Reuben Foundation

UK grant-making charity of the Reuben family, founded in 2002 as the Reuben Brothers Foundation

Reuben Foundation
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Type	Charitable company limited by guarantee; grant-making foundation
Founded	9 July 2002 (incorporated); registered as a charity on 10 October 2002
Founder(s)	Reuben Brothers (David Reuben and Simon Reuben)
Registration ID	Charity 1094130; company 04481304
Status	Active
Headquarters	4th Floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London SW1P 4QP
Area served	National and overseas
Services	Grants to institutions and individuals
Key people	Richard Anthony Stone (chair); Simon Reuben; Reuben David Reuben; James Adam Reuben; Dana Lisa Reuben; Joyce Reuben
Website	reubenfoundation.com

The Reuben Foundation is a charitable company registered in England and Wales (charity 1094130, company 04481304). It was incorporated on 9 July 2002 as the Reuben Brothers Foundation and took its present name on 30 October 2006. It was set up to channel the charitable giving of the Reuben Brothers, David Reuben and Simon Reuben. Its trustees are members of the Reuben family and Richard Anthony Stone.

Its largest grants have gone to the University of Oxford for Reuben College (£30 million in 2020 and £23.95 million in 2022), to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (£3 million in 2018), to the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity for the Reuben Foundation Imaging Centre (£2.5 million in 2014), to Great Ormond Street Hospital and to the Illuminated River Foundation. It is a trustee of the Nancy Reuben Primary School in Hendon and its main funder. In 2023 and 2024 it gave £3,618,032 to the Israeli Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers, which supports soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces. £2,193,000 of this was given in 2024, during the genocide in Gaza. In 2023 it also gave £174,663 to two other Israeli bodies that support soldiers, the ATALEF Foundation and Medison Aid.

Objects and governance

The foundation's governing document is its memorandum and articles of association, incorporated on 9 July 2002 and amended by special resolutions of 23 October 2006 and 19 April 2010. Its objects are to further education and training, "in particular young persons"; to relieve people "wherever located or resident in the world" who are in need because of their social or economic circumstances, infirmity or age, or "as a result of local, national or international unrest or disorder"; and to support any other exclusively charitable objects. Its area of benefit is "national and overseas". The Charity Commission register lists Israel, Canada, France, Greece, Tanzania, the United States and England as places where it operates. The register also says that the charity has one or more trading subsidiaries, that no trustee is paid, and that no employee receives benefits of more than £60,000.

The foundation's registered office is Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London SW1P 4QP. The Charity Commission gives its address as 4th Floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London SW1P 4QP. On 25 March 2008 the registered office moved from 6th Floor, Meridian House, 42-43 Upper Berkeley Street, London W1H 7PL. The first accounting period was extended to 31 December 2003, and every later year has ended on 31 December.

The foundation describes itself as having been "[f]ormed in 2002 with an initial endowment of $100 million". It is funded mainly through its investments and its trading subsidiaries. In 2024 those subsidiaries gave it £60,004,296 under deed of covenant, and in 2025 they gave £73,202,575. The Charity Commission records total income of £64.29 million in 2024 and £79.47 million in 2025. In both years almost all of it is classed as investment income.

Trustees and officers

The trustees are also the company's directors. The table below includes both current and former trustees.

Directors and trustees of the Reuben Foundation (company 04481304)

