2024-12-31-accounts

COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 10067677 CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 1167432

Rubislaw Foundation Company Limited by Guarantee Consolidated Financial Statements

31 December 2024

HAFFNER HOFF AUDITORS LTD

Accountants & statutory auditor 2nd Floor - Parkgates Bury New Road Prestwich Manchester M25 0TL

Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Consolidated Financial Statements

Year ended 31 December 2024

	Pages
Trustees' annual report (incorporating the director's report)	1 to 6
Independent auditor's report to the trustees of Rubislaw
Foundation	7 to 12
Consolidated statement of financial activities (including income
and expenditure account)	13
Statement of financial position	13a
Consolidated statement of financial position	14
Statement of cash flows	15
Notes to the consolidated financial statements	16 to 24

Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report)

Year ended 31 December 2024

The trustees, who are also the directors for the purposes of company law, present their report and the consolidated financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Reference and administrative details

Registered charity name Rubislaw Foundation Charity registration number 1167432 Company registration number 10067677 Principal office and registered 2nd Floor - Parkgates office Bury New Road Prestwich Manchester M25 0TL The trustees D Bistricer T Rudinsky M Richman Auditor Haffner Hoff Auditors Ltd Accountants & statutory auditor 2nd Floor - Parkgates Bury New Road Prestwich Manchester M25 0TL

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

Structure, governance and management

Rubislaw Foundation is constituted by Memorandum and Articles of Association and is a company limited by guarantee. It was incorporated on 16 March 2016 as a company and the company number is 10067677. It was registered as a charity on 18 May 1981 with a charity number 1167432.

The Charity is run by the trustees who all act in an honorary capacity. A new trustee would receive copies of the previous years' Annual Report and Accounts and a copy of the Charity Commission leaflet 'The Essential Trustee : What you need to know'.

Group structure and relationships The charity has the following wholly owned non-charitable subsidiaries;

F.Parham Limited (Company number 00252045) Wembley Metro Limited (Company number 12278442) Hempstead Valley Investments Limited (Company number 11885347)

Hempstead Valley Investments Limited is a partner together with Hempstead Valley Holdings Limited (Company number 11866865) in Hempstead Valley LLP (Company number OC426327) which holds legal title to the Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre,

The subsidiaries are property trading and investment companies incorporated in England and Wales.

Risk Management

The trustees have identified and reviewed the major risks to which the charity is exposed. in particular those related to the operations and finances of the Trust, and are satisfied that systems are in place to manage our exposure to the major risks.

The risks faced by the trust are principally operational risks from ineffective grant making. These risks are managed by the trustees researching potential beneficiaries before granting donations.

Report-back and review procedures strengthen these safeguards to ensure public benefit is achieved from all grants.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

Objectives and activities

The charity's objects are;

a) for the public benefit to promote the education of people of all ages around the world in such ways as the charity trustees think fit, including awarding to such persons scholarships, maintenance allowances or grants; or by grants to charities or other organizations worldwide that provide education;

b) the prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship anywhere in the world by providing: grants or loans to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organizations working to prevent or relieve poverty or financial hardship;

c) to advance the orthodox Jewish religion worldwide for the benefit of the public in accordance with the principles of the code of Jewish law (shulchan aruch).

Public Benefit Policy

We have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning our future activities.

Grant-Making Policy

The charity is well known within its community and receives many applications for grants, both by mail and verbally. Each application is considered against the criteria established by the charity. Feedback received is used to monitor the quality of grants.

Strategic report

The following sections for achievements and performance and financial review form the strategic report of the charity.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

Achievements and performance

The charity had investment income receivable from investment property for the year amounting to £2,356,613 (2023: £2,258,935). The trustees consider the return on the investments to be appropriate for the risk associated with the investments. The trustees are also conscious of capital growth that could enhance the returns yet further. Costs associated with management of these investments amounted to £1,643,271 (2023: £1,628,340).

During the year the charity made grants totalling £3,600 in furtherance of its objectives. The last few years have seen the charity focus on purchasing two significant investments. The intention is to expand its charitable activities in future years once the investments and related financing have stabilised.

The charity incurred governance costs comprised of professional fees.

All other office costs are borne by a local benefactor and the trustees wish to record their appreciation to the benefactor for the free use of their offices.

Related party transactions are disclosed as applicable in the notes to the accounts.

There was an overall net income and movement of funds for the year amounting to £687,885 (2023: £596,732).

