of alleviating social deprivation, poverty and exclusion. Specific projects included an early childhood education centre (which received £43,000), developing a music conservatory, Lake Yerucham Recreation Park, Urban Forests and the renovation of communal areas in former social housing buildings.

In Kiryat Malachi, a town in the south of Israel, funds helped develop The Ottensooser Young Adult Centre as well as renovation of entrances, kindergartens (which received £18,000), Amit High School, Eli Cohen Primary School and a community park.

Arad, a deprived town, was also helped via JNF funded projects. These included renovating the Oron Theatre and youth projects such as building the Joy Bickler Arad Youth Centre (Joy Bickler being an Israel supporter) and renovating the Bnei Akiva Youth centre. Kindergartens and the Ye’elim Ofarim School were also renovated as well as a club for the hearing impaired

In Mitzpe Ramon, funds helped build a business valley, a Community centre music studio, a school computer room and a water playground.

Uran Forests were also planted in Yerucham, Kiryat Malakhi, Mitzpe Ramon, Bnei Dekalimin.

Elsewhere, donations helped establish a medical centre (the Ezra le Marpen rehabilitation centre) in Sderot. A new outpatient centre at a cancer care unit was also developed in Ruach Dromit. £500,000 was donated to Refua Vesimcha - a charity providing services to improve the conditions of patients.

Funds were also donated to the Eshkol Music School whilst other projects such as the Bikurim School for Performing Arts and Jonathan Wohl Music School in the Ono Academic College was also supported in 2017 by JNF.

In Shavei Darom, a town near the Gaza Strip, the development of a sports ground was funded.

Funds also supported Ahuzat Ya’akov - an organisation that helps integrate ultra-orthodox Israelis into wider society – to help renovate their campus. Other organisations supported include Masa Israeli, an organisation that aims to strengthen Zionist identity by communicating with students, Shiur Acher – an organisation that supports underprivileged students and El-Sayad Bedouin High School.

Scholarships for the Bedouin community were also part-funded by the JNF. As was Tenufa Bakehila – an organisation that supports deprived areas in Kiryat Gav and Kiryat Malachi, Krembo wings – a youth movement for special needs children, Eden Karmia an organisation that provides a framework for survivors of abuse (£42,000). Orr Shalom, in Ashkelon, an organisation that removes children from homes of abuse was supported through the renovation of foster homes.

HaShomer HaChadash, a neighbour watch initiative that aims to protect farmland, was given funds to maintain presence and to run educational leadership programmes. £88,000 was donated to Derech Eretz for a leadership programme that aimed to develop skills in teenagers.

JNF funds in 2017 also helped SAHI – an organisation that combats hungry and Project Connect with works with holocaust survivors. JNF also hosted the ‘Notes of Hope’ concert – a tribute to holocaust victims.

OR Me’Ophir – an organisation that helps Ethiopian Israelis – has been assisted with funds for programmes to improve living conditions, the environment and integration.

Funding has also been granted to Yad Tamar to assist cancer patients and strengthen the well-being of outpatients as well as Moadoniot in Hatzor Haglilit who take children to protected environments from at-risk families.

Funds have also been directed to increase the connections between the UK and Israel through trips to the Negev region and the Israeli Education Grant Programme which increases education of Israel in UK schools.

Funding of projects in Israel 2016

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	23,000
Benji Hillman	74,000
Environmental Projects	52,000
Emergency Projects	29,000
Sderot – Ezra Lemarpeh	6,000
Carasso Science Park	70,000
Desert Stars	20,000
Refua Vesimcha	200,000
JDC (Edible Gardens)	10,000
Eshkol Music School	20,000
Macon Arava	2,000
Derech Eretz	1,000
Other	3,000
Legacies	379,000

In 2016, donations from JNF included those to the town of Yerucham. Funds were donated with the aim of alleviating social deprivation, poverty and exclusion. Specific projects included an early childhood education centre, a music conservatory, Lake Yerucham Recreation Park, Urban Forests and the renovation of communal areas in former social housing buildings.