Name	Role	Appointed	Resigned	Born	Notes
Richard Anthony Stone	Trustee; chair	20 October 2009		November 1980	British; lives in England
Simon David Reuben	Trustee	9 July 2002		May 1941	British; founder of Reuben Brothers
Reuben David Reuben	Trustee	31 July 2019		September 1938	British; lives in Monaco. He was previously a director as David Reuben from 9 July 2002 to 3 May 2012.
James Adam Reuben	Trustee	20 January 2010		May 1986	British
Dana Lisa Renee Reuben	Trustee	20 January 2010		January 1978	British; trustee of the Royal Academy Trust
Joyce Habibeh Reuben	Trustee	11 November 2024		July 1949	British
Eileen Marie Sawyer	Trustee	31 July 2019	11 November 2024	September 1979	British. The Nancy Reuben Primary School's 2025 accounts give her resignation date as 1 November 2024.
Malcolm Robin Turner	Trustee; company secretary	9 July 2002	6 October 2022	September 1935	British; secretary for the same period
Anne Benjamin	Trustee	12 December 2002	30 July 2019	June 1937	British
Patrick Colin O'Driscoll	Trustee	25 September 2006, and again on 6 October 2010	20 January 2010, and again on 25 September 2018	May 1975	Irish
Michael David Gubbay	Trustee	12 December 2002, and again on 6 October 2010	20 January 2010, and again on 18 February 2013	May 1963	British
Debra Reuben	Trustee	10 May 2010	3 May 2012	March 1955	American; lives in the United Kingdom

Companies House gives the correspondence address of every officer as 4th Floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London SW1P 4QP.

Finances

Income and spending, years to 31 December (Charity Commission register)

	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Total income	£4.20m	£4.55m	£4.97m	£64.29m	£79.47m
of which investment income	£4.20m	£4.46m	£4.97m	£63.47m	£79.41m
Total spending	£9.18m	£5.33m	£11.09m	£7.19m	£33.46m
Grants to institutions	£7.18m	£3.72m	£7.13m	£5.61m	£31.64m
Long-term investments	£92.22m	£85.73m	£108.72m	£102.94m	£127.98m
Total liabilities	£91.97m	£85.53m	£88.15m	£47.49m	£78.27m

Source: Charity Commission financial history.

The foundation records a grant when it is offered, not when it is paid, and shows unpaid amounts as commitments. In 2020 grant funding activities totalled £89,708,346, most of it a £30,000,000 grant to the University of Oxford for Reuben College. Commitments carried forward at the end of that year stood at £58,067,077. Commitments carried forward were £18,388,000 at the end of 2024 and £46,791,000 at the end of 2025. In the 2025 accounts, total grants payable that year were £31,637,000. The 2025 accounts also restate 2024. They report that a donation commitment existing at 31 December 2023 had not been recognised, and correcting this added £1.5 million to commitments due in more than one year. The recipient is not named.

Grants

The grants tables are taken from each year's own accounts. Where a later year's accounts restate a figure, the earlier figure is kept and the difference is noted. For 2009 to 2014 the Companies House copies of the accounts contain no list of grants, so the figures for those years come from the trustees' reports and the notes on commitments. The figures for 2014 are the comparatives in the 2015 accounts. Some figures from the old version of this page, for 2011 and 2012, could not be checked against any filing that is available now, so they have been left out.

The "Israel link" column marks recipients based in Israel or working mainly for Israel. "IDF-linked" marks bodies whose purpose is to support soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces.

2003 to 2013

Named grants, years to 31 December 2003–2013 (£)

Recipient	Israel link	2003*	2004*	2005*	2006*	2007	2008	2009*	2010*	2011*	2012*	2013*
Od Yosef Hai			221,000	700,000
Israel Cancer Association	Israel	105,371				35,395	142,787
Great Ormond Street Hospital						1,025,000		25,000	25,000	25,000	25,000
NSPCC					400,000						25,200
Community Security Trust				30,000			50,000	25,000	25,000	25,000	25,000	25,000
Jewish Care						10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	20,000		10,000
Nancy Reuben Primary School (with the kindergarten in 2012–2013)						178,746	10,000				100,000	40,900
Norwood							11,000				16,000	10,000
Princess Royal Trust for Carers						10,000	10,000				10,000	10,000
Outward Bound Trust						75,000					10,000
Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign						10,000
Diner des Tsars						15,863
Jerusalem Network						25,000
Leuka						10,000
Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health						10,400
Prince's Charities Foundation								25,000	25,000	50,000
Team London										670,000
Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund										50,000
Aspinall Foundation										35,000
Racing Welfare											20,000
Clinton Foundation											33,000
Other grants (as listed)						130,801	215,392
Total stated in the accounts					3,226,417	1,536,205	449,179	1,744,935			2,161,177	967,175

* These years have no list of grants. The figures are named in the trustees' report or in the notes on commitments and related parties. Totals use the measure given in each set of accounts. For 2006 it is total grants. For 2007 and 2008 it is grants to institutions. For 2009 and 2012 it is the amount distributed. For 2013 it is grants payable.