Financial review

As at 31 December 2024 the group had total funds of £18,591,940 (2023: £17,904,055) but a deficiency in free reserves of £187,470 (2023: £450,092). However there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as this is due to income being deferred to the next year. Additionally the charity reported a substantial surplus of £687,885.

Reserves Policy

It is the policy of the charity to hold reserves sufficient to maintain regular grants. As the charity is presently largely reliant on donations received from trading companies where profits levels are variable, the trustees feel it would be prudent to maintain reserves at such a level that would enable the charity to generate its own income to meet this aim.

Investment Policy

The trustees have considered the most appropriate policy for investing funds and have invested in property, both commercial and residential.

The investments have all performed well in the year with an average gross rate of return of over 3%.

The trustees consider this acceptable when compared with returns available on deposits in any of the banking institutions. These investment returns have been consistent and are not at the expense of any exposure of loan to value covenants that would put these investments at risk. This does not take into account any potential increase in market value.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

Plans for future periods

The charity has adequate resources to continue distributing funds to other charities in accordance with its objects.

Trustees' responsibilities statement

The trustees, who are also directors for the purposes of company law, are responsible for preparing the trustees' report and the consolidated financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the charity trustees to prepare consolidated financial statements for each year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, for that period.

In preparing these consolidated financial statements, the trustees are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

• observe the methods and principles in the applicable Charities SORP;

• make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

• state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the consolidated financial statements;

• prepare the consolidated financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charity's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the consolidated financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Auditor

Each of the persons who is a trustee at the date of approval of this report confirms that:

• so far as they are aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the charity's auditor is unaware; and

• they have taken all steps that they ought to have taken as a trustee to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charity's auditor is aware of that information.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Trustees' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

The trustees' annual report and the strategic report were approved on 27 October 2025 and signed on behalf of the board of trustees by:

D Bistricer Trustee

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's Report to the Trustees of Rubislaw Foundation

Year ended 31 December 2024

Opinion

We have audited the consolidated financial statements of Rubislaw Foundation (the 'charity') for the year ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the consolidated statement of financial activities (including income and expenditure account), consolidated statement of financial position, statement of cash flows and the related notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the consolidated financial statements:

• give a true and fair view of the state of the charity's affairs as at 31 December 2024 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice;

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the consolidated financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charity in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the consolidated financial statements Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the consolidated financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the consolidated financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's Report to the Trustees of Rubislaw Foundation (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

Other information

The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the consolidated financial statements and our trustees are responsible for the other information. Our opinion on the consolidated financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the consolidated financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the consolidated financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the consolidated financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

• the information given in the trustees' report for the financial year for which the consolidated financial statements are prepared is consistent with the consolidated financial statements; and

• the trustees' report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charity and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the trustees' report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

• adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

• the consolidated financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

• certain disclosures of trustees' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's Report to the Trustees of Rubislaw Foundation (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the trustees' responsibilities statement, the trustees (who are also the directors for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the consolidated financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of consolidated financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the consolidated financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's Report to the Trustees of Rubislaw Foundation (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the consolidated financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these consolidated financial statements.

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, and then design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, including obtaining audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

In identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we considered the following:

the nature of the industry and sector, control environment and business performance;

results of our enquiries of management about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities;

any matters we identified having obtained and reviewed the company's documentation of their policies and procedures relating to (a) identifying, evaluating and complying with laws and regulations and whether they were aware of any instances of noncompliance; (b) detecting and responding to the risks of fraud and whether they have knowledge of any actual, suspected or alleged fraud; (c) the internal controls established to mitigate risks of fraud or non-compliance with laws and regulations; (d) the matters identified as to how and where fraud might occur in the financial statements and any potential indicators of fraud.

In common with all audits under ISAS (UK), we are also required to perform specific procedures to respond to the risk of management override.

We also obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks that the company operates in, focusing on provisions of those laws and regulations that had a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The key laws and regulations we considered in this context included the UK Companies Act, UK Corporate Governance Code, UK tax legislation and UK Charity Act.

In addition, we considered provisions of other laws and regulations that do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which may be fundamental to the company's ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty.

As a result of performing the above, we identified no key audit matters relating to the potential risk of fraud.