In Kiryat Malachi, a town in the south of Israel, funds helped develop The Ottensooser Young Adult Centre as well as renovation of entrances, kindergartens, Amit High School and a community park.

Arad, a deprived town, was also helped via JNF funded projects. These included renovating the Oron Theatre and youth projects such as building the Joy Bickler Arad Youth Centre (Joy Bickler being an Israel supporter) and renovating the Bnei Akiva Youth centre. Kindergartens and Entrances were also renovated.

In Mitzpe Ramon, funds helped build a business valley, a Community centre music studio and a school computer room.

Elsewhere, donations helped establish a medical centre (the Ezra le Marpen rehabilitation centre) in Sderot. A new outpatient centre at a cancer care unit was also developed in Ruach Dromit. £200,000 was donated to Refua Vesimcha - a charity providing services to improve the conditions of patients.

£20,000 was donated to the Eshkol Music School whilst other projects such as the Bikurim school for performing arts and Jonathan Wohl Music School in the Ono Academic College was also supported in 2016 by JNF.

In Shavei Darom, a town near the Gaza Strip, the development of a sports ground was funded.

Funds also supported Ahuzat Ya’akov - an organisation that helps integrate ultra-orthodox Israelis into wider society – to help renovate their campus. Other organisations supported include Masa Israeli, an organisation that aims to strengthen Zionist identity by communicating with students, Shiur Acher – an organisation that supports underprivileged students and El-Sayad Bedouin High School.

Scholarships for the Bedouin community were also part-funded by the JNF. As was Tenufa Bakehila – an organisation that supports deprived areas in Kiryat Gav and Kiryat Malachi, Krembo wings – a youth movement for special needs children, Eden Karmia an organisation that provides a framework for survivors of abuse. Orr Shalom, in Ashkelon, an organisation that removes children from homes of abuse was supported through the renovation of foster homes.

HaShomer HaChadash, a neighbour watch initiative that aims to protect farmland, was given funds to maintain presence and to run educational leadership programmes. £1000 was donated to Derech Eretz for a leadership programme that aimed to develop skills in teenagers.

Funding of projects in Israel 2015

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	2,000
Benji Hillman	74,000
Nitzana/Yerucham Derech Eretz programmes	135,000
Yerucham Expansion and Renovation of Music Conservatory	165,000
Yerucham – Equipping Second Floor of Learning Centre	25,000
Yerucham – Renovating Renanim Kindergarten	25,000
Equipping New Kindergartens for Autistic Children in Be’re Sheva	35,000
HaShomer HaChadash	157,000
Bikurim – Youth Village	24,000
Bikurim – Music School	304,000
Shavei Darom – Ampitheatre	76,000
Shavei Darom – Construction of sports ground	87,000
Nachson Pre Army Programme – Developing New Campus in Eshkol	117,000
Kiryat Malachi – Renovation of state kindergartens	262,000
Ono Academic College	1,000,000
Matnat Shichrur (Heritage Gift) – 10-day trips for new soldiers to learn about Israel	33,000
Ofanim	32,000
Be’re Sova	26,000
Meitarim Lachish Pre Army Programme – Equipping the campus of Eliav	29,000
The Carasso Science Museum	86,000
Ruach Dromit	24,000
Sderot young adult centre	18,000
Gvahim accelerator programme	143,000
Shiur Acher	49,000
Nitzanei Hanegev	35,000
Ramat Hanegev	42,000
Ahuzat Negev Ofakim	34,000
Kiryat Malachi	24,000
Renovation of Yachini Community Centre	29,000
Yerucham – Yeruham Design Terminal	48,000
Yerucham – Renovation of Communal Areas	37,000
Hof Ashkelon Regional Council	58,000
Ofakim	134,000
Yerucham Developing Public Gardens	174,000
Kiryat Malachi – Development of the entrances	416,000
Kiryat Malachi – Community Park	87,000
Arad	66,000
Eden Karmia	143,000
Orr Shalom – Renovation of Forster Homes	25,000

In 2015, £304,000 was donated to support the Bikurim Music School in Eshkol, £135,00 to a Derech Eretz youth programme, £24,000 to Ruach Dromit Care Cancer Centre.