• 2003. The first accounts covered the period from 9 July 2002 to 31 December 2003. They record £105,371 to the Israel Cancer Association for a Breast Cancer Centre at Meir Hospital, Kfar Saba.
• 2004. £221,000 was given to Od Yosef Hai for a school building in Hendon, and £98,160 to a breast cancer unit.
• 2005. Od Yosef Hai received a further £700,000, and the Community Security Trust received £30,000.
• 2006. The NSPCC received £400,000. The foundation committed £2 million to Great Ormond Street Hospital, and after the year end it committed £200,000 to a breast cancer clinic in Israel.
• 2007. Great Ormond Street Hospital was the largest recipient. It received £1 million towards a £2 million Children's Cancer Centre. The trustees' report also says that "£200,000 has been paid to build a Breast Cancer Clinic in Israel". This sum does not appear as a separate line in the 2007 figures shown in the 2008 accounts, where the Israel Cancer Association is listed at £35,395.
• 2008. The trustees had committed £145,000 to the "Reuben Foundation Comprehensive Breast Care Center at the Linn Medical Center, Haifa, Israel" (Lin Medical Center), which President Shimon Peres opened in October 2008. At the year end the foundation had outstanding commitments of £1,000,000 to Great Ormond Street Hospital, £100,000 to the Nancy Reuben Primary School and £145,000 to the Israel Cancer Association.
• 2009 and 2010. Both trustees' reports name the same four grants: £25,000 each to the Prince's Charities Foundation, the Tik Tok Club at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Community Security Trust, and £10,000 to Jewish Care. The 2009 report says these grants were made "in the year ended 31 December 2010". In 2010 a fundraising event for Haiti produced a surplus of £368,959, which was divided between Free the Children and SOS Children's Villages. That year the foundation also became a founding sponsor of Team London, with a £2,000,000 commitment. At the end of 2010 its other commitments included £200,000 to the Community Security Trust, £100,000 to the Nancy Reuben Primary School and £100,000 to Jewish Care.
• 2011. The foundation paid £670,000 to Team London, leaving £1,330,000 outstanding, and committed £180,000 to ARK. It also set aside £787,500 for scholarships at the University of Oxford and University College London.
• 2012. The foundation gave £33,000 to the Clinton Foundation and hosted a gala with Bill Clinton in May 2012. It also funded the Reuben Library at the British Film Institute, the Reuben Foundation Wing at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and the Reuben Business Centre at Oxford Spires Academy. After the year end it pledged support for a Reuben Imaging Centre at the Royal Marsden. Commitments at the year end totalled £2,367,443, including £850,000 to the Lyric Theatre, £400,000 to University College London, £337,500 to the University of Oxford, £300,000 to the Nancy Reuben Primary School and £150,000 to the British Film Institute.
• 2013. The foundation agreed £2.5 million for the Reuben Imaging Centre at the Royal Marsden. It also supported the Reuben Centre for Paediatric Virology at Great Ormond Street Hospital, for which £500,000 was raised in total.