Our procedures to respond to risks identified included the following:

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's Report to the Trustees of Rubislaw Foundation (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

reviewing the financial statement disclosures and testing to supporting documentation to assess compliance with provisions of relevant laws and regulations described as having a direct effect on the financial statements;

enquiring of management concerning actual and potential litigation and claims;

performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud;

obtaining an understanding of provisions and holding discussions with management to understand the basis of recognition or non-recognition of tax provisions; and

in addressing the risk of fraud through management override of controls, testing the appropriateness of journal entries and other adjustments; assessing whether the judgements made in making accounting estimates are indicative of a potential bias; and evaluating the business rationale of any significant transactions that are unusual or outside the normal course of business.

We remained alert to any indications of fraud or noncompliance with laws and regulations throughout the audit.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Auditors.

As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs (UK), we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also:

• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.

• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the internal control.

• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the trustees.

• Conclude on the appropriateness of the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our consolidated financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our report. However, future events or conditions may cause the charity to cease to continue as a going concern.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Independent Auditor's Report to the Trustees of Rubislaw Foundation (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the consolidated financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the consolidated financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.

We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charity's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charity's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Howard Schwalbe ACA (Senior Statutory Auditor)

For and on behalf of Haffner Hoff Auditors Ltd 2nd Floor - Parkgates Accountants & statutory auditor Bury New Road Prestwich Manchester M25 0TL

27 October 2025

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities (Including Income and Expenditure Account)

Year ended 31 December 2024

		2024	2024	2023
		Unrestricted
		funds	Total funds	Total funds
	Note	£	£	£
Income and endowments
Investment income	5	2,356,613	2,356,613	2,258,935
		-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
Total income		2,356,613	2,356,613	2,258,935
		=========================================	=========================================	=========================================
Expenditure
Expenditure on raising funds:
Investment management costs	6	1,643,271	1,643,271	1,628,340
Expenditure on charitable activities	7,8	25,457	25,457	33,863
		-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
Total expenditure		1,668,728	1,668,728	1,662,203
		=========================================	=========================================	=========================================
		-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
Net income and net movement in funds		687,885	687,885	596,732
		=========================================	=========================================	=========================================
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward		17,904,055	17,904,055	17,307,323
		----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
Total funds carried forward		18,591,940	18,591,940	17,904,055
		==============================================	==============================================	==============================================

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

The notes on pages 16 to 24 form part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Statement of Financial Position

31 December 2024

			2024	2023
	Note	£	£	£
Fixed assets
Investments	12		120,002	120,002
Current assets
Debtors	13	27,243,528		26,421,683
Cash at bank and in hand		391,666		30,266
		----------------------------------------------		----------------------------------------------
		27,635,194		26,451,949
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year	14	14,762		134,762
		----------------------------------------------		----------------------------------------------
Net current assets			27,620,432	26,317,187
			----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
Total assets less current liabilities			27,740,434	26,437,189
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than
one year	15		4,981,971	4,931,671
			----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
Net assets			22,758,463	21,505,518
			==============================================	==============================================
Funds of the charity
Unrestricted funds			22,758,463	21,505,518
			----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
Total charity funds	16		22,758,463 ==============================================	21,505,518 ==============================================

These financial statements were approved by the board of trustees and authorised for issue on 27 October 2025, and are signed on behalf of the board by:

D A Bistricer Trustee

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position

31 December 2024

		2024	2023
	Note	£	£
Fixed assets
Investment property	13	63,679,004	63,679,004
Current assets
Debtors	15	133,226	192,919
Cash at bank and in hand		526,072	207,268
		--------------------------------	--------------------------------
		659,298	400,187
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year	16	846,768	850,279
		--------------------------------	--------------------------------
Net current assets		(187,470)	(450,092)
		----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
Total assets less current liabilities		63,491,534	63,228,912
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year	17	44,899,594	45,324,857
		----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
Net assets		18,591,940	17,904,055
		==============================================	==============================================
Funds of the charity
Unrestricted funds		18,591,940	17,904,055
		----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
Total charity funds	19	18,591,940 ==============================================	17,904,055 ==============================================

These consolidated financial statements were approved by the board of trustees and authorised for issue on 27 October 2025, and are signed on behalf of the board by:

D Bistricer Trustee

The notes on pages 16 to 24 form part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