Funds have also supported business hubs such as the valley in Mitzpe Ramon and The Hive ion Ashdod.

Elsewhere, £157,000 was donated to HaShomer HaChadash – an organisation that promotes Zionism through land protection and youth leadership – and £25,000 to Orr Shalom to assist in the development of foster homes. £26,000 to Earth’s Promise – a community garden in Be’re Sheva, £143,000 to Gvahim for an employment programme. JNF also sponsors the Soroka Medical Research Initiative.

In Yerucham, £174,000 was donated for the development of public gardens, £165,000 for a music conservatory, £48,000 to develop a design terminal that will support young developers, £37,000 for the renovation of communal areas of former social housing buildings. In addition, £25,000 helped build a learning centre in Yerucham, £25,000 was aimed to renovate a kindergarten and £49,000 was donated to Shiur Archer – an organisation that gives underprivileged kids access to industry professionals.

In Kiryat Malachi, £24,000 was donated for general renovations while £416,000 was directed at the development of entrances, £87,000 for a community park. Other projects in Kiryat Malachi include developing kindergartens and a community centre.

Funding of projects in Israel 2014

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	32,000
Kiryat Gat Mariann’s early childhood centre	52,000
Nitzana/Yerucham Derech Eretz programmes	216,000
Reut SderotAssociation	34,000
Beit HaOle-Needy Immigrants	35,000
Yerucham – Early Children Centre	69,000
Arava – pre-school education centre	29,000
HaShomer HaChadash	146,000
Bikurim – Youth Village	89,000
Ezra le’Marpe – Sderot	195,000
Ruach Dromit	27,000
Hashomer HaChadash Caravans Unit	73,000
Laika Youth	26,000
Desert Stars	45,000
Sderot Youth Centre	1,000,000
Arad Youth Centre	81,000
Ayalim Student Village	1,624,000
Café Britain in southern Israel	487,000
Gvahim	65,000
Arad Ayalim garden renovation	41,000
OR- Har Amasa Community Centre	44,000
Sderot – bicycle trail	325,000
Ofakim – a park and playground	325,000
Yerucham – Northern Entrance and Lake Camping Site	568,000
Arad	244,000
Earth Promise	49,000
Mitzpe Ramon	162,000
Kiryat Malachi – adult youth centre	139,000
Gvahim accelerator programme	37,000
Kibutz Erez Shaar Hanegev – Opus TV	28,000
Arava – adoption of 15 families	406,000
Rahat Shelters	29,000
Tzuk Eitan 9 Gaza war effort	144,000
Refua Vesimcha	73,000
Ofakim – day centre for senior centres	122,000
Orr Shalom – Beer Sheva cluster of family group home	30,000

In 2014, £89,000 was donated to support the Bikurim Music School in Eshkol, £45,000 to Desert Stars – a Bedouin Youth Leadership Programme, £216,000 to the Derech Eretz Youth Programme and £27,000 to Ruach Dromit – a cancer care centre.

Beit HaOleh – an organisation that supports immigrants – also received funds. £487,000 was gifted to Café Britannia – a Holocaust Survivors Club, £30,000 to Orr Shalom to renovate foster homes. Elsewhere, £49,000 was donated to Earth Promise to build a community garden and £146,000 to HaShomer HaChadash an organisation that combines land protection through a youth leadership programme.

Donations were also made to the Soroka Medical Research Initiative for the training for young doctors and Dror Israel – an educators’ organisation. £69,000 was made to the Yerucham Early Childhood Centre. £1,000,000 was donated to the Sapir Music School in Sderot, £139,000 to the Young Adults Centre in Kiryat Malakhi and £1,624,000 to student volunteer organisation Ayalim.

Other projects funded were Shiur Acher – an organisation that connects underprivileged young people to business leaders – and Gvahim – a career accelerator programme that received £65,000.