2014 to 2025

Grants by recipient, years to 31 December (£; 2024 and 2025 in £000 as published)

Recipient	Israel link	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Air Ambulance Service										10,000	10,000
American School in London Foundation					10,000	10,000
Anti Slavery Collective											10,000
ARK Schools (ARK UK Programmes in 2014–2015)		60,000	75,000	80,000	125,000		125,000	225,000	135,000	180,000	22,250	423k
Art of Wishes									10,000
The Association for Israel's Soldiers	IDF-linked										1,425,032	2,193k
ATALEF Foundation	IDF-linked										24,663
BAFTA						500,000	500,000	300,000
Bede Foodbank									11,184	47,152
BFC Foundation										15,000
BICOM	Israel	10,000	10,000	7,500		7,500				5,000
Boys Town Jerusalem (British Friends of Boys Town Jerusalem in 2021)	Israel						12,601	17,968	22,995
Brain Circle UK										5,000
British Film Institute		50,000	77,500	31,608	42,082	13,879	140,972	20,000	120,000		6,127
British Heart Foundation										53,333
Brothers & Sisters For Israel	Israel										80,257
Camp Simcha											5,000
Campaign Against Antisemitism											20,000
Cancer Research UK				6,750	706	7,000
Carers Trust		25,000		20,000	10,000	10,250	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000
Central Synagogue						225,000	225,000
Centrepoint				147,300	7,600	44,966	80,150		472,390	528,000	38,244	83k
Chabad										5,000	5,000
Chain of Hope				5,000
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital						3,000,000
CLIC Sargent			21,950	1,000
Community Security Trust		25,000	25,000	25,000	25,000	27,500	25,000	25,000	25,000	25,000	105,000
Criminal Justice Reform Foundation											7,969
CW+										625,000			625k
DEC Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal											10,000
Design Museum				10,000			200,000		50,000
Diabetes UK										53,333
Dunham House											8,118
Elton John AIDS Foundation			16,960
Fashion East										6,763
Fashion Trust US ("Fashion Trust" in 2022)										12,583	12,103
Fauna & Flora International									10,000
Friends of Israel	Israel			5,000
Gabrielle's Angel Foundation		10,000								8,777
The Galilee Foundation	Israel						25,000
Global Greengrants Fund											5,000
Great Ormond Street Hospital		24,836	6,750	11,000	12,000	500	33,400	35,000		35,000	38,887
Greenhouse Sports			10,000			25,000	30,000			10,000
Hammer Museum											6,211
Holocaust Educational Trust				12,000	7,000	128,000	25,000	25,000	25,000	75,000
Illuminated River Foundation							1,500,000	1,500,000
Imperial War Museum		90,000
Injured Jockeys Fund				133,500	9,320				8,000	8,000
JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)									20,000		5,000	106k
Jewish Care		10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000	25,000	25,000	25,000	25,000
Keshet Diversity UK											3,000
LACMA										11,262
LAMDA							10,000
Latet ("Latet- Israeli Humanitarian Aid")	Israel										82,727
London Library				10,000
Lyric Institute									42,706
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith		200,000	479,205			10,000
Machne Israel Fund		10,000
Make-A-Wish Foundation					14,000	2,500	10,000			5,000	8,097
Mayo Clinic				7,975	3,934	11,605	7,879	7,768	7,310
Medison Aid	IDF-linked										150,000
Nancy Reuben Primary School		60,000	105,900	100,900	200,900	310,900	282,900	280,000	255,000	500,000	330,000	510k
National Horse Racing College									8,000	8,000
New York Philharmonic							19,735
Newcastle West End Foodbank										59,284		98k
Northern Racing College				8,000	16,000	16,000	16,000
Norwood		12,800	20,000	25,000	20,000	20,000	58,700	50,000	50,000	100,000		50k
NSPCC		4,810	10,000	5,000	3,500	7,000
Ormeley Dinner				18,884
Outward Bound Monaco												50k
Outward Bound Trust				5,000
Penn State University												158k
Policy Exchange											20,000
Polo for Life										7,450
Princess Grace Hospital Monaco ("Monaco Hospital" in 2021)									21,186	21,186
Princess Royal Trust for Carers		10,000	10,000
QPR in the Community Trust (printed "OPR")							10,000
Racehorse Sanctuary ("Racecourse Sanctuary" in 2016–2017)				5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000
Racing to School										5,000
Red Cross Manchester					100,000
Reichman University	Israel										200,916
Royal Academy Trust												110k
Royal Foundation										10,000
Royal Free Charity										10,000
Royal Marsden Cancer Charity		2,503,316	1,031	58,943			1,000,550			17,000
Sephardic Academy of Manhattan									1,323,821
Serpentine Trust				25,000	25,000	10,000				5,000
Simon Wiesenthal Center				20,719
Stelios Philanthropic Foundation					45,364
Tel Aviv University	Israel											159k
Temple of the Arts										38,736
Thames Hospice										53,333
Tony Blair Foundation							10,000
UK Friends of AWIS	IDF-linked	30,547
Ukraine donations										80,379
UNICEF		15,000					13,668
United Hatzalah	Israel										7,998
United Jewish Israel Appeal	Israel		80,000
University College London		150,000	100,000	50,000
University of Cambridge		52,500	105,000		459,164	197,681	358,061	424,876	70,000	755,488	463,737	576k	450k
University of Miami											39,548
University of Oxford (Reuben College from 2020)		75,000	330,000	1,385,888	15,000	502,500		30,000,000	1,457,500	23,950,167	3,359,156		37k
University of Southern California					8,236
Variety, the Children's Charity											6,750
Wales Air Ambulance				5,000
Yad Vashem	Israel			7,068	500	10,500	11,000			20,754	19,622
Yorkshire Air Ambulance				7,102		7,000	13,000
Other grants (as listed)		356,674	357,860	262,417	366,858	326,864	375,303	334,824	323,204	174,555	202,069	607k
Total in the grants note		3,785,483	1,852,156	2,513,554	1,542,164	5,447,145	5,143,919	33,280,435	4,503,297	27,575,535	6,773,479	5,519k	3,320k