Year ended 31 December 2024

	2024	2023
	£	£
Cash flows from operating activities
Net income	687,885	596,732
Adjustments for:
Dividends, interest and rents from investments	(2,356,613)	(2,257,623)
Other interest receivable and similar income		(1,312)
Accrued income	(27,640)	(6,572)
Changes in:
Trade and other debtors	59,693	(8,606)
Trade and other creditors	(42,415)	(273,144)
	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
Cash generated from operations	(1,679,090)	(1,950,525)
Interest paid	(3,156)	(901)
Interest received		1,312
	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
Net cash used in operating activities	(1,682,246)	(1,950,114)
	=========================================	=========================================
Cash flows from investing activities
Dividends, interest and rents from investments	2,356,613	2,257,623
	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
Net cash from investing activities	2,356,613	2,257,623
	=========================================	=========================================
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from borrowings	(355,563)	(306,680)
	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
Net cash used in financing activities	(355,563)	(306,680)
	=========================================	=========================================
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents	318,804	829
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year	207,268	206,439
	--------------------------------	--------------------------------
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year	526,072	207,268
	================================	================================

The notes on pages 16 to 24 form part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

Year ended 31 December 2024

1. General information

The charity is a public benefit entity and a private company limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales and a registered charity in England and Wales. The address of the registered office is 2nd Floor - Parkgates, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 0TL.

2. Statement of compliance

These consolidated financial statements have been prepared in compliance with FRS 102, 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland', the Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (Charities SORP (FRS 102)) and the Companies Act 2006.

3. Accounting policies

Basis of preparation

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the historical cost basis, as modified by the revaluation of certain financial assets and liabilities and investment properties measured at fair value through income or expenditure.

The consolidated financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the entity.

Going concern

There are net current liabilities. However the trustees are confident that this has no impact on going concern as it is due to income being deferred to the next year. Additionally the charity reported a substantial surplus of £687,885.

Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

The preparation of the financial statements did not require management to make judgements, estimates or assumptions that affect the amounts reported at the year end other than the valuations of the investment properties.

Taxation

Rubislaw Foundation is a registered charity and therefore is not liable to corporation tax on income derived from its charitable activities, as it falls within the various exemptions available to registered charities.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees to further any of the charity's purposes.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

3. Accounting policies (continued)

Incoming resources

All income is included in the statement of financial activities when entitlement has passed to the charity, it is probable that the economic benefits associated with the transaction will flow to the charity and the amount can be reliably measured. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:

• income from donations or grants is recognised when there is evidence of entitlement to the gift, receipt is probable and its amount can be measured reliably.

• legacy income is recognised when receipt is probable and entitlement is established.

Resources expended

Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is classified under headings of the statement of financial activities to which it relates:

• expenditure on raising funds includes the costs of all fundraising activities, events, non-charitable trading activities, and the sale of donated goods.

• expenditure on charitable activities includes all costs incurred by a charity in undertaking activities that further its charitable aims for the benefit of its beneficiaries, including those support costs and costs relating to the governance of the charity apportioned to charitable activities.

• other expenditure includes all expenditure that is neither related to raising funds for the charity nor part of its expenditure on charitable activities.

All costs are allocated to expenditure categories reflecting the use of the resource. Direct costs attributable to a single activity are allocated directly to that activity. Shared costs are apportioned between the activities they contribute to on a reasonable, justifiable and consistent basis.

Investments

Unlisted equity investments are initially recorded at cost, and subsequently measured at fair value. If fair value cannot be reliably measured, assets are measured at cost less impairment.

Listed investments are measured at fair value with changes in fair value being recognised in income or expenditure.

Investment property

Investment property is initially recorded at cost, which includes purchase price and any directly attributable expenditure.

Investment property is revalued to its fair value at each reporting date and any changes in fair value are recognised in income or expenditure.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

3. Accounting policies (continued)

Investment property (continued)

If a reliable measure of fair value is no longer available for an item of investment property, it shall be transferred to tangible assets and treated as such until it is expected that fair value will be reliably measurable on an on-going basis.

Impairment of fixed assets

A review for indicators of impairment is carried out at each reporting date, with the recoverable amount being estimated where such indicators exist. Where the carrying value exceeds the recoverable amount, the asset is impaired accordingly. Prior impairments are also reviewed for possible reversal at each reporting date.

For the purposes of impairment testing, when it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of an individual asset, an estimate is made of the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs. The cash-generating unit is the smallest identifiable group of assets that includes the asset and generates cash inflows that largely independent of the cash inflows from other assets or groups of assets.

For impairment testing of goodwill, the goodwill acquired in a business combination is, from the acquisition date, allocated to each of the cash-generating units that are expected to benefit from the synergies of the combination, irrespective of whether other assets or liabilities of the charity are assigned to those units.