The OR Har Amasa Community Centre (donations totalling £44,000 in 2014) is part of the OR Movement which the Palestine Campaign states "has supported the construction of the Jewish town of Hiran, which aims to replace the Palestinian Bedouin village of Umm-al-Hiran, which has been subject to forcible evacuation."

Funding of projects in Israel 2013

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	35,000
Arad Early Childhood Centre	349,000
Halutzit/Nitzana/Yerucham Derech Eretz programmes	87,000
BeerSheva Sports Hall and Empowerment Centre	35,000
Ezra le’Marpe – Sderot	1,848,000
Medical Research – Soroka Hospital BeerSheva	69,000
Yerucham Youth Leadership Centre	38,000
HaShomer HaChadash	114,000
Sderot Young Adult Centre	35,000
Kiryat Gat Young Adult Centre	44,000
Ayalim Student Villages	35,000
Benji Hillman	32,000
Sderot - Nachshon	97,000
Ofakim Community Playgrounds	78,000
Sensory Garden for the Blind	32,000
Gvahim accelerator programs	30,000

In 2013, donations from the JNF Charitable Trust helped establish the Sapir Music College in Sderot. Other donations included: £35,000 to the Ayalim Student Village for renovations and £30,000 to The Hive in Gvahim – a programme that connects highly skilled talents to Israel. Funds also supported Kiryat Gat Sports Club and Enrichment Centre, Derech Eretz Pre and Post Army Enrichment that aims to build “socially aware Israeli leaders”, a business hub in Mitzpe Ramon and Eshkol Music School.

£349,000 was donated to the Arab Early Childhood Centre, £114,000 to HaShomer HaChadash – an organisation that helps communities by training and providing volunteers to work with police, £78,000 to construct playgrounds in Ofakim, £1,848,000 to Ezra Le’Marpe to provide specialist medical supplies, £97,000 to Nachshon – a social leadership programme in Sderot, £32,000 for a sensory garden, £69,000 for medical research at Sokora Hospital Be’er Sheva and £38,000 for the Yerucham Youth Leadership Centre.

Funds in 2013 also supported the Community Gardens Project and OR Movement Projects (establishing towns in the Negev region).

Funding of projects in Israel 2012

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	58,000
Benji Hillman	53,000
Haluzit pre-army program	319,000
Eshkol youth village	82,000
Yerucham early childhood centre	280,000
Jewish Scouts	299,000
Sderot Sapir College	148,000
HaShomer HaChadash	137,000
Ayalim student villages	132,000
Kiryat Gat sports and enrichment centre	58,000
Community Garden project	74,000
Carmel and Chiran Forests	53,000
Jerusalem Botanical Gardens	105,000
Mitzpe Ramon business and technology hub	824,000
Gvahim Ashdod accelerator programme	61,000
JBG Scholarships	4,000

£319,000 worth of funds donated by JNF Charitable Trust in 2012 were used to support Halutzit – “a group of 21st Century Zionist pioneers” – to support the building of school dormitories.

In the Eshkol region, near the Gaza Strip, £82,000 was directed to build parks and playgrounds in the settlement towns of Shuva and Avashalom as well as supporting a Holocaust Survivors Club. £58,000 to Kiryat Gat sports club and enrichment centre, £137,000 to the volunteer service HaShomer HaChadash, £132,000 to Ayalim Association Community Centre in Arad (an organisation that provides volunteers to support in disadvantaged communities). In addition to £148,000 to Sderot Sapit College to build a music academy and £824,000 for a business hub in Mitzpe Ramon.