Sources: the grants notes in the accounts for 2015 (which also give the 2014 figures), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Totals are the totals of each list as printed. In some years they include grants to individuals within "Other grants". Notes on the table:

• 2014. The trustees' report says that £2.5 million was given to open the Reuben Foundation Imaging Centre at the Royal Marsden. It also mentions a partnership with the University of Cambridge and a rehabilitation pool for the Injured Jockeys Fund at Jack Berry House.
• 2015. The 2016 accounts restate several of the 2015 figures, including Carers Trust at £10,000 and the Mayo Clinic at £6,730. The table uses the figures in the 2015 accounts.
• 2022. The 2022 accounts give £23,950,167 for the University of Oxford (Reuben College). The comparative in the 2023 accounts is £23,361,150, which makes the 2022 total £26,986,518 instead of £27,575,535.
• 2024. The 2024 accounts publish grants in £000. They also list a "Discount applied pursuant to FRS102" of £396,000. Grants to the Nancy Reuben Primary School are £510,000 in the 2024 accounts and £500,000 in the 2025 comparatives.
• 2025. The 2025 accounts name only three recipients: the University of Cambridge (£450,000), the University of Oxford (£37,000) and CW+ (£625,000). The other grants are grouped by type: educational £1,273,000; health and medical £190,000; arts and culture £145,000; community £444,000; other £156,000. Grants to individuals were £181,000. The 2025 accounts also restate 2024 in the same form, with the University of Oxford at £22,183,000 and "Other grants" at £2,292,000, figures that do not appear in the 2024 accounts.

Covid-19 donations

The 2021 accounts list Covid-19 donations separately.