Financial instruments

A financial asset or a financial liability is recognised only when the entity becomes a party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at the amount receivable or payable including any related transaction costs, unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where it is recognised at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest for a similar debt instrument.

Current assets and current liabilities are subsequently measured at the cash or other consideration expected to be paid or received and not discounted.

4. Limited by guarantee

The charity is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The liability of each member in the event of winding up is limited to £10.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

5. Investment income

	Unrestricted	Total Funds	Unrestricted	Total Funds
	Funds	2024	Funds	2023
	£	£	£	£
Income from investment properties	2,356,613	2,356,613	2,257,623	2,257,623
Bank interest receivable			1,312	1,312
	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
	2,356,613	2,356,613	2,258,935	2,258,935
	=========================================	=========================================	=========================================	=========================================

Investment income is all attributable to the subsidiaries.

6. Investment management costs

	Unrestricted	Total Funds	Unrestricted	Total Funds
	Funds	2024	Funds	2023
	£	£	£	£
Property repairs and maintenance
charges	182,597	182,597	136,463	136,463
Loan interest	1,288,097	1,288,097	1,301,830	1,301,830
Finance costs	24,778	24,778	24,778	24,778
Insurance	49,633	49,633	41,828	41,828
Commissions	59,566	59,566	84,766	84,766
Other costs	38,600	38,600	38,675	38,675
	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------	-----------------------------------------
	1,643,271	1,643,271	1,628,340	1,628,340
	=========================================	=========================================	=========================================	=========================================

Investment management costs are all attributable to the subsidiaries.

7. Expenditure on charitable activities by fund type

	Unrestricted	Total Funds	Unrestricted	Total Funds
	Funds	2024	Funds	2023
	£	£	£	£
Grants payable	3,600	3,600	14,934	14,934
Support costs	21,857	21,857	18,929	18,929
	----------------------------	----------------------------	----------------------------	----------------------------
	25,457	25,457	33,863	33,863
	============================	============================	============================	============================

Grants payable are attributable to the parent. Included in support costs is £14,719 attributable to the parent.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

8. Expenditure on charitable activities by activity type

	Grant funding	Support	Total funds	Total fund
	of activities	costs	2024	2023
	£	£	£	£
Grants payable	3,600		3,600	14,934
Governance costs		21,857	21,857	18,929
	-----------------------	----------------------------	----------------------------	----------------------------
	3,600	21,857	25,457	33,863
	=======================	============================	============================	============================

Grants payable are attributable to the parent.

Included in governance costs is £14,719 attributable to the parent.

9. Analysis of grants

	2024	2023
	£	£
Grants to institutions
The Work Avenue Foundation	3,600
Tikva UK		14,934
	-----------------------	----------------------------
	3,600	14,934
	-----------------------	----------------------------
Total grants	3,600	14,934
	=======================	============================

The above grants were made to institutions and went towards the following purposes; the relief of poverty, relief of those in need by reason of ill health or disability, the advancement of Jewish religion and the advancement of Jewish religious education.

10. Auditors remuneration

	2024	2023
	£	£
Fees payable for the audit of the consolidated financial statements	10,800	10,800
	============================	============================
Fees payable to the charity's auditor and its associates for other services:
Other non-audit services	10,282	8,152
	============================	============================

11. Staff costs

The average head count of employees during the year was Nil (2023: Nil).

No employee received employee benefits of more than £60,000 during the year (2023: Nil).

12. Trustee remuneration and expenses

No remuneration or other benefits from employment with the charity or a related entity were received by the trustees.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

13. Investment property

	Investment
	properties
	£
Cost or valuation
At 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024	63,679,004
	==============================================
Impairment
At 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024	63,679,004
	==============================================
At 31 December 2023	63,679,004
	==============================================

All investments shown above are held at valuation.

Investment properties

The investment properties represent both commercial and residential property. Valuation is current market value which is fair value in the opinion of the trustees and other independent valuations. The investment properties are all held by the subsidiaries.

The parent accounts show investments of £120,002. This represents the shareholdings of the parent in the subsidiaries.