Funding of projects in Israel 2011

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	47,000
Aleh	6,000
Ayalim	82,000
Habbanim Park	102,000
Shuva	25,000
Tel Sheva Playground	85,000
Chiran Forest	35,000
Avshalom Park	42,000
Arad	337,000
Dimona	335,000
Be'erot Yitzchak	64,000
Hura Village infrastructure	51,000
HaShomer Hachadash	84,000
Eshkol Youth Centre	24,000
Holocaust Centre	50,000
Kisharit	124,000
JBG Scholarships	17,000

Over £1 million worth of funds donated by JNF Charitable Trust in 2011 were used to support Halutzit – “a group of 21st Century Zionist pioneers” – in order to construct new communities in the Negev region. These include roads, irrigations, foundations and schools, including the construction of a boys dormitory. Money that was donated to the two of Sderot was used for the construction of town entrances

Donations have also been used for the regeneration of the town of Ofakim, projects included a public park (£102,000), Ayalim and Zionist community building and construction of a student village (£82,000) and the Association of the Development of Ofakim which aims to encourage young people to remain in the area.

£84,000 went to HaShomer HaChadash which provides security to farms, £64,000 to Be’erot Yitzchak to preserve a heritage site. Funds were also donated to the Eshkol region (near Gaza Strip) to improve the quality of life: £24,000 for youth centre development, £35,000 for a park and playground in Sheva and £42,000 for the same in Avshalom. In Gvahim, donations were used to assist economic development. £47,000 was donated to Beit Uri, a residential home for disabled teenagers.

Elsewhere, £337,000 was donated to develop the Arad Performing Arts Centre, £85,000 to the Tel Sheva Campus for Special Education and Rehabilitation, £51,000 to Green Hura (Hura being a Bedouin Town outside Beersheva) to improve quality of life and £50,000 to the British Social Club for Holocaust Survivors in Israel.

Funding of projects in Israel 2010

Destination/Organisation in Israel	Incoming Resources (£)
Beit Uri	44,000
Aleh	237,000
Ayalim	58,000
SPNI	47,000
Lord Sacks Forest	165,000
Arad (Ulpena)	27,000
Arad (Other)	80,000
Halutzit	1,097,000
OR	242,000
Sderot	402,000
Ichlu Reim	60,000
Leket	30,000
Koret	75,000
JBG Scholarships	18,000

Over £1 million worth of funds donated by JNF Charitable Trust in 2010 were used to support Halutzit – “a group of 21st Century Zionist pioneers” – to construct new communities in the Negev region. These included projects related to roads, irrigation, building foundations and schools.

£400,000 was contributed to the rebuilding of Sderot – a town near the Gaza strip which was targeted. £85,000 was donated to Ayalim Association which offered student volunteers to under-developed regions and £27,000 went to supporting a Zionist Secondary School for Girls (called Ulpena) in Arad (£80,000 in total for this region). £237,000 went towards Medical Care in Aleh Negev and £165,000 to Lord Sacks Forest (restoration). £242,000 was donated to OR Negev (part of the OR Movement) for the building of infrastructure in Negev.

£30,000 donated to Table to Table (a food rescue service), £44,000 to a residential home for disabled teenagers called Beit Uri, £60,000 to Ichlu Re’im an NGO that combats hunger, £75,000 to Gardener Microeconomics Initiative (Koret) to help those on low incomes. £47,000 to SPNI – "awaiting a decision".

On 30 March 2011, in the House of Commons a motion was tabled welcoming the work of the ‘Stop the JNF’ campaign. The motion went on to describe the work of the JNF and “its ongoing illegal expropriation of Palestinian land, concealing of destroyed Palestinian villages beneath parks and forests, and prevention of refugees from returning to their homes; notes that the JNF's constitution is explicitly discriminatory by stating that land and property will never be rented, leased or sold to non-Jews…”

Contact

Since November 2016 it has been registered at Mountcliff House, 154 Brent Street, London, England, NW4 2BF (the majority of all JNF related companies are registered at this address).

Previous addresses:

• May 2004 - November 2016: JNF House, Spring Villa Park, Edgware, Middlesex, HA8 7ED

• May 1997 - May 2004: 58-70 Edgware Way, Edgware, Middlesex, HA8 8GQ

• Incorporation - May 1997: Harold Poster House, Kingsbury Circle, Kingsbury, NW9 9SP