Covid-19 donations (£)

Recipient	Israel link	2020	2021
Latet ("Latet Humanitarian Aid")	Israel	400,000	960,543
Nancy Reuben Primary School		450,000
Emergency Food Boxes		238,827
Greyhound Welfare		181,516
NHS Charities		150,000
Feeding the Frontlines		150,000
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital		49,981
Cannes Hospital		34,848
University of London		25,000
Royal Marsden Hospital		25,000
Centrepoint		25,000
Imperial College		25,000
University of Cambridge		25,000
University of Oxford		25,000
Magen David	Israel	25,000
Jewish Care		25,000
Great Ormond Street Hospital		25,000
Newcastle City Council			85,843
Others		806,606
Total		2,686,778	1,046,386

The 2021 trustees' report calls Latet "the Israeli Humanitarian Aid charity" and says the foundation's support paid for "food packages to thousands of families across Israel".

Israel-related grants

The table below lists every grant in the tables above to a body based in Israel or working mainly for Israel. Only the grants to bodies that support Israeli soldiers are counted as support for the Israeli military (see the next section). Emergency medical bodies such as United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom are listed here but not counted as military support.

Israel-related grants (£)

Recipient	Type	Years and amounts
Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers ("The Association for Israel's Soldiers")	Israeli body supporting IDF soldiers	2023: 1,425,032; 2024: 2,193,000
UK Friends of AWIS	UK charity supporting IDF soldiers	2014: 30,547
ATALEF Foundation (Atalef, amuta 580057529)	Israeli association of veterans of Shayetet 13, the Israeli navy commando unit; supports the unit's serving and reserve soldiers	2023: 24,663
Medison Aid	Emergency supply operation of Medison Pharma and the Tzalir Fund, supplying IDF units	2023: 150,000
Israel Cancer Association	Israeli medical charity	2003: 105,371; 2007: 35,395; 2008: 142,787
Breast cancer clinic in Israel; from 2008 the "Reuben Foundation Comprehensive Breast Care Center" at the Linn Medical Center, Haifa	Israeli hospital project	2006: £200,000 committed; 2007: "£200,000 has been paid"; 2008: £145,000 committed
Latet	Israeli humanitarian aid charity	2020: 400,000; 2021: 960,543; 2023: 82,727
Tel Aviv University	Israeli university	2024: 159,000
Reichman University	Israeli university	2023: 200,916
Brothers & Sisters For Israel	Israel-related by name	2023: 80,257
United Jewish Israel Appeal	UK charity for Israel	2015: 80,000
Yad Vashem	Israeli state Holocaust memorial	2016: 7,068; 2017: 500; 2018: 10,500; 2019: 11,000; 2022: 20,754; 2023: 19,622
Boys Town Jerusalem	Israeli school	2019: 12,601; 2020: 17,968; 2021: 22,995 (British Friends)
BICOM	UK pro-Israel advocacy group	2014: 10,000; 2015: 10,000; 2016: 7,500; 2018: 7,500; 2022: 5,000
The Galilee Foundation	Israel-related by name	2019: 25,000
Magen David	Emergency medical; named only as "Magen David"	2020: 25,000 (Covid-19)
United Hatzalah	Israeli emergency medical service	2023: 7,998
Friends of Israel	Israel-related by name	2016: 5,000

Support for the Israeli military

The foundation's grants notes name "The Association for Israel's Soldiers" as a grant recipient. This is the Israeli Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers, which supports soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces. It received £1,425,032 in the year to 31 December 2023 (2022: nil) and £2,193,000 in the year to 31 December 2024 (shown as £2,193k). This was the largest grant in 2024, which was during the genocide in Gaza. The accounts recognise grants when they are offered. These grants went to the Israeli body directly, not through UK Friends of AWIS. The foundation gave UK Friends of AWIS £30,547 in 2014. Across these three grants the total is £3,648,579.