14. Investment entities

Subsidiaries and other investments

			Percentage
		Class of	of shares
	Registered office	share	held
Subsidiary undertakings
F.Parham Limited	1st Floor Cloister House	Ordinary	100
	New Bailey Street
	Salford
	M3 5FS
Wembley Metro Limited	1st Floor Cloister House	Ordinary	100
	New Bailey Street
	Salford
	M3 5FS
Hempstead Valley Investments Limited 1st Floor Cloister House		Ordinary	100
	New Bailey Street
	Salford
	M3 5FS

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

14. Investment entities (continued)

The results for subsidiaries and other undertakings are as follows:

	Capital and	reserves	Profit/(loss) for the year	Profit/(loss) for the year
	2024	2023	2024	2023
	£	£	£	£
Subsidiary undertakings
F.Parham Limited	(445,485)	(445,319)	(166)	(211)
Wembley Metro Limited	(558,390)	(549,808)	(8,582)	(38,272)
Hempstead Valley Investments Limited	(4,771)	(4,062)	(709)	(703)
	================================	================================	=======================	============================
Debtors
			2024	2023
			£	£
Prepayments and accrued income			88,732	60,133
Other debtors			44,494	132,786
			--------------------------------	--------------------------------
			133,226	192,919
			================================	================================

15. Debtors

These debtors are all attributable to the subsidiaries.

The parent accounts show £27,243,528 (2023: £26,421,683) owed by the group and related undertakings to the parent.

16. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

	2024	2023
	£	£
Bank loans and overdrafts	330,000	330,000
Trade creditors	40,329	24,507
Accruals and deferred income	396,446	418,909
Social security and other taxes	77,270	74,785
Other creditors	2,723	2,078
	--------------------------------	--------------------------------
	846,768	850,279
	================================	================================

Included in accruals is £14,719 (2023: £14,760) due by the parent as audit and accountancy fees.

17. Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

	2024	2023
	£	£
Bank loans and overdrafts	39,089,576	39,445,139
Other creditors	5,810,018	5,879,718
	----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
	44,899,594	45,324,857
	==============================================	==============================================

Included in Other creditors is £4,981,971 (2023: £4,931,671) due by the parent to Talisker (UK) Corporation.

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

17. Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year (continued)

18. Deferred income

			2024	2023
			£	£
Amount deferred in year			258,333	250,000
			================================	================================
Deferred income is all attributable to the subsidiaries.
Analysis of charitable funds
Unrestricted funds
				At
	At			31 December
	1 January 2024	Income	Expenditure	2024
	£	£	£	£
General funds	17,904,055	2,356,613	(1,668,728)	18,591,940
	==============================================	=========================================	=========================================	==============================================
				At
	At			31 December
	1 January 2023	Income	Expenditure	2023
	£	£	£	£
General funds	17,307,323	2,258,935	(1,662,203)	17,904,055
	==============================================	=========================================	=========================================	==============================================
Analysis of net assets between funds
			Unrestricted	Total Funds
			Funds	2024
			£	£
Investments			63,679,004	63,679,004
Current assets			659,298	659,298
Creditors less than 1 year			(846,768)	(846,768)
Creditors greater than 1 year			(44,899,594)	(44,899,594)
			----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
Net assets			18,591,940	18,591,940
			==============================================	==============================================
			Unrestricted	Total Funds
			Funds	2023
			£	£
Investments			63,679,004	63,679,004
Current assets			400,187	400,187
Creditors less than 1 year			(850,279)	(850,279)
Creditors greater than 1 year			(45,324,857)	(45,324,857)
			----------------------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
Net assets			17,904,055	17,904,055
			==============================================	==============================================

19. Analysis of charitable funds

20. Analysis of net assets between funds

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Rubislaw Foundation

Company Limited by Guarantee

Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements (continued)

Year ended 31 December 2024

21. Analysis of changes in net debt

		At		At
		1 Jan 2024	Cash flows	31 Dec 2024
		£	£	£
Cash	at bank and in hand	207,268	318,804	526,072
Debt	due within one year	(330,000)		(330,000)
Debt	due after one year	(39,445,139)	355,563	(39,089,576)
		----------------------------------------------	--------------------------------	----------------------------------------------
		(39,567,871) ==============================================	674,367 ================================	(38,893,504) ==============================================

22. Related parties

Mr D A Bistricer, trustee of Rubislaw Foundation, is also a director and shareholder of Talisker (UK) Corporation.

At the year end £5,424,971 (2023: £5,494,671) was owing to Talisker (UK) Corporation from the group. Rubislaw Foundation was owing £4,981,971 and its subsidiary F. Parham Limited was owing £443,000.

The above loans are interest free and due after one year.

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