Two other grants in 2023 went to Israeli bodies that support soldiers. The ATALEF Foundation received £24,663. It is the association of veterans of Shayetet 13, the navy commando unit of the Israel Defense Forces, registered in Israel as amuta 580057529 at Yakum. Its registered objects include supporting Shayetet 13 and its soldiers in regular and reserve service (translated from the Hebrew). It also supports wounded members of the unit and bereaved families. Its donation page says that "all GBP donations are not designated for soldiers who are in active service". Medison Aid received £150,000. It is an emergency operation set up in October 2023 by the Tzalir Fund with staff of Medison Pharma. It bought and shipped emergency supplies to communities and units across Israel. Its appeals were run through the Israeli association Talmud Yisraeli (amuta 580067460, of 10 HaShiloah Street, Petah Tikva). They say that its volunteers took requests directly from IDF units, and that one appeal paid for storm suits for 18,000 soldiers (translated from the Hebrew). The accounts do not say which legal body received the foundation's grant. With these two grants, the foundation's grants to bodies supporting Israeli soldiers total £3,823,242.

The accounts for 2025 were received by the Charity Commission on 23 October 2026. Their grants note names only three recipients and groups the rest by type, so it does not show whether any 2025 grant went to the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers. In the restated 2024 figures in these accounts there is no line for the association, and "Other grants" are £2,292,000.

Nancy Reuben Primary School and Od Yosef Hai

Since 16 November 2006 the foundation has been a corporate trustee and director of the Nancy Reuben Primary School charity (charity 1117515, company 06000294) at 48 Finchley Lane, Hendon. The other trustee is Dayan Abraham David, rabbi of Od Yosef Hai, and the company secretary is Hacham Yaakov Hillel. Companies House gives Hillel's correspondence address as 45-33 Arzei Habira, Jerusalem. Arzei HaBira is in occupied East Jerusalem, beyond the Green Line. It was built after 1967, partly or wholly on land that had been no-man's land between 1949 and 1967.

In 2006 the Jewish Chronicle reported that the primary school, "which shares premises with Od Yosef Hai Synagogue", was to be renamed after Nancy Reuben, the mother of David and Simon Reuben. It said the complex was "in the midst of a £1.5 million redevelopment project". The foundation gave Od Yosef Hai £221,000 in 2004 and £700,000 in 2005 (see above). Od Yosef Hai says that help from the Reuben Brothers, together with a bank loan, paid for space for the school, a new synagogue, a study hall and a banqueting hall.

The foundation has been the school's main donor. In 2009 the school's accounts said the foundation had "made a commitment to donate to the school on an ongoing basis the sum of £100,000 per annum". The school's accounts record £500,000 from the foundation in each of the years to August 2023, 2024 and 2025. The foundation's own grants lists name the school in every year from 2014 to 2024. They also show £450,000 in Covid-19 donations to the school in 2020, a commitment of £590,000 at the end of 2024 and none at the end of 2025. The school pays rent to Od Yosef Hai, and its 2025 accounts state that "No formal lease exists under this arrangement at present".

The school became a voluntary aided school maintained by Barnet Council on 15 September 2025. Its foundation body is the Nancy Reuben Primary School Trust (company 16586946), whose sole member is Od Yosef Hai. The Trust's articles allow the Reuben Foundation to appoint up to one "Nominated Trustee". A First Gazette notice for compulsory strike-off of the Trust was filed on 20 October 2026.

Related-party transactions

The accounts disclose the following transactions with companies and charities connected to the trustees.

• Motcomb Estates Limited. The foundation paid £60,000 a year to Motcomb Estates, a company in which some of the trustees have an interest. These were Michael David Gubbay, Anne Benjamin and Malcolm Robin Turner in 2009, Benjamin, Turner and Patrick Colin O'Driscoll in 2012, and Turner and Eileen Marie Sawyer in 2020.
• Aldersgate Investments Limited. In 2009 the foundation lent £5,609,490 to Aldersgate Investments, a company in which David Reuben and Simon Reuben have a material interest, and received £361,475 in interest at 8%. In 2012 the position was reversed: Aldersgate, in which Simon Reuben has an interest, had lent £651,776 to the foundation.
• Wellington Pub Company. The foundation held bonds issued by Wellington Pub Company. In 2012 the accounts describe it as a company in which Simon Reuben has an interest, and from 2020 as one in which the trustees S D Reuben and R D Reuben have a material interest. The holding was £3.45 million in 2012, with interest of £341,628. It was £13,192,862 in 2020, with interest of £918,671, and £13,898,080 in 2023. The foundation repaid the holding in 2024, recognising interest of £919,201 that year.
• Arena Racing Limited. In 2020 the foundation received £2,000,000 from Arena Racing Limited, "a company under common control".
• Entities under common control. At 31 December 2025 other debtors included £58,690,000 due from an entity under common control, and other creditors included £25,487,567 due to an entity under common control.
• Royal Academy Trust. The foundation gave £110,000 in 2024 and £69,000 in 2025 to the Royal Academy Trust, "a charity in which D L Reuben is a trustee", with £110,000 still committed at the end of 2025.
• Nancy Reuben Primary School. The school is "a charity in which the Foundation is a Trustee". The foundation paid it £730,000 in 2020, £510,000 in 2024 and £500,000 in 2025.

Filed accounts

The table lists every set of accounts the foundation has filed. Companies House holds every year from 2003 to 2024. The 2025 accounts are not yet there; they are due by 31 December 2026. The Charity Commission register shows only the last five years. Copies of the Charity Commission files for 2014 to 2018 are held by the UK Government Web Archive, and the Wayback Machine holds copies of the Charity Commission files for 2017 to 2021. "Pending" means that no working archived copy has yet been confirmed.

Accounts of the Reuben Foundation, years to 31 December

Year	Companies House	Charity Commission	Archived copy
2025	Not yet filed (due by 31 December 2026)	Accounts (received 23 October 2026)	Pending
2024	Accounts (filed 7 October 2025)	Accounts (received 10 October 2025)	Pending
2023	Accounts (filed 4 November 2024)	Accounts (received 30 October 2024)	Pending
2022	Accounts (filed 11 October 2023)	Accounts (received 31 October 2023)	Pending
2021	Accounts (filed 23 November 2022)	Accounts (received 31 October 2022)	Wayback Machine
2020	Accounts (filed 2 November 2021)	No longer on the register	Wayback Machine
2019	Accounts (filed 10 November 2020)	No longer on the register	Wayback Machine
2018	Accounts (filed 10 October 2019)	No longer on the register	UK Government Web Archive; Wayback Machine
2017	Accounts (filed 11 October 2018)	No longer on the register	UK Government Web Archive; Wayback Machine
2016	Accounts (filed 5 October 2017)	No longer on the register	UK Government Web Archive
2015	Accounts (filed 13 October 2016)	No longer on the register	UK Government Web Archive
2014	Accounts (filed 13 October 2015)	No longer on the register	UK Government Web Archive
2013	Accounts (filed 15 September 2014)	No longer on the register	Pending
2012	Accounts (filed 29 August 2013)	No longer on the register	Pending
2011	Accounts (filed 4 October 2012)	No longer on the register	Pending
2010	Accounts (filed 29 September 2011)	No longer on the register	Pending
2009	Accounts (filed 5 October 2010)	No longer on the register	Pending
2008	Accounts (filed 5 November 2009)	No longer on the register	Pending
2007	Accounts (filed 31 October 2008)	No longer on the register	Pending
2006	Accounts (filed 5 September 2007)	No longer on the register	Pending
2005	Accounts (filed 21 September 2006)	No longer on the register	Pending
2004	Accounts (filed 18 August 2005)	No longer on the register	Pending
2003	Accounts (filed 11 August 2004)	No longer on the register	Pending

See also

• Jewish Schools in the UK
• Reuben Brothers
• David Reuben
• Simon Reuben
• Jamie Reuben
• Nancy Reuben Primary School
• Od Yosef Hai Yeshiva College of Rabbinical Studies
• Association for the Wellbeing of Israel's Soldiers
• Charitable spending of the largest 100 UK family foundations - 2009

External links

• Reuben Foundation website
• Charity Commission register entry (1094130)
• Companies House entry (04481